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Closing in on Sweet Closure

October 25, 2009 by Rosa Say

It never fails: October’s Ho‘ohana of Sweet Closure always opens unexpected doors!

I will be making an exciting announcement this week, an alpha test you can participate in during early November, which includes my coaching on a favorite, highly effective Managing with Aloha toolbox essential.

My announcement is not quite ready… I have been traveling the past few days, and need another day to fine tune some things. So meanwhile, click over to Joyful Jubilant Learning today: I am Mea Ho‘okipa there for Rapid Fire Learning this month. You will see more about these:

Rapid Fire Learning | October 2009

Come share your learning this month too!

The Ho‘ohana Story of Your Year

October 2, 2009 by Rosa Say

Yesterday I had promised to keep my posting light over the next few days, knowing that my Day 1 essay for October would give you enough to think about, and I want to keep my promise.

So this is a heads up kind of pointer, intended to help those of you who will be taking on my Sweet Closure challenge within that essay, while remaining engaged in our learning initiatives over at Joyful Jubilant Learning, our ‘Ike loa-driven sister site.

In the very first section of yesterday’s October’s Ho‘ohana: Sweet Closure, I had written:

If I present another project study or value of the month for our community I do both concurrently (we invest in annual learning joys at JJL this month: “Anyone can light a candle”) because the background music of “Sweet Closure” has been so effective in coaching me to end the year well.

I think that “Anyone can light a candle” celebrates our 3rd blog birthday on Joyful Jubilant Learning in a way that opens a very convenient door to “Sweet Closure.”

Today, I have followed up there with a posting called, The Ho‘ohana Story of Your Year that I feel will complete this month’s beginning for us, serving to put our Ho‘ohana intentions with Sweet Closure into good motion.

If you would like to follow along, aligning the design of your Sweet Closure plan with mine, these are the three elements:

Sweet Closure, as we talked about here yesterday: October’s Ho‘ohana: Sweet Closure
Holiday Bookends, mentioned both here yesterday and a bit more explicitly as described on JJL today, and
The Ho‘ohana Story of Your Year covered on JJL today (same post covering the Holiday Bookends).

We Ho‘ohana Kākou, together!

Let’s talk story if you have anything at all in this Sweet Closure process to share. The coming weekend gives us great opportunity with weaving this into our Weekly Review and Strong Week Planning (this Talking Story basic) as well.

Photo Credit: Photo Art by Patrick McDonald, on an original photo by Jason Nelson. When I looked for a photo to complement the posting at JJL, this one, called “Wonderment” seemed to be a good representation of grace to me, an important Ho‘ohanohano demeanor within my Ho‘ohana stories. Grace is one of my Twelve Aloha Virtues:

“Grace: This is one of my favorite words, and oddly, because I can’t define it well. However I don’t need to, because its goodness just is. I can only wish I feel it more, experience it more, and give it more. I once heard grace called “unmerited favor” and I love that. I want to be gracious, always.”

What does an August Summer hold for you?

August 2, 2009 by Rosa Say

If I put the Hawai‘i heat and humidity aside, August has always been one of my favorite months. My primary association with August has always been the last month of summer, and that suits me just fine, for what’s not to like about summer?

So on this Sunday in just-begun August, I have two summer sharings to offer you, and they are both over at our Ho‘ohana Community sister site, Joyful Jubilant Learning:

first day of summer by Rob Ireton on Flickr

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” —James Dent

I’d wager that most of us will agree with Mr. Dent. So we will that lawn mower to be broken (or we joyfully pretend it is). And what will we do now?

You can get your ideas all month long at A JJLer’s August: Summer Learning.

I happen to be first up in contributing some thoughts, and I have written about one summer which had a particularly strong influence on me, one which remains with me today:
What Summer Taught Me: Boredom is not an Option.

It starts like this:

No matter where you grew up, I’ll bet we shared a summer experience when we were kids. For me, my brothers and sister, it usually happened about the third week into the beginning of the no-school summer calendar. We slept in, ate a late breakfast, either ignored each other blatantly or fought about some very trivial thing, and then announced to our grandmother, who stayed with us during those months our parents continued to work, “Grandma, I’m bored.”

If you are reading this via email or RSS, take one of these two links and join me there, won’t you?

Day Last as Feature’s First: An invitation

July 31, 2009 by Rosa Say

Please join us at Joyful Jubilant Learning today.

“We are now 27 days into our shiny new WordPress digs here at JJL. We are enjoying the learning and beginning to feel very comfortable, and we also feel newly energized! We hope you are too.

The change was a pot-stirrer for us in a couple of different ways, and we thought that we would sit back and catch a breather with you today before we jump ahead to a brand new month’s theme tomorrow, the 1st of August.”

Change is something we speak of often here at Talking Story, and this happens to be a time that JJL offers up a virtual case study of change which helps us stretch, learn, and grow.

Please don’t save this one up for another time: Today is the day we are talking story there to

— present a new feature that is a “Day Last.” Think Ho‘omau, and about how we strive to finish our conversations well, causing the good in our lives to be long lasting. Such a good habit to cultivate with our learning, don’t you think?

— experiment, with a community profile presentation. We are thinking of doing this on a regular basis if you like the idea too, though today we took some liberties that are different from what we are planning going forward (you’ll see).

— indulge in our Ho‘ohana Community goodness. Technical features are one thing (we have a brand new WordPress publishing platform at JJL), but our culture remains the same, and we want to hear from you, and be sure you are comfortable with the changes we’ve made there.

Join me there?

Great! Click here: Are we communicating yet? Let’s talk about JJL and You. I am a

and you can be too… all it takes is talking story :)

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