Saturday, February 06, 2016

Hello Saturday! It's Meaning Time

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It's Saturday morning and I'm up and nearly ready to head out and do my first presentation of the year. Today it is to a group of parents and I have to say I'm wildly excited about it. I enjoy presenting to parents, especially ones who get up on a Saturday morning and drive somewhere to hear some guy they probably haven't ever heard about, talk about sexuality and abuse prevention. I am prepared and hoping for a lively discussion and maybe even a little bit of friendly debate.

It's been some while since my last lecture, which was in early December, and I've enjoyed the down time at home. In fact it was a bit of a shock rolling into a hotel room last night. It was a 'oh, yeah, this is what I do!' As January is typically a really slow time of year for lectures and training, it's a welcome break from life on the road. Now I've done a few webinars, but I can do them from home, in my housecoat if I want, I don't but I could. I'm still mistrustful of technology and am sure that I can be seen.

As Joe and I settled into the routine we began talking of the places we will go this year, the people we will meet, and what new adaptions we may need to make to our life together on the road. It was a pleasant conversation and we're both looking forward to travelling the breadth of both Canada and the United States.

But, this is the start of a new year.

And I'm feeling blessed to be able to do this work.

I met with a professional, much younger than myself, much smarter than myself, who is mid career and we spoke about what we both do. He said that he's got to a point that he now wants to think about his career in terms of resume but instead in terms of impact. He wants his work to have real meaning. I understand that goal entirely.

I think we all do.

And for me, meaning, right now, is going out on a Saturday morning to talk to parents about their adult children with disabilities.

How cool is that?
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3 comments:

  1. Colleen6 February 2016 at 08:59

    It is very cool!

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  2. clairesmum6 February 2016 at 10:31

    It's very cool, to be able to do what you love and love what you do, and know that you have a positive impact on the lives of others.

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  3. Anonymous8 February 2016 at 12:41

    As an attendee of the mentioned workshop, I just want to say THANK YOU!!!! again. :)
    I've never been in a room where you could literally see the walls that people came in with breaking down right in front of you.
    Thank you so much for your time, wisdom, humour and swears. I just left my director's office after 15 minutes of "and next we could do, and people could do and, and, and!". Hopefully the ripples from that morning will be felt for quite some time around here.
    It was awesome!

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