Aaron's Status
November 15, 2022
7:24 pm
I think it’s mostly in my head, but I feel like I’ve run out of spoons. I think it’s the solo dadding, or maybe I’m making excuses, but I couldn’t see clear to get much done today.
I wrote the monthly update email to my “personal board of directors,” poked at a guest post on a colleague’s blog that I’m actually excited to write (conceptually, anyway), and joined the Coaching from Essence “master coaching intensive.”
That “intensive” session continues to bear fruit. It’s a great group of people at different stages in practice development and all generally motivated and seemingly good-hearted, which is a tricky combination to find sometimes.
From this session, I elected to remove the pricing from my website. I will also rewrite it to orient around a minimum 3-month engagement length.
But that’s a triviality. The important take-away is that I am not really speaking to the audience I want to speak to in my writing. I mean, I am, sort of, but I need to speak directly to the very specific people who are going to get the most value from what I’m doing, and have the most at stake.
Those people are senior managers, VPEs, CTOs. What are their biggest problems? Where do they hang out? Where can I find a bunch of CTOs cheaply, and in abundance?
If you know, please write.
In the meantime, I’m going to go try to find out.
7:19 pm
What is Monday?
I went to bed last night with a mild throat discomfort and got it into my head that I was getting another cold. Since the kid’s been in public school and everyone has basically stopped masking, it’s been like a parade of illness.
I gave myself permission to kind of slack off all day and play video games, and that was great. Throat started to feel better, drank water, laid low.
In the afternoon I had a coaching exchange chat with a new friend from the Coaching from Essence community and we ended up not exchanging coaching at all and instead discussing practice-building. It is always nice to hear from people who are having similar challenges.
Following that, I had another coaching exchange with a CoachU friend, who coached me, and I gave what I hope was useful and specific feedback.
In times like those, I wish I actually had a recording of my coaching from several months ago so I could truly bask in how much I’ve grown.
Overall, a good day. As far as Mondays go.