Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Values & Alignment

"As long as we operate within this old paradigm, we are separated from our heart and values and feel powerless.

We cannot suspend our values during the workday and think we will have them back when we get home.
We're all connected.

There is a spiritual dimension to business just as there is to individuals."

~Ben & Jerry [The Ice Cream Guys] 
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Wash Your Rice Bowl... On.Being Here, Now.

Planning is to be commended.

When you plan... plan.

When you do... Do.




Wash Your Rice Bowl...

A monk told Joshu, "I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me."

Joshu asked, "Have you eaten your rice porridge?

The monk replied, "I have eaten."

Joshu said, "Then you had better wash your bowl."

At that moment the monk was enlightened.

 

Click on the link below for the analysis of what it means.

Wash Your Bowl. A Koan.


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Tuesday, September 15, 2009


Time is that inexplicable raw material of everything. With it all is possible. Without it, nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle - an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
You wake up in the morning, and lo! Your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life.  It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions no-one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no-one receives either more or less than you receive.
In the realm of time, there is no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even an extra hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will and the supply will never be withheld from you.
Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt! You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow; it is kept for you.
I have said the affair is a miracle, is it not? You have this twenty-four hours of daily time to live. Out of it you want to spin health, pleasure, money, contentment, respect and the evolution of your immortal soul.
Its right use, its most effective use is a matter of the highest urgency and of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on that. Your happiness the elusive prize that you are all clutching for, my friend depends on that.
If one cannot arrange that an income of twenty-four hours shall exactly cover all proper items of expenditure, one does muddle one's whole life indefinitely.
We shall never have any more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is.
~ Arnold Bennet

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Small Business Finds Social Media In Newcastle


Change comes hard to some people and businesses are very often a reflection of their owners. So it is small surprise that changes in the way people approach business can also change slowly.  But even the hardest things can erode over time, and like the great blocks that keep the sea from eroding the breakwater at Nobbys, so too business owners can and do begin to adapt and come to notice the opportunities to engage customers in new and more meaningful ways, using social media as a part of their customer-service and promotional strategies.

One example of social media making it's presence felt is the regular Friday morning #newcastlecoffeemorning UPDATED Feb 2010: Venue for Tweetup at Sprocket Roasters Cafe in the Newcastle CBD that runs from 7.45am - 9am. If you are on Twitter and would like to join us, just come along. If you have a business and would like to know more about Twitter and how social media can be of benefit to your business let me know, and I'll be happy to have a chat about that with you. And do come along. The more the merrier!




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