Now for something a little different (5 of 5)

Day 4 - Saturday
This blog is the hardest one to write, yet in many ways it is the most important. After being 24 hours away from the training and the bubble in which we moved for three days, real life has now caught up with us. The demands of work, meetings and family are back in play. As wonderful as they are, they are a distraction to the learning and the focus we so intensely had.

And this is what happens.

This is what will happen to the teams we work with to develop breakthrough commitments and game changing ideas, they will all go away and get distracted.

So how can we ensure our enlightened thinking lives on. And that these distractions do not cause the new insights to fade away and be forgotten.

Well for me, I will keep the workshop materials in sight. If I glance at them, they will be a visual reminder. I will engrain new phrases and relentlessly say them, for example I was in a meeting yesterday when I found myself saying, "lets build on his strengths" and then later I said,  "here is is an idea that will make him even better". This is a very different language to what we usually use. Much more positive and much more generous. I think it might just catch on.

I will keep the lego images and people we built close by. I believe each time I see them, they will trigger a memory, just the way a piece of music does or a certain smell. I will allow my subconscious to help out a little too.

So as I sign off the for the last time, I am grateful, grateful that I have spent the morning in the garden with my family chopping wood, grateful for the sausages we grilled over the fire together,  grateful that I was able to see each of their strengths and pause long enough to take it all in.
And one gratitude I can not fail to add is that I am grateful to the wonderful people I work with (and you know who you are) who dreamed up and dared to create this content and most importantly were bold and funky enough to imagine a company in which these concepts were brought to light. You have paved a future that has no limits, you have paved a future that I chose to be part of.

Thank you for reading me.