Craffies Coaching

For left brainers, like me, always busy analyzing the world and making decisions, lets take the brain to wild right side and think a little creative as the new world of work need whole brain thinkers for sure.

The ability to Developing and innovate new things that will make the world more effective but not hurting the environment and to do it cheaper with less resources. Exercise: Keep a journal and mind map some ideas on a daily basis, begin with the obvious and explore the territory of the unobvious. Look around you at new designs, even next generation designs.

The ability to engage in storytelling, our life’s is stories, as business unfolds it is a story; why not deal with stories instead of facts. Start blogging and share your stories, next time you want to give the facts share it in a story.

Ben Zander refer to life as a Symphony, “put together”, why not stop for a moment next time one want to analyze and rather look at it, to say how can I create a symphony out of what I see and feel. Exercise: Listen to great symphonies, create your own symphonies by putting pieces together, and remember there is no right or wrong. Brainstorm.

Shoes, develop the competency to really put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. To be able to show empathy, and I do believe it also relate to our ability to show compation.

Playfulness. Enough was said about this over the last few days.

Creating meaning out of live, connect with your spiritual and religious base. Exercise: Learn to be grateful, to something to somebody that cannot return the favor, get still for at least 10 min. a day. Think about what really give you joy in life.

Enjoy your evening.

This is the true joy of life.
The being used for a purpose
Recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature Instead of a feverish, selfish
Little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not
Devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life
Belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live,
It is my privilege to do for it
Whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly
Used up when I die,
For the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I’ve got hold of
For the moment And I want to make it burn
As brightly as possible before
Handling it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

Life is not a problem to solve but a gift to cherish. Author Unknown.
This words let me think….then it takes my thoughts to the first verse of a poem of Russel Kelfer…
You are who you are for a reason.
You’re part of an intricate plan.
You’re a precious and perfect unique design,
Called God’s special woman or man.

As we know life on earth is only temporary, why would we not live, life to the fullest to glorify God in everything we do?

The following is a great recipe to have a nice relaxing bath.

Take:
1 Cup Sea salt
1 Cup Baking soda

Put the above ingredients into the tub, now fill it up with nice warm water.

Lastly add your two or three drop of your favorite aromatic oil, lavender or peppermint what ever you are in the mode for.

Now jump in and relax for twenty minutes, preferable not longer as it can exhaust you if you spent too much time laying in the bath.

Merry-go-round or Worry-go-round…..

How are you living your life, how am I living my life, as a happy chap or long faced and sorry for my self. The questions that we need most probably have to answer firstly to ourselves are the following:
· Am I happy?
· What am I living for?
· Are my thoughts in the past? Worry about things that I can not change.
· Are my thoughts in the future? Thoughts about things what might happen.

We must remember that I thought shape our lives.

Dr Andrew Weil once said the following:” Wherever nerves are, activities of the mind can travel.”So thoughts don’t only influence our moments of tomorrow in terms of our actions but also in terms of our health and our mood.

So lets remember the merry-go-round and keep our thoughts in the moment and enjoy each moment of the ride on the carousel….like kids.

Enjoy your week.

Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.

African proverb (Ethiopia)

Inclusive relationships, the world according to me are that humans are to live, life as communities, at work, at home to the benefit of the universe. As we are made to give and receive love. Secondly to be in community gives shared meaning to life. It is also a process of healing, support and development, for the giver as well as the receiver.

Where then the idea of inclusive relationships; it all starts on a level of each individual. What are our pure intention to contribute or not? The question then arise what is contribution? I would say it is when I “serve” somebody and they experience it as a contribution, now or in the future?

What will your contribution be to create mutual beneficial relationships? Think about it as you go through the week.

May your week be blessed!

Biggest room in the world…

How we see ourselves compared to how other see us is two different interpretations.
Most probably how your boss sees you compared to how the car-watch see you will also differ. The most important fact is to acknowledge my own short-comings and to grow accordingly. As the biggest room in world, is the room for self-improvement.
Now what can one do?
Create awareness of how we act in different situations and why?
Journal our days, so that we get into a habit of reflecting?
Sit somewhere during a day for at least five minutes and do nothing and also think of nothing? Quite the mind? Note the resistance in these moments.
Listen and look at others reactions?

I once read the following words: “If you want to change the world, change yourself”.

Enjoy the quite moments during the weekend to reflect….

The law of community…If we look at nature a lot of elements need to work in synergy, so that nature can flourish. We need the ground, sunshine and rain, the grass, trees, animals, insects…..

Each of these elements need to compliment each other so that the element can flourish as well as nature it self.

If we then look at us as human beings, all of us have our own unique gifts to offer. So why do we not firstly life to our fullest to offer our gifts to each other, and secondly why do we not accept other for their uniqueness they can offer to us and the communities?

Life your own uniqueness and value the unique in other…

Art of Living….

Life is like a garden what you sow and cultivate that is what you will reap.

Let’s explore the sow part first. What we sow refers in my mind to our thoughts and our actions. So it simple means what are we thinking and doing in the moment. Dwelling in the past or the future with no positive action in the now will take you and me no where.

However thing must be done with mindfulness, as we are human being and not doings… we will ponder on this on another day.

Point number two is the fact of cultivating… Life sometimes just happen, if this is “bad”, are we going to cultivate and even nurture these moments ore are we going to focus on the moment and the next thing that will take me to my dream, fulfilling my purpose?

May your moments create a blossoming garden in your life….