Blogging has helped me to distinguish two different tools that I routinely enjoy using: lists and series. If you’ve checked out my posts for any length of time, you’ll notice that I’m pretty generous with the amount of lists I use in the course of one week’s blog posts. I practically use them in every post I publish, but series have been a format that I’ve dabbled in here and there at Degrees of Maternity. As a matter of fact, I might even refer to my Monday weekly reports as a series of sorts. And even when occasionally reading a book series or watching a movie/television series, I enjoy the continuity of characters, back story, sometimes setting, and definitely formulaic plot development that you find common to multiple books and small/big screen pictures, carrying a particular story line. So, it wouldn’t be out of character to state that I plan on experimenting with series in my little neck of the woods.
The “Why” Behind the Series
I’ve been wanting to do something like this for some time, but I wasn’t quite sure how to properly package and deliver it. And, then it came to me. Why not address important relational topics that affect an individual’s personal as well as professional life in the form of a blog series. After serving as an administrative support and human resources professional for over 15 years, I’ve had the sheer pleasure of witnessing the human psyche hard at work and the consequential actions that follow it. Let’s just say that in any environment where your main focus is serving people, you’ll never run out of interesting, head-shaking, and jaw-dropping life-related things to observe. And such observances and interactions make for great blogging material to share with you.
Perhaps, this new series of mine is meant to awaken each one of us (self included) to the complexities of human interaction in our daily lives. I’ll aim to share knowledge that I’ve acquired over the years through living life as a growing child, sister, mom and wife (working inside and outside of the home), daughter, customer service associate, administrative assistant, human resources professional, homeschooler, and creative entrepreneur.
Life Lessons of the Human Experience
My intention is not to appear to be an expert at any one of these roles that I’ve held in the past or continue to fulfill to this day. I simply want to give you some insight as to the lessons I’ve learned in navigating throughout this human experience we know as life . . . lessons that may seem commonsensical to some and foreign to others, lessons we need to be reminded of in order to awaken their effects in our daily lives, lessons that have the potential to affect ourselves and others for the better, lessons that many of us already share or will come to experience at some point in our lives, lessons that can bring us together in this crazy world we live in.
How the Series was Named
Without further ado, I’m excited to bring this new series, “The Art of People Business” to you. The content I’ll be posting for the series will be a Thursday event, so make sure to tune in weekly to see what’s been swimming around in my mind’s eye and then finally landed on the blogosphere’s shore. As you know, the human experience is, oftentimes, complicated. It’s not an exact science; therefore, I thought it’d be fitting to refer to it as an “art”, which we know can be beautiful and ugly, messy and adequately (I won’t say perfectly) aligned in all the right places, hidden in plain sight and simple to behold, relatable to the masses and uniquely specific to the individual, subjective and objective . . . but manages to imitate life in all of that.
NEXT ⇒ I can’t wait for you to come back this Thursday for the first installment of “The Art of People Business”.
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