Bored I mean board meetings!

“Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings”  ~Ashleigh Brilliant I am currently sitting bored in a board meeting. What is the point of these? The people who do the work aren’t here, the ones who do the work get bashed on. Does business actually get done? I’ve seen different formats, agenda, no agenda? I still fail to see the point.

I know, I know!

So its taken forever to write again. People actually noticed! “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”~Arthur Scopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)  I love that quote. Genius hits a target no one else can see. Or at least tries to hit.  I believe that when one has a great idea there are three possible scenarios:

1. Others are afraid of the idea
2. Others take it and try to make it theirs, and then proceed to tell you you don’t know what you are talking about and that their idea (really yours) is the way to go
3. No one gets the idea. 

Most of the time I believe that third option has more to do with communication skills. Or is it?I once heard that the worse feeling a human could feel is to have an idea and not be able to share it with others.This week I experienced all three of the above methods. Not all the ideas were mine, but it was frustrating none the less! Am I alone in noticing this? Or is this more of that 3rd option, No one gets what I’m trying to say!

Genius, really? Yes I’m a Genius

For a long time I had contemplated starting a blog. I really don’t believe anyone will read it! I guess I am doing it for myself. I don’t consider myself a great writer, or even a good one for that matter, I do however feel trapped. I once heard that the worse thing a human being can feel is the feeling of trying to communicate while no one understands them. In my genius (see “Genius, really?”) I feel, very often, quite misunderstood. My logic apparently doesn’t line up with the logic of Planet Earth. I guess I really do personify the Coyote!  I was never good at keeping a journal. In English 10 we were suppose to keep one for a month. I wrote in different pens and style the night before it was due. I guess that is one of the reasons that I have wanted to do this. For completely selfish reason so that I could come back and see how I felt, I guess. Or who knows. I don’t know that this will last long, or that I will even update it that often for this matter. So if you are reading this, you’ve been warned, I don’t know what I’m doing or how long I’m doing it for! My wife has not been very supportive! I’m flying to New York on the 24 and thought it would be cool to upload video of the trip as I am gone so that my 2 year old could see it when he asked for me. My wifes reaction was to mock me, “you signed up to you tube, did are you signing up to myspace next?”. I guess in her mind I must be either having a nervous breakdown, midlife crises, or just plain want to feel young, cool and hip. I assure none of those are the reasons I’m writing, but then again I don’t know why I am so maybe it is. There goes more of that genius logic! We aren’t knocking people who use myspace, its just not our cup of tea. I guess you have to have been born after a certain date in order for myspace to make sense, or even understand. Why would you write lines to people you could email, txt, call, write, smoke signal, or turn around and tell? I guess I’m just not a good communicator. Well there you are, my first post.