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#lmaaugust #photochallenge #handwritten goals. Year two of participation. 2012 #somethingthatmoves #day6 threw me out of the game for the remainder of the photo challenge. I realised I needed to get off my arse and DO. What a year though. Couldn't wait for August to come around again to give it another go. Check out www.livemoreawesome.com #lmaaugust twitter, instagram, facebook to see AWE-some images. Create your own AWE. 2013 #handwrittengoals #day6 again another B.F.O moment. Ruling hand since. Pushing me just a little bit further in every task - feeling awesome just by the contemplation of "it" or the completion of "something", "anything". Finding AWE and then some. Pure Adrenalearn. There's the one more time with feeling moments. #anightout, same crowd, same dress embroiled in innocent tasks staged to look dodgy - Friday nights - both years. Some things never change. Mischief with some folk is guaranteed. Mantras. There are lessons in every #instagram moment. Waking not knowing what the image will be, observing the day to see what cul-de-sac I'll pull into. The pressure of no idea, looking the wrong way at sunrise, pulling off the road to catch sunset - saved by the yahoo moments when the perfect graphic representation of concept is spotted, captured and posted. A wee wow at completing a complusive daily ritual. The whole months been #abitmental thanks to #jimihunt. It's awe-some to speak in #hashtags. One man's mission to lilo the Waikato and Live More Awesome is Jimi Hunt's book - inspiration for epic journeys a great big yahoo in itself. Buy it. His #handwrittengoal to make NZ the happiest country in the world by 2020 is cult worthy. Participated in a challenge? Any challenge? Got a goal, aim or ritualised meditative practise? Try 100 days of cupcakes, a year with a slow cooker? Sticking to your knitting is a whole journey in it's self. Fascinating observation breeds innovation fodder. Tomorrow #day21 #Exercise - thank god! The most under utilised anti depressant I could do with OD-ing on. A virus has cut swathe through my household. The 2013 winter has been testing in the health realm. Rickshaw Run training depends on #lmaaugust day 21 and the next 5 months of it. The first 4 weeks only you notice the changes, after 6 weeks someone else notices and after 12 weeks the world notices. That's a time line for AWE some change with exercise. I'll check back. The absorption in a challenge task makes for fascinating observations. Fascinare is to cast a spell - on yourself. As you wake up to what is AWE-some in your life and how you can tweak it makes it more fun for yourself and those around you. Zero tolerance for negatives is a challenge mooted in all DO learning workshops. Become the observer of your internal and external dialogue and master it. Tell the voice in your head to rephrase that please. Eliminate bitchin, griping and moaning. State outcomes with certainty, allow things to be happening perfectly according to the plan. Believe you have the perfect amount of time to achieve what ever it is that you need to achieve. I was stalking a facebook poster following their long, long, long journey home to the UK... via every bad weather system, flight delay, hideous fellow passenger and reroute. Ironically created exactly as he foretold from his first post the night before departure - "having trouble sleeping in anticipation of my long journey home". Be careful what you wish for. Challenge yourself to avoid doomsday prophecies and crystal balling for the next month and see how much more AWE - some it becomes. The rest of the August is pure anticipation - my best friend - how to choose just one? A thank you note to who for what? Looks like I'll receive something, can't wait. A stranger - someone I'm yet to meet, how exciting. There is one interesting thing about every person on the planet. My neighbour - you are going to love their tee pee. #day8 #abookI'mreading Authenticity is tested when we embrace challenge. Will we remain open, share willingly, disclose our true selves, demonstrate strong will, push through fear, belief bust barriers? Or will we tire easily? Give up, run out of places to go for inspiration? Betray someone or something by acting out of integrity? Pause and look exactly where we you are at that moment. When challenge would appear to win. Observe what you are already doing and celebrate how perfectly AWE-some it already is. Add some thing to it. Read some thing more high brow, draw eyebrows on it, climb higher, share your struggle with another.
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From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. Dr. Seuss There are countless times in life - sometimes in the same day that we ponder the purpose, plan, place and pace of the journey. That B.F.O moment ...the Aha that's why I had to DO that, hear that, see that, learn that, repeat that experience - the metaphorical click of OOOOOO - thats why! Too long ago with ProgressiveEnterprises "Operation Phoenix" rebranding Three Guys supermarkets to Countdown's I wondered aloud often - Why the universe had decided that me facilitating the same customer service course 3 times a day, 5 days a week for 10 weeks was something I needed to DO? - I get it now. Customer Service workshops became the bread and butter when I started my own business in 1995 and remain so. I have the faith to perfectly pitch every one liner, snoozy audience