When I was at the doctor for the 3rd time in 3 weeks last Monday, there was a Real Simple from 2010 in the waiting room. The article "Can I Call you back in 15 Years?" (about keeping adult friendships alive) from the magazines always fab editor caught my eye.
Read it. It's a good one. If you didn't, then here is a small slice of her book excerpt:
"My friend Silvia used to be a career counselor, and a few years back she taught our book group a little exercise, which was to draw our lives as pie charts. We were sitting at dinner, and after the exercise everyone blithely helped themselves to more wine and the conversation turned to genuinely important topics, like who among the women we know had gotten breast implants. I, however, was unable to think about breasts because my pie chart was so disturbing. Why? Basically my life consisted of three segments: kids, work, and sleep."
What's your pie chart look like? Working on mine...
2 comments:
See, this one's set up to be a trick if you ask me. I'm happy with my pie chart but I can always think of more things I'd like to have in it or ways in which I could better distribute the allocations. But I like my pie chart. I made it. I'm responsible for it. And I feel like I control it. Many may see faults with it but it suits me fairly well.
For what it's worth, I think your pie chart's pretty cool, too. Exhausting, I'm sure but all the more proof that you're stretching those allocations, getting everything you possibly can from them.
Not a trick. Just a question. Promise
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