I predict these things will happen in 2006 …

In 2005 Ho‘ohana Community member Troy Worman had collected some great keawe wood, i.e. idea kindling, for burning. He successfully transitioned the 100 Bloggers idea into a new blog, and as part of his ho‘omau, i.e. causing the good to last, with 100 Bloggers in 2006 he started thematic blog carnivals for the 100 Bloggers which will be presented twice a month.

Quick sidebar on the above paragraph: when I use i.e. in italics to follow my Hawaiian words or phrases, they offer quick contextual translations for you, not literal Hawaiian ones.

In case you missed them, Troy’s first two carnivals were,
Carnival of 100 Bloggers: Issue 1 - Happy Holidays!
Carnival of 100 Bloggers: Issue 2 - New Years Resolutions

For his third Carnival, Troy has asked for Predictions in 2006, and I immediately thought to myself, well Rosa, what would you predict for the Ho‘ohana Community in 2006? I was in the depths of my 2006 Strategic Plan for Say Leadership Coaching at the time, and my self-talk was chiding me … drink your own koolaid here, you’re always saying the best way to predict the future is to be proactive and create it.

So these are my predictions for 2006, if you are an active member of our Ho‘ohana Community. If you are reading those words, Ho‘ohana Community, for the first time, today’s post on my blog Talking Story explains it, and we welcome you to be part of our ‘ohana, our family of like-minded people.

Predictions for 2006: Creating your future with Ho‘ohana, the value of worthwhile work.

1. First and foremost, Managing with Aloha will come alive for you as a sensibility for meaningful work, for in our monthly ho‘ohana, the work we do on-purpose, with passion and full intention, you will work on your own personal values so you are living with Aloha.

2. Work is personal, and in 2006 if you are still having any inner conflicts with that, you will come to terms with them. Settling inner conflicts by honestly assessing your personal values in alignment with the work you do, is one of the huge benefits of nānā i ke kumu, looking to your source and defining your personal truth.

3. You will not go it alone. The Ho‘ohana Community is thriving and steadily growing, and you will get a lot of support and encouragement!

4. Family work, corporate work, solopreneurship, entrepreneurship, freelancing and franchising … work comes in many disciplines and capacity fillers. (In MWA we talk about your four types of capacity: intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual). The best one is the one that is pono for you; it brings you rightness and balance — as you define those terms. If you truly practice living with aloha, you will come to pono.

5. You will be working hard to achieve your goals, for it takes effort and it takes intention; there’s no magic pills here. However you’ll feel you are working smartly and rightly, and it’s not really work when you love what you are doing, and you love what it does for you.

You will have two coaching programs offered by Say Leadership Coaching to help you, both online and free. They are free because our mission is to reinvent the very nature of the workplace, and we understand we must provide you with the resources to do so. 

1. We ho‘omau and continue with the first one, our monthly Ho‘ohana coaching on my blog, Talking Story.
2. On Wednesday, I will be introducing MWA Jumpstart to you here on Managing with Aloha Online as the second coaching program which intersects and synchronizes with our Talking Story monthly ho‘ohana.

However don’t wait for Wednesday; Start now.

For today, I turn your attention to Talking Story and our first Ho‘ohana for 2006: Ho‘omau, Causing the Good to Last. Within that coaching essay, there is reference to a “lens of Ho‘omau” through which you can reevaluate your goals for the year. I’ll repeat it here:

You may be among the many who have spent the first few days of this month making New Year’s Resolutions. If so, pull your list out again, and look at it through this lens of Ho‘omau:

• What on that list helps you continue your journey with full appreciation of the steps you’ve already taken?
• Which things will bring you joy, causing the good things in your life to last, and knowing that in your heart and soul, just the reading of them gives you a burst of energy or flash of inspiration?
• What on your list may be new, but you had instinctively written it on your list because it is in fact a way for you to add and build on an innate strength you already have?
• How will you Ho‘omau? It is about perpetuating the strengths and good things you want to maintain, fortify, and keep your momentum with.

As an example, I will share one of my goals for 2006 with you. There are two more book titles I have copyrighted and trademarked: Living with Aloha, and Leading with Aloha. As of this writing, both manuscripts are just partially written. In 2006, I will finish and publish Living with Aloha, for in my Lens of Ho‘omau:

• Clearly, it helps me continue with my journey as a coach and writer with my full mana‘o (beliefs and convictions) invested in the work philosophy of Managing with Aloha.
• Writing and coaching bring me immense joy, they do cause the good things in my life to last, and they energize and inspire me greatly.
• There will be some “new” in Living with Aloha, and with all I have on my SLC 2006 Strategic Plan it will be a stretch to publish the book, but my strengths in Gallup verbiage are Deliberative, Focus, Maximizer, Responsibility and Achiever. To accomplish this goal, every one of those strengths must be put into play.
• Therefore, I will Ho‘omau with Managing with Aloha. It all goes together: I will manage with aloha.
  

Ho‘ohana, you can do this too. I have faith in you. Make 2006 your best year yet, and know we are here to help you.
Rosa

Mahalo Troy, for your inspiration on this post!

Comments

[Hanna Cooper]

Wow, Rosa, I am so excited for you, and for us - I can only imagine how wonderful "Living with Aloha" and "Leading with Aloha" will be!

And, welcome back!

Hanna

[Rosa Say]

Mahalo nui Hanna, thank you.

[Troy Worman]

Rosa! Thank you for your kind words and for helping make 2005 a super fantastic year!