So Gary Calverly in girl form here I come. Here is my manifesto:

I want to be at home most nights for the next 3 years in time for family meals.
I want chickens.
I want to influence strategy, directly.
I want to be good at whatever I really want to be good at.

So here must be goals-
Organisation must be literate with its it tools.
Person must be fit and well.
Organisation must have a future growth vision.
Person must have an aim in work. Life is too precious to waste on aims – just live it
Aim for work – to be 43 and have created a resilient high performing team that is the heartbeat of the factory. To be 44 and working on strategy again, whether for llanberis to realise previously unexplored growth opportunities is up to me to pursue.

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And find your customers voice it’s out there….create capacity to delight.

Immersion is essential. Takes someone special though. Interview for that skill.

Clear interpretation of strategic operating landscape and no concerns remaining left unsaid is first.

Receipt of strategy and its planned execution is required structure for success.

Aaa defined decision making model at board level should be expected – process, repeatable and robust.

Ah but a mans reach should be further than his grasp, otherwise what is a heaven for?

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I want to bake this. Need a clean room though…need a pound a day……..need a book…..an app…..an idea…..a method…..a job….actually
Can involve man, kids not dog garage chickens not garden shed arghghg exciting

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I’m bloody inarticulate sometimes.

Don’t ever tell my friends.
I make their ears bleed, I talk so much at them.
Even through films.
Even through the really important bits – like the beginning, the middle and the end.
And I clap – but that’s another story: just don’t ever take me to the cinema if you want to avoid complete embarrassment.
I’m Australian too, so I shout across vast spaces – british rooms just aren’t big enough.
Don’t give me a phone – it goes to my ear and the volume goes up!
Bugger me, I’ve done it again….got all verbose…
A buggrit – it made me laugh out loud writing it.
Hope it made you laugh out loud reading it.

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Rach

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The scene in the mirror? Pink walls, Wet hair, Bleary eyes and a takeaway cup of tea perched between to pillows whilst I type.  Sound bad?  Well bizarrely though it isn’t.  I’m loving it.  Pink are the walls in the womens only hostel that is 200 metres from where I’m currently working.  Wet is the hair from swimming with the young water polo club that trains in the pool where I work.  Bleary eyes are from doing long but less work days, so that I have more home days every week.  And the tea? Well nothing better for the soul, apart from sex.  And with the pink walls, that aint on the menu!

So if life is good, what is there to reflect upon in that mirror?  Health – no that’s good, and when I respect my body by giving it good food and exercise in the right proportion my health is excellent.  Wealth – never enough money, but the first time to be earning entirely off my own back.  Happiness – I have balance in life, and a structure that can help me acheive my long term goals, fab kids and a husband who makes me laugh and gasp in equal measure.  So what am I missing.  A more detailed look at the picture in the mirror is required.

The eyes are the windows to the soul, somone famous once said, I wonder if sinkholes count as windows.  For dark circles lurk beneath (difficult to see in the dark as I write this under the gently breathing form of a fellow aussie on the bunk above) them.  And looking at the time, it is no surprise.  It is midnight at the time of writing this.  I started not long before.  I showered not long before that.  Ate dinner not long before that.  Went to the pool not long before that.  Finished work not long before that.  And it won’t be long before I’m up for work again –   less than six hours once I do another paragraph or two and switch everything off and check the alarm.

So a revision of health, wealth, happiness.  I have what I want in these departments, but do I have what I need?  In order to function best a human needs 7 hours sleep, give or take.  Any deficit in sleep can’t be recovered and probably shortens either life, or the time until the next bout of illness.  I regularly run in deficit.  I say I don’t need the sleep.  I know what I need and I can get by on less.  Two major assumptions there – one I know what I need (and by I I must mean my body, as that is what is dragging my consciousness around in it) and two that demands on my body will never be different to what they were when I decided that I could get by on less and I probably formed a habit to sleep less than most folk.  Thinking on it, I was proably 18 or so when I decided I could get by on less sleep.  Bloody hell, no wonder I feel so tired all the time, I’ve been basing my sleep on an 18 year old.  Of course I didn’t need it then – I could recuperate for days afterwards (actually every day was recuperation, what 18 year old gets out of bed at 6am most mornings after 5 or so hours sleep!), as an 18 year old with strong sleeping competency I had banked sleIep into that savings account so much that I was well in credit, never once really having stretched myself anywhere near low, let alone deficit.  My sleep was more tranquil.  I never woke up tired.  I didn’t really have go through that shock of wake up and go to work….which is more tiring than feeling tired some days….

Bloody hell – I’ve been basing my needs on being 18.  I’m 35 now, only 17 years to realise I’ve been following the wrong policy and procedure….

So maybe my other little assumption might need some observation.  I know what I need.  More succinctly put, I know what my body needs to cart me around in it and perform as I need.  I don’t even need to detail this one except to say – dark eyes, bloodshot eyes, more energy, less coffee, less food, better food, better sleep, better thinking, better stamina, better performance, more connections to others, less feeling of overwhelm….okay, time to look in the mirror.  What is it telling me?  Tired.  Sleep.  Night Night.

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Stuff, that isn’t where it is supposed to be (i.e. mess)

Stuff, that by being where it is, is annoying you (i.e. mess)

Stuff, that doesn’t have a place to live (i.e. mess)

Stuff, that doesn’t look nice (i.e. messy)

Stuff, that just keeps piling up, even if it is where it supposed to be (mess too I’m afraid!)

Stuff you keep on picking up

Stuff you keep on moving

Stuff that is waiting to be “done” (look in cupboards, drawers and attics for this one)

Stuff that isn’t used for what it is (mess in plain view, that we don’t even maybe see as mess any more; have a look at chairs, baskets, surfaces and stairs for this one)

Stuff that if you had your way wouldn’t live life in that place, that could move..(yep, that’s mess too!)

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Take a picture of every room in your house – so you can kick back in the days, weeks, months and years to come and think – wow, what a mess – it was!

Top Tips:

• Mobile phones are great for quick pics
• Laptops with Webcams can also take photos
• Camcorders are great too – for taking photos or take a video as you walk around the house!

Don’t tidy up before you do this – if you really want to make your life easier you need to love your mess – that means warts and all in full living colour in a picture!

Mess Spotting Tips: Here are some great ways of spotting mess – some of it is amazingly good at hiding right under our noses, so have a quick look at this list and see if you spot any more “messes” because of it!

The kids playroom. What a mess! No wonder their toys are all over the house – who would want to play in here – Not Me! Our old way of dealing with it: Close the door.

 

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