It’s been a busy week and summer is officially here. Yay! I sit here drinking my yummy coffee, reflecting on the past week, all of which was mostly good. In doing positive things and activities that get me closer to my goals, I am continually reminded how fortunate I am. I’m working, writing, have an amazing circle of friends, hang out with my older sister once a week for movies and watching “The Bachelorette” (I know, cheesy!), and overall enjoying my favorite season, SUMMER!
I also changed the look of my website. With summer, I appreciated the cool, crisp feeling the new look gives. I hope you like it too and find it really easy to navigate. You can always let me know what you like about it and what you don’t. I definitely appreciate the feedback.
Health & Fitness
I started my week off with the goal to go running with a partner. We, along with my running partner’s Dalmatian, would run around the Capitol of Sacramento. To run the circumference of the Capitol alone is just a little past one mile, the entire run from my front door and back along this route totals approximately 2.2 miles. You can track your routes here.
Last summer I used to run this route from Old Sacramento and found running on the city concrete caused problems with one of my knees so I had to stop. Needless to say, I had a couple of concerns. The first is my running partner has a much longer stride than I do, so running with me doesn’t really push him. It pushes me, but he is the one who plans to run a half marathon and should have a partner that challenges him. The second is aggravating my knee or possibly causing other problems. I won’t admit to getting “old,” but I do need to think about what I can do to reduce risks of injury.
Some thoughts on what I can do is:
- Rollerblade while he runs. This would allow me to challenge his progress and I get the health benefits without the impact on my joints.
- Better running shoes.
- Run in the gym on a treadmill, elliptical, or bike. I wouldn’t bike in the downtown traffic unless I was biking to and from work, but I am thinking about rollerblading to work. Sounds like super fun in theory, but would have to let you know how that goes in actual practice.
My eating habits have definitely improved. I have breakfast every morning, a bowl of oatmeal and my cup of coffee. I will also eat a can of tuna and half an apple between breakfast and lunch, and between lunch and dinner. This tides me over till the respective meals and I actually find myself always pretty full and nourished throughout the day. I also, grab myself some green tea in the latter half of the day.
The one thing I have been very bad at is taking my vitamins. It’s important to supplement adequate vitamins and minerals for energy and other benefits. I also do find myself craving chocolate immensely every once in a while. It feels like an addiction withdrawal.
Continuing Education
I’ve started reading through Business and Administrative Communication and have been sharing with you through the mindmaps. It’s a 700-page book and I’m hoping to get through it. That’s a lot of information packed into one book, but it is set up with a lot of real life examples and ideas to apply to the individual’s circumstances.
Social Network Suggestions
On Facebook, I have a “friend” who sends messages that I find interesting and thought I would share one that is helpful. She discusses the importance of reviewing and tracking your goals and objectives on a regular basis. It’s not something you can do once a year or it will just fall off your radar to remember what is important to you to keep progressing toward the life you want. Pick a goal and assess it through the following questions:
- What specific goal am I committed to achieve?
- What are my current YTD results in relation to that goal?
- What went right and why? Identify strengths and strategies to
repeat. - What went wrong and why? Identify weaknesses and strategies to
drop. - What corrective actions will/should I immediately implement to
remain on target? - What are my commitments / goals for the upcoming week so that I
can consider my efforts a success?
Pam Santos sent me a really nice tweet. I always check out who tweets me to see what they like to discuss. Pam offers up great information of what she discovers on the internet to other administrative professionals, what she is up to in continually developing herself as a premier assistant, and so I added her to “Follow.” You can add her to your LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pam-santos/1b/651/4a6 or on Twitter @1pamsantos.
Career Development
I have been crazy-busy keeping up with promotional opportunities with the State of California over the past two weeks. I created a database that holds the information of the different agencies and the contact person, along with the date I sent my application package, and the final filing date. It can take some time to get a response from a government agency as they have extensive processes, but I’m interested to see what my ratio of response will be. Something I learned in the first chapter of Business and Administrative Communication.
Conclusion
The beginning of summer has been going great. Especially the move to my new place at The Capitol Towers. I get out to the pool on the weekends for a little bit of sunshine, even though I feel a little intimidated revealing that I am not in my ideal physical shape. I enjoyed a game of pool at the community room, which by the way looks like a really cool place to have movie night sometime with a group of friends. Living on the bottom floor with lots of trees and shade, the temperature is really nice and cool when I get home from work. What a difference! I used to come home to a place where the degrees was always ten degrees higher than outside and now I get to come home where the degrees is something like ten degrees lower. My neighbors and the management staff are awesome!
I was able to rent a beautifully decorated and furnished Villa for a “Cast and Crew” call a friend of mine was doing for a film she is working on. However, that day turned out to be the Gay Pride Day and the streets around my complex were shut down. Management was so helpful and accommodating that they allowed us to use parking that is restricted for residence because street parking was shut off for the parade. All turned out well, except that the “crew” call did not get much of a showing. So if you are interested in being part of the crew for a student movie and live in Sacramento or Stockton, get in contact with me so I can refer you to the film director.
How was your week? What was the one thing you are doing to get closer to your goal?
To all my Super Star Sparkle peeps!
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