Our March Ho‘ohana: Kūlia i ka nu‘u! The Best We Can Be.

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[Rick Fuqua]

Simply inspirational!

When activity becomes achievement (with intention), we will succeed.

Thanks.

[Steve Sherlock]

Rosa, as I finshed readying this, I was ready to get up and do the war dance, then realized I was at work, in the office, and it would be somewhat out of place to do that here. (Yes, that is another story for another time.)

But it is Ash Wednesday so some "war paint" is acceptable!

Thanks for the inpiration!

[Rosa Say]

Mahalo Rick and Steve for chiming in here!

Steve I have such a wonderful image in my mind's eye of you in warpaint...

I recently did the more "sane" exercise of printing plans in large font and spreading them on the floor with a leadership group, and it was a really great energizer leading to a couple of breakthrough thoughts. We were all circling the room and pouncing on the papers in this Twister-like activity - remember that game?

Or circling a campfire... come to think of it, having some warpaint wouldn't have been that out of place for them after all!

[Denise Wright]

Oh my gosh you are all so INSPIRING!! I love it. I dont have any warpaint, but I can dance!! I want Greatness in My Management. I don't understand all of the instructions yet. I bought your book while I was on the Big Island last Sept. It is so powerful. And now it is time for me to do the homework. Strategic Plan, okay. I will work on it. Thanks, Denise Wright

[Rosa Say]

Aloha Denise, thank you for joining our Kūlia i ka nu‘u campaign! Dancers are very warmly and enthusiastically welcomed!

I love what you said here, that you WANT greatness in your management, for it all starts with that decision, answering the calling to be a great manager for the right reasons; helping people discover their ho‘ohana through worthwhile work.

Remember that you have the Jumpstart program on www.managingwithaloha.com, AND an entire community here to support you as you “work on it.” Kākou: we are in this together, and together we are stronger.
Aloha e, Rosa

[Toni]

As Rosie the Rivieter said, "We can do it!" and we will because there is no other acceptable option. After reading your MWA Jumpstart for March, I know that I will take the big wins and the small wins. No battlefield is insignificant! Mahalo for the inspiration and the war cry.

[Yvonne DiVita]

Rosa, once again, you have captured the best of the best - intentions, coaching, and support, enabling all of us to reach higher, aim for the stars, and achieve our dreams. How exciting! I wonder - are you also in favor of having us write a Life Buisness Plan?? Shall we talk more of this - of having a PLAN for your LIFE - that will DRIVE everything else you do!

I am hearing more and more of this "Life Plan" and how it influences all that we do, whether we acknowledge it or not. YOU know of this! YOU life it! Everything about Managing with Aloha speaks to this. I feel it when I talk to you, when I read your blog, and when I commune with the Ho'ohana community.

Surely, if we PLAN our lives, we can LIVE our plan - and learn to create a truly magnificent Kūlia i ka nu‘u: Year of Greatness in 2006.

[Rosa Say]

Aloha Yvonne, thank you for your energy and your question :-)

When I first studied Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits, his Habit 2, Begin with the End in Mind —which he calls “the habit of personal leadership”— resonated very strongly with me because I am a very visual person; step-by-step, role-aligned goal setting has always appealed to my nature. I share that as an example of what I have learned to do as a coach; figure out what is best for the person I’m coaching.

For some people it can be very frustrating because coming up with a Life Plan is just too big to tackle when that vision of what “the End” is, is nowhere near “in Mind for them.” And life is too short to wait for that aha! moment; you have to do what you can in the right here, right now, with whatever talents and resources are at your disposal.
[Managing well calls for that too; funny how this same answer was so appropriate today in a conversation in our MWA Jumpstart Program:
http://www.managingwithaloha.com/2006/03/key_words_key_t.html#comment-14740329]

To answer your question on what I am in favor of;
As visual as I am, and as clear as I am today about my personal mission of MWA and what my “Life Plan” should be, I have come to prefer a “Chapter closed, book over? Wonderful, next book!” approach — the mountain climbing progression we talk of with Kūlia i ka nu‘u. We have so many options before us today, unlike our parents and grandparents who may have been in the same job all their lives. I believe we can have more, and we should afford ourselves the opportunity. In filling our own capacities, we create more abundance for our own lives, and for all we interact with.

A Life Plan can take so many forms: I guess the important thing is to have a plan and start working it versus being struck still in analysis paralysis. Second, give yourself a break and stop being judgmental about it. If you wrote it for you, with full intellectual honesty and good intention, it contains the right answer for you. Sometimes one’s Life Plan can simply mean living a great life, and not just one that is “good,” as in good enough.

Do I favor writing it down, whatever our plan is for our lives? Absolutely. Writing it down is a huge part of committing to it and deciding on it.