New Office Report, update

The new office is working out great-- everyone seems comfortable enough.

Inviting people to your home is a lot more personal and intimate than inviting them to a professional office complex. I think that I was a little nervous about opening my life up that much and being that transparent.

My profession of psychology teaches me to be "clinically distant", but if you know me at all you will have observed that I am just not a "clinically distant" person! A bit reserved, perhaps, and shy in some ways, but definitely not distant.

I cannot help being open with people, so in reality I think that working form the home-based office actually let's me be myself more- it is more honest and open. There is not as much image management possible. When you come to my office, you see how I live for real. I like it.

One of my projects I have been working on is taking shape- I am writing a workbook to help people free themselves from their own minds. My tentative working title is "The Red Pill Workbook"- that will probably change, but I like it.

More later, y'all.

I am reading this one now--

I really like the metaphor of the matrix. Red Pill, Blue Pill-- what is it going to be for you? Truth or Fantasy? The choice you make alters your life forever.

Escaping the Matrix: How We the People can change the world

Steve Pavlina's book

I am reading this now- there is already enough good stuff in the first few chapters that I have read to heartily recommend this one. I will be using it a lot in my private practice with people who have issues like chronic mental illness, marital problems, career indecision, or folks who just want to live a better, more connected and fulfilling life.

Buy the book here

I am back, mostly, from moving

Wow, I haven't posted for almost a month. It has been a bit intense moving- it is a challenge to move from a larger space into a smaller space. I had a huge amount of space as well as closet space in my old office-- I had a lot of stuff in there!

Fortunately we have a mostly unused room in the main house- it is now full of  alot of unused electronics and other stuff. A rainy day decluttering project.

Some of the furniture from my old office was moved to my wife's office at the U of M, some is in use around the house, some went to my daughter's house, and some was given away. I gave away 5 old computer monitors using Freecycle. 

The new office is mostly up and running the way I want. After my first week, I found a couple of things that need minor changes, but other than that, it went pretty smoothly.

More people were comfortable parking on the street than I thought. Several who parked on the street commentted that they really do not like backing up. It isn't a long walk to the office from the street at all. 

One person walked to the appointment- she was about 5 minutes late, but now she knows how long it takes to walk to the office from her house. 

I am really glad I made the move. The economic news has been abysmal-- I don't think our culture can be as economically or energetically as mindless as we have been in the past. Credit crunch, recession, resource depletion, peak oil, overpopulation-- wow, moving to a home office makes a lot of sense when you look at all of that stuff.

Next year we'll grow more vegetables more often.

Infrequent Posting due to the move--

I will be busy with the office move the next few weeks, so I will not be posting as much.

Stay tuned to this blog for the latest info on my move.

After things settle down with the new office space, I'll get back to regular posting.

Not in the office today--

It appears to be some sort of virus or something like that-- not enough focus available to go in and do my job today.