Had an enrollment conversation last night with Paul around giving and receiving acknowledgment, this morning received a lovely email acknowledging me for who I am being as a stand for my kids and the impact it has on their lives. Way cool.
This morning shopped with Jackie and stopped to push grocery carts into each other to clear a passage for people to walk through in the shade. Good deed. Normally, I would have walked past the area and let the employers take care of this - it felt good to be contribution.
Acknowledged Thomas and Patrick for being a good dancer.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
Daily Journaling
Daily journaling is difficult online since I'm at this computer infrequently. I will start writing to keep up with the days...
Abundance today in thank yous in the community, Susan, students, peers, those who service. I notice that there is so much to be thankful for and positives keep repeating.
Noise, not a whole lot. I'm aware of it when I hear it from myself or the other, also what comes up for me is my advice is their noise and it stills me into listening deeply, the other can be fully expressed until satiated.
It's nice to have be a constant, and be closer to who I am.
Good deeds, picking up, teaching students to pick up materials rolled onto the floor, put scrap into recycle, eases the job for the custodians and teaches responsibility. Letting cars cut into traffic.
Every day is a celebration with my community
Abundance today in thank yous in the community, Susan, students, peers, those who service. I notice that there is so much to be thankful for and positives keep repeating.
Noise, not a whole lot. I'm aware of it when I hear it from myself or the other, also what comes up for me is my advice is their noise and it stills me into listening deeply, the other can be fully expressed until satiated.
It's nice to have be a constant, and be closer to who I am.
Good deeds, picking up, teaching students to pick up materials rolled onto the floor, put scrap into recycle, eases the job for the custodians and teaches responsibility. Letting cars cut into traffic.
Every day is a celebration with my community
Friday, September 7, 2007
Where did the week go?
Acknowledgements given and returned 100 fold, through my emails, on my personal profile page at Meet Up, through telephone conversations, day to day conversations. I love the initiative.
Today, I won a drafting table. Way cool. No noise there.
Noise today was about me feeling small about teaching Visual Art 2 and looking for support from seasoned teachers. Totally saw that the moment I had the conversation. Structural conversation, hunched over, squished up significant face, lowered monotone voice, tightness in body - yeah, that. Then lightened by interrupting conversation prompted an immediate physiological change, body upright, voice lighter, face relaxed, laughter. Joy. So, I can give that up, being small, and playing small.
Being authentic that's about wanting help, being in my victim language, stamping my foot, and wanting to do well, not wanting to dissapoint, and that's all noise too. Love this stuff.
All week, unknown good deeds, picking things up, tidying areas, leaving the space better than before, asking someone to ask someonelse to dance, matching people up.
Hosting Lindy Hop, collaging with Coral and whoever else wants to join, going to Tempe Performing arts festival opening all good Wisdom community oriented socials.
Today, I won a drafting table. Way cool. No noise there.
Noise today was about me feeling small about teaching Visual Art 2 and looking for support from seasoned teachers. Totally saw that the moment I had the conversation. Structural conversation, hunched over, squished up significant face, lowered monotone voice, tightness in body - yeah, that. Then lightened by interrupting conversation prompted an immediate physiological change, body upright, voice lighter, face relaxed, laughter. Joy. So, I can give that up, being small, and playing small.
Being authentic that's about wanting help, being in my victim language, stamping my foot, and wanting to do well, not wanting to dissapoint, and that's all noise too. Love this stuff.
All week, unknown good deeds, picking things up, tidying areas, leaving the space better than before, asking someone to ask someonelse to dance, matching people up.
Hosting Lindy Hop, collaging with Coral and whoever else wants to join, going to Tempe Performing arts festival opening all good Wisdom community oriented socials.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Boomerang
I start my day of with acknowledgments of myself, how great life is, full of abundance, where everything comes together. Last night I had a terrific time going to salsa lesson, flowed with staying for a group dinner, meeting new people, and closed of last night with an enrollment conversation about Meet up, Landmark, and Wisdom. I will be bringing Tom to my Monday night Living Life Passionately class - he's heard a lot about Landmark and wants to see what it's all about.
His reciprocal acknowledgment of me is sending me this poem by Oriah. He felt the enrollment conversation had placed him in the middle of this:
The Invitation
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide itor fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning usto be carefulto be realisticto remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own lifefrom its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,"Yes."
It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with meand not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
*********
What I create in my community comes back to me like a boomerang, and for that I'm blessed. I started my day by acknowledging Tom and Tim for their being contribution in playing full out in being great in the world.
His reciprocal acknowledgment of me is sending me this poem by Oriah. He felt the enrollment conversation had placed him in the middle of this:
The Invitation
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide itor fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning usto be carefulto be realisticto remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own lifefrom its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,"Yes."
