Re-Calibration

We live in a reactionary society.  We tend to simply respond to our environment.  

This past weekend I was sick thus forced to stay home, rest, and recover.  As such one activity was to watch the movie, Everest.

Sometime back I read the book Into Thin Air, about this 1996 climb.  From my experience, the book is always better than the movie.

Having read Jon Krakauer’s account I knew the May 1996 outcome. That year, 8 people died on the mountain, including the mountain guides Rob Hall and Andy Harris.  The book and the movie allege that essential safety methods in place for years were simply ignored by the guiding agencies - everyone wanted to be the first to reach the top!  

After watching the movie I had cause to ask myself, “What are my safety methods, where are my non-negotiables?”  

These are this year’s retreat questions. Yes, it is that time of the year again.

Ken and I finally will be able to spend 10 days out of the heat.  Oh and yes, we are going to Alaska.   

Lately lots of people have been asking me “Carolyn, when are you retiring?”  

Let me set the record straight. Retiring is not my current undertaking, nor is it in the near future.  My current enterprise is to nurture knowledge and understanding of today’s business world. I want to assist Realtors, Lenders, and all our staff at Great American to grow as we learn to service the southeast valley real estate market together.

Do you know there are five business generations working together in the business world today and we all process information differently?  Nobody is right, nobody is wrong - we simply are different.

Years ago, I learned to keep me learning an annual re-calibration retreat is a necessity.

Re-calibrate means to “make small changes to an instrument so that it measures accurately”. 

Say the word “instrument” and my mind goes to method.  

And for me a measure is an “evaluation”.  

Therefore, this annual re-calibration is simply a method to evaluate the: who, what, when, where and how to keep us going and growing.

I do not want to get into an Everest experience where you cannot beat the odds - that’s foolish. If the need for speed had not influenced Rob and Andy, I believe they would be alive today.

Thus annually I step back and evaluate.  It is not what you proclaim to people it’s the action you take. All too often a clear sense of the action is best viewed from a distance.