Hi, is there a nicer smell than freshly cut firewood?...the amazing aroma of pine, wattyl, macrocapa and gum all combining to make a fragrance that is hard to beat ! Ok the Breville coffee machine comes close but not as ‘forest and bird’ as the firewood! Yes it is that time of year again as we prepare to hibernate and hunker down out in the wild west! Easter is a good time to get sorted for the coming winter as the ‘man shed’ duly got its annual autumn clean to accomadate the fuel for the recently chimney swept log burner. Cant wait to crank up the fire and sit mesmerised in front of the flames as they dance their merry jig ! We had a relaxing and fine weather weekend (against all prediction!) Admittedly the program had a bit of a ‘fitness camp’ look and feel about it from which ‘Harry and the Hendersons’ profited on many walks! An Easter chore list was prepared well in advance and all items were ticked off by Monday lunchtime resulting in a bonus afternoon of sky movies and trademe.life does’nt get any better. We could get quite fond of four day weekends if they became the norm!We decided a few more each year is a good idea, so we booked two to make sure!
How about those Breakers !!!, huge win during the week at Townsville then backed up two days later in Auckland as they swept into their second consecutive NBL final serie.Clearly ‘no Dickheads’ better than the ‘too many dickheads’ in the Auckland Blues team in Melbourne on Thursday night, jeeez Pat with all your ALL BLACKS sort it out guys ! A team full of Green Gorillas would do better !!!
I hope you all had fun relaxing, eating, exercising and laughing this Easter weekend with your family and friends and that you have another awesome short week, take care, Cheers Jonesey
Harry and the Hendersons love the Breakers, Easter, long walks, chocolate and sleeping!
Carpe Diem…..seize the day!.....they who hesitate lose! Jonesey
Carpe Diem , a great saying and one that says a lot about winning and losing. Those of you that saw the movie ‘The Dead Poets Society’ featuring Robin Williams will have been inspired by the way in which Williams motivated those he taught to ‘seize the day’ and not hesitate for a second before grasping life and everything it has to offer.
I was reminded about the importance of doing just that on a number of recent occasions ;
- I dropped on to a tremendous opportunity for our business to introduce itself to a number of influential procurement managers. Instead of seizing the day I procrastinated and missed out on applying by a due date to be included in an introductory event! I learned the valuable lesson to act immediately on opportunities or regret not doing so forever ! The annoying thing is it is not the first time I have done this, arrggghhhhhhh (I hate it when that happens)
- This instance above reminds me also of the number of times where I have seen cool stuff in a second hand store or on trademe and resisted the urge to buy it (procrastinated) only to decide later how much I wanted the item to go back and find that someone else seized the day and made the purchase ! (I hate it even more when that happens !)
- On a more positive note one of my colleagues took a phone call last week from a person who had rung the wrong number. Instead of hanging up they started talking to the caller and ended up establishing the person was the owner of a large business that had a need for our services. This in turn led to us being invited to quote and now looking good to win the business.(I love it when that happens !!)
These examples reinforce that we are surrounded by opportunities every minute of every day of every week, the difference is the speed with which we react…carpe diem, simple aye,so just do it!!!!
“Person stand for long time waiting for roast duck to fly in.”My favourite Chinese proverb !
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