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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? “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. Friendship - social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles. What value do your friendships bring into your life? Who is it that you are sure of? With the rise of social media friendships can be defined or erased with one click or categorisation. Like for a shout out! Share, bare your soul on chat to just one person or surround yourselves with the anecdotes of hundreds, even thousands. This morning's article on Linked in... I've just tried to find it again to post a link but like many BFO's I've missed the moment it's gone replaced by a whole stream of new influencers out to share with us the best tips to living a better life - the gist of it was how to grow your social profile - the writer gains some 300 connections a day with the preferred means being linked in and twitter. Their facebook page sits around 3000, their twit feed 50, 000. I realised in comparison, how few friends I have. I was an only child for 15 years until my fab half siblings entered the picture, I'm all good with time on my own. Crave it, seek it at times. Until I'm the lonely child and then I realise my team sport skills suck, my ability to share my toys is non existent, I struggle not to be judgemental or to play fair. I may not let friends know how much I care. “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” Some friends we will DO anything to stay in touch. We drop everything when they ring, travel the globe to be near them. It maybe a party or an emergency, or just because we and they exist. These connections define our boundaries of engagement. How close we are, the things we share, the friends that we hope still care. These are the connections that remain even when we are years apart. Maybe we can't be there with them each and every time, yet we know we love them. When we do link up we pick up where we left off. After years or lifetimes as though no space exists between us at all. Those to whom our behavior needs no explanation. Who seem to not even notice when we can't show up, who put up when we stuff up . Those that send us pictures of cinnabon, can get our attention with a yeah yeah yeah. Those who turn up for a coffee and to pick up some pumpkins just because they know that you want them around today, without having to say why or when just because you are friends. They may not be like us, the can come from all stages of life - first friends, school friends old or new friends. The connection is not determined by how long, how well or how we know each other ...it just is. The treasures of the 4 am-ers is insurmountable we may have loved together, grieved together, lived or worked together. These are the wet your pants laughing kind of friendships, the memories we carry through eternity friendships. The ones that know what, who and how we love. The ones we hope to die before so that we may never have to grieve their loss. Our bff's, partners, husbands, wives, kids, cousins, siblings, pets, lady in the village dairy, neighbours, or clients for some reason the bond is unbreakable. We may have met through another friend. Affair like guilt that we connect - what is it that makes us get on so well? A past life link, soul group, mutual passion for Patron or a longing to be in club orange? Will you be my friend? “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.” Some of our friendships are surprising, the heights they take us , the experiences they bring to our lives, the risk of being so close to each other that we risk harm. The times we realise we really do get along and have things that each of us value to exchange. We don't need to talk or network or gain anything other than the experience of being together. These are precious moments in friendship and in time. We don't need to tell each other about them, we don't need to affirm that we are there for each other we just are in the moment DO-ing what it is that friends DO together. Hanging as friends hang, sharing a moment, a laugh, a secret handshake. A love or loathe of something or someone. The things that bind us are as diverse as our friendships themselves. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” Helen Keller This morning I may have walked with some of my most enjoyable friends yet the weather was iffy and my mood doubly so - I went alone or so I thought until I looked around and saw my furry friends, mans best friend, my fur babies those I hug and cry on, run and roll with, care and pet. I thought of friends past, friends new and friends that I miss even though we see each other often. After my walk I went for breakfast - alone and ran into my village. Friends from work, friends from my children's class, friends I've met at parties and friendships that were not meant to last. The warmth of prospective friendships from those new to our town, friends I did not want to bother because they looked so wrapped in their own lives on days off , at home or work, no doubt busy with all the things a day brings. It made me realise I was very alone. You come in alone and go out alone and anything in between is a blessing. To the diversity of my friendships, for all the lessons you have learnt me, for all the moments we have laughed and cried I thank you. I disagree with social exchange theory that there must be costs and rewards before we exchange friendship. That the value of our friendship is how far it will take us or what it will make us. I disagree with attachment style, with dialetics, equity theory - I negate the science. The best thing about friendship is the magic of it, the not knowing really how or why it works at all. The understanding that our friends turn up when we least expect them, when we probably deserve them least of all. That the bucket is bottomless and that friendships are one of life's most precious gifts. That you never really know who will be your friend until they are. Until they turn up where or when you need them. When you reach out a hand and they are there, in the light or the dark waiting, ready to share. Value friendship it's everywhere. Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" 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. 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... What do dogs DO on their day off? Can't lie around ...that's their job! George Carlin Free from work or duty... able to move with calm and grace. Suits you sir... How do you spend your leisure time? TGIF ...and a whole weekend of it rises before me - well so the theory goes. Friday started early today at Arrow Ridge a stop work meeting for teachers meant all my kids home at 12.30. So I took the opportunity to kick the learning proposal writing to touch and catch up with my neighbour for a coffee and a chat. However in the pursuit of enjoyable activities I plan a couple of hours work tommorrow creating corporate culture for a client with office interior design. And I DO have a fair bit of duty to perform with kids who need to be taxi'd to parties and cheered on from the sidelines of the mini- x mountain bike race. I plan to move through it all with calm and grace, sharing with others that I'm flourishing and loving living a life loaded with leisure... and you? There is not much that I recall from my learning at school but one project in particular stands out. I can still see my artfully drawn bubble letter title page. "Leisure time and how we will spend it." The theory went that by the time I reached adulthood the world would be such a different place that endless hours of leisure would fill my world. And unless I learnt to capture the void and have a handy check list of activities with which to fill it I would surely fail. What fun it was to sit and daydream about the many hobbies, crafts, sports and pass times I would have to learn to engage in. To look at the skills required , tools I'd need and venues that I was sure to frequent. Ten minutes ago my middle child complained that she is bored. It's 3pm Friday afternoon the sun is shining we have the neighbours children here , the pool is open, the tennis court vacant. The baby chickens are looking way too cute and fluffy peeping for attention. There is art and craft materials, cookies to bake the TV is on and ALL devices are full charged. Short of hiring a performing artist and a bouncy castle I had to give my "learn to enjoy your own company" lecture. To encourage her to revel in the moment and relax. To look up and out, or within and about. To find the spark of fun and DO anything you want at all! We have acknowledged recently how precious our weekends as a family are. The engineer away most of the week and each day at Arrow Ridge a juggle of what to DO. Queenstown has the luxury of being a 365 day a year opportunity. Many of us are not religious about what days we worship the leisure gods. Our free time may be weather dependent, dictated by a rotating roster and seasonal. Ask many in this town when their next day off is at the moment and they hopefully suggest they may just fit one in during May. So leisure time may be nabbed in the moment. An alpha nap parked on the side of the road between the supermarket and your next appointment. Time on facebook late at night or maybe lunch with a friend who can almost be called a client if anyone from work sees you out. Then there are those professional pleasure seekers. Who have crafted a life out of leisure pursuits and have turned work into fun and fun into work. We are surrounded by them here, the skygods and snow gods. Those who fly and drink redbull as a diet staple. They wear the brands of sponsors who pay them to have fun and inspire the rest of us to get up off the swivel chair, spend back to back winters - though I fail to see the fun in that. They are adept at doing what ever it is they D.A.R.E to DO. But then is it leisure? What do they DO in their time off? Do they dress down, lie down or act down and out? One of my besties was delivered the pick up line - "Sooo...what do you DO?" "I'm a student." Being 40 something and gorgeous the reply though she is studying law was... "No your not" - "yes I am" - " No your not" - "yes I am" " No your not..." "Ok I'm not." "See I knew you weren't... who are you married to?" "I'm not"... "yes you are"... "No...I'm not"... "yes you are"... "Actually I'm not"... Yes... - you get the drift. What do you DO then...? "Well...Ok, I'm a princess, I live in a big house on a hill, I'm a princess. I have a tatoo of a heart on my arm with my daddy's name through it. My daddy's the maharajah and I'm a princess - I don't have to DO anything." Surely a princess lives a life of leisure, right? I hope she pops in when she has finished work. The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. ~Arthur Lacey 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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