wake up call on the topic to any individual. It makes the content easily transferable to any industry group who wants a customer service pick me up. I had to find ways to make it sing to myself every time every day so I trust that others will find it of worth. Because I practiced it again and again and again and then some more. I learnt to keep my place when lost staring at another green shirt in the same room with the same poster with the same story time and time again. It taught me contextual memory anchoring, the ability to keep my own state vibrant and the certainty that every participant deserved to experience the best I could be one more time with feeling. No one wants to be the last customer of your weary day. Or to feel that you've been there done that and really can't be faffed to be there again right now. Training hotel induction provides me with a playground for new workshops and new material. I am in an audience comfort zone. I grew up in that world, cut my cloth there so to speak - it gives me the freedom to craft new content; to test out the tricky stuff and see how it is received. I can feel how these audiences like to get their stuff so I can tell when something I'm pitching is falling flat or hitting home. It sends me back to the drawing board or into the streets. When it stands on it's own feet in hospitality I can take new content out wide to the world. New clients, new markets, new projects - as my mum would say - same shit different bucket - T.M.B.A.W! Spending hours on social media platforms, home in the evenings on the farmlet while my engineer works away and my kids claim theTV has opened up opportunities to support others in learning what may work or won't work for them in the same arena. Childhood trips to Asia and beyond - experience for Enculturation workshops and opportunities to work off shore. A random stranger, a scheduled meeting, trending article or a good friend catch up - they all have purpose. It would appear that nothing is by chance at all. What part time jobs, books you have picked up, things you once tuned into - have impacted where you are today? Did the months as a roading engineer give you the understanding of infrastructure and transportation to DO the reports that are now required? Did time on the front line prepare you for stress and hardship and being out in all weather? Time stuck home with a sick child - the opportunity to practise patience, develop a new product or light the internal fire to be well again and in the world - that may have never have happened with the same degree of passion or purpose otherwise? Did you travel to Invercargill in labour to know that you can focus and handle pain, did a loved ones illness send you on a path as a nutritionist? Or did you decide that a holiday away from the pain is what you really needed to be once again declared sane? If observation is the key to innovation what is it that you have had the chance to see? The moments that we think there is no reason for us to be somewhere are the most profound moments of all. Go where you think you know no one and find your future partner, client or a long lost gem. Head scratching moments, delays and deviations can be worshiped as moments of magic when out of control we may be being guided along a path that is not of our own making. We are here for a good time not a long time and it's opportune to remind ourselves of that often. The Celestine Prophecy on recall suggested that the path to enlightenment requires all the bit parts we have played to date. So stop for a moment on the road to fufillment and ask what are you DO -ing here? What might be the value, the point or the learning? The reason why for how or the why not? Is the message practise, research or promise? Are you honing a skill, working out what you don't like, there to meet someone or be someone? Or is there really no reason at all why you are here, there or anywhere? What are you DO-ing here at all? The pursuit of mediocrity is always successful. Was a mantra to a guru HRM that I was head hunted by years ago. She pushed me to stretch out of my comfort zones and aim to be legendary. What a role model she was and is. OK service just isn't good enough. "I shopped at New World today and nothing bad happened to me." - said no one to anyone ever! Perhaps I'm just having a bad day but I'm really a tad angry and frustrated. I'm f'd off. At the ineptitude and lack of drive I've been experiencing lately. If my anger at others really is a mirror of what's going on for me personally then I guess its a loud call that I need to push myself harder. To scull a shot of life's wake up call each morning and realise none of us have the time not to get this. Reason 1 for the Rickshaw Run. Time to push the limits. D.A.R.E again to live out loud to see how far I can go doing amazing things to support others and to feel the colour it adds to my life. But first - get the work done, the proposal emailed, the invoice out, the GST in, the house sorted and the washing put away pronto. Check out CK Lewis on you tube - "Everything is awesome yet nobody is happy"; to get the drift of what I'm saying. We are experiencing the anthropocene. The time epoch where humanity holds the perceived balance of power on the planet and it's wasted on a generation of us with a huge sense of entitlement demonstrating activity that inspires very little exemplary at all. The generational inequity is daunting - benefits, expectations of social