Prepare

Local community connections build relationships and networks that work together when needed like the physical body works together. Volunteering is important for everyone to do on a regular basis to train in an alternative structure to meet people outside your culture and value system to learn how to build a team regardless and to function under ineffective management and incomplete systems and poor processes. This way when a disaster hits you have developed the skills to do what is needed in a crisis. 2011 Brisbane floods mud army. 2012 hurricane sandy. Here is Australia we have bush fires floods cyclones annually. We don't face these alone. The local volunteer SES are vital in our survival and recovery. 

When you see international events like hurricane Katrina Fukushima Tsunami Typhoon Haiyan the great challenges are the delay in getting aid to those who need it as geography and destruction of infrastructure and death of so many including local volunteers that there is no easy way to coordinate help immediately. This happens the same way in our bodies. 

So if the best way to prepare for a crisis on earth is to connect and understand resource management build communities skill up on survival strategies and think global by acting local as a life practice a way of life then a similar approach to health like diet exercise network chiropractic and reorganisational healing of mind body emotions soul would be effective. Right?

Good Enough

“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”  John Steinbeck

Slience

“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”  Walt Whitman

In My Heart

“I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams”  F Scott Fitzgerald

Born Again

“What, indeed, is a New Yorker? Is he Jew or Irish? Is he English or German? Is he Russian or Polish? He may be something of all these, and yet he is wholly none of them. Something has been added to him which he had not had before. he is endowed with a briskness and an invention often alien to his blood. He is quicker in his movement, less trammeled in his judgement...The change he undergoes is unmistakeable, New York, indeed, resembles a magic cauldron. Those who are cast into it are born again.”  Charles Whibley

Aint Going

“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”  Jimmy Breslin

Innocence

"The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter if you are younger or old. Reading our rich history makes the experience more layered, but it is not a substitute for walking the streets themselves. For old-timer or newcomer, it is essential to absorb the city as it is now in order to shape your own nostalgias. 

That's why I always urge the newcomer to surrender to the city's magic. Forget the irritations and the occasional rudeness; they bother New Yorkers too. Instead, go down to the North River and the benches that run along the west side of Battery Park City. Watch the tides or the blocks of ice in winter; they have existed since the time when the island was empty of man. Gaze at the boats. Look across the water at the Statue of Liberty or Ellis Island, the place to which so many of the New York tribe came in order to truly live. Learn the tale of our tribe, because it's your tribe too, no matter where you were born. Listen to its music and its legends. Gaze at its ruins and monuments. Walk its sidewalks and run fingers upon the stone and bricks and steel of our right-angled streets. Breathe the air of the river breeze."  Pete Hamill

Belongs

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”  Tom Wolfe

Business is a Promise

"Business is a promise you make to your customer. People, processes and technology interweave and connect to align your business with this promise. Ask yourself - what promise am I making to my customers with my seminars, consults and products? Then deliver and honour it." 


Nichola Burton, CEO, The Pushworth Group

Make the Time

Bottom line in every question you ask yourself in every area of your life - what is my time worth? 


How do you measure it? 
How do you value it? 
What metrics do you use? 


Your time is the cornerstone of every business deal, submission, contract and negotiation process. 


How much does your time cost you? 
Time to save and to spend. 
Time to sow and to reap. 
Time to risk and to relax. 
Time to grow and time to enjoy. 


There are two sides to the time coin. 
Factor them both into your metrics. 
Make the Time.

Living

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once." — Audrey Hepburn