The Holiday Issue
Reflection … taking time or making time?
Each month, for the past eight months, we have focused on one of
the eight Tools of Reflection. The purpose of all these tools is to
create time to reflect: to break out of the action-reaction cycle.
It is only when we break free, when we create a space for
reflection – however brief – that we can go beyond our
conditioning, our knee-jerk reactions and do something different.
And when we do something different we get something different.
A new opportunity. A new response. A new perspective. A new
experience.
When I was looking for an inspirational story on the value of
holidays, I could not find one. That says a lot! Although the value
of taking time out for a holiday is accepted, it appears that it is
not yet considered as ‘inspirational story’ material.
The same could be said for the value of taking a moment out –
even a brief moment can bring inspiration. It can bring a new
insight to an entangled situation, to an entrenched challenge, or
to an overwhelming encounter.
We hope that one of the Eight Tools of Reflection will give you a
technique to create that mini-moment for yourself.
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Share your wisdom: Life’s Letters
Through the very act of living our lives, we have gained wisdom
and understanding. We know things that others do not know. But
most of the time, we do not know how wise we are!
What would you share, if you had to write a letter to a young child
you know, to be opened when they turned 18? What would you
want this young adult to know? What wisdom and experience
could you reveal that would help them navigate through life with
greater ease? What do you wish you had known when you were 18?
We are inviting all our readers to contribute to small collection:
Life’s Letters. It is a compendium of letters from our readers to
the children they love, sharing their life’s wisdom.
The closing date for the letters is August 31st 2008. Please email your
letter to Jennifer: jennifer.hurley@lamontassociates.com
Lamont Associates Down Under
This month, Georgeanne will be in New Zealand. She has been
invited as a Key Note Speaker at the Human Resources Institute of
New Zealand Annual Conference. She will also be delivering some
one-day training workshops.
If you’d like a copy of her keynote address, Sustainable Work:
Transforming Human Resources in the 21st Century, click here.
If you have any comments on HR in the 21st Century, we’d love to
hear from you. Email jennifer.hurley@lamontassociates.com
Story – The little wave
This story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean,
having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh
air – until he notices the other waves in front of him,
crashing against the shore.
“My God, this is terrible”, the wave says. “Look what's going
to happen to me!”
Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave,
looking grim, and it says to him: “Why do you look so sad?”
The first wave says: “You don't understand! We're all going to
crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it
terrible?”
The second wave says: “No, you don't understand. You're not
a wave, you're part of the ocean.”
Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
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