Shift Happens (From The Argus)
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Shift Happens
4:19pm Monday 19th September 2011 in Blogs
No longer dreading Mondays
I'm fired up and excited. I've learned several important lessons in the past few weeks. By learn, I mean really absorb and understand, as opposed to having a grasp of the concept. Putting ideas into practice. Taking action.
1 - If it doesn't exist, create it. You could wait forever for someone else to do it.
Instead of remaining frustrated and irritated that the types of resources I want are available only online or in London, I've decided to make it happen here. 2 - It's more productive and much more fun to launch something new with a buddy.
The project has come alive because I've partnered with someone who challenges and inspires me. I've given up being dysfunctionally independent.
3 - You don't need to know all the details of how, just what it is you want to deliver.
Once we agreed to do this project together, all our past experience in various fields became useful and we found help and support in all kinds of places.
4 - If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?
Genuine enthusiasm is lovely to be around. And finding something I really believe in and doing it has me buzzing.
The project is a monthly evening event in central Brighton for people whose current work (or non work) isn't hitting the spot. Inspirational speakers, pragmatic and practical advice and networking on the theme of Fulfilling Work. If this is something you might be interested in, do join the Meet Up group and come along to one of the events.
http://www.meetup.com/Fulfilling-Work/
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anubis says...
11:09am Tue 20 Sep 11
If only more of us could demonstrate such insight …. I always remember my late childhood years (I’d have been about twelve years of age) going with a gang of schoolmates to a Saturday cinema, seeing Lon Chaney in the title role of ‘The Mummy’s Tomb’. Fascinated by tales of ancient Egypt (mostly mythological), we decided to learn Egyptian hieroglyphics, so like the Hollywood version of the priests of old, we could exchange ‘secret’ messages, our parents and teachers could not read. We visited the library; there were very few books to help us beyond the odd copy of Wallis Budge’s interlinear translations, hardly enough for solitary students. As the years passed, the childhood vague interest in Egyptiana continued (as pseudo-name might suggest!) … but today, apart from the odd picture/symbol, it’s all a relic of a largely forgotten childhood.
Just imagine how it might have been! We should have realized we had set ourselves a task beyond our unaided capabilities … and should have risen above it. We should have recognized the hundreds of others, in the world out there, facing difficult tasks by choosing easier options … rather than confront the challenge; call a meeting or two, entice the many others fascinated by the legends of the Egyptian pharaohs and their dreams of immortal life, keen to 'know' the hieroglyphics BUT LACKING THE ENERGY OR CAPABILITY OF SERIOUSLY ADDRESSING THEIR STUDIOUS OBJECTIVE, enrol a couple quack speakers to raise enthusiasm (‘you can do it! You can create a new life, free from the monotonous drudgery of your present one’), provoke discussion – before rounding the evening off in the nearby pub, so all go home happy they’ve had a ‘brilliant’ meeting/outing. With a bit of luck some just might come again (with their entrance fees!)?!
Walk into the average bookshop – see how many books they stock on ‘astronomy’ … and then how many on ‘astrology’. I wonder why the latter topic gets a column every day in many newspapers (don’t know of any with the same facility for ‘astronomy’!).