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I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favourites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favourite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favourites. Would you rather eat only your favourite food or never eat it again? Who is your favourite child mum? What can we DO today that's my favourite? Ask three guys girls... finding favour. fa·vour·ite (fvr-t, fvrt) n. 1. a. One that enjoys special favour or regard. b. One that is trusted, indulged, or preferred above all others, especially by a superior: a favourite of the monarch. 2. A contestant or competitor regarded as most likely to win. adj. Liked or preferred above all others; regarded with special favour. Now that we have added to lists of them, pinterest folders of them, favourite friends and favourite flavours are our lives more fulfilled or empty by the pursuit of what is preferred? Are our favs the things we already have or the things we think will bring us happiness if we ever manage to achieve them? Once we have them added them do we still favour them? Or are we fickle, wanting more, the newest, the latest, in the pursuit of our elite status? When we have to much of our favourite things do we feel blessed and indulged or overloaded? Constant comparisons drive competition. Is that our favourite leader, our favourite product or our favourite memory and who cares? If I indulge one over another who is the loser? Can I not enjoy the pleasure in all things simple or otherwise? In all people in all experiences and most particularly in the here and now. My favourite things in life don't cost any money, It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time - Steve Jobs. OMG - My BFO - our favourite things define how we spend our lives, what we surround ourselves with, what we long for adore and trust. I decided it was time for a self check. What would I like to save to favs today. My life play list. The things I would most like to prefer above all others, those most likely to win. 1. Synchronicity is my favourite thing. Those signs that we really are in the right place at the right time. The stars have aligned we are getting the message and what the point is. The AHA moment, the big tick, when you leave your laptop behind and have to drive three hours to collect it only to find a weather bomb would have you wiped you out had you continued forward on our journey without it. You read an article or a blog, run into a person or hear a song that matter just to you at the perfect time because you get the point at last. 2. LOVE - love of life, breathing love, feeling love - receiving and giving love. Because it's the one fav I really hope I'll never get sick of, could eat every day and enjoy always. 3. Faith - that there is a higher power, that everything happens to us for a reason. That we can trust that things are happening perfectly according to plan. Faith in my partner, my children, my god, my country, my government. This morning Miss 6 asked why the Prime Minister doesn't just sort out the wars? There are wars everywhere mummy? Will we have a war here mum? I hope not I replied, I've got a fair degree of faith that we are going to be ok. Even though the new leader of our opposition throws out his rhetoric daring to use the word war in a country where we all hope we have enough faith in our leaders to not have to experience one of any kind here on our soil ever. Then she reminded me - but we already have mum - there have been the maori wars. At six she has no faith in our leaders - wise child? Perhaps if faith is added to our favourites it will become the ideal that is trusted, indulged and preferred above all others. 4. Hope - Hope for the future, the triumph of anticipation often over reality. 5. Charity - Pay it forward, give it back. Contribute to a cause. The best way to lift your mood and those of others. Selfless. Volunteer for something. Work for free. Help someone less fortunate than yourself not just with your cheque book at a charity gala but by getting your hands dirty, do the leg work, hold someone when they cry, make the phone call, pop in spend a moment in their shoes. 6. Vintage - being part of something's story. I look at my favourite purchases, the material things that I love the most and will horde forever. A 1950's green wooden kitchen stool, it was my nana's , my dad carved an R in it and it has a deep gouge where he sawed a piece of wood. A $5 ginormous bound children's Websters Universal pictorial dictionary circa 1968 found at the recycling centre - word of the day gems steer me clear of all gewgaws. The surprise treasure within pressed flowers between the pages captured moments of someone's summer that fills my imagination with the story of what for them may have been. A ten euro gold thread dress from a Finnish thrift shop my best ever overseas designer purchase - I know I will never see another ever, it weaves and plays with light just so catching the eye as other pass me by and reminds me every time I wear it of the beauty of Helsinki and fossicking through her back streets it makes me feel like a Nordic goddess. 7. Whanau - all of them the blood and the water, that flow through our lifetimes, soul mates, twin flames, randoms in a bar somewhere. Those that touch you heart and stay in your mind for ever and a day. Those we have laughed with , cried with live and died with. Back slap when you meet again kindred spirits. Family. 8. Integrity - Linking what we think say and DO. Life's magnifier. Shows up the gaps who can you trust, who can you work with. It may not always be the nicest approach but it is the most real. When we are out of integrity we feel it. Life's compass spinning out of control, your out of alignment you know it - it shows. 9. Creativity - Art, creation, contribution, legacy. What can you create towards a better future? My clever Dads inventions and patents. My hospitality guru mums talents with food and friends. My children's drawings, skills with animals. My husband's painting 'the arrival" with it's formula for wave theory a reminder of the engineering genius inside the artist, time to brainstorm with an individual on what they may be able to create for themselves. The smallest, cost free as precious as any high end value item. An art work worth thousands or the legacy of improving infrastructure outcomes a precious trail delivered around the country, one of my workshops attended by 600. It is when I look at what I have created, my children, my writing, my work, my garden, and each of my life lessons that I feel fulfilled. Favoured, gifted, blessed and special. Hidden talents, being able to call a deer, play the trumpet to make music or magic - what do you have to share? 10. Generosity - Kindness, Pay it forward, Forgiveness and Sharing. To see a friend offer their home free of charge to a holidaying family without quite knowing why only to find that family have lost their mum to cancer warms a whole village with the story. To pay for someone's parking even inadvertently like when the text to park didn't quite work for me the other day and then happily informed three times over the next three hours that my payment/s had been accepted made me warm to think of the stranger arriving at the machine to find the ticket printed waiting for them. When we offer a ride, a hand up or our time. When we extend a leave pass, a way out or an olive branch. What we put out comes back threefold. I hope that in putting out these thoughts about my favourite things it goes just a little way towards somebody somewhere realising that when they remember there favourite things they really don't feel so bad.
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