Edition150!! Monday 6th August 2012
Hi,welcome to our 150th edition of ‘Upbeat’ crikey how cool is that??!!! Yes you are part of something special and yes it takes focus and discipline to attack every Monday with energy and enthusiasm.
Give yourselves a pat on the back for making it this far !!Thank you all for your frank and honest feedback, I appreciate it and thrive on it. Your comments are vital to me both good and bad, they provide encouragement, recognition and ideas for improvement. If you are not receiving feedback then you need to ask for it because without it you stall and mark time, we all need to move forward!
I took Friday off to surprise Christine for her birthday, we went on a magical mystery tour and ended up on Waiheke for lunch at one of those flash vineyards! Yes the weather played its part and everything ran with Swiss precision and YES I was a hero !!! It felt so cool to do something special for someone special on what was a pretty special day!...note to self…do it more often Mr Jones.
Talking about seizing the moment my newest customer is the Selwyn Retirement Village in Auckland. I have spent a lot of time there in the last couple of weeks working with staff and implementing new systems. I have also met a number of the residents from the new entrants to the departure loungers and it has been a huge eye opener for me. For most it is too late to do the things they have always been meaning to do as they have neither the strength, the will or the health to do them. We all need to visit places like this to appreciate what we have when we have it. It certainly had a bearing on my decision to take the day off to celebrate a birthday, to take more holidays,to have another child in my 50’s and above all to appreciate the important people in my life NOW when I have the chance to do so rather than regretting not making the effort. To this end we had a lovely lunch with Mum and Dad on Sunday, no occasion but because we could!! Don’t die wondering,die content you did all you could.
I hope you were able to spend time with people that are important to you this weekend or that someone made a fuss of you for no reason in particular! Have a great week,……..cheers Jonesey
Harry and the Hendersons assure me the investment in their registration is money well spent and will be returned many times over in unconditional love and wet damp kisses !!@!
“YAY its Monday.” All Upbeat readers every Monday morning !!!
I caught a lift for the first time for ages the other day and had forgotten how deathly quiet and uncomfortable they can be. So I deceided to do something about it and started greeting everyone as they entered the lift at the different floors. The effect was amazing, if you say nothing then so too does everyone else, yet if you talk to people you start a massive conversation and even get people engaged and laughing. I started simply by just saying hello when people entered and then goodbye when they got out. It felt good and from what I could gather it made others feel good too. I think the main reason was that people were surprised someone said something to them, it was different and it was fun. I even had a couple of people ask me if I had been hired by the owner of the building to inject some life into the lift trip???....others said how come you know so many people? This was something small and simple that had a BIG effect on people. No one I said hello or goodbye to did not reply !!! So what does this tell us??? We all get far too used to being morons and don’t go looking for opportunities to meet people. We get too caught up in our own little worlds when there is a huge world out there waiting to meet us….we need to back ourselves, put ourselves out there and build our confidence and self esteem….dont be insular and withdrawn. OK so you may not be having a great day but I assure you after making a complete clown of yourself in a lift you will feel a lot better and so will everyone that met Mr Clown in the lift that day!! It’s a bit like the attitude and atmosphere on Fridays versus Mondays…Friday’s are bullet proof because they are the gateway to the weekend, Mondays are the gateway to another never ending week of torture….yet who says it has to be that way?,try being excited on a Monday and see what happens,you will be excited and so will others!!
“Why keep people guessing when you can open your mouth and remove all doubt.”Mr Clown
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