welfare, government and entitlement are everywhere. You don't have to move your feet far off your ottoman or even lean forward on your couch to hear the media bag yet another aspect of how hard life is in today's world. Get real! Count a few of your own first world problems... The charger on my i phone 5 means that now none of my techno wired house features work without adapters is an all too common cry. I remind myself that the women of Macetown managed to wear layers of white petticoats under well pressed dresses laundered by hand at minus 14 degrees c in the river in winter any time I want to B-itch about having to fold my washing warm and soft from the dryer. Those with the means manage to excuse ourselves from the most character building of activities. Because when we are executives we buy into the perks. A lust for luxury and desire to be elite. Convincing ourselves that success is a ticket out of service and selflessness. We deserve to sleep in, eat out, have nannies, fly first class while someone else scrubs the dunny, disciplines or hugs the kids and empties the cat litter. In training sessions when asked to describe customers most groups serve a nation of drama queens, haters, wasters and complainers. Put that together with most of the customers who are getting appalling service every where they go. What a bunch of no hopers we've all turned into. Are we really scrapping the bottom of the wine barrel then whinging at the sediment? When those still unemployed are there because they won't pass the drug tests or don't want to work the public holidays. Most weeks I come up with a couple of start up business ideas. I've encouraged my kids to sell horse poo, wash cars, pick herbs to DO more. Yet an hour a day after school and I've spoiled them. So right now all of you hands up. If you are the person out there giving the crap service and whinging when you get worse service elsewhere this is the time to line up next to me, stand up and be counted. What? it's not you? If it's not you and it's not me then who on earth could it be? Is it because we have all been caught up in the quest to be entrepreneurial , creative types who can multi task and create a great work life balance? Even those who can't read or write because it's not our first language or we have a different learning style to that which the system operates in. How is it that all of us manage to stuff around finishing little and creating mayhem for others to sort out in our wake. While we primp, preen and posture, throw tanturms, cheat or lie, blog, network and lunch? Maybe we justify our mediocrity as we work 14 hour days, go without breakfast or lunch and take care of three kids while volunteering to coach the touch rugby game. Respect for people, places and things seems to have fallen by the wayside. As we meet to discuss the values for private schooling it's unanimous - manners, old school traditions. Opening doors, calling people by their surnames, standing when the boss, teacher or customer enters, making eye contact, smiling, acknowledging each other, respecting your elders are traditions we long for to give a feeling of security and comfort. If kids can't wear a formal uniform at school how the hell will they show up to work on time and dressed for success. If they swear at their mothers, and graffiti their desks and bodies will they feature on police 10 seven instead of the high school year book or the rich list ? I witness senior mangers leaving for an hours drive to a meeting, 10 mins prior to its scheduled start time. Keeping 10 people waiting ...where is the cost benefit ratio in that? Getting passport photos supplied electronically when children's applications must be hard copy takes three trips to the camera shop to sort out. None of it on purpose, but maybe that is our problem. Together in love spirit and purpose is engraved on the inside of my wedding band. Ten years this month - maybe I should now tatoo it across the back of my hand. To remind me that the connection to life is bigger than I've seen and the obligation is to get on with it, now. There is the wwoofer who came to help in the garden, learning on a study abroad scheme at the expense of the UK government and courtesy of Otago university. A sweet kid it was a major to drag herself out to meet the day before 11am, or fill more than a bag of horse poop an hour. The garden she meticulously weeded does demonstrate that she may be well suited for the career in archeology that she is following. Indeed history may be made while she digs. It took four days to clear 50 square metres, correction 10 of them are still undone. As a trainer I know that I have a tendancy to give the level of instruction that I would need to do a job. So I felt a dash of pride when I'd explained grid by grid what I wanted to have happen. Over the week my own speed increased as did my productivity. In an attempt to lead from the front I got a hell of a lot done. She was a great hit playing with the kids and read 7 books in the week that she was here. So I'm sure that contributed something to the collective good. But was it worth it? Consider my lovely neighbours scenario who had random house sitters offer to take care of their place over the summer. Great, though now they are gone and have left ALL their stuff in the garage, no rent, no fee, no care. When asked when it's going to move... their new place isn't very big... And? the point is?? Is it time to embrace a paradigm shift back to excellence? With