I found myself suffering from the winter duldroms. Nothing wrong per ce - just feeling the weight of everything.
Trish West-Lowe sent me this link and it made me once again realize how much "how you see things" impacts what can be accomplished.
Let me know your take after watching this.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
2008 - A Very Good Year
My friends at Stevens Road taught me about a practice that they do around the solstice each year. They make wishes for the New Year and free themselves of the old things holding you back. They say it much more eloquently and with special poems and ceremony, but it made me wonder if you would be willing to share your wishes for the New Year and celebrations of last year.
As I think back over the past year, many fun and memorable things come to mind. Sitting at the NJBIZ employer event thinking that they had forgotten to call our name after we got to number five and then realizing we had won: receiving the letter from Modern Healthcare that we had ranked nationally as one of the best employers was a great event: the Autism walk in Point Pleasant and the Toms River folks giving me remedial changing your t-shirt instructions in the parking lot lessons without taking the other shirt off, is one memory that I am only fortunate there was no video for - only pictures when it was over: walking to the gala in NYC and seeing our children on the Times Square megatron, took my breath away: seeing one of our LTC kids ride a pony for the first time, when prior to that all he would do was scream on the unit because he wasn’t going down stairs: seeing athletes from 38 countries watch a baseball game and hang out, even though there was little common language between them: the first time I got to see the sign honoring my folks on the meditation room, still makes me choke up: walking through Mountainside after the renovations and the MOVE from Fanwood Plaza (I am still sore!):the employee meetings when I got to talk about the new vision and seeing tears in both of our eyes about what it is going to mean to create a world where every child would live to their maximum potential: when I got to see one of our little LTC children walk with her pink crutches to get her diploma at Fanwood School. There are many more but these are a few of the highlights for me.
As I mentioned in the last wrap up - it looks like we are well on track to achieve 9 out of 10 of our corporate goals. Truly I am so appreciative and thankful to work with people who give so much of themselves to achieve such greatness. Time and time again, we have pushed our selves, hit our goals and set the new goal. I will never forget that I asked the Senior Leadership team a few years ago how we would know when we got "there". A few of the team members corrected me and told me that you never get "THERE" - You achieve new things and than there is more to be done because our children always deserve us to be striving to make their lives the best they can be.
How about you? Do you have some highlights from last year you’re willing to share? Something memorable that might make you smile and bring a smile to others?
As I think back over the past year, many fun and memorable things come to mind. Sitting at the NJBIZ employer event thinking that they had forgotten to call our name after we got to number five and then realizing we had won: receiving the letter from Modern Healthcare that we had ranked nationally as one of the best employers was a great event: the Autism walk in Point Pleasant and the Toms River folks giving me remedial changing your t-shirt instructions in the parking lot lessons without taking the other shirt off, is one memory that I am only fortunate there was no video for - only pictures when it was over: walking to the gala in NYC and seeing our children on the Times Square megatron, took my breath away: seeing one of our LTC kids ride a pony for the first time, when prior to that all he would do was scream on the unit because he wasn’t going down stairs: seeing athletes from 38 countries watch a baseball game and hang out, even though there was little common language between them: the first time I got to see the sign honoring my folks on the meditation room, still makes me choke up: walking through Mountainside after the renovations and the MOVE from Fanwood Plaza (I am still sore!):the employee meetings when I got to talk about the new vision and seeing tears in both of our eyes about what it is going to mean to create a world where every child would live to their maximum potential: when I got to see one of our little LTC children walk with her pink crutches to get her diploma at Fanwood School. There are many more but these are a few of the highlights for me.
As I mentioned in the last wrap up - it looks like we are well on track to achieve 9 out of 10 of our corporate goals. Truly I am so appreciative and thankful to work with people who give so much of themselves to achieve such greatness. Time and time again, we have pushed our selves, hit our goals and set the new goal. I will never forget that I asked the Senior Leadership team a few years ago how we would know when we got "there". A few of the team members corrected me and told me that you never get "THERE" - You achieve new things and than there is more to be done because our children always deserve us to be striving to make their lives the best they can be.
How about you? Do you have some highlights from last year you’re willing to share? Something memorable that might make you smile and bring a smile to others?
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