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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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Social Engineering, Human economics - both topics of research on our family jaunt to the Sunshine Coast. A holiday is always a journey. Gigantean leaps in awareness and evolution of life skills that take some assimilation when re-entering the mainstream. Today's blog topic is "Betterness". A new wave of business thinking? Or a habit for a life line? Hitting the Arrow, 500 emails, a snag with the GST return, and missing the school bus yesterday was as brisk a wake up call as diving into the river literally. I sat in the rainbow lit spa, Rainbow beach on Monday night attempting to commit to cell memory what HOT felt like. Two weeks of sunshine, bikinis, beaches, tropical fruit and relaxation hopefully imprinting the DNA before the 18 hour trek home to a -7 degree frost and the cold metallic barrel of a long hard winter where making swede a delicacy lies before me. Your soaking in it - mantra. The urge to push myself under, to stay longer, to avoid coming back was tantalising close. The Plantation Resort had apartments for sale - A dual lifestyle beckoned. If animals had passports we could be there now. Cultural flexibility skills kicked in and we made ourselves taste everything about that option, exploring all we could of our surroundings to make sure the Disneyland effect could fade and we could see without our rainbow coloured glasses on. They slid to the end of our noses. BFO's for me always come from what we souvenir when away from the norm. A multitude of tips from holiday reading - Betterness: Economics for Humans by Umair Haque, will mix it up with dreams from Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern and a more fragrant home thanks to buddha bum frangipani and lemon grass scented candles, gifts from my kids. For them the priority carry on luggage included a sand dollar, four clip on koalas, super hero outfits, new swimmers and thongs demonstrating belief in the future, whimsy and wonder not that different to my own take home items. In a workshop I developed back in 1900 & 90 something - "small world" we explore the topic of culture shock and how to deal with it. I'm always fascinated when you arrive at a new place how the colours are bright, the smells and sounds enticing and all the fashion in the shops has an AMAZING MUST HAVE NOW kind of influencer. By the time you immerse in it all, roll around a bit and suck on the juicy bits you realise that you are so over things with studs on them you can manage to not own any except for those already in your snow tires. Fascinare - means to cast a spell. To take the essence of what you are looking at and immerse in it. To look and learn, to become engaged with things again. How long has it been since you have changed your environment? Immersed in a new world and got over excited about things from another perspective. Dived into the void and swum in things unfamiliar. Stepped out of your comfort zone and looked at what you would like to DO better or instead of what you are DO-ing now ? When was the last time you sucked on something new? Smelt it, dealt it kind of living. It would appear that those in the land of OZ are so much better at things than us Kiwis. Across the ditch they dress smart, smile, welcome you, joke with you, enjoy and cater for children and respect the flags - they genuinely seem to like their jobs and going to work each day. My "oh I know so much better than you" persona has decided that Australia may be yet to experience it's GFC. Things seem over geared and a little fragile. Retail down, cash rates changing, resorts in receivership proving tempting to buy though development may never ever ever get it back together. There is a smell like a dead rat in the rafter, like something has crept inside to hide from the winter and eaten up large on handouts. You can't quite place where the smell is coming from; it's almost sickly sweet... but you know somehow in your gut it has potential to get a lot worse before it gets better. How DO we make things better? Umair Haque has inspired me to toss out the mission and vision statements, objectives and strategies of doing business and to get jiggy with ambition, intention, constraints and imperatives. Good thing my business isn't called "objectives unlimited" anymore because that is so last century. The Night Circus has challenged my perspective on black and white, its entered my dream state and cast a spell. The DO party animal in me craves a Night Circus event. Contact me if you have an ambition for one too. I intend to find more ways to weave magic in daily life to invest in human potential and to correct the effects of old school ways of doing business - no pursuits that lead to diminishing the common wealth: widening economic inequality, the depletion of the natural world, and more. To get out of this trap, we need to rethink the future of human exchange, we can be inspired by our values and intentions and impose on ourselves limits of what we will DO and not DO. We can become more aware of the mechanics holding the game together and D.A.R.E to DO things another way. Engaging all our senses and sensibilities. Reaching inwards to find the human potential and immersing in things that delight our senses. We can become more child like on our journey. Trust that the future will be warm and welcoming, that treasure can be found where ever you go and that first step to being a superhero