Posts Tagged ‘energy’

Making bread and using your loaf

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

 

My wife is a bread maker ‘par excellence’ and yesterday she made some bread that was simply The Best!  I simply couldn’t imagine it being any better.  So I said to her “That was perfect!  Can you make it exactly  like that every time?”    She told me that it was impossible as it all depended on so many variables like the atmosphere, the weather, one’s mood amongst a few.

That got me me thinking…. there are a great many things that are like this.  When one is working with people, one has to work with who turns up on the day, their moods, health, energy levels etc.  The unique cocktail that this interaction makes means that each meeting / interaction is unique.  Whether your are dealing with business teams or online communities this chemistry makes its mark and if one is to be successful, one needs to be sensitive to this factor.

 “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”   Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”   Mahatma Gandhi

Zen & the Art of Lawn Mower Maintenance … this time it is personal!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Regular readers will recall the ongoing saga of a man and his mower. You will recall that I am no mechanic but have been forced to take up the spanner. You will be pleased to learn that my DIY efforts have been rewarded and the noble mount (or should that be Mountfield?) is working very well, but the Universe, having a sense of humour has challenged me again. We have discovered that we have a leak in the fuel tank. Today I set about fixing the replacement on and it went relatively smoothly.

However, it got me thinking; in the same way as the crack drained all the energy form the mower, aren’t there things in your life that drain your energy? Sometimes it is certain people, others it is certain situations. How do you fix your energy leak? One way is to just avoid the causes and that can be appropriate, but others we need more of a permanent fix.

How have you coped with this sort of thing and how have you moved beyond it?

“See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it should go. Do something because it feels right, not because it makes sense. Follow the spiritual impulse.” Mary Hayes-Grieco