Monday, 27 July 2015

A Wonderful Way With Words

I have just returned from a week in Washington DC where I spoke to a "standing room only" crowd who laughed at all my jokes and got a great deal out of my session. (This made me very happy!)

While I was there, I had a look around some of the monuments and galleries. The Hershhorn Gallery of Modern Art had an installation from Barbara Kruger (the photo above.) It was fascinating and showed a wonderful way with words. She used some quotes of other people and some observations of her own to challenge you and your perspective. These quotes were printed on pieces of vinyl and pasted all over the room, escalator, floor and wherever there was a surface.

With todays "text speak" and web lingustic "shortcuts", the power of language can be lost. When you don't get the reaction you are after or need who's responsible?

What are you doing to ensure you can truly tap into the power of words? Is it reading the classics? A word a day calendar? Maybe even just stopping someone when they use a word and you don't know what it means to discover how you could use it.

Communication is so important and I wish for you Dear-Reader to have a wonderful way with words.

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Monday, 20 July 2015

Where's Your Head At?

Greetings from Washington DC! I am over here speaking at a conference with only about 2,000 people!

While here I received an email from one of our tribe asking:

"I wonder your thoughts. A person I know said that he thinks it's wrong to tell people/youth they can do what they want to do, be whatever they want to be.
He thinks it gives them a goal they can never reach, or a dream they can never fulfil, if they dream too big, or hope too high, they'll never achieve it and be full of grief and hopelessness.

I say, dream as big as the stars and then have as much fun as you can getting there. Who's right?"

You know the good thing? You are both right!

Henry Ford famously said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t you are right”

So by this person telling anyone, “Don’t think too big, play a smaller game, you will never make it” they will make it true. AND they will be surrounded by people who think smaller, are self limited and typically unsatisfied and grumpy.

But amazingly awesome people like YOU who say, “Anything is possible, dream big and strive towards it” create fabulously positive people! Let’s be honest, they may not make it, but they chance that they will make it is far higher. Maybe they won’t make their goal but they will make it far closer that the person who listened to the person saying “don’t try” and they will have one hell of a ride along the way.

I like to think that we are building a better world by talking about what’s possible not what’s impossible.

Here in Washington, President Kennedy said, "We will go to the moon." He didn't say, "We'd like to but it's too hard, too expensive and we may not make it."
Just recently a satellite flew past the furtherest "almost" planet Pluto.

"We will go to the moon" has taken us much father than "that's really hard and it may not happen."

So what about you Dear-Reader? Where is your head at?

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Monday, 13 July 2015

Give Til it Helps

Often people say, "Give 'til it Hurts", but I am more of a fan of "Give 'til it Helps." It doesn't just have to help them, it can also help you!

Recently I saw on Facebook (so you know it's true) that volunteerism had declined. So I thought I would check it the research.
The Volunteering Australia website informs me that while more people are volunteering, they are doing it for a smaller amount of time. Young adults in particular have reduced the amount of hours they spend volunteering.

The great thing the research said is how good it is. Not just for the recipient, but for yourself as the volunteer.

Volunteering gives a measurable increase in:

Happiness
State of well-being
Overall state of mental health
Level of sleep
Self-Worth

Unfortunately, the volunteer rates a far lower in the city when compared to rural volunteering (34% vs 41%). Volunteering has also decreased for community services and emergency management.

From personal experience, professional associations are also declining in numbers of members and numbers of people willing to do things or give their time.

What about you Dear-Reader? Do you volunteer? While we seem to get busier and busier, the health benefits for volunteering are outstanding and the costs are minor - it's cheaper than therapy and almost as good for you.

Why don't you look at how you can volunteer? It could be as simple as helping paint a friend's room or patting dogs at the local dog shelter. It is amazing the benefits you will get.

Quite simply, Give 'Til It Helps!

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Monday, 6 July 2015

Are You Leaving Signs?

There are certain signs everywhere. Some are easy to recognise and others take a little more effort.

The sign above was a little something I left for a friend. Let me explain.
We rented our friends weekender at the beach very last minute and we knew that they had other guests coming after us. I needed to let my friend know that we had cleaned her place so well that her next guests would be impressed.

