My Dream Job

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My favorite handbag company Belen Echandia is having a month long competition for their Twitter followers and Facebook friends.  Today’s question “Dream a little dream… what would you do for a living, if you could do anything?”  While I already answered it via tweet, I was inspired to write more.  For me, answering this question is just as easy as “What’s your name?”

I love hockey.  It brings me joy and happiness.  If I’m having a bad day, I can put on a hockey game and feel better.  I watch hockey whenever it’s available.  I’m season ticket holder for the local AHL team.  I love reading about hockey.  Not a single day goes by when I’m not thinking about hockey.  To me, there is no better job than Commissioner of the NHL.

From the NHL’s filing in court regarding the bankruptcy case of the Pheonix Coyotes some important information about the Commissioner’s job is found.  I found the filing via the Globe & Mail, http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/pdf/CoyotesDaly.pdf

The NHL Commissioner serves as the Chief Executive Office of the League.  He is expressly charged with protecting the integrity of the game of professional hockey and preserving the public confidence in the League.  He has the responsibility for general supervision and direction of all business and affairs of the League, and the NHL Constitution grains the Commissioner all powers as may be necessary or appropriate to fulfill those responsibilities.  The NHL Constition grants the Commissioner the authority to interpret the provisions of the Constitution, By-Laws, and League resolutions and rules, and their application and enforcement.  The Commissioner’s determinations with respect to such matters are final and biding and not subject to review.

Every single part of that job description sounds incredible!  Protecting the integrity of the game and preserving the public confidence in the NHL are things that have actually kept me up at night.  I have ideas on how to improve the NHL’s profile amongst sports fans in general, increase the community outreach, make hockey more accessible to new fans, improve the economics of the league, and so much more!

Without question, without hesitation, my dream job is NHL Commissioner.  I’m sure my response sounds strange and out of the norm, but it’s completely from the heart.  My dream of being the NHL Commissioner is so strong, I’ve created a blog that’s my outlet for my Commissioner dreams and ideas.  I completely understand that it’s incredibly unlikely I’ll ever have the job, but it is my dream.  I’ll continue to write, rant, tweet and share my ideas, hopes and thoughts.  I just can’t imagine stopping!

More Awesome: Goal 1.10 Complete

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A little late in posting this.  October was a busy month and I didn’t really read a ‘normal’ book.  I read like 3 magazines cover to cover and I read quite a lot of technical documentation and articles, none of which I’m counting here.

What I am counting is the very long User Guide for one of the systems I work with that I read this month for work.  I had to do some research and the index was rubbish, so I read the guide.  It was not fun at all.  November I really need to read something fun again!

More Awesome: Goal 1.09 Complete

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I’ve had hockey on the brain which makes me a bad blogger here sometimes.  But I do do quite a lot of reading during September.  I don’t feel I’m any good at book reviews, and I read 3 books so I’ll spare everyone who read this from my poor attempts at reviewing the books.

I started with The Balkan Escape by Steve Berry.  It was a short story to prepare you for the next book in the Cotton Malone series, The Emperor’s Tomb.  It was such a quick read, I almost felt bad about listing it.  Though it did kick off my little reading binge, so it made the list.  It’s only available in eBook format, which was fun.  I love reading eBooks, so it was no problem at all for me.  I can’t wait for November and the release of Emperor’s Tomb!

Next up was The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova.  It was a good book but felt a bit plodding at times and took me much longer to read than I thought it would.  I just couldn’t dive in for extended reading sessions.  I had to take some breaks.  I think I preferred Kostova’s first book, The Historian.  If she releases a new book, I’ll give it a try, but my expectations are lowered a bit.

I ended the month with 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs.  I’ve read every book in the Temperance Brennan series and I always enjoy them!  As always with Kathy Reichs, this was a great book.  I’ve never been disappointed by one of the Temperance Brennan books.  I have another on my iPad waiting to be read. 🙂

More Awesome: Goal 2.03 Complete

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Work has been quite a bit of keep doing the same thing, without a ton of new projects.  So this quarter’s update was fairly simple to make.  It was nice to be able to add a project to my job with the new company.  I enjoy making the quarterly updates to my resume.  It makes the whole process a bit simpler.  I just know it’s done and no need to worry about my resume falling out of date.

More Awesome 1.08

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In August I made up for my slacking in July 🙂

To start the month, I read A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff.  It was an interesting story about loss, grief and forgiveness.  Though the actual plot felt like that was almost secondary to the descriptions of vintage clothing.  I enjoyed the descriptions of the vintage clothing, as it is a fondness of mine.

In the middle of August, I read the Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry.  It’s the 5th book in the Cotton Malone series.  I really enjoy Steve Berry’s books and I’ve read them all to date.  I really enjoyed the book and there were actually some events I didn’t anticipate, which was a nice change for me.  Normally when I read action or mystery books I figure it out early in the story.  I didn’t have it all figured out, which I loved.

To wrap up the month, I read Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals.  I’d heard a lot of good things about the book.  It was pretty good, but nothing in the book really felt revolutionary to me.  Of course I didn’t read it for a revolutionary experience, so it met my expectations.

I’ve also been listening to Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk.  I’m really enjoying it, but it doesn’t count towards my goal :)  I’ll probably do a separate post on that!

New More Awesome Goal Thoughts

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It’s been a few months since I created my first 2 More Awesome goals.  And I have thoughts on the third goal.  It should be something related to fitness.  But how to make it a SMART goal?  That’s something I need think about more.  Inches?  Pounds?  Number of repetitions?  Workout a number of times?  Those would all achieve the measurable result, I just need to figure out which is the best for me.  Any ideas out there?

More Awesome: Goal 1.07 Complete

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Such a slacker in my blogging recently, I must work on that.  I bought an iPad and playing with that has occupied my time to an alarming level.  It’s also made it easier to read some of the PDFs I’ve had sitting around and I’ve not read.  And one of those was What Matters Now a really great eBook available free!  It was great to read so many pieces by some very intelligent, well respected people.  It was inspirational and I’d highly recommend it!

Happy 4th of July!

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Today is the 4th of July and in the United States, our Independence Day.  I’ve visited Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed.  Today is a day to celebrate our freedom and remember all of those who have fought for it, are fighting for it, and especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

Where I live, it’s also the time of barbecues, picnics, spending time with family, and fireworks.  I’ll be enjoying all 4 a bit later today.

I had a little fun earlier and took some pictures of my Red Sheen Protect Me, Dark Blue Crash Angel Purse and Pewter Crash Clutch Me to celebrate the 4th.

A healthy, happy and safe 4th of July to everyone!

Great Video about Drive

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In March, I read Drive by Daniel Pink and loved it.  Recently I saw this video by RSA Animate.  It’s an animation of a talk Daniel Pink gave RSA.  This is an excellent summary of some of the main topics of the book and just a great way to learn about what motivates us.  I really wish I could devise a way to send this some members of management at my company.  There’s really so much people could learn.