A Man Out Walking His Dog... Random Insights Into Business Life

While my Yorkie, Spike, was still alive, it was our habit to take a walk just before going to bed. What I remember most about those walks was that the world was quiet. No noise of traffic or jackhammers breaking up the street. I could hear myself think and in rare moments I could think through some issues with greater clarity than I could when the world was noisy and I was busy. Hence the title for this new feature of The 610 Business Journal. Welcome To AMOWHG (A Man Out Walking His Dog.)


Not Thinking About It


Those of you who have followed this business journal know that I had written at some length about the need to establish a balance in one's life. I have wrestled with what that means. On one level, it means making the choice to do just that and following through. But that begs the question of we have to do to work towards that state of balance, so that our lives are not dominated by our jobs and our work. 


Maybe, the answer is and always has been a very simple idea. Maybe the main thing we have to do is give ourselves the permission not to think about what we do at work or some client we need to take care of by such-and-such a date. Nothing more than that. On the weekends and at the end of the work day, just give ourselves the permission not to think about work and to focus in on our family, our hobbies or our friends. 


I am not going to say that this is going to be an easy thing to do for anyone in business, because I know that for a lot of us that will run against the very grain of who we are at the moment So perhaps the first decision we will have to make is to institute some major changes in our thinking about how we live our lives, figure out what we have to do and then just do it. It isn't an easy thing to do. Ingrained behaviors are never easy to modify. But then again, this whole notion is a no-brainer and this is not a complicated proposition. 


Allow me to be the one to set an example for anyone who wants to do this. Effective immediately, I am making it my goal to put my actions where my mouth is. I am choosing to make this paradigm shift in the way I live. Wish me success. I will keep you up to speed as to how well I am doing. 


Kindest regards, 


Howard Fireman
Editor and Publisher
The 610 Business Journal