In April of 2007 I wrote a post about my brief stint as the president of the chess club when I was in 9th grade. In my usual way, I meandered through me being a mediocre chess player with no real interest in playing the game seriously. I joined the club then to give me those extra curricular activity points you need to show how well rounded you are in life. In actuality chess bores me to tears. I tried teaching my kids to play, but neither had any great interest in it either.
The point of the post then was my lack of interest in most things of following a plan or "strategy" as they like to banter about in my workplace. I have always simply done things I think are common sense to accomplish something. I've taken the management training courses with the various decision making strategies (I think they are RACIE models or some such rubbish). Fortunately I work in the creative side of marketing. Rather than pinning a creative idea on a board and cutting it open to look at it's intestines, I simply look at it and ask myself whether it speaks to me and whether it has any negative side. Because one thing I've found about advertising is that if there is some negative nuance to something someone will find it and rub your nose in it.
So like most of my posts, they were, and are, about things in my life that illustrate what I think the why is for who I am and what I do. Though even at my advanced age I doubt I know the real reason. I am still a work in progress. And I will be a work in progress when I gasp my last breath and utter, "really?"
And as I ended that post in 2007, checkmate, mate.
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