It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with meand not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
*********
What I create in my community comes back to me like a boomerang, and for that I'm blessed. I started my day by acknowledging Tom and Tim for their being contribution in playing full out in being great in the world.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Today
I love my accomplishment coach - she is awesome, inspirational, and really helps me set the tone for the rest of my week. Just a breathe of fresh, honest, authentic conversation. I am inspired to be that for my community.
What do I love about my life?: Cuz Al reflected on how wonderful his kids and wife were, and then shared his discovery of his debilitating thyroid disease which is now medicated and from which he now gets the relationships he never had before. He shared in a way that was made possible because of the reflective question. It created a space for him to say something that created a closeness for both of us to talk about and celebrate together.
Acknowledgments, come easy to me and now I'm upping it one notch to make them profound, to create the other in a way that makes a difference and can be heard in the context delivered. My measurement is being acknowledged back via words or actions. I now socialize enough to not really have that be a measurement. What I notice is how I am perceived by others. Last night I had an enrollment conversation about Landmark such that the individual wanted to know how to find out more, and he would google Landmark education. I was responsible and made it known that there would be cult information - which is what we are not. Freda, my friend, pointed out immediately that it was not how I appeared to her. Both are inspired and Freda loves the sound of the Wisdom class. I will invite her to our Community Fair.
I will find out from Mike if he might be willing to partner with me in swing dancing for the Community event, showcase his New York Times best seller series, I think that would be way cool.
Off to work on my collage.
What do I love about my life?: Cuz Al reflected on how wonderful his kids and wife were, and then shared his discovery of his debilitating thyroid disease which is now medicated and from which he now gets the relationships he never had before. He shared in a way that was made possible because of the reflective question. It created a space for him to say something that created a closeness for both of us to talk about and celebrate together.
Acknowledgments, come easy to me and now I'm upping it one notch to make them profound, to create the other in a way that makes a difference and can be heard in the context delivered. My measurement is being acknowledged back via words or actions. I now socialize enough to not really have that be a measurement. What I notice is how I am perceived by others. Last night I had an enrollment conversation about Landmark such that the individual wanted to know how to find out more, and he would google Landmark education. I was responsible and made it known that there would be cult information - which is what we are not. Freda, my friend, pointed out immediately that it was not how I appeared to her. Both are inspired and Freda loves the sound of the Wisdom class. I will invite her to our Community Fair.
I will find out from Mike if he might be willing to partner with me in swing dancing for the Community event, showcase his New York Times best seller series, I think that would be way cool.
Off to work on my collage.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Zooming Days
How is it that it is already Saturday? Every day I think of what I'm going to journal, and somehow it does not make it to the finger tips. The daily annonymous deed that was unusual was my surruptiously taking down out dated student event posters. The rest falls into what almost becomes habit - cleaning up after myself, clearing trash hazadous to slips and unsightly (I do feel for the custodian). Teaching students to pick up after themselves.
Generative conversation: What do you like about your life. Wow, I asked the computer techie this to discover she is retiring in two months after 35 years of service, age 58, with a history of being a principal - her listening for me and how I stand for what's possible for my student who has gone dissaray had depth, and having asked her that question revealed why. We got to know each other in a whole different way and I saw her as a for real person, beyond someone who fixes glitches.
Noise: I can see how I respond to noise immediately when I react with emotion, feel the blood rise to my face in teen power play and my racket of "I'm right" steps in. The moment it happens I know I've reached a place of discomfort and it is incomplete. I step outside with the student and get complete and create a relationship worth having. Thank you Landmark. Good one to collage for my racket.
The enrollment conversation is soooo not about noise. There is no room for it because it speaks to what is universal, touching, and human. I had an enrollment conversation about the impact Landmark has on my life, and it is all about being genuine and sharing so that the other can see something for themself. Resonance a way of connecting beyond noise.
Social calendar: Swing dance lesson, attending Rave live band with Coral this week. Will work on collage homework this weekend.
Generative conversation: What do you like about your life. Wow, I asked the computer techie this to discover she is retiring in two months after 35 years of service, age 58, with a history of being a principal - her listening for me and how I stand for what's possible for my student who has gone dissaray had depth, and having asked her that question revealed why. We got to know each other in a whole different way and I saw her as a for real person, beyond someone who fixes glitches.
Noise: I can see how I respond to noise immediately when I react with emotion, feel the blood rise to my face in teen power play and my racket of "I'm right" steps in. The moment it happens I know I've reached a place of discomfort and it is incomplete. I step outside with the student and get complete and create a relationship worth having. Thank you Landmark. Good one to collage for my racket.
The enrollment conversation is soooo not about noise. There is no room for it because it speaks to what is universal, touching, and human. I had an enrollment conversation about the impact Landmark has on my life, and it is all about being genuine and sharing so that the other can see something for themself. Resonance a way of connecting beyond noise.
Social calendar: Swing dance lesson, attending Rave live band with Coral this week. Will work on collage homework this weekend.
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