How will you continue to make Mahalo’s 3-Way Promise of Appreciation, Gratitude, and Thankfulness your habit?
- Knowing Mahalo through Appreciation
- Becoming Mahalo through Gratitude
- Sharing Mahalo through Thankfulness
How did Mahalo translate into concrete action for you, and what is your plan for sustaining those actions?
Reading alone, without learning through action, is like tasting a meal but stopping short of eating it... or like trying to catch snowflakes with your mouth closed... we have snow on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa this morning, with a clear sky to enjoy the view :)
Mahalo in a 5-Beat Rhythm
If you have not yet done so, it is time to debrief your month, for December is just a day away! You have a nice bonus of the weekend for self-reflection too, for I will post my December on Monday, the 3rd. New month, new possibilities (we’ll visit my Aloha Virtues next), with a fresh start at Beat 1.
You had several action-packed tools to choose from this month:
- You could Give yourself a Daily 5 Minutes at the end of each day during November, beginning the practice of keeping a Gratitude Journal. Tim Milburn added a great template for us to use, and a few days ago we talked about how we could get our practice to stick.
- You could write out your 5 distinctions of becoming, further exploring palena ‘ole, your four-fold capacity begging more abundance-creating fillers.
- Appreciation, gratitude, and thankfulness, was just the start of our vocabulary-stretching this month. You were invited to think about thinking: “If you were to tell me of just one thing you think, another you believe, and another you know, what would those things be? How would they sort out for you?”
- I am hoping you found this simple action step to be rewarding: Give a gift: Who should you be saying thank you to today? You may recall the article was called, When was the last time you said “thank you” and really meant it?
- If you celebrated Stephen’s Day with me, you now can Live Mahalo with your Dailies. You may have noticed that number 1. on this list also made it to my list of dailies, for I have become a fervent believer in those nightly five minutes.
And then of course, there’s my book Managing with Aloha, our companion text for the site, for I did not repeat what is already there for you:
- Creating the habit of appreciation with WorkPlace Mahalo, as explained in the story of the Alaka‘i Nalu, starting on page 194. - This one fortifies your team.
- Taking stock of the good fortune of all managers, with the Good Fortune Exercise which starts on page 198. - This one truly opens view planes of greater possibility.
- Learning to use the Mahalo Log in conjunction with the Daily 5 Minutes, explained through the story of Bruce and Jake which begins on page 201. - This one helps you appreciate the value of each individual on your team.
As I have written at the end of the chapter on Mahalo: Continue to count your own blessings, and enjoy your own discoveries. Thankfulness is truly a mighty force, and sometimes, like Jake (and like Tim), we may find that it changes us, it helps us become better. When you teach the value of Mahalo to your employees, you help them enjoy the life they have. What a wonderful gift that is!
You can revisit The 5-Beat Rhythm here: Managing with Aloha Coaching in A 5-Beat Rhythm.
Postscript:
If you are just now joining us, the beauty of Mahalo is that you can start instantly with very little catching up! Start your reading + doing right here: Just take some of the links in this post. Then pick up a subscription to start a new month with us on Monday (You will find both RSS and email subscription options here).
If you do not yet have a copy of Managing with Aloha, you can BUY ONE HERE! We have just sent a few more cases to Amazon.com to stock them up for the holidays :)
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