I've noticed over the years that I've had a rather strange fear of phone calls, I mean not so much a fear but they make me uncomfortable I would always avoid to the extent of completely ignoring a phone call unless I know who it is on the other side and I'm expecting the call. I need to change this as it's generally affected my ability for confrontation and I'll generally be pretty submissive with the intent on ending the interaction as soon as possible, when I should really be making sure I get the ideal outcome.

My role in work is quickly pushing me towards having to manage a few other people which means I've got to take charge in their workload, manage their schedule and make sure they've always got stuff to work on to make effective use of the time were paying them for. This is quite a strange feeling since historically I've always been pretty focused on what I'm working on and I get really frustrated when interrupted.

So I've set myself a few daily targets, my daily list of awesomeness if you will. With the idea of getting myself used to interactions of that nature and basically being able to haggle / argue over the phone.

But also there's a few others in there, I go to a Northern Creative's meetup every few months were they usually have a couple of speakers talking about the work they have done for some pretty high end clients ( Aardman, Nike, Pepsi, etc ) and it always inspires me to be a little more creative, but then it kind of wanes out so I'm going to try and be a bit more creative in my writing and design.

My running regime has slowed a little now, I tend to do that after doing a 10k but not for long its just a rest period so I can let the blisters heal. Still doing climbing again on Saturday and then in a week or so I'll start preparing for the Survival of the Fittest run in November.

To summarise, my daily list of awesome...
1. Phone somebody you wouldn't normally,
2. Manage a schedule for my minions and discuss it with them in full,
3. Write a creative blog article ( I have a blog, anybody that knows me will know how to find it, or PM me if you should so wish ),
4. Sketch an idea ( It doesn't need to be anything productive ),
5. Share a Google+ article or prolonged interaction or hangout ( again anybody who knows me, knows how to find me on here ).