What better way to show that than folding the toilet paper. She even had a laugh when I texted it to her.

Dear-Reader, what about your team mates, customers and family? What little signs are you leaving them?

These little signs can speak absolute volumes. So are you leaving signs?

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Monday, 29 June 2015

Have You Got A Secret?

This is Ron Gottlieb.

He is the CEO of Ricky Richards, a manufacturer and wholesaler of industrial and commercial textiles and they are the platinum sponsor of the SpecTex 2015 trade show.

Also, he has a secret.

Ricky Richards are doing something very different for their industry. They have an exciting new industry partner. Click on the image above to see a three minute video where Ron talks about it and reveals the secret.

What was really cool was how they announced it. Over the past few weeks Ricky Richards has been posting images on their social media sharing how they have a "special announcement" and that you need to come to the trade show to find out what it was.

Their email footers have also been encouraging people to come and find out "the secret". So the industry has been abuzz with this secret and many have come to the trade show to uncover it. But you had to go to the trade show to find out what it was and from there they have released it to the market place.

The secret is a great one. They have partnered with Melanoma Institute of Australia and are committing to significant donations on an ongoing basis. There are some real synergies between the companies and it not only helps Melanoma Institute but also Ricky Richards' clients in the selling of their products.

What about you? Have you got a secret? Can you "reveal" it in a way that attracts attention?

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Monday, 22 June 2015

What's It For?

So many people work hard to make a living but in the process they forget to have a life.

While work is definitely enjoyable and fulfilling, it is dangerous to make it the major cornerstone of your life.

Success is defined in so many different ways; fiscally, emotionally, spiritualy, visually, physically, socially, and randomly. So why would we try and meet all of these needs at the one place?

A recent conversation included the statement, "my work is my hobby." This is a lie.

It is a self-deception to help justify the commitment to the job or the number of hours worked. It is important to have a hobby outside the workplace to let the mind reinvigorate, let the body refresh and let the spirit get reinspired.

So Dear-Reader, what's your hobby, the thing that you do just for you? If you don't have one, then you have to ask yourself, "What's it for?"

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Monday, 15 June 2015

Well That's Different

Well That's Different!

My gorgeous wife and I were thrilled to be part of our friend's wedding on the weekend. She is Sikh so the ceremony and formalities were very different to the western ones we are used to.

Your head must be covered (and there are bandana's at the door if you need)
You must leave your shoes at the door (most people had bare feet)
It is the bride who waits at the temple for the groom to arrive (and yes, he was late!)
The temple reserves the pride of place for the holy scriptures (that's it under the pink cover that the holy man is reading from)
The groom walks around the holy centrepiece connected to his bride by a long red cloth and she follows behind him. (This was done five times during the ceremony)

It is by experiencing different lifestyles and cultures that we remove our ignorance and fear. We get to have an appreciation of what is important to others and understand who they truly are. You may not agree with their choices or wish to make them yourself, but you get to understand them more.

There is a lot of fear in the world, fear of lifestyles, culture and different life choices, a strong fear of people who are "different" to us.

We would make great progress in eliminating those fears simply by spending time with those people. Not judging them by OUR standards but learning what are THEIR standards. We may be surprised at how similar they are to our own.

The same can be said with that person in the workplace who you just don't understand. What can you do to understand them better? Maybe their approach is not wrong, just different.

Dear-Reader, there is a lot to be said for getting to know someone and understanding that their way is not right, not wrong, it's just different.

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Monday, 27 July 2015

A Wonderful Way With Words

A Wonderful Way With Words

Monday, 20 July 2015

Where's Your Head At?

Where's Your Head At?

Monday, 13 July 2015

Give Til it Helps

Give Til it Helps

Monday, 6 July 2015

Are You Leaving Signs?

Are You Leaving Signs?

Monday, 29 June 2015

Have You Got A Secret?

Have You Got A Secret?

Monday, 22 June 2015

What's It For?

What's It For?

Monday, 15 June 2015

Well That's Different

Well That's Different!

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