I received an email over the weekend from someone who has a birthday coming up in the next few weeks. They wrote (yes, I am escaping any “he” or “she” hints on purpose!) to let me off the hook, saying, “Rosa, you cannot possibly continue to do these birthday postings on MWAC for everyone in the Ho‘ohana Community; are you really intending to do so?”
They are right, I can’t sustain them in the way I’ve done this month, for the Ho‘ohana Community is too large at this point. I will need to celebrate your birthdays to come in other, manageable and sustainable ways. I didn’t even get everyone in April done!
Since it was our value study for the month, I picked April as an example of what Mālama for birthdays can be: It’s the month of my own birthday (and I don’t shy from celebrating it), and it was a good opportunity to share some thoughts I have on how we adults need and deserve to have our big day celebrated just as much as children do— it’s important.
When I think about our theme of “Mellow Mālama Maintenance” over the past month, the question, “What can you sustain?” is a good one for our wrap up these last three days of April.
Let’s look at the 5th Beat again:
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The fact that I will have to somehow adjust my birthday celebrations is fairly easy to explain.
However there is something else I have decided is not sustainable here at MWAC: The 5-Beat Rhythm in its present form.
I practice what I preach here each month right along with you, and in short, after several months of trying to, I have realized that I have not been able to arrive at my own Mellow Mālama Maintenance with the MWAC version of the 5-Beat Rhythm.
The 5-Beat Rhythm works wonderfully well in two other contexts
I love the 5-Beat Rhythm as
- a one-on-one coaching program (thus the fee option we just started in February is working fabulously well), and
- as a method for bringing my Managing with Aloha value of the month value-alignment discipline to specific organizations, with a manager/leader taking ownership of it completely, with my coaching as support. (I do this virtually for organizations using project management software and ILEs— interactive learning environments.)
The 5-Beat Rhythm has proven to work very well for me in these two contexts within my business, Say Leadership Coaching, and I will continue to use it this way. Thus I was hoping I could adapt it just as well to Managing with Aloha Coaching too.
However after these past eight months of pursuing an MWAC adaptation, I am realizing that blogging the 5-Beat Rhythm for such a wide and diverse audience is not as effective for these two reasons:
a) Digital learning has exploded, and so have your options. MWAC needs to be a better comment conversation for you one article at a time, with each article offering a more self-contained, concise context. Conversely, the 5-Beat Rhythm has required too much continuity from our global audience here.
b) Therefore, the 5-Beat Rhythm of MWAC has proven to increase my private conversations with you, and decrease the public ones as a community coaching each other and learning together.
Conclusion?
No more 5-Beat Rhythm for this site. Mellow Mālama Maintenance has answered that “What can you sustain?” question for me.
Our Managing with Aloha Coaching “Value your Month, Value your Life” program remains, and we will continue to put Managing with Aloha in practice via our value of the month program here, as we seek to “Live, Work, Manage and Lead with Aloha!” as it says on the masthead.
Stay tuned, and as television networks will scream, “Don’t touch that dial!” We will ma‘alahi-streamline and begin to make this a bit simpler for you in the coming month.
So for April, 2008...
That is MY Beat 5 as an example: What have you decided you can, or cannot sustain within your own Mellow Mālama Maintenance this month?
Take the next three days to finish your month well. I will post next on Thursday, May 1st, when as usual, we will Ho‘ohana together with a brand new value study.
A mellow ma‘alahi Mālama pono,
Rosa
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