Edition 181 Monday April 15th 2013
Hi ,white ceilings and walls are lovely and work well with the coastal theme however the common house fly,native to our hood is not coming to the party!! How is it they can suspend themselves from the ceiling upside down and still manage to mark my pristine paint job with their # twos?!!! Grrrrrrr, arrrrggghhhhh yes I am anal (excuse the pun) about this to the point of obsession!! This combined with enough dog hair discarded inside daily to make and sell wigs to bald people online tend to obsess my thoughts far too much. That is until I hear or see someone who has far greater things to worry about than I will ever have! It is then that I refer back to the ‘don’t sweat the small stuff’ mantra and realise the things I might perceive are problems don’t even feature on the problem radar of most others.So stop moaning when you have your health,happiness and a winning ruggers team!!
Speaking of winning what about those Breakers!!! NBL Champions for the third year in a row,cool!!
Winners are grinners and these guys certainly have made a lot of people happy over the years!!
I loved the story last week out of Christchurch about the Mum who has devoted her life to her two mentally handicapped sons. They are now in their early fifties and still both believe in Santa Claus! The Mum was appealing for some help and you couldn’t help but be moved by her story….bit like my reference above to there always being those who have bigger worries and need more help than we ever will.
We visited Nana and Poppa this weekend in the sleepy hollow of Devonport, they freaked out how big Fletcher had grown (now eight months!!),note to self we need to get there more often!!!!
I hope you were all able to catch up with family and friends too this weekend, there is nothing more important !!!! Have a great week ahead………. cheers Jonesey.
Harry and the Hendersons are doing their bit snapping at flys around the windows and in mid air. Makes amusing watching like Mr Miarghi with his chop sticks on Karate Kid !!! :)
“Use it or lose it” Jimmy Connors
When we were kids at school we learnt stuff that we were told we would need for the future. That stuff was stored in our memory banks and I reckon most of it hasn’t been used to this day, well that’s how it feels to me anyway.
These days I find that the stuff I learn is from doing and that the more I do things the better I get at them. A lot of the stuff I learnt at school was theory rather than practical and as a result it varied greatly from the reality of actually doing things physically in the practical sense.
Enough of the rambling, what I am trying to say is that the people who succeed in this world are the grafters, the ones who fine tune, polish existing and regularly learn new skills(by doing).
The only way to do this is to always be looking for opportunities to extend yourself and your skill base.
To to this you have to be daring, to feel the fear but to take the plunge regardless, this is the only way you will get better and develop new skills and knowledge.
For example I was asked recently to run some workshops for a business I know little about. Instead of freaking out and declining I accepted and stepped up to the challenge. Some basic research and a consultative approach has led to a mutually beneficial outcome for all involved.
I have got as much if not more out of the sessions as the attendees. Any one can do this, you just need to always be on the lookout for opportunities to share experiences and practise your skills so you can help others grow whilst getting better yourself….remember the goal for 2013!!!Be Better !
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