Summer winding down

So…it’s been a few months. It’s been a mix of being busy and not finishing posts (I have about 4 I started but never quite made it to the post stage). Another part of it is wanting a bit of privacy.

I have reached the point where I’m no longer able to count all the months that I’ve been at Extreme Brandz on my hands. I’m almost at a year. It doesn’t seem that long but part of that might be that I’m so busy with projects that I don’t really notice the time. Today I found a magazine article about one of the projects that I worked on which filled me pride. In other news, I did dragon boat during the summer and participated in three races. Two of those races my team placed first in our division. The last race was super tight and my team won by 0.47 of a second. I got my first metal in years. It’s pretty awesome!

Lately I’ve been thinking about attitudes and how it’s so difficult to change them. I am a true believer that people can change if they want to. As individuals we all have the power to control our reactions, choices and attitudes. If the underlying issue of a problem is the attitude and the person refuses to change, what do you do? A complete paradigm shift is needed. You can teach people almost any skill. You can’t teach someone to have a positive attitude. I rather deal with someone who has a great attitude and low skill than someone with a crummy attitude and high skills. What’s the point in which you cut your losses?