Okay, so this isn't meant to be a touchy-feely, life coaching type of moment. That's not my style, but I'd like to set aside one day a year to turn into one - for myself, that is. I've decided to establish an annual "Diagnostic Day" to look around and see if where I am is where I want to be. It's a day that I will take off of work and be alone at home. It won't be a day to clean the house, fix things that are broken, run errands, watch TV, surf the internet or anything else that may eat up the day. Diagnostic Day will be for me to summons every bit of tolerance I can muster of Wayne Dyer ways and figure out if my life is what I want it to be and if the "current me" is like the "old me" and what I want out of the "next me". It might be making a list of friends I've neglected to call in a while (ones that I still want to keep up with, that is), and maybe even calling them right then. Am I happy in my career and if not, what do I need to do to change that? Am I willing to change if it's not where I want to be? What about my health? Am I neglecting it? If so, don't I owe it to my family to change it for them if for no one else? Finances, creativity, reading books - what direction do I want to take and what steps should I look at taking to get there. Write it down and make it so, Number One. This won't be "at some point". Too often I've found myself filling days with "at some points". Stop and perform a self-test. You owe it to yourself. Get your "physical physical" every year. Now get your "mental physical". Run the tests, look at the lab results and come up with a diagnosis. The first day of March is my first Diagnostic Day because it gives me time to settle into the new year, but leaves plenty of year left to change if need be. Take the first day of March off with me and let me know what you decide to do with your results. (Is this the part where we get in a circle and group hug?)
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If you are not familiar with David Armano and his knack for visualization of processes, I highly encourage you to visit his site. He has some outstanding representations of topics in the social media and customer engagement arenas. I often find myself staring at these representations of complex processes in amazement at some of the meat and talking points that he is able to pack into a graphic.
But I've often wondered what it would be like if David Armano were to visualize common processes or issues from everyday life -- topics that were not as heady as brand management, marketing, customer desire and so forth. What would these great images be like if we applied them to everyday life?
My daughter is about to start selling Girl Scout Cookies this year, So my first stab is a representation of my weakness of each of the main flavors of Girl Scout Cookies. I'm obviously no expert at this, but hopefully you'll enjoy this bit of satirical admiration I have for David's work.
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- It does not allow you to insert troops into Afghanistan easily.
- It could not convince the 5th dentist to recommend Trident gum.
- I had downloaded the “Save Charlie Weis” app and, well, we see how that turned out.
- I passed ‘Go’ and it just sat there and peered at me with its red eye. No $200.
- I was trying to make a call to Alpha Centauri and it became hard to hear because of interference with the audio portion of a ‘Howdy Doody’ TV show that was also in route there.
- It did not read my mind as well as I thought it would, so I bought a Mattel MindFlex game instead.
- A multi-billion dollar news station like CNN can do multi-touch on its snazzy screen maps, but a simple $200 device can’t? Sheesh. The nerve.
- No solution to the butterfly-chaos theory included natively.
- Does not allow you to supercollide atoms without downloading an app.
- Have to have a special add-on to your Verizon plan in order to allow movement through the time-space continuum.
- Cannot participate in brain surgery, eat a Pop-Tart and start up my Roomba since there’s no Bluetooth voice dialing.
- Does not have Zhu Zhu Pet functionality.
- Did not respond as expected to the ‘noogie’ gesture on the capacitive response screen.
- Overcooked the grilled cheese the first 3 times it tried.
- Did not work well as a puppet as originally hoped.
- Could never get the camera to photograph ghosts.
- Unnecessary phone technology included.
- Too cumbersome/heavy to use as a SlapChop.
- Lacks ability to cuddle and discuss my day with me.
- No DOS prompt? What were they thinking?
What are your reasons?