unitasking and the rise of the intraprenurial. Some B.F.O's for this weeks journey... Focus on one thing at a time do it exceptionally well and finish it. Work in the business not on it. Look for ways to do things better and faster. Use less resources to be more productive. Respect for people places and property. Not wrecking the planet cause it's where we keep all our stuff. Time to lift the game and demonstrate good sportsmanship. If your not first you are last and second is the first loser. Celebrate winners - Drink a cup of metaphysical concrete and harden up. I'll give it a day or two and let you know how I go. If a black cat crosses your path it indicates that the animal is going somewhere - Grocho Marx The path of least resistance are you on it? Know where you are going in life? Or even where you want to be by tonight? Are you faced with choices and decisions that are confusing confounding and hard to distinguish between? I've just had a great discussion with a lovely lady who is at a crossroads of sort. I love it when someone reaches out for connection and allows me to let inspiration flow. It's all the more fulfilling when we are yet to meet in person because I can trust that the information I'm sharing is from source rather than tainted by my human perceptions of them or the way I have judged how they are living their lives. Life offers so much choice everyday at every junction sometimes it's hard to determine which outcome will be the most promising. To trust that tossing a coin could take us on a wonderful journey. Perhaps we have broken through a paradigm and are newly aware that our belief system has changed. We are brave enough to explore new horizons but we are just not certain which opportunity is the most fruitful to pick. In these instances it is important to trust your gut reactions and to learn to distinguish when you are in the flow or not. There is a temptation to race off down the first path we stumble upon. 100 yards into our dash we realise we are up to our necks in shit. The trick is to take it one little step at a time and check in with your gut often. Ask is this an Ooo or an Ahhh. And step by step feel your way along; following the path of least resistance. The path that feels good, light and fun. There are wants, needs, desires, cues, judgements and observations that get us where we deserve to go. Make lists or mind maps to feel out your journey. Start with what you really really want, what you need is as simple as base survival and what you desire is that quiet little voice that you hardly even D.A.R.E to listen to. Desire can wear disguises. It may be the nagging feeling or crowd in the grandstand telling you that you can't do that or should do this. It's time to be really quiet and ask yourself why that voice is so certain that it knows what is good for you. Maybe you really are allowed a pony or actually could be prime minister - we were each created equal with a god given right to divine inspiration. Just some D.A.R.E to follow it. Out of this voice of desire rise the seeds of fruitfulness. The passion to live by the sea, the drive to wipe out bullying, the inspiration for creativity. If everything has happened to you for a reason lifes lessons just may be in the signs. Perhaps its where things are the most in contrast. Observe what it is that you find the most challenging or confronting. Use these nuggets of wisdom to sketch out your road map but allow the universe to fill in the landscapes, the terrain and the colour for you. Reach out and connect with others - this is where the ideas flow and the synchronicity happens. Where 2 degrees of separation can pop out and become cairns by the road side - shrinking your world and putting the people and the tools in your path to take you to shores you have not even dreamt about. The cues are where you come in. The lines that someone utters that you have a gut response to. The offer of a job or a chance to connect with someone or something. Judgements and observations are the road signs. I D.A.R.E'd to comment on an April fools Facebook post by someone asking should she go to live in the South of France for 6 months or Stewart Island for a year. The last joke may have been on the poster. Designed to lure us into thinking she was seriously considering leaving the shaky isles. The judgements from others and her own observations that either choice was suddenly sounding very enticing may have created opportunity to exciting to ignore. The engineer and I asked GOG to define whether Grumpy Old Man Syndrome really exists and why. I love our philosophical explorations of life and its stages through the web of online learning and knowledge. References to Eriksonian psychosocial stages gave me flash backs to those first year psych lectures. That as we age there is a natural need to detach from society as we face death and leaving this world for another unknown. There is the inevitable comparisson of what we desired to achieve and whether or not we ticked the boxes and got there. Or whether we become cynical , bitter, twisted and sad that this time around we blew it and now we are out of time. Didn't D.A.R.E or care enough to at least say that we tried. For those that look back and sum up the path they have travelled positively there is the opportunity to become the wise sage. The kamatua, a healer, a helper, a light worker. To be one who gave something a go and risked the rejection and the humiliation of failure. That