Like most positive thinking people, I am getting tired of constantly hearing and reading about the gloom and doom that is feeding the current global economic downturn. It's like a virus that preys on the minds of fearful people - people fearing the loss of their money, job, security, quality of life and so on. Dont get me wrong, there are plenty of real problems out there. It's just that this pandemic of fear is making things worse. What is an 'economy' anyway that can do so much damage to our daily lives? Have you ever seen or touched one? It's a mental thing and it requires positive mental action to turn it around.
From this I came up with the idea of a Butterfly Wings campaign aimed at starting a new virus that might become so infectious that - like the butterfly wings that we are told can start a breeze that can lead to a tornado somewhere - it might just start a tornado of economic recovery.
I think my idea is so hair-brained that it just might work. And like butterfly wings, the exercise I ask people to do - and pass on to everyone they know - is a simple two minute enjoyable Enjoyment Boost questionnaire that doesn't require you to tell anyone your answers. If someone hasn't sent you one, go to www.workleisure.com and download a copy. Then email it to everyone you know.
If you want to know more, go to http://www.workleisure.com/ButterflyWings.htm
Let's go change the world! :)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Walking My Talk
One of the great things about providing a lifestyle management service is that I can give myself free advice and assistance at any time with my own life. I am taking advantage of this offer right now as Carol and I go through what many people regard as one of the most stressful lifestyle change experiences of all - moving interstate, especially from a city of under 1 million to one of over 5 million. Sydney is one of the great cities of the world. We have been here for three weeks as I write. At times it seems like three months.
I will be totally honest with you, it hasn't been easy. Even at this early stage, we have nearly spat the dummy more than once and thought it was all too hard. The pace and the in-your-face constancy of life can be daunting. Sydney was never planned - it just exploded in all directions. There is no logic to the massive road system and any excursion is a major exercise in planning, navigating and finding your way back from being lost.
So hectic was life at first that I had little or no time for my business. Then I realized I was forgetting some of my own professional advice on how best to handle this major life transition project. So, you might say, I sat down and gave myself a free consultation.
Very quickly I realized I was letting the new situation run me rather than me take charge of my response. I took a good hard look at who I really am, what excites me, the opportunities that Sydney was presenting - and they are vast and incredibly diverse - and the need to start giving those positive factors some priority.
There was still plenty that Carol and I needed to do together to make the transition work for both of us. A key factor in ensuring the success of our move was that we support and encourage each other all the time. That meant spending a lot of time together in our explorations and in constantly discussing how we are going, how we each are feeling and what we want to do each day.
Quickly we both began to realize that the move is proving incredibly valuable for both of us. Not necessarily that we want or don't to stay in Sydney at the end of the six months trial, but in growing together as a couple and sharing a strange, often tough, but never dull adventure. This move is bringing a fabulous new sense of sharing and support to our relationship.
The other great positive is that we are each exploring new ways we can express our individuality - sometimes apart, sometimes together. We are meeting new people and learning new things at a blindingly fast pace. We are well and truly out of our comfort zones but after three weeks we are now seeing the many positives in being 'uncomfortable'.
As for Work Leisure International, the key words that have loomed large in my mind since arriving in Sydney have been "radical thinking". I can't begin to tell you here how excited I am now about the changes already in my thinking and attitudes towards my business. I am meeting totally different people with very different ideas and U am doing a lot of listening. The different environment means I am describing my business to them in radically different ways and finding that they love what I have to tell them. There is a new pep in my business step. You will see those thoughts rapidly emerge over the coming weeks. starting with what I have called my "Butterfly Wings project".
My self consultation has proved extremely valuable and worthwhile. I am off and running again, embracing and no longer fighting my big lifestyle change. I am learning many things that will help me to help you too whenever we get to work together.
More soon.
I will be totally honest with you, it hasn't been easy. Even at this early stage, we have nearly spat the dummy more than once and thought it was all too hard. The pace and the in-your-face constancy of life can be daunting. Sydney was never planned - it just exploded in all directions. There is no logic to the massive road system and any excursion is a major exercise in planning, navigating and finding your way back from being lost.
So hectic was life at first that I had little or no time for my business. Then I realized I was forgetting some of my own professional advice on how best to handle this major life transition project. So, you might say, I sat down and gave myself a free consultation.
Very quickly I realized I was letting the new situation run me rather than me take charge of my response. I took a good hard look at who I really am, what excites me, the opportunities that Sydney was presenting - and they are vast and incredibly diverse - and the need to start giving those positive factors some priority.
There was still plenty that Carol and I needed to do together to make the transition work for both of us. A key factor in ensuring the success of our move was that we support and encourage each other all the time. That meant spending a lot of time together in our explorations and in constantly discussing how we are going, how we each are feeling and what we want to do each day.
Quickly we both began to realize that the move is proving incredibly valuable for both of us. Not necessarily that we want or don't to stay in Sydney at the end of the six months trial, but in growing together as a couple and sharing a strange, often tough, but never dull adventure. This move is bringing a fabulous new sense of sharing and support to our relationship.
The other great positive is that we are each exploring new ways we can express our individuality - sometimes apart, sometimes together. We are meeting new people and learning new things at a blindingly fast pace. We are well and truly out of our comfort zones but after three weeks we are now seeing the many positives in being 'uncomfortable'.
As for Work Leisure International, the key words that have loomed large in my mind since arriving in Sydney have been "radical thinking". I can't begin to tell you here how excited I am now about the changes already in my thinking and attitudes towards my business. I am meeting totally different people with very different ideas and U am doing a lot of listening. The different environment means I am describing my business to them in radically different ways and finding that they love what I have to tell them. There is a new pep in my business step. You will see those thoughts rapidly emerge over the coming weeks. starting with what I have called my "Butterfly Wings project".
My self consultation has proved extremely valuable and worthwhile. I am off and running again, embracing and no longer fighting my big lifestyle change. I am learning many things that will help me to help you too whenever we get to work together.
More soon.
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