I like 2008 much better than 2007 already, I just got a new agent, and finished my new play...And another friend told me yesterday that she got a pay rise the day after she heard of 200GR8!
"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already."
"The philosopher George Santayana (I think) once said that if you do not learn from the mistakes of the past you are doomed to repeat them. This is true but so also is the following:
If you learn from the successes of the past you are doomed to be trapped by them.
Success always stops us thinking."
"There's a huge difference between positive thinking and constructive thinking. You are standing in a market-place and a car parks on your foot. Positive thinking suggests that you make the best of your enforced immobility. You look around and appreciate the architecture. You watch the stallholders and human nature. You inhale and appreciate the smells. You chat to children who gather around. Constructive thinking suggests you make an effort to get the car shifted."
Fostering a spirit of teamwork is critical in times of change. The key element is trust. Trust for the leader and trust for each other.
There is a wonderful story from the play, Some Folks Feel the Rain; Others Just Get Wet, that truly captures how people really feel about working together. Here it is...Enjoy!
A man was lost while driving through the country. As he tried to reach for the map, he accidentally drove off the road into a ditch. Though he wasn’t injured, his car was stuck deep in the mud. So the man walked to a nearby farm to ask for help.
“Warwick can get you out of that ditch,” said the farmer, pointing to an old mule standing in a field. The man looked at the decrepit old mule and looked at the farmer who just stood there repeating, “Yep, old Warwick can do the job.” The man figured he had nothing to lose. The two men and the mule made their way back to the ditch. The farmer hitched the mule to the car. With a snap of the reins, he shouted,
“Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull, Warwick!”
And the mule pulled that car right out of the ditch.
The man was amazed. He thanked the farmer, patted the mule, and asked, “Why did you call out all of those names before you called Warwick?”
The farmer grinned and said, “Old Warwick is just about blind. As long as he believes he’s part of a team, he doesn’t mind pulling.”
President Nicolas Sarkozy's talk of creating a new growth and well-being index for France is part of a mounting global campaign that many economists believe will shape civilisation and democracy in the 21st century. Sarkozy presented his recruitment of Nobel prize-winning economists Jospeh Stiglitz and Amartya Sen to work on a quality-of-life index.Read the story online »
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: "If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now."
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"I am gr8ful to be free from an abusive relationship - a relationship where my cre8ivity has been stifled & frowned upon for the last 5 years. I left 17 Dec 07 & haven't looked back!
My plans for 200gr8 are to make a comeback as a Performer; develop my photographic skills in taking portraits (eventually doing nudes); to learn to dance the tango - no mean feat when one lives with CP, so I can incorporate dance in my performance ; and to explore using paint on canvas as a further cre8ive outlet!"
"I believe in the healing power of humour and art. I believe people perform to optimum in high trust environments where they are rewarded for having fun doing what they love. I have a vision for 2020 that we will be experiencing an intimacy revolution! By that i mean we will be communing at a deep level. I have been able to experience this intimacy with the physical being of human form all my working life, initially with my nursing and more recently in creative expression working with women with breast cancer. When we shine we pave the way for others to shine."
"I have reached the conclusion that I lack the power to change the world, or any significant part of it. I only have the power to change myself. And the fascinating thing is that if I decide to change myself, there is no force in the world that can prevent me from doing so. It is just my decision and if I want to do it, I can do it!. Now the point is that if I change myself, something may happen as a consequence that may lead to a [little] change in the world."
"Happiness is not about having what you want. It's about wanting what you have." - Anonymous
"It's easy to forget the positivity and hope that fills the world at New Years. Imagine if we remembered that feeling and lived it all year, rather than being sucked into the stress and angst of work and relationships."
1. Ask for what you want.The first two are about creating "greatness". The last is about "gratefulness", not retrospectively but in advance. Many philosophies, and very few religions, know what gratitude really is. It is about being thankful for what is.
2. Expect the Universe to answer.
3. Be ready to receive what you want.
grate·ful adj
1. having the desire or reason to thank somebody
2. giving pleasure or comfort (archaic or literary)
great adj
1. with exceptional talents, or having made remarkable achievements
2. very significant or important
3. powerful and influential
4. very good or pleasing (informal)
5. extreme or more than usual
6. very large and impressive
7. large in number or with many parts
8. doing something often, enjoying something very much, or being a very good example of something
9. able to do something very well, or very skillful with something (informal)
10. larger or more important than others of the same kind
11. very useful or suitable for a particular task (informal)
12. used to emphasize how much of a quality somebody or something has (informal)
13. lasting a long time, or covering a long distance
14. pregnant (archaic)
n
1. somebody whose fame or influence has proved to be long-lasting
2. the principal division of a pipe organ
adv
very well (informal)
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