listened to what we thought we could never DO and did at least some of it and felt good for it. Or realised that although the temptation to live abroad in a new location sounded enticing and different, that life here ...exactly as it is now; was just to good to ignore and a new level of satisfaction in staying put was the greatest gift of all. I allow my intuition to lead my path - Manuel Puig http://www.breakthrough-hq.com/goal-setting/reticular-activating-system Ever noticed what happens when you want to buy a particular thing or know someone who has one - a car, maybe an Audi, or a designer handbag? You begin to see them everywhere? So much so you wonder if the dealer has a giveaway on that you've missed. Or perhaps you are thinking about going on holiday - Antarctica - then BAM on TV there is a deluge of doco's on the destination. The travel section of the weekend paper is featuring the wonders of the southern realm. Your kids class starts a learning module on it. And you sit next to a geotech engineer just back from working the summer down there on the bus. Why is it that when we focus our attention to something all around us the cues and clues seem to become more abundant? Answer your R.A.S has been activated ... Your reticular activation system is a part of your brain stem which acts like a radar. See the link under the picture above for a great article from Breakthrough-hq on how the R.A.S works and how it can support you in goal setting. Activating your own R.A.S. deliberately is a powerful tool for motivation and for learning. Focus yourself on something that you would like to learn more about and let the universe deliver the goods. Tune your radar in to healthy eating and lifestyle choices and you'll begin to notice all the wonderful supportive ways you can nurture yourself and your wellbeing. You'll participate in a friends healthy living research, you'll find wild berries when you walk. You choose fish over fondue off the menu, a herb tea over a coffee in the morning. Don't like something or someone. Turn your R.A.S off. Start to go other places and notice other things. Hide them in your Facebook newsfeed or unfriend them. Change the channel. The R.A.S. is the portal between the outside world and it's signals. And YOU - the living, breathing, acting power house and what you do with that information. Learn how to effectively and efficiently open and shut that door. With the ADRENALEARN natural learning framework that I use in DO Learning workshops we activate the R.A.S. to the topics and content of the session and build links and bridges to your real world experiences to ensure that the learning will continue once you re-join real time. How can you turn it on? Turn it up or tune it out? D.A.R.E is my model for change. Decide: what it is that you want to be different. Pick just one thing that you would like more off or less of in your life. I generally find it useful to focus on the things I want to increase and to play the zero tolerance for negatives game. Instead of saying I want to eat less crap I would therefore say I want to be motivated to eat more healthy foods that nurture my health. Act: as if you are tuned in to this goal. Seek out images, stimuli and experiences that support your radar and allow yourself to notice the naturally occurring incidences that arise for you as your R.A.S. presents them to you. Perhaps you can search through Facebook pages and like those with healthy lifestyle options, be sure to unlike any your may have already subscribed to that focus on 1000 great uses for chocolate. Subscribe to a gardening magazine. Do your window shopping in health food stores, eat out at vegan restaurants. Listen to pod casts on the topic. The idea is to give your R.A.S a kick start that is as cool calm and collected as an All Black setting up in front of the goal post with the whole of Eden Park silent patiently waiting for him to get it in. Review: Look at things again and again and again. Do it one more time with feeling. When your R.A.S. points out something that supports your goal and matches up take a good look at it. Say to yourself AHA!! - there's one, that's useful. Oh look there goes another one and there it goes again. Enjoy: Bottom line B.F.O of any DO experience is are you having any fun yet? Play with the concept. Go on I D.A.R.E. ya... https://www.facebook.com/pages/sungazing1 I love it when the plan comes together. When we are in the flow - the plan always rolls out in the perfect way. It may not seem so at the time but retrospectively we see the bigger picture. The AHA moment of ...Ohhh - that is why that happened! If everything is said for a reason does it affect the way you hear criticism? There is the perfect amount of time to achieve exactly what I need to achieve. Relationships last as long as they are meant to last. I will handle it. The universe will bring me that or better, ... are BFO mantra's that I remind myself of often. When we acknowledge that we are the creators of our own reality we become aware of just how powerful our skills of manifestation are. What we think about is what we get. So be very careful what you wish for. Today I've finally tuned into my health - I've had a head cold for a week or so (mental confusion and disorder according to Louise Hay ). But I've been ignoring that voice in my solar plexus telling me to SLOW DOWN, BE QUIET AND LOOK AFTER ME. A pressing deadline of facilitation tommorrow afternoon finally made me hydrate with