07 Oct 2011
The hot clear Autumn dry days have transformed into the freshness of Autumn snow - in bright sunlight - at an altitude of 2,600 m. We are in the ‘vast interior’. This area is stunningly beautiful - nature in all it’s splendour & glory. These photos were taken through the Kaibab National Forest on the way to the North Rim.
06 Oct 2011
Marble Canyon is situated amid the beauty and majesty of the Vermillion cliffs, the high mesa’s and vast desert - where time seems eternal and space, infinite. This area is the gateway to the Northern Rim of the Grand Canyon. The marble-coloured cliffs tower above the vivid blue of the Colorado River. A magnificent condor (3 m wing-span) flew in front of us, riding a thermal over the canyon.
19 Aug 2011
We found Paris to be a beautiful, elegant city. The tempo is relaxed and even though busy, traffic flows. No wonder people love to live here. You get the strange sense that you’re where things are happening - as if you’re at the centre of a world that cradles fashion, the arts and history.
We camped for a few days, on the edge of the city beside the magnificent River Seine. We were blessed with warm sunny weather. Paris is green with trees and parklands - a wonderful backdrop for iconic structures that never cease to impress. Here is just a sample of what we saw.
25 Jun 2011
We drove from Sheffield through Robin Hood & Shakespeare country to Peterborough where we bought our van. We were impressed with Sheffield - a beautiful sophisticated city (4th largest in England) - combining ancient history with the contemporary & modern. Returning the hire-car to Liverpool, we traveled south toward Wales, through quaint historic villages in our new home-on-wheels - German Hymer, L-hand drive - ready for traveling through Europe. We will leave UK via the ferry to arrive in Spain - looking forward to the warmer weather!
17 Feb 2011
So - your day didn’t turn out the way you intended? Then tonight, revise your day. Revising the past is re-constructing what happened with new content. In your imagination, re-live the day as you wished you had lived it: revising the scenes to make them fit with what you wanted. By mentally falsifying the facts, you move from passive reaction to active creation. In this way, recurrence of the past into the future, is replaced with creating more of what you want. Knowing that ‘imagination creates reality’ means all that is desired, can be imagined into existence. Before you go to sleep tonight, revise your day by clearly visualising the revised scenes that match your ideals and you will take that energy into your new day. It’s a great way to ‘take the learnings from the past, leave the lessons behind’ to create the life you want!
20 Oct 2010
If you’re too busy and too lazy then you’ll find it easy to be a professional creator.
If you have deadlines and back-to-back projects, you need to be efficient and direct in your methods to maximise your time, resources and energy.
There is a difference between ‘creativity’ and ‘creating’.
Creativity is focussed on the unusual - a departure from the norm. However, the creative process can become the norm or usual with practice and paying attention.
Professional creators such as film makers, writers, painters, architects, composers, etc. know how to create.
To create, you need to know what you want - as an ‘end result’. The next step is knowing your starting point - ‘current reality’. Now it’s time to focus your mind. The difference between where you are and what you want, will engage the mind’s ability to invent. When you do this, what you need to do to get there becomes obvious - simply and powerfully.
Focussing the mind leads to consistent and reliable innovation. This method will minimise wasted time, energy and resources. Your actions will count as you create effortlessly. So practice being a professional creator, in every area of your life.
02 Aug 2010
Everything! The number one emotion is LOVE. It’s the greatest gift you can give yourself and others.
A definition of love - “The selfish promotion of the growth of the other” -
“If you selflessly promote the growth of your customers and your colleagues - that’s love” Tim Sanders, Yahoo (from his book “Love is the Killer”).
We need to create emotional connections by asking “What if…..?” and “What would it mean……?”
“Respect is love in plain clothes” Franki Byrne.
Respect is the foundation of successful business.
People who make decisions purely based on fact are people who put their heart & emotions on the fridge before they leave for work and take them out when they get home. Making decisions with your mind AND heart, means that you are using your emotions - ie: “this is the right choice/decision - I feel good about it”.
Respect is about PERFORMANCE, REPUTATION & TRUST.
We have to understand people and what motivates them.
Business values are: commitment, innovation, integrity, leadership, responsibility, ease & grace, service-orientation, trust, reliability, creating value for others, being real, continuous improvement.
“By building respect and inspiring love, business can move the world” Kevin Roberts.
Interested to know more? Read - LOVE MARKS by Kevin Roberts (CEO Worldwide of Ideas Company Saatchi & Saatchi)
05 Jul 2010
Many years ago, the buzz term was ‘problem-solving’ which was later disguised or replaced as being ‘solution-focussed’. This is the ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ or if you like - ‘mutton dressed up as lamb’. In other words, they are the same thing - two ends of the same stick. Whether you are calling it ‘problem-solving’ or ‘solution-focussed’, the energy and attention is on the PROBLEM, so whatever action you take, will be in REACTION to the situation/event/person rather than CREATING what you want.
Next time someone comes to you saying, “There’s a problem” or “I have a problem” - STOP - you don’t have to go into ‘fix-it’ mode. Instead, say: “Before you tell me about that - what outcome do you want?” This question shifts their focus from the PROBLEM to CREATING what they want. If you listen to the problem, you will have a tendency to solve it by coming up with some solution that is in reaction to what they are thinking and feeling (psychological tension) about the situation which will only take them away from what they want. Be aware of your own tension around problems and remember, you don’t have to relieve your tension or anyone else’s. By identifying the TRUE END RESULT you desire, the RIGHT ACTION will become obvious. The first or next step will be clear. Take it and you will be on your way to CREATING THE RESULTS YOU WANT.
07 Jun 2010
Once you know what you want, there will be obvious action to take. This action doesn’t need to be a grand plan but rather - first steps that will in turn lead to the next steps and so on. You’ll find yourself in the flow of creating effortlessly.
The process of taking action needs to be informed by the end results rather than your current reality. In this way, you will move from where you are toward where you want to be - creating the future from the future.
If you are stuck in your head, your ‘thinking mind’ is going around and round in circles as you analyse the details. You end up thinking about thinking, rather than taking the necessary action.
If you drop from your head to your heart, you will be in your ‘working mind’. From there you will experience connection to what you want which will give you the energy to complete the tasks that lead to the results you want.
Taking the right action is closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
“To know and not to do is not to know”
03 May 2010
“Limitations live only in our minds but if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless” Jamie Paolinetti
If you don’t know what you want - make it up. Develop a mental picture by visualising it as if it’s already happening. Use your imagination to fill in the blanks and help you connect and identify with what you are going for. When you’re in the world of imagination, become of aware of what you are experiencing via your senses - what you are seeing, touching/feeling, smelling, tasting, hearing? Ask yourself, if you were able to create the result you wanted, what would it look like? What would it feel like? What do you imagine it to be? Write down what you get; draw a picture.
Everyday, exercise your imagination to build capacity in order to see beyond the circumstances and broaden your ability to create what you want. You will develop expanded awareness that will begin to change your world.
“Experience is the result of being in imagination, where you have not yet been physically” Neville
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