is to look the part. There is definite climate change amongst us. The world is experiencing rising anxiety. It may be as easy as tapping it out with Brad Yates on you tube. It may be as simple as taking a break to get better. Winter learning workshops with me supporting you with what to DO next will certainly engage the senses and warm up human potential - I'm back at the desk and charging ahead with gay abandon. Come join my circus and play. Culture = group agreement to ritual. Corporate culture is no different to that in a petre dish. Same - same but different. DO - Learning, supports the strengthening of workplace culture through employee selection , training and identity empowerment. How your premisis looks, how the corporate values you have or are evolving are interpreted. If your team were a tribe what would it look like and be like? Does your business experience fluctuation of seasonalilty that translates into a very different summer tribe to winter tribe? Many of my adventure tourism clients experience this. Imagine a ski field every day in winter. Pre dawn early starts... The groomer team coming off shift with ice-laden beards and carhardts - the break of day often, way sub zero. Or being the food and beverage manager with the fluctuating need for staffing and production levels on powder days risking the wrath of the local ski god community. Compared to the summer tribe maintenance works and marketing teams where starting later and bbqs on the deck in casual clothes typify a Friday at work.. Perhaps your business is skydiving and it's September equinox. How do you keep the tandem masters, manifesters and camera people happy when mother nature does her thing every spring and blows hard day after day? Or you are a local council and the land use has changed from sheep farming to dairy and your water table level has risen and you flood risk has tripled along with angry farmers that your customer service team are dealing with one more time with feeling. When I worked with Progressive Enterprises my favorite job title was that of the space manager. Everyone wants to be a spaceman right? In the real world there are more of them than you think. They hold the golden key to brand management. Whether your product is displayed, stocked or not. If it is at eye level, on the ends or perhaps a scan back deal has been struck. On a bad day the spaceman runs a nationwide special on coackroach bait... except there are none of the varmints in the South Island. Or the hotel chain where everyone wears the same uniform in all properties regardless of global location , or climate. Corporate culutre can be visable in how individuals take their breaks. How meetings are held, what and when uniform items are worn. How does your team idenitfy as your organisation? What perks and quirks are typical in your workplace? What do your staff social functions say about you? How do you interact with your customers and key stake holders? DO you know what your tribe looks like, feels like and acts like? What bits can you encourage and how DO you enculturate new members to your team. This week I've been supporting the move of an organisation into a new office. Interpreting the challenge to raise the professionalism of a team. Time to lose the mis-matched coffee mugs, add some plants and ensure office colours reflect the brand. Will it be of value? It will be a message to those within and external to the organisation. Culture is the story we tell as a group that defines who and what it is that we are. What are you like? NZ European?? Not me I'm a New Zealander!! 6th generation, my children are 7th. And every time I fill in a form it irks me. To not be able to acknowledge my country as my own is a bash to my ethics of enculturation. While there is no bad just different I feel unsettled and misplaced. And now at census time we Kiwis have an opprtunity to DO something about it. My ancestors came from Nova Scotia and Mauritius a long long long long long long long time ago - not much European about any of them. They milled Kauri in Whatipu and by the colour of my youngest kiwi chicks skin the cocoa plantation we lost due to no rates payments in Southern Africa just a few generations back has a lineage battle with which unknown iwi may have jumped the engineering whanau fence in Patea and Hawera / Taranaki. You can take the boy from the naki but not the naki from the boy and it shows clearly in my daughters heritage. Yet we still don't know how to fill in our forms.Every time the school sends home a survey I add a thesis. Ethnicity debates aside we are New Zealanders. From Gods Own, Middle Earth. We love our country with a passion. there is not a human who did not migrate here, by waka or ship, by aircraft or mothers womb. They honed out a life from the bush, have contributed as settlers, farmers, politicians,mothers and others. We have never left and we call it home. Our blood is in her soil. Tommorrow there is a chance for our country to embrace us all. New Zealanders. All of us. Not of only our treasured maori or those who are happy to own European decent. Tanga te whenua to me is people of the land but when, where and how does that start or finish? How many generations have to pass of children being created and born here? Of toil and endevour towards the good of our nation until we don't have to pretend we are from somewhere else? Go on I D.A.R.E. you - be brave enough to say where we are from. I owe this to my kids this is their home. |
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