something other than red wine, swallow the vitamins, a super spicy tom yum soup, get more sleep and resort to the steroids. If we don't learn the lesson the universe turns up the volume - or in THIS case... turns it off. In a final push to get me to listen to the screaming inside I have no voice. - Well only the croaky, husky more than sexy remains of one. And for a public speaker that is like trying to hang wallpaper with no arms. Beyond challenging. However I've learnt over time not to worry about these things. Worry is the most common form of meditation practiced by the civilised world. And it has the uncanny habit of drawing to you the exact circumstance that you did not want to attract. We have no need to worry because just maybe the master planner had a different outcome in mind anyway. My task today must be to write not talk. Like the corporate workshop tommorrow. I'm fully prepared, resources packed, well rested, nurturing myself yet still in a bubble of silence. I'm trusting that this DO learning opportunity will be perfect just the way it is... and due to an unforseen event in my clients world we have just deferred the training until next week. I now have a full day off to self nurture and heal. Thank you master planner. I am practising trusting the process, putting the thought out there of what it is that I want to achieve and remaining in the vortex certain that the law of attraction will sort it out for me in the best possible way. As Yoda said there is no try.. there is just DO or not DO. Test it out - next time you head to town ask the parking pixies to please have a parking space ready for you exactly where you need it. Believe it enough and it will happen. My kids love how this one works. Put the thought out there, no doubts, no worries and the plan will flow. We always smile thinking of the person who was dawdling along the street or lingering over their coffee having a sudden urge head back to their car and get out of that park. The only time it fails is when I forget to ask. As a child I used to think about car crashes at junctions of rural roads... don't ask me why. But I'd imagine the birds eye view of these two cars heading towards each other oblivious to the reality they were headed for yet destined to impact. It's a vision I carry in life, and it makes me very cautious at intersections especially country ones. Do you notice when the synchronicity pixies get to work on your day? At times the people and situations you run into are just too spot on to be a coincidence. When your world shrinks and the degrees of seperation become 2 not 7. Those occasions when you discover an old friend or three in an Chiang Mai night market. Or the complete stranger next to you at a random dinner party is your deceased bff's bridesmaid, spoken of often... but never before to. The head shaking moment when you realise that all the fab new friends at this weekends' 50th met you at a party your teen love took you to 30 years ago. It is indeed a small world and we are all somehow in connection with each other. D.A.R.E to believe in magic. Decide, Act, Review, Enjoy - We may not know all the ins and outs of how the energy flows from the dam to the light switch yet it does not stop us flicking on the light. Ask for what it is that you want, leave the universe to sort out the details. I used to worry a lot when a plan was not flowing, when things felt jarring. A date set and tickets booked to go away on a holiday that somehow felt like hard work. A proposal or bid for a client project that wasn't forming. Cash flow crisis or nothing to wear? A relationship or friendship that is faltering. Now I've learnt to let it go. That there is a bigger picture and generally pushing hard may brings me an outcome I regret. Events have a way of working themselves out. The hard to secure client may have required me to linger overseas away from my kids or gone bankrupt and not been able to pay. Where you focus your attention is where you get your results. At a meditation group years ago a wise crone told me that you may be wishing for a bit part in a film, while he director may have been willing to give you the lead. Because you never put the thought out there and were too attached to your outcome guess what you got? D.A.R.E. to dream big. D.A.R.E. to know that the plan will work out for the best. Trust the times your gut is telling you that something is not in integrity. My B.F.O taken from facebook today..A diamond is simply a lump of charcoal that handled stress superbly. God has two answers Yes and Not yet... If the path you are on is the path of least resistance. Stay on it. It's useful to be clear on what it is that you value. If you focus on getting more things that's exactly what you'll get and likely the debt that goes with them. If you focus on wealth over health, success over love, a beautiful face over a beautiful heart the plan will reflect exactly what you have chosen. Time is the most misunderstood dimension we operate in. We give up on goals thinking we are never going to get there. We stop pumping the pump just as the water is about to flow. Making a million by age 30 may not appear to have happened on your birthday. But when you are silent in your rocker reflecting back on life perhaps it was that seed thought the last day of your 29th year that turned into the money tree of your future. Or would have been if you hadn't thrown the baby out with the bath water, tossed your toys, spat the dummy