Posts Tagged ‘Humour’
Random Notes 2.
More reflections for this Saturday.
Some of you may remember that this ‘series’ started on the 24th with the first of John H.’s delightful collection of humour and reflective thoughts. Here’s number two! Have a great week-end.
“Tsunami” wasn’t a common word in the 1950’s.
Imagination energizes creativity
We live within natural rhythms.
Collective insanity is destructive in proportion to species growth.
The struggle is not between good and evil
It’s between self and Self.
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Random Notes 1.
A lovely collection of humour and reflective thoughts.
Good friend, John H. here in Payson, recently sent me an email with a delightful collection of, as the sub-heading put it, humour and reflective thoughts.
I decided to offer one every so often as an additional post for the day. So here’s the first, accompanying my Post about Satish Kumar. Enjoy!
Whoops!
Truth, love and laughter are a good way of life.
Life is a journey we share as if we knew the answers.
We can’t do anything right and we can’t do anything wrong.
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More Saturday smiles
With grateful thanks to Neil K. back in Devon, UK for passing me these wonderful pics.
Smile One
Smile Two
Smile Three
Smile Four
A Way Forward?
Removing the fear of the unknown
I’ve been working with most of my clients recently through painful transformations brought about by the economic downturn.
An interesting metaphor really because since the first wave of uncertainty triggered panic, first noticed in the UK banking system, I have been picking up on that uncertainty that feels like it’s stalking the globe at the moment.
Interestingly, I, too, have been aware of an underlying fear that was difficult either to name or source.
It has been rather like a deep river in that whilst the surface feels slow moving, currents are moving things powerfully below.
So this ‘fear’ has caused a few household changes.
We now are the proud owners of 9 chickens. Our youngest son, Sami, and I have dug up the back lawn and planted vegetables and built a poly-tunnel.
We have also installed a wood burning cooker. Right back down to the base of Maslow’s triangle really!
Maslow's triangle of needs
These feelings have brought about such change everywhere and I wonder seriously whether we will ever return to what was; indeed would we want to?
I might not have mentioned it in previous blogs but as well as an engineering background, in latter years, I have focused on how interpersonal success in business is linked directly to relationships, integrity and vitally, self-awareness.
To inform this, some 7 years ago, I embarked on an MA in Core Process Psychotherapy, primarily to work on myself so that I could be the best I could be in my relationships, in and out of work.
The point I’m trying to make is that the same panic I notice in many of the companies I work in, and in me, is based on fear of the unknown and on a lack of trust in all its forms. I’ve deliberately underlined that last phrase because it is so incredibly important.
The truth is that we get more of what we focus on.
So we can choose to focus on the constant news of more difficulties, hardship and redundancies, or we can focus on what is working.
In the workplace this positive focus has been pulling people together across functions and sites and pooling resources and ideas.
A farm evening
When we realise we’re not doing this alone it’s amazing how much lighter a load can feel and how much more inspired we feel.
I also notice how humour begins to flow and what a powerful antidote for doom and gloom that is.
Transformation is never easy but the rewards far exceed the effort put in ten fold.
So what is it going to be? Are we all going to bow down to the god of Doom & Gloom, fear and anxiety, heaping more and more gifts around it, or are we going to start noticing and focusing on the other neglected god – that of relationship, joy, trust, abundance and lightness?
Whatever the future holds for us all a belief in our inherent ability to adapt and change and focus on the greater good rather than fear, anxiety, greed and selfishness is the only sustainable way forward.
[If you have been affected by this Post and would like to contact Jon, he would be delighted to hear from you. Ed.]
Laughing as you sink!
John Clarke and Bryan Dawe on the million dollar questions – courtesy of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
This sketch is doing the rounds and deservedly so – it’s a very funny skit on Europe’s troubling financial situation.
As ex-Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, is reputed to have quoted, “The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money.“
By Paul Handover
Please pass this on….
Really only relevant to our British readers, but I’m sure all will get the idea.
Please keep it going!
To show your support for Gordon Brown please go to the end of the list and add your name.
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By Chris Snuggs
Drunken sailors
With thanks to one of our very regular followers, Gordon, for passing this on.
Well said, that sailor!
By Paul Handover
Difficult Choices ….
Our doughty mole has unearthed more secret transcriptions from the Ministry ….
The Ministry
Hello Perkins! Let’s get to it!
Get to what, Sir?
Perkins – there’s a mini-crisis …..
There usually is, Sir …..
We have a stark, difficult choice ahead of us.
Oh, Dear, Sir – not again.
Yes, Perkins. I know that choice is not something we prefer to face, but there it is.
But why has it come to this, Sir?
Cuts, Perkins – The IMF are about to be called in so the PM – I mean the Chancellor – has been forced to make some cuts.
Oh Dear, Sir. But how does this affect us?
Well, you know those consultants that were called in?
You mean those on £100,000 a day plus bonus, Sir?
Yes, that’s them! By Jove don’t you admire this dynamic synergy between public and private, Perkins!!
Well ….
Anyway, after weeks of in-depth research they’ve narrowed it down for us to a clear choice, which certainly saves us some head-banging, I must say.
And this choice is ……?
Well, we either buy more flak jackets for the men on front-line duty in Iraq or we pay the MOD mandarins a bonus.
Oh Dear so – but surely it’s a no-brainer?
What do you mean, Perkins?
Well, we must protect our men, Sir!
Perkins, sometimes I worry about you …….
By Chris Snuggs
Humour is alive and well!
The Toyota Prius recall gets a few laughs.
2010 model Prius
Most of the readers of Learning from Dogs will be aware of the global embarrassment that Toyota is facing as a result of the recall of the Toyota Prius model. As described partly on the UK website of Toyota:
Toyota have announced a recall on the latest, third-generation Prius built before 27 January 2010. This will involve 8,500 cars in the UK.
To date, there have been no accidents linked to this issue reported in Europe. No other Toyota or Lexus models are affected by this latest recall action in Europe.
Toyota GB would like to apologise to its customers for any concern this issue has caused.
The recall is being taken in response to reports of inconsistent brake feel during slow and steady braking on bumpy or slick road surfaces when the anti-lock braking system (ABS) is actuated.
Well a few days ago, a friend of mine sent me a text message on my cell phone. It read, “Just driving my new Toyota Prius. Chat later, Can’t stop.“
And I see the Jeremy Clarkson/James May team from BBC’s Top Gear programme are also having a little poke at Toyota. James May was reported to have said:
‘You have to laugh a bit don’t you,’
‘Maybe if you’re going to try to save the world through your car you have to accept that some sacrifices have to be made and one of them is stopping.’
James May
Crazy flying
This is not your usual air-show display
Author & author's dog in Piper Super Cub, R151
Three of the authors on Learning from Dogs are or have been pilots although only one, Bob Derham, is a real pilot! I.e. he does it for a living!
Most pilots and many wannabes love the atmosphere of a good air show but after a few visits they can become rather predictable and that applies as much to the flying displays. After all there is only so much that one can do to an aeroplane.
Not so the good people who comprise the Franklin’s Flying Circus.
Here’s a YouTube video showing Kyle Franklin ‘stealing’ a Piper Cub. As a past owner of a Piper Super Cub, I have to tell you that the skills being used in this display are supremely clever.
Enjoy!
By Paul Handover
Paul Handover
