November, 2012

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Driven to Succeed

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I just finished Frank Hasenfratz's biography - Driven to Succeed. It is gripping. The story starts in Hungary and tells of Frank (called Farec then) hiding while Russians overrun his village - stealing everything in sight and worse. He is then forced to leave his family home with only what they can carry and being re-settled in a much tinier house in an area they did not know.

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Self Leadership

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If you cannot lead yourself, who can you lead? I read Self Leadership - How to Become a More Successful, Efficient, and Effective Leader from the Inside Out by Andrew Bryant and Ana Kazan. The title says it all - seems like what most leaders would want. I particularly like the More Efficient but the More Effective is the most important. This is the difference between leadership and management - leadership is about effectiveness, management is about efficiency.

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Useful Workout

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It was a beautiful perfect day to be outside. I spent much of the afternoon sawing logs. No - not napping (that was yesterday), really sawing logs, moving branches, clearing storm damage. I used a manual bow saw so got lots of exercise. I often think when I am working out in a gym that I could actually be doing something productive like this. And then I harvested most of the remaining vegetables from the garden.

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Gas Math in Long Island

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I finally had to break down and get gas yesterday (I am odd, which most of you already know, so yesterday was my day). I still had almost 1/4 tank but even I am being more conservative than usual. Normally I consider it to be a waste of time to fill up when I am not almost empty. It cost me $30 to fill the tank (I love my Prius). My fault was choosing to wait in one of the many "hope" lines.

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Tell To Win

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I awoke this morning to a gorgeous snow cover. I love fresh snow. It is beautiful. And since it is warm, it is perfect packing. Wish my brothers were here so we could have a snowball fight. The temperature will rise today so it will likely all be gone. The downside - there was a tree down blocking the driveway. And most of my not yet mature fruit trees are broken.

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Propel

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Well life is starting to return to normal but there are still huge issues in Long Island. 100,000 houses were destroyed (out of 1.2 million). For those people, life is not back to normal. 171,000 people still have no electricity (14%) which is still a huge number. I watch the outage numbers on the LIPA website like the stock market. And lines to get gas are still a problem.

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Post Sandra

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Electricity is back! And internet. And hot water. Life can start to return to normal. Life without electricity helps with the "appreciation" factor. I like the think of myself as a grateful person (I lead a charmed life and I know it) but this experience helps drive it home. This experience has helped me with appreciating the simple things. I am one of the lucky ones.

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