I have now gone 2 days without Coffee and I feel, well, ummm, weird.
I’m not sure whether it’s the caffeine or not, but I have a real woosy head almost like a mild cold.
I will continue and see how I get on.
The non-work me
If you want to know something about the non-work me, then you should also check out my Blessings posts.
Manefesto
My manifesto for this blog is to talk about the things that I feel personally. I run another blog http://oak-grove.typepad.com/oakgrove/ where I talk to my work things but I wanted somewhere different where i relayed family things and my personal feelings on things. Although I don’t talk about my work directly on the other site it could be linked to my work. This is all personal stuff.
Feeling Brighter
I’m feeling a lot brighter today and definitely more focussed. Decided last night to try a few days without any caffeine. I have noticed in the past that my body can only take so many days drinking coffee without a bit of detox.
I have also made a decision on my work and to get some of the jobs that are currently annoying me out of the way. Clean the decks a bit.
So much seen and so much more to see
My personal world map
visited 12 countries- 
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Aspirations
One of the things that I regularly do is to sit and ask myself – what are my aspirations.
From a work perspective the aspirations seems to fall into two camps:
- Achieve more, do more interesting things.
- Do something completely different.
I’m not going to get into what those thoughts actually lead to in this post, but I am asking myself ‘how do I get here?’ What is it that makes me want to re-evaluate my current status. So every time I’ve found myself in this position recently I have tried to assess what are the factors that got me here.
- Monday mornings – it’s generally a Monday morning thing. I have found this amazing, because I wouldn’t have ever said that my mood is different on different days. I tend to be a fairly level headed person but clearly Monday’s make a difference. So if you are wanting to get me to do something new Monday may be a good day.
- Frustration – that is another personal study ‘what makes me frustrated?’ The answer is strongly related to my level of ‘trappedness’ at work. I rarely feel trapped at home because I have a great family. I regularly feel dumped on/used/abused at work. I am clearly in a position where my current skills are too valuable to let me leave a particular project or task, but I do not regard projects that use my current skills as interesting. I am definitely not someone who enjoys redoing the same thing over and over.
What is clear is that I rarely feel this way because I feel I am slipping behind, or at the other end of the spectrum because I see something that would be great to do. Sometimes these things do happen, but rarely.
Welcome
Welcome to my new home for Oak Grove.
This site will continue to focus on my work-type related stuff. I’m also planning something new for more general information and musings.
Graham