Pono and our 5 Beat Rhythm: A Beat 1 Example on Decision Management

Let's start the year in rhythm, shall we? If we are to work on Pono for our rightness and balance this month, cultivating a good habit to serve us well is the best way to go about it.

If you are newly joining us here at Managing with Aloha Coaching, get your download of our 5 Beat Rhythm worksheet here, read the Habit Riddle, and then come back.

Let's do this together:

Managing with Aloha Coaching in a MONTHLY 5 BEAT RHYTHM
Ho‘ohana: Get the MWAC Value Your Life coaching to Work for you

BEAT 1. We start with an essay on the value of the month [That was yesterday's Day One Essay, Pono and the Why of Right]. That first time you read it, take five minutes to write down two things:

1) Your questions - add them to the blog comments here (others may be wondering the same thing!) or email them to me if you want me to address them within my writing the rest of this month.

2) Your intention in learning more about the value - understand that your intention creates a kind of intuitive magic for you the rest of the month; when you capture your early thoughts, connections will get made in the days to follow. You wake up your self-attuned attentions.

If my Day One Essay did not trigger something for you, this is where pulling Managing with Aloha off the shelf again can really help - I do the same thing to help me here every month,even though I wrote it! Sometimes, I will just skim the sub-headings, and that alone does the trick. These are my sub-headings for Pono, starting on page 214:

• Ah, contentment
• Attitude determines outcome
• Pono prepares us for giving
• Pono brings rightness to success
• Preparing for change
• Finding Pono, finding right
• Make it personal
• Pono brings balance

A possible 3) Say ‘intention,’ and the first word that comes to mind for me is Ho‘ohana, my intention for worthwhile work. When you look back on your learning intentions in step 2) is there a connection with what you have just written to your Ho‘ohana?

For instance, if you are a manager, your intention this month might be to make your way to Pono whenever you have to own a decision that comes from "the big boss" or corporate headquarters, explaining it to your staff in the way that feels right to you. No buck passing, no saying, "I don't like it either, but that's the way it is" and no glossing things over, or lies of omission. You want to arrive at a personal integrity with all decisions for which you are the messenger, figuring out how to own them.

I'm a manager, and the very first line of my Ho‘ohana (page 32 in MWA) is, "I love to teach, and in particular I love coaching managers." I would connect that Ho‘ohana Statement to my learning intention with Pono decisions this way: After I learn this for myself, I will share what works for me and what doesn't with all my assistant managers too. They probably face the same issue with decisions that come from me!

Does that help?

We have a lot to cover with Pono, so don't procrastinate with this. 5 minutes is really all it takes if you use this site alone, using this article and my Day One Essay. (Reading the chapter in the book will take longer.)