Managing with Aloha Coaching: Be Grateful for Mahalo Stickiness

It used to be that “sticky” meant I’d go hunting for a sponge so I could get rid of the culprit. Not anymore.

Stickiness has gotten to be something you yearn for, and we connect it to our learning, and to our ideas. My hope is that Managing with Aloha Coaching helps you with the stickiness of actions made habits.

This was the action we have focused on for November:


Try this Mahalo Action Step this month: Give yourself a Daily 5 Minutes at the end of each day during November. Just before bedtime and your sweet dreams to come, write down everything you feel grateful for in that moment, or as happened for you that day. You may fall into your own number of 3 things, or 5 things, maybe even 7 or more, but stick to the 5 minutes, and see what naturally emerges for you in the rhythm of your own attitude of gratitude. And then, as you turn off the lights, say thank you to that brain of yours.

When something sticks it stays with you; it’s made an impact that counts. “Stick” has become a solid word that we now associate with a type of success, one in which a connection is firmly made.

With MWAC I have tried to be more focused and deliberate with my coaching versus the all-around conversation that blogging led me into with Talking Story. I have wanted to share more ‘intentional MWA’ with you in the thankfulness that I have, for how learning MWA over the years has stuck with me in a warming blanket of good ways.

If the same thing is to happen for you however, just reading what I write here is not enough. You have to be watching for those action steps that I suggest you do, and then you have to do them; action seals the deal; it’s the glue that gets you the stickiness.

Honestly folks, this is the key reason I have a thriving business; people hire me so they have someone who will hold them accountable. In what we do here, Kuleana; you have to take personal responsibility for holding yourself accountable. It’s the only way that Managing with Aloha works.

Have you started your Gratitude Journal?

Thus far this month, we have largely concentrated on you. As reprinted in the mana‘o box above, Give yourself a Nighly 5 Minutes at the end of each day during November.

I have suggested that you journal certain things, and we got some help from Tim Milburn with a template you could use that would give you the additional action steps of

P – Priority; and ranking any ideas which emerged for you

S – Strength; and scoring your ideas as strength versus weakness

D – Decision; and determining what you will Do, Delegate, Delay or Delete

NA – Next Action; and date-committing to the specific steps that will make things happen for you

Mahalo makes this much more than a Productivity Exercise.

The key I want you to remember about Mahalo, is that it is a way of living your life. You live exceptionally appreciative (knowing), grateful (becoming), and thankful (sharing) all “the elements which make your life precious.” You relish them. You celebrate them joyously. You allow Mahalo to gives you an ‘attitude of gratitude,’ and the pleasure of awe and wonder.

If you ‘get it,’ and get this connection, and if you have done the Nightly 5 Minutes thus far with your gratitude journal, you are discovering that you are no longer thinking about what is missing from your life. Instead, you are concentrating on what you already have, and may have been taking for granted. You have discovered some gems worth polishing with more intentional focus. You are getting them to stick.

In fact, come to think of it, that is probably what influenced the Sunday Mālama I shared with you this past weekend: Please don’t shop for me! for I have been doing my Gratitude Journal right along with you; it has become very apparent to me that I have all I really need.

I want this for you, and it’s never too late to start.

My Sharing of Thankfulness: The How-To of Managing with Aloha Coaching.