Motive - ation

from Freedom, Inc.:

A psychologist found himself disturbed by a group of kids that one day had come to play football under his window, making a lot of noise. So he went out and said: “You guys are really great. I enjoy watching you so much that every time you come to play here I will give you one dollar each.” And he gave a dollar to each kid. The next day, when the kids were again enthusiastically playing football, he came out and said: “I really enjoy watching you but the thing is that I have no bills, just coins today. I can give you two quarters each.” The kids were not delighted with this pay cut, but took the money and continued to play. The story continues until after two days, the psychologist offered them just a penny each, which one of them proudly refused and said: “We are not going to play here for a damn penny.” And the kids never came back, much to the satisfaction of the psychologist.

Many psychologists think that this “experiment” is apocryphal, but it continues to circulate because it reflects what they know from hundreds of real experiments: If you take people who are deeply engaged in something because they enjoy it and then you offer them tangible rewards for doing it, a shift happens. Mentally, people establish a causal link between these rewards and the activity—something psychologists call a perceived locus of causality—and this link will undermine the initial, intrinsic cause they had for the activity, such as considering it enjoyable or important.

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Some Thoughts on New Year

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet,
a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.
Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions,
he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh
about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

~ G.K. Chesterton

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room,
drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.
Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through
the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.

~Ellen Goodman

And fiinally...
People are so worried about what they eat
between Christmas and the New Year,
but they really should be worried about
what they eat
between the New Year
and Christmas.
~ Author Unknown
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RIP Jim Rohn.

Another life lived well.

Thanks for everything.

"Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things, but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."

~Jim Rohn

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New Liberal Front Bench Selected?

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On Attachment To "Stuff"...

"It's difficult for people
to get rid of junk.
They get attached to things
and let them define who they are.
If there's one thing I've learned
in this business, it's that
you are what you can't get rid of."

~ Brian Scudamore,

Founder/CEO 1800-Got-Junk

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On The Matter Of Reorganizing

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were
beginning to form up in teams we would be reorganized.

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation
by reorganizing. And a wonderful method it can be for creating
the illusion of progress whilst producing confusion, inefficiency
and demoralization."

–Gaius Petronius, AD 66

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Values & Alignment

"As long as we operate within this old paradigm, we are separated from our heart and values and feel powerless.

We cannot suspend our values during the workday and think we will have them back when we get home.
We're all connected.

There is a spiritual dimension to business just as there is to individuals."

~Ben & Jerry [The Ice Cream Guys] 
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Dust Storm :Life In Sepia

Spring doesn't usually look like this.  This is 10am. Perfect weather for filming on the end of the world.

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Garden Wakes In Spring

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Target Practice!

Know What It Is You're Aiming For To Reach Your Goals.

Wash Your Rice Bowl... On.Being Here, Now.

Planning is to be commended.

When you plan... plan.

When you do... Do.

Wash Your Rice Bowl...

A monk told Joshu, "I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me."

Joshu asked, "Have you eaten your rice porridge?

The monk replied, "I have eaten."

Joshu said, "Then you had better wash your bowl."

At that moment the monk was enlightened.

 

Click on the link below for the analysis of what it means.

Wash Your Bowl. A Koan.

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Time

Time is that inexplicable raw material of everything. With it all is possible. Without it, nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle - an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! Your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life.  It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions no-one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no-one receives either more or less than you receive.

In the realm of time, there is no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even an extra hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will and the supply will never be withheld from you. 

Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt! You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow; it is kept for you.  

I have said the affair is a miracle, is it not? You have this twenty-four hours of daily time to live. Out of it you want to spin health, pleasure, money, contentment, respect and the evolution of your immortal soul. 

Its right use, its most effective use is a matter of the highest urgency and of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on that. Your happiness the elusive prize that you are all clutching for, my friend depends on that. 

If one cannot arrange that an income of twenty-four hours shall exactly cover all proper items of expenditure, one does muddle one's whole life indefinitely. 

We shall never have any more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is.  

~ Arnold Bennet

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I'm often asked about what my business coaching is like, what it is for and how it works. Here is the short version.

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You can move past the issues that have kept you from achieving the results that you want, set goals to achieve an audacious future for your business, and achieve the full potential locked in your business.

What Purpose Does Coaching Serve?

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We’ll review what you are doing. Capture the best of what’s happening in your business, improve th parts that aren’t working as you’d like and engineer a design the business in a way that will allow the systems in your business to produce great results in the most efficient way to reach the goals that you set for the business.

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Interesting contact from Google today about this blog.

Someone playing silly buggers? Wouldn't be the first time someone thought they would like to get their hands on this name for their blog.

Tough.


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Won't happen.

Goodness. This is the very first blog that I opened on Blogger way back when. I thought about what I would post here and then never really got to it, but recently I had an enquiry from someone wanting to know if they could use the name of the URL for their blog. Well naturally that wasn't going to happen!

So maybe I'll dust this off and add it to my active projects and see what we can make of interest here.

If you like something that I post add a comment! I work much better with feedback.


Here we go!