Today is one of those days when we both have heaps on. It is before 6am and we are both working on what we need today.
I am taking minutes of a board meeting later and I have an agenda in pdf.  I want it in word to use it for taking minutes.  We asked co polit how to do it and it told us but copied it really weird.  I am hoping the person who sent it to me can give me what I need.
After the board meeting, I hope to join Merril in what she has to do with groups she is potentially taking.  She is the tech wiz so will at the very least help get things going.  Depending on the availability of others she does either only tech set up, talks for the whole meeting, or takes only a group as there are so many people.
Merril is attempting to download a video at the moment.  The first way she tried did not work and we are hoping this one works.  It does not help that our internet is sus.  We had NBN put on and it is probably slower than we have ever known it.  Someone from NBN is coming over Monday afternoon to fix it for us.   Originally the booking was made without my input at all for Monday morning.  We have three appointments Monday morning so that was never going to work.  It took yonks to be able to contact them.  They are now coming Monday arvo.
I have to talk briefly at n3c communion this morning.  That came as a surprise as there was someone else down to do it.  But they collapsed last week and were taken off to hospital.  So I am speaking in their place.  Fortunately I have something ready to speak on.
So today is one of those full on days.  That is ok but I will be glad when all is done.

In the latest James Clear email from yesterday I feel there is an important message that is worth remembering always.  It is a paraphrased saying of something said by a Mary Kay Ash.   She is into people management.  "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people."
At present I am watching leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world.  They are made to feel important.  I am amazed at how well choreographed all the actions and meetings are.
I do not see a problem with making people we deem important feel important.  But I was talking to a fella yesterday who looks out for people often treated with distain.  They have no power and in some cases are doing it really tough through no obvious fault of their own.
I must admit it is treating people like that badly that I have a problem with.  I get concerned the baby is thrown out with the bathwater.  There are those that milk the system and deceive.  To me they are a minority, but there.  Then there are the many who get caught up in a general decline in living standards and an increase in costs that diminish coping abilities.
It is these people along with all that I feel need to be treated with respect.  A lack of power does not warrant a lack of respect.  I am very big on treating others as I would like to be treated.  Fortunately, I reckon I am better of then many as my self-worth is based on more than the opinion of my contemporaries (though that matters and is often a cause for appreciation).
I guess what I am saying is that people are like gold.  Some look dirty and seemingly do not seem to deserve a second look, while other gold looks great but closer inspection reveals it is not what it seems.  Only in applying a consistent standard of respect for all can I discover what is true gold.

As soon as I named yesterdays post, I though it was an appropriate title for another way I feel.
There are times I want something good for myself, and I will do what it takes to get it.  I will not compromise by doing immoral things, but so often doing things comes down to having a number of ways to do them which involve only choice and not moral judgement.  For example, when planting flowers I can prepare the ground first or go get the flowers.  It is not the process that matters most but the outcome.
I reckon it is a huge mistake not to do something because I have never done it that way before, or those I am not fond of do it that way, or I am just stubborn enough to make it harder for myself.
To me the object is to make it happen.  How it happens is secondary.  I have stood wondering why am I doing this when for whatever reason I refused to do something for one of the above reasons and realized that really I am the one that suffers as a result.  Something could be dealt with if I was not so stubborn.
I reckon forgiveness is similar.  So often it seems easy not to forgive but really the object of my unforgiveness is blissfully unaware of my attitude.  And if I let the attitude remain and fester all involved can be really un-necessarily hurt.  There is a quote about unforgiveness that goes something like “not forgiving is like poisoning yourself and expecting the object of your unforgiveness to die.”
The point of it all is that so often I am the one to suffer if I make it “my way or the highway.”  It is the outcome that matters and achieving it in the best way possible - not in trying to achieve it via “my way” only.