Edition 407 Monday 27/11/17
Hi,coming to you this week hot off the press on return from
our overseas weekend holiday.On island time and loving it from the Waiheke vehicle
ferry! 3 days away feels like 33 as we count our lucky stars for being able to
use our family holiday home on Kennedy Point, Grand Central, Paradise Island!I
guess it is also one of the benefits too of not being committed to saving souls
at Muriwai beach via the nipper brigade and being able to run away with the
family!
Fletcher
reckons to have any chance of catching fish you need to smell like
one so we all took his advice and got right into it baiting hooks,unhooking,
and cleaning our catch(see pic)
Something
funny about fishing is it doesn’t have to be that hard especially
when you know the skipper of the local mussel barge!We managed to coordinate
with the local green lipped mussel harvest and fish in the processing wash from
the barge Boom Boom!
Talk about making life easy after all ‘they’ do say you
should “fish where the fish are” and ‘they’ would be absolutely right (this
time at least!!).
There is nothing better than hunter gathering and fresh fish
for dinner thanks to our generous
skipper Matthew and first mate Aleisha…..look out ‘Boats for Sale’ here we
come!
I hope you had a relaxing weekend and are planning a good
xmas break…..Cheers Jonesey.
Kate Henderson reckons an Island retirement sounds like a
relaxing plan!!
“Creative
isnt the way I think ,its the way I like to live”.Paul Sandip
Interesting thing about having a complete break this
weekend was how many ideas I had!
Switching off signalled an unbelievable release of
creativity and left field thinking.
Without the pressure of work and needing to be places
at certain times my mind also eased back and some random but reasonable ideas flowed.
It was exciting to
talk them out, write them down and plan how we could implement them.
Some were work related but others were from nowhere but
resonated with us both.
We are both looking forward to a longer break over
Christmas/New year to allow us to commit more relaxed thought process to our
base ideas.
There are people I have read about that try to take
quality time out daily to do nothing but relax and think. They find this
assists with providing them creative time to incubate ideas.
Most of us are moving at such a pace that we dont have
time to stop and think at all.
We also don’t plan regular breaks or any time where we
can actually get off the roller coaster and slow down a bit.
This weekend has reminded me of the importance of doing
this both for me and my family.
Life is too short to be on full throttle for too longer
periods.
Just like the outboard motor that powered our fishing
boat this weekend you cant run forever without servicing and more petrol.
That servicing and fuel must come from taking regular
time out, something we all need!
So…a timely reminder for us all coming into the festive
and holiday season.
Don’t you be that person who works through so everyone
else can have a break!
Make sure you plan to have time out and watch those
ideas flow as you reflect and relax!
Don’t sit there and nod…..do something about it NOW
before its too late!!!
“Creativity is intelligence having fun”. Albert
Einstein
“You were
born an original,don’t die a copy”. John Mason
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