It has been a busy few months, and this week is no different.
Today, in particular, I had a long list of deliverables due tomorrow, so I was attempting to clear them. But I still spent time catching up with a few people and garnered so many nuggets of wisdom and food for thought that I feel the need to note them down.
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Caught up with Nn; she's on her yearly visit to the Asia offices. Had a great catch up with her as always. We spoke of everything from work to family to travels. When she shared that she probably wouldn't want to be doing the same role in 3 years (retirement age), it started me thinking: retirement probably is not as far off as I think it to be. At the same time, it must be so difficult to maintain a strong brand and the bar gets higher every year, since that's the only way it can go... It was a reminder to myself to always stay grateful to where I started and where I came from.
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Bumped into HP at the pantry and started chatting. Last I recall, his baby girl was only 6 months (and doing push-ups and not crying when she had an injection, cuz what's pain??) but now she's already 4.5 with a younger brother who's 3! H was sharing how crazy and freakishly strong his kids are: they swim, try muay thai, think ankle weights are fun, and always like moving around.
Felt like there was so much wisdom shared there: the importance of making time to do and move with kids, the importance of living a life you want them to be curious about, because how else do the young learn but by copying the dad/mom's every move? So it matters whether you're lying on the couch every day vs out running/swimming/moving about. Keeping fit and healthy truly is a lifestyle, and that just hit me hard again.
I walked away from that conversation deciding to join the SC Marathon, so thanks HP :)
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Dinner was a great time with T-k-. I was sharing with him how I felt like 30 is so great that I don't understand why people talk about it with trepidation and concern. He shared some surprising changes in thoughts, like counting how many drinks he'd have left in his active, healthy lifetime, so thinking in that perspective, he'd choose to meet people he really wants to meet while he still can. Seems like these were thoughts that were triggered by H-chan's birth, so I definitely start to understand why people generally change/develop when they enter parenthood.
The other nugget he shared was that he'd read somewhere that the 3 most basic ways to change one's life is to 1) change where you live 2) change who you have a relationship with and 3) change your time. Number 3 was initially confusing to him, but he'd started to adopt something new in the past year and now understands it. The T-k- of the past would always be working overtime until 7pm or 8pm, but now he chooses to go into the office early if he needs to work overtime and always leaves at 5:30pm sharp. I was so amazed to hear of this change as I'd never have expected the T I knew to change in this manner, but he's so happy with it. I start to wonder if I might be able to adapt it for myself somehow too.
I definitely need to instill some routine back into my work-health balance, and interestingly today's conversations seemed to spur me in the same direction. Thank you for the wonderful nuggets of wisdom!
Today, in particular, I had a long list of deliverables due tomorrow, so I was attempting to clear them. But I still spent time catching up with a few people and garnered so many nuggets of wisdom and food for thought that I feel the need to note them down.
--
Caught up with Nn; she's on her yearly visit to the Asia offices. Had a great catch up with her as always. We spoke of everything from work to family to travels. When she shared that she probably wouldn't want to be doing the same role in 3 years (retirement age), it started me thinking: retirement probably is not as far off as I think it to be. At the same time, it must be so difficult to maintain a strong brand and the bar gets higher every year, since that's the only way it can go... It was a reminder to myself to always stay grateful to where I started and where I came from.
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Bumped into HP at the pantry and started chatting. Last I recall, his baby girl was only 6 months (and doing push-ups and not crying when she had an injection, cuz what's pain??) but now she's already 4.5 with a younger brother who's 3! H was sharing how crazy and freakishly strong his kids are: they swim, try muay thai, think ankle weights are fun, and always like moving around.
Felt like there was so much wisdom shared there: the importance of making time to do and move with kids, the importance of living a life you want them to be curious about, because how else do the young learn but by copying the dad/mom's every move? So it matters whether you're lying on the couch every day vs out running/swimming/moving about. Keeping fit and healthy truly is a lifestyle, and that just hit me hard again.
I walked away from that conversation deciding to join the SC Marathon, so thanks HP :)
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Dinner was a great time with T-k-. I was sharing with him how I felt like 30 is so great that I don't understand why people talk about it with trepidation and concern. He shared some surprising changes in thoughts, like counting how many drinks he'd have left in his active, healthy lifetime, so thinking in that perspective, he'd choose to meet people he really wants to meet while he still can. Seems like these were thoughts that were triggered by H-chan's birth, so I definitely start to understand why people generally change/develop when they enter parenthood.
The other nugget he shared was that he'd read somewhere that the 3 most basic ways to change one's life is to 1) change where you live 2) change who you have a relationship with and 3) change your time. Number 3 was initially confusing to him, but he'd started to adopt something new in the past year and now understands it. The T-k- of the past would always be working overtime until 7pm or 8pm, but now he chooses to go into the office early if he needs to work overtime and always leaves at 5:30pm sharp. I was so amazed to hear of this change as I'd never have expected the T I knew to change in this manner, but he's so happy with it. I start to wonder if I might be able to adapt it for myself somehow too.
I definitely need to instill some routine back into my work-health balance, and interestingly today's conversations seemed to spur me in the same direction. Thank you for the wonderful nuggets of wisdom!
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