and given up the ghost. If you would like help to clarify what it is that you value send me an email at the www.todo.net.nz contact DO page and I'll forward you a free activity to help you narrow down what it is that you DO want to attract. No obligations - free help for a free will planet. Because the magic of being human is that we have the will to be what ever it is we choose. That's why we are called human beings, not human havings or even human DO-ings. Start to create the plan you want to manifest. How would you like your life to be? Let the rest of the journey fall into place. Because life is the journey not the destination. Trust that there is a plan for you and that on many levels, possibly all - you are the master of it. Tell me what you plan to DO with your one wild and precious life - Mary Oliver , Summer Day I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas Edison Take it easy baby , take it as it comes, be a specialist in having fun - Jim Morrison "Are you having any fun yet ?" One line mantras. B.F.O's - Blinding Flash of the Obvious moments. The AHA feeling. An opportunity to sum up the essence of your experience in just a few words. To me that is the phrase ....Best said to another when you are perhaps experiencing something that is no fun at all. Particularily useful when life seems to suck the big kumara. It's a cunning reminder that we are here for a good time not a long time and are fully capable of enjoying the journey. The sort of statement we see on a bumper sticker and want to recall for life. Last millenium I was heading to a meeting with the bank manager, WINZ had cancelled a trial program for transistioning long term unemployed people into work in Queenstown. We had already committed to the office space, training room and team. Our land lord was about to change the locks if the lease wasn't paid. I had no idea how I was going to keep the business let alone my life afloat. When on the way down the mall my financial controller turned to me and said... "Are you having any fun yet?" Instantly the pressure was off, we looked at each other the stress lifted and we began to laugh or was it cry? From memory a lot of both, we had to sit tears streaming to compose ourselves into the concerned adult individuals that we knew the finance representatives would assume that we would be. And the issue was certainly and suddenly back in perspective. I can't even remember how we sorted out the rent that day but we did, the world still turned but most importantly we relaxed, we had some fun and we learnt. Learn from the mistakes of others you don't live long enough to make them all yourself. If you obey all the rules your miss all the fun - Katherine Hepburn Sick to the stomach, a need to pee, sweaty palms, racing heart. A collegue reminded me recently are all symptoms of excitement. I'd been wrestling with my anxiety after the death of three significant others in my inner circle and it was manifesting in similar displays in my middle child. Time to examine what we like to DO when we are excited. Dress for a special occasion, day dream, plan, write a journal. make, give and receive gifts, find like minded souls to share the journey. Immerse in the task, become absorbed in the moment. Some purposeful choices to re-label the state and enjoy the day, moment by second. To nurture my inner children with happy voices, hugs, bike rides, compliments, squeals of glee, baking, adding novelty, parties and fun times with friends. To walk barefoot in the icy cold river collecting stones. To look up and see the light not at the end of the tunnel but right here we we are. In some call centres there are Fun Managers. The person whose role it really is to create the doughnut day and hand out the silly hats. It's not the wank factor the cynics among you would label it as. The best pull it off with aplomb. Celebrating moments, creating themes adding value to the brand and the day. Establishing employee retention and decreasing challenging customer moments. Because every moment deserves to be a great one. As we would like to think that Buddha said... "The trouble is we think we have time." Go on I D.A.R.E. you - Decide, Act, Review and Enjoy - Then do it again.... and again...and again. One more time with feeling! Climb something, set a goal, make a plan, throw yourself off or into anything. Scare your self silly. Fascination comes from fascinare - to cast a spell. Create magic in your day. Go out feel the warmth of sunlight on your skin or eat what it is you love for lunch. Drink out of beautiful glass, tell a joke, love an animal, smile more at yourself in the mirror. Acknowledge your natural beauty - you are the oldest you have ever been and the youngest you will be in this moment. Experience your wealth - you have life. Invite a group of random friends to play tennis and drink Pimms. Ensure enough of them know you well enough to turn up in nightclub attire, and 6 inch heels. Have new racquets and balls on display but touch neither. Drink the Pimms and add champagne. Go out. Pretend you are a tennis club. Talk loudly and passionately about who has the best back hand. Stay out all night. Tell stories on the couch. Laugh hard, long and loud about who wears the biggest nana pants. When your husbands walk in from their fishing trip in the morning throw the lillies out of the vase and pretend you are drinking the water. Are you having any fun yet? |
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