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February 10, 2012

Managing myself: the weekend plan

It’s time for my favorite part of the work week… the flight home! Okay, half-kidding about that. I’m actually really loving my job more and more now that I’m moving into a managerial role – I’m totally a people-person, and I love making task lists and organizing things, so it suits me really well. Of course, management has its challenges – it’s scary to be the one that’s blamed if anything goes wrong, and I have to quadruple-check everything – but overall, I’m liking it. Still, nothing compares to my Thursday evening flight home – when I get to be …

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February 8, 2012

My new gym

A new project means many things. It means new flights (will I have to go to bed at 9pm on Sunday nights to wake up for a 5am flight? Will I get home at 6pm on Thursdays or not until midnight?). It means new working hours (Will this team start work at 8am, 9am, or somewhere in between? Will these be coworkers that are big on team dinners, so I never get to my hotel till 11pm?). And, since I’m on the road and relying on the mercy of my hotel fitness center, it means a new gym. Every time …

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February 2, 2012

Learning to love the treadmill

I did not get a good night’s sleep last night, so when my alarm went off at 6:30am, I reset for 7am. Too tired! But that extra half hour of sleep was filled with bad dreams and me feeling guilty for not working out, so when it went off again at 7am, I got up. I started my morning routine, all the while thinking about how I was wasting time and it was going to be the same situation as Tuesday. And in some ways, it was. At 7:20am, I was at the point in my routine where I’d usually …

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February 1, 2012

If you fail to plan…

…you plan to fail. I know that. But yesterday I didn’t follow that advice (oops). And as a result? I am failing. Monday, my day was pretty crazy. Up at 5:15am, out the door and on my way to the airport at 6am. Security, breakfast, flight, etc… land at 9:30am and head straight to office (with a team, so no chance of slipping out for a workout). Worked like crazy till 4pm, and then it was back into the car and back to the airport – this time to head up to Ohio. I landed there at 11pm, had a …

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January 27, 2012

Free Night!

While I am usually saying “Thank goodness it’s Thursday” every week, today I have extra reason to be grateful: after a super productive first few days at my new client, I was able to duck out early and catch a 2:30pm flight instead of a 7pm flight – putting me home at 7pm instead of midnight. FREE NIGHT! Glorious. My plans for the night though? Not so impressive. I initially wanted to try to squeeze in some gym time. I did a weight lifting workout this morning (day 2 of Kara Goucher’s cross-training routine), and figured I’d follow it up …

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