Everything Else, a Poem from Peru May 9, 2008
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Success Factors for Implementing Change February 22, 2008
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A friend asked this question via LinkedIn :
Question Details:
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How do you implement changes with 100% success?What are the most frequently overlooked change success factors?
And here’s my off-the-top-of-the-head response:
Authorship: When someone feels the change is theirs, they will make it work.
Partnership: When people feel they are pulling for a common goal, they will make it work.
Ongoing sensing and adjustment: When we keep in touch with a changing reality, we have a better chance of having things go the way we wish them to. “Strategy disolves when the first shot is fired.”
Oh! re: “frequently overlooked” -
Select to change something in the direction it is already going - anyone who wants to have the ice caps melt may win right now. Easier to find a parade and get in front of it.
Say you want as the change what is already the case but just hasn’t been seen yet. When we call out an existing but hidden reality, then it comes into view, we say there is a “change” but not in reality, only in viewing. Sometimes that is much easier than changing reality.
So what is interesting is that I at first, missed the full question, assuming I knew what he was asking. Then what’s interesting next is that both my tips in response to the actual question he asked were about being in touch with reality in a way that when that insight is shared with others the recognition of the “new” fact or reality occurs to them as a “change”.
Blog Off, Blog On: How Life Gets Full … Interruptions, Diversions and other seeming Eddies of Life October 9, 2007
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After nearly 6 months (yikes!) since I last posted, Mr. Miyagi’s voice, via friend Dave, is now ringing in my ears: “Blog off. Blog on.”
Lots happening, but not why blogging?
Open for Inquiry: Why do I do what I do and don’t do what I don’t do?
Provisional Conclusion: After some weeks of wondering: because I feel like it or don’t. Sadly, nothing else really seems to matter. And yes, there are different conditions in which I feel/don’t feel like doing.
Am now inquiring into:
- The art of practice, discipline, keeping with keeping on even when feeling/emotion/some say otherwise, and at the same time the profound wisdom of following body wisdom and “just doing the next indicated thing,” as Dad would say.
- Intentionally constructing my world for committed action. www.missioncontrol.com has been my starting place.
- How to know when a choice is a diversion. Sometimes I can tell what will occur later as an interruption, a side-trip from what’s the current “mission” of my life. And sometimes I can’t tell before or even as it is happening. Main trouble is that my mind is so supple in shifting viewpoint, it can make anything “fit” … before, during and after! So how am I to “tell” when an inner direction is “wisdom” vs. “wimp out”? Where is the line between “aligned” with my chief concerns of life and “not aligned”?
And a bit of thinking about How Life “Gets” Full:
- I put things in on purpose.
- I let things in sloppily.
- Things put themselves in when I’m looking.
- Things sneak in when I’m not looking.
- Things that are in grow larger in time and space and mass.
- People I care about put things in.
- People I don’t care about put things in.
- The government put things in.
- Some bot gets my email ID and starts replicating mostly irrelevant and uninteresting things to put in.
- Time puts things in.
- I get farther “into” something that is already in and forget to come back out, which has the effect of it overtaking my time and space.
- Things that are in invite and pull other things to come in.
- I have a conversation with a friend, get a new idea or awareness that opens up a whole new and interesting avenue of pursuit. Then I go to Amazon.com or the bookstore and come home with new worlds to explore. Net: Amazon and Google find ways to intice me to put more things in.
- I say “yes” to something.
- I say “no” to something - yes, incredibly this sometimes results in more “things getting in” my life - sheesh!
- My life gets “bigger” - like some kind of expansion of concern, and then a whole new bunch of stuff shows up to include.
- I relax, and notice that there’s more here I didn’t really realize was already in.
- My care puts more things in. If I didn’t care, stuff would just bounce off.
There’s more writing to come, no doubt, and potentially not in the so far future … and some catching up regrading activities of last 6 months as well.
Potential additional future inquiries: Essence and Presence, The Art of Practice
Tossing the Sofa: Productivity for 2006 + 8 months August 11, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Dynamics of Resistance, Power of Dialogue, beginner blogger.1 comment so far
After reading today’s Best Blog’s Unconventional Blogging Advice and Dorai’s post on subject blogging just now, I don’t feel so bad skipping out for the last two months!
But now I have a problem:
How to “recapture” for publication the thoughts and happenings that have enlivened my life during time which has passed?
I have snippets I’d caught and trapped now and then along the way, but the development of those ideas can now happen only minus the authentic verve and clarity of the moment of their birth. Mostly because I’m not the same person who had those ideas back then.
“Lost My Voice for Love”: An Inquiry Into Intentional Inauthenticity April 22, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Distinctions, Dynamics of Resistance, Evolution of We.3 comments
This post is in further response to Rod's comment about losing one's VOICE. He's a family therapist and he's concerned about having folks, especially women, recover their VOICE. I like that, and it sounds like an interesting and useful pursuit. So I'm looking into it to see what I can discover about this dynamic of "losing one's VOICE for love".
First, let's get what he's saying about VOICE. Since he's using the all caps version of the word, I'm thinking this is really important. And although he complimented the VOICE in my blog, presumably pointing to what was written — the words and all that, here is what I think he's actually referring to:
One's VOICE is the natural expression of the essential Self.
(Let me know if I'm wrong, Rod, or if I missed the point completely, be gentle - I've got the whole rest of the post to share with you! YMB)
Such authentic expression might come out through your mouth in voice (lower case), as in speaking or singing.
Or it might come into the world through the use of other body parts, hands, feet, etc. How you move, where you go, if you dance or applaud, make art, clean grandstands, fly airplanes - that's all your VOICE too, I think. (more…)
Being Unconstrained, Things Happening, Insufficient Infrastructure April 7, 2006
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I can't believe it's been a month since I posted to the blog. Seems too much is happening all at once. I thought time was designed so that would NOT happen - at this node of the universe, seems that time is breaking down.
So this missive is really just to touch a toe down in blogsphere again. If there's something particularly that interests you, let me know and I'll follow it up when time permits.
And I've got a rif on "happen"; for a teaser, I suggest you go look it up in the dictionary.
Earlier this month, I had a couple important "ah, hah!"s:
- I'm not going to do the renovation
- I'm going to figure out what I'm going to do about living situation/home in the next 1-2 months
- and mostly:
I am no longer willing to tolerate constraints on my bringing my gift to the world. So now I'm only going for what I perceive as my highest and best use … and that is "boosting brilliant people".
On What a Life is For and Finding My Voice March 6, 2006
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In my first Master’s level course, it was “Management 101″, the professor opened the evening asking us to provide some basic background info on ourselves, including the answer to: “What is your most important value?” He used to ask: “Who are you?” but it didn’t net much useful response because people were simply too young to answer.
When my sister was about 15, she worried: “I just don’t know what I want to be when I grow up!” So I gave her the professor’s take on it:
“Don’t worry; you’re not anybody yet.”
Being “in the make” is a tough spot when all that’s around you is pulling for a two-dimensional answer (What? No business card?) to a clearly multi-dimensional question. It’s probably best to put off the answer for as long as you can. (more…)
