Coach, Consultant, Buzzwords and Being Genuine

This post is actually so that I can host an image online that will be used elsewhere (for this event and its subsequent series of workshops for applying vision, mission, systems/habits techniques and strategy into your life).

That said, it's certainly been an interesting experience working with someone whose immediate focus comes from very personal contexts in coaching, and writing from an international personal development point of view. I also think it's neat that our portrait photos are a kind of counterpoint/complement to one another: Bere's is black and white/grayscale, mine's in color. We're both looking more or less to the right.

Today my biggest learning point comes from trying to reconcile a traditional "focus on making and selling" approach to doing an event with the "bring everyone to the table and build together" orientation I've focused on as of the past 5-7 years. Bere has a very good tendency for keeping immediate focus on "first things first", and while I'm mindful of the same, we balance each other out pretty well.

Also, Happy New Year! (Gregorian and Lunar alike!), more to come.

Maybe we'll see you there?
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Resilience: a function of strength and commitment?

Perhaps a truer test of strength comes from resilience.  It's an act of strength through fortitude.  In times of duress, we learn most from our body, mental acumen, character, integrity of the team, community, etc.

Surges in our strength can surprise us when considering our momentary capacities to handle a situation, but our sustained commitment and endurance allows us to glean a more authentic understanding and confidence for ourselves.

Perseverance and sustainability

Perseverance is a powerful thread of sustainability.  Yet in the opposite direction, perseverance in purview of foolhardy and narrow commitment can become the undoing of an individual, community, or organization.

We require vision to ensure the viability of our perseverance and ultimately, our sustainability.
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Intentional wandering

Much like reading a newspaper in the morning, I spend a fair amount of time wandering the internet during part of most days.  While it's not good to do in excess, and rarely justifiable to do so without aim, I realize there's something valuable in dedicating time to wander for interesting things.  It's a bit like scheduling time for fun, worry, play, or time to muse over ideas without a particular objective.

Several friends and colleagues have remarked that I'm well attuned to finding timely ideas or opportunities, and here's why:  I've tweaked several social networks for research purposes.  I've come to a point in life where I no longer have an issue finding truly interesting things, rather I find too many, and I don't always need to actively search for them--they frequently appear.

That said, I'm returning to the pleasures of intentionally discovering information for specific research purposes, and I'm pleased to find a wealth of relevant information not yet explored on my part.

Breathing into alternative measures of life

What if we used breathing like a measure of time?

"It'll take you about 4 good breaths before you'll feel settled in."

"After three breaths, turn right at the next corner."

Blues lexicon | industrious but not so luminous

I just realized that blues music has its own lexicon.  A singer isn't necessarily limited to these words, but hearing words like "rollin'", "crossroads", and "river" is a lot more comforting in familiarity than words like "transcend".  Yet if you do it right, you can slip a few words that we don't always find among the usual company of words.

Keep on rollin'
You know that we can all transcend time.

If only I knew solfège or the chords to what's in my head well enough to convey the tune in writing...

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Also, again "Industry does not behoove humanity..."  I had a remarkably productive day, but if asked whether I enjoyed it, I know I barely settled in enough to savor its many bright moments.  That's disappointing, you can say to yourself: look at all of these things I've checked off a list!  How industrious of me!  Yet at day's end, when you've calmed yourself just enough to start to appreciate the day, you realized you've lost something.  It's the humane side of things that warms the memory of a day.

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Snippets of thought from early in the year

"Find good reasons to trust yourself."
It seems I wrote this at at 03:19 (AM EDT) on January 1st 2012.  Will do!  Maybe I should start a book for generic life-advice statements too.

Also, "The play combined the music of Arnold Schoenberg and the aesthetic of Noh theater."  (p.66 of Art Journal 2012 [winter])  Double whammy!


Perhaps I'll add more re-discovered thoughts here from earlier in January/February...

Shallow and disjointed observations from various films

During this holiday break, I've been privileged to lay back long enough to even see bits of a few movies, especially since my mum is a movie buff.  I offer you the following observations: 

• Why is the newest Karate Kid movie about kung fu?

• In Secretariat, Pancho Martin, the challenging owner looks just like Vladmir Putin.

• Mothra was a decent being and kept promises.

This last one is nit-picky, but some things need to be called out by ear:

• There's an audio goof in the Bourne Identity. 

I'll explain.