Favourite Things: 75% off boots at Myer! Yes girls can you believe it I brought two pairs….75% off! no way…yes way…on an already discounted price.
Smile.
My favourite Things has never gone this long.
Now it has…. ahhh 75% off, that’s criminal.
Anyway back to my post.
Walt Disney, for those who have read my book, Walt Disney was actually one of the hero’s in my first draft of Capture, but somehow, someway he got removed. Mostly from fear of copyright laws. But this morning I was in Adelaide for our ‘Building business leaders breakfast’ on the topic of disney and I was reminded of his hero status in this creative pigrims walk.
And it was amazing. The speaker Phil Baker, (as much as he’s my boss!) was exceptional and the presentation was the coolest of its like I have ever seen.
Leadership lessons from Walt Disney are not hard to conjure up, as the man in one life lived extraordinarily large.
From his attitude towards excellence, to his attention to detail, to his huge vision, to his pathfinding passion. Disney was a machine and creatively left his splash on the world, for my generation and for many to come.
It got me thinking particularily about living beyond the now, in the creative realm and what is it that you and I have on the inside of us? What creativity is awaiting exploration that can leave a mark on a generation.
I wholeheartedly believe that every person has the potential for creativity, every person has a creative gene, because we were created in the image of the ultimate creator.
What ideas are awaiting disneyification? What life changing light bulb is awaiting the perfect switch on, that could affect a generation.
Open your mind to the impossible, dream large and lifelike, bring a fresh splash of paint to your corridoor of the globe…The world so desperately needs uncommon innovators, men and women of purpose who declare bold creativity.
Favourite Things: Rainy days that seem to promise summer will be here soon…
(the view out of my hotel window in Queenstown!)
Well I have had a delightful day full of not much. I stayed at mums last night and am in perth to start my few days of annual leave.
With all the travelling it feels a little indulgent to be taking extra time off, but it was booked so long ago and counting the amount of hours I am sleeping its obvious my body is needing it.
I had lunch with the beautiful Michaela today, and she told me many stories about Japan, and whats been happening since she has lived there for the last year and a half.
Also it is lovely Justice and also Sarah (Bain’s) birthday today. So a dinner happening in Sydney right now, is where my heart it. I wish I could be there to hug you all.
This all got me thinking about CARE packages. The amazing girls in my department, have been collecting little but lovely items for a HUGE care package that I got given today. They wanted me to rest up on my time off and feel the love and that I did.
Sending or giving a package with thoughtful bits and bobs, that only means something to the reciever and givers, is one thing I do to keep the flame burning brightly for my close friends in Australia and overseas.
To get the favour returned to me, completely unexpectedly was so thoughtful, rare and delightful.
Thanks events girls, I truly am priveleged to do my everyday with such quality people.
Share the love in your world and it will always grow and return back to you, even in the most unexpected ways.
I came home this weekend for a couple of amazing weddings and also it was Elly and Ben’s first year anniversary of being married. (a year ago I was a bridesmaid! how time flies)
(one of my staff, the beautiful simone, marries lance!)
(how beautiful does she look!)
At times like this, when you have been away from home and travelling through another country it brings things back home, what life is truly about.
I found a brochure at the Auckland airport with this quote in Maori…
‘Ki Mai koe ki a au,
he aha te mea nui tenei ao:
He tangatat, he tangata, he tangata’
Translated it says this…
“If you should ask me what is the greatest thing in the world,
The answer would be:
It is people, it is people, it is people”
Last night before I fell asleep, I was ready a book of the bible called ecclesiates and throughout the whole book it kept repeating the phrase…It is all smoke…Life is smoke…one breath and its gone.
The writer of this book, was refering to the collection of material goods, success, gold, clothes, jobs, titles and position. He was making the point that it is all like smoke, in comparison to what really matters in this world.
So as I drive down to visit my family, with whom I miss so terribly. I am reminded…
