On November 11 Holly and I received a phone call saying “the twins are born.” The blog tells the story of that elsewhere, but here’s the question for you:
If you were asked today to get on a plane tomorrow and move to a city that is completely unknown to you, for an indefinite period of time, and still keep up your work and family connections and obligations, maintain your sanity and health, and otherwise take care of your life, could you do it?
Add to that question, for extra bonus points, that you also have to take of a situation that is extremely emotionally draining, where your ability to focus and be creative would be severely curtailed by your emotional state, and your work time limited to just a couple of hours a day.
My answer would’ve been a very conditional: “Uh, what?” Now the answer is “Yup! It’s happening.”
What would your answer be?
And if your answer is falling on the negative side of things, what do you need to put into place so that you could?
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Mark – quick FYI before I respond… your Twitter link is going to a 404 error page (I found this by navigating through your blog link)
That said, yes I would be able to do it. When I first read the question, I immediately had a second question:
“If I had no choice, could I make it possible?”
I mean — if it’s a choice between doing this or dying, I’d find a way to do it.
So why do I need to die to find a way to make it possible? Sure I wouldn’t prefer to…
“It’s not on my Top 10 List”
(my wife has finally figured out that this metaphorical list doesn’t actually exist).
It would take a lot of very fast logistical changes… forwarding address being just the most minimal. And yes my mind would probably find a lot of excuses why it’s difficult or impossible…
But if I were going to die, would I find a way? You betcha! So I can’t really use any of those excuses (that’s what they are) for not doing it if that’s what life asks of me.
@Chris- Exactly. Almost anyone could make it work. And yet, over the last month of being here, I’ve seen some very specific things we’ve done over the last year that have made this month (up to two months) away not only possible, but… I won’t say “easy” but far from disastrous.
Good question… for a long time, all of my work was locked into my computer
You really make it appear so easy along with your
presentation but I to find this topic to be really something
which I think I might by no means understand. It seems too complex and extremely wide
for me. I’m
taking a look ahead on your next post, I will attempt to get the dangle of it!