Archives For January 2012

Hiatus

January 31, 2012 — Leave a comment
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For those of you who regularly visit Leveraging Life, you have probably noticed a lack of posting since the start of the New Year. Now this wasn’t something I set out to do.  It just evolved as the month of January progressed.

Definition of Hiatus:

  • a break in or as if in a material object.  
  • an interruption in time or continuity – a period when something (as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted. 

I’m guilty as charged! This past December was busy…plain busy! 

Between the blending of two families holiday traditions, Shari’s and mine, along with the year-end craziness at my Subaru dealership there wasn’t much time for anything other than holding on and enjoying the season. And if the busyness of December wasn’t challenging enough, any thoughts of my annual vision casting for 2012 took a back seat to planning for our upcoming “postponed” honeymoon. 

Shari and I had to skip taking the post-wedding traditional honeymoon and opted for a couple of days in the North Georgia Mountains so I would not have to delay starting chemo. 

After seven magical days at Al Cielo, a place I’ll detail in an upcoming Friday Favorite post, I returned home relaxed, recharged, and lost. 

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Guardedly Optimistic

January 6, 2012 — 2 Comments

Earlier this week a customer of the dealership inquired how I was doing and how 2012 was starting off with regard to my battle with cancer. This battle was not something I’ve shared with everyone here at Subaru, but when customers do stop in and see someone you know who has been bald, pale, and on crutches or with a walker they may have some questions when you have hair and are walking normally. And despite the perception of most dealerships, if this is a place where the culture is one where relationships are valued and customers are viewed as something more than transactions, connections develop and you get to know each other on a personal level.  

Without really thinking I found myself answering this question on more than one occasion by saying I was starting the year as…guardedly optimistic.  

For those of you who are new to Leveraging Life you can click this link to learn more about what my two-year battle with cancer has looked like. And for the rest of you who have been around here the last two years this post will bring you up to date with my most recent news and why I believe saying I’m guardedly optimistic may actually not be the message I should be giving. 

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