I’m in New York City for the Performance Improvement Conference- and god knows that I need to improve. Should be good stuff- although the classes that I have picked for myself are rather telling. They include:

Storytelling Impacts Performance
Have a Nice Conflict
The Narrative Spark: Leveraging the Instructional Power of Story
Training to Image: Improvisational Tools for Enhancing Performance

Even though my flight arrived at 11:40, I wasn’t sitting in my hotel until a little after 3PM for reasons too tedious to report in their minutia, so I have seen nothing of New York other than the view of Times Square from my window.

Last night there was a little opening session and reception at 5:30- but given that I had gotten up at 5:00 GMT I wasn’t up to having conversations where I would have to pretend to be an intelligent, thoughtful, funny and interesting person and all I had in me was, “Guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Which way did he go George?” I decided it would be best to not attend. So I called Janelle and we made plans for me to walk to her apartment and hang out for a couple of hours.

At 4:45 I knew that wasn’t going to happen so I cancelled, ordered a very tasty but ridiculously overpriced hamburger from room service and was in bed by 6:45 PM.

Of course I then got up at 4AM. The plan was to wait for the sun to rise and then go for a walk. Then I got hungry around 5:30 so at 6 I ordered a very tasty but ridiculously overpriced Denver omelette and trolled around online.

Today, when I’m done at 5, after many classes on how to enhance knowledge, know-how and results, my plan is to put on my walking shoes, walk to central park, walk back, get ready for dinner and then go have a very large, ridiculously overpriced and hopefully very tasty steak.

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