Comments on: Ho‘ohana: Love Your Work http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/ Starting new conversations in the workplace! Fri, 11 May 2012 01:39:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-935 Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:56:20 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=428#comment-935 <strong>Talk Story about Stopping: 5 Reasons to Kill Auto-Pilot</strong> For Sunday Mālama on MWA Coaching today I wrote about how thankful I am for my 'Imi ola Stop Doing List, for it has brought an amazing sense of balanced rightness to my life. Having a list of those things Talk Story about Stopping: 5 Reasons to Kill Auto-Pilot

For Sunday Mālama on MWA Coaching today I wrote about how thankful I am for my ‘Imi ola Stop Doing List, for it has brought an amazing sense of balanced rightness to my life. Having a list of those things

]]> By: Managing with Aloha Coaching http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Managing with Aloha Coaching Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:33:02 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=428#comment-936 <strong>An expression of Ho‘ohana: The Plastic Spork by Shawn Chambers</strong> People will ask me, “How will I know something is my ho‘ohana?” They are asking me how they will know that the job they are in is “the one” for them. The truest answer I can give them is that An expression of Ho‘ohana: The Plastic Spork by Shawn Chambers

People will ask me, “How will I know something is my ho‘ohana?” They are asking me how they will know that the job they are in is “the one” for them. The truest answer I can give them is that

]]> By: Rosa Say http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-934 Rosa Say Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:36:12 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=428#comment-934 John, your letters always light up my spirit with energy and joy - mahalo for being you. John, your letters always light up my spirit with energy and joy – mahalo for being you.

]]> By: John Keoni Monte http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-933 John Keoni Monte Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:10:57 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=428#comment-933 Aloha to All, Everything I need, I have...reminds me of the old Steve Martin movie entitled 'The Jerk'...and toward the end, his life is turned upside down...so, he tries, to maintain dignity and just walk away...and as he is leaving - he is very loudly claiming that he doesn't need anything in his life...but then he sees a chair, stops, grabs it and keeps loudly mumbling: "oh. but I'll need this chair..and that's all I'll need!", few more steps "Oh, this lamp...I'll need this lamp, and not one thing more!" few more steps "Oh, look, this thermos...I'll need this thermos, this chair, this lamp...but, that's all I'll need!"...and on, and on. Funny stuff/scene! And I could imagine that some of us are just like that - and maybe that is one of Rosa's hidden thoughts of the day? How many times has that little ego guy inside lured us into thinking that we 'have it all' when, in fact, we might of looked and acted like a Jerk, when our dose of reality set back in? Personally...there are times when I believe that us men should not be up on two legs yet! Not our fault...the brain grew faster (or we like to think so...) than the rest of us! I've had moments where I only open my mouth, to change feet! But seriously...both positions were many full moons ago! But...not forgotten! Sometimes called 'growing up'? I believe that all of the things we can imagine...are already out there. 'IT' already exists...the non-connect is US! At birth, we are in a few short months...such lively spirits! Full of joy, aloha, energy. Then first day of First Grade - that big god-like person standing up in front, talking loud, tells us that we are all stupid - that's why we are in school, and we have to do what they tell us to do, because they know better! And THAT IS WHEN OUR BEAUTIFUL BRAIN SHUTS DOWN, DISCOVERY HALTS. We buy into what the Big He or She is telling us...we begin to believe that we didn't know it all, after all. And we regress, and go backwards! We should be inspiring keikis, motivating them, nurturing them, using all of our Managing with Aloha techniques that Rosa has taught us! They are not too young...no age minimum on truth! But society has gotten real good at: following the herd! Just get in line, shut up, and do as you're told! See...I was just a little different. One of my media associates asked me one time "I'll bet when you were a little boy, you were incorrigible, weren't you? Your poor mother!" Poor MOTHER? I vaguely recall her assigning me a nickname...something like: po'opakiki? I think...And I remember my father always snickering a little whenever a car dealership tv commercial would come on, touting "Lo,lo prices!" We can be our own worst enemies. We get in our own way. And do not recognize it! And now I understand...that through Ho'ohana process, we get to go back to discovery! Back to those all powerful spirits having the human experience! Makes perfect sense, yeah? Love what I do? You bet! And what is that? For me = breath! Mahalo Rosa, Monteman Aloha to All,
Everything I need, I have…reminds me of the old Steve Martin movie entitled ‘The Jerk’…and toward the end, his life is turned upside down…so, he tries, to maintain dignity and just walk away…and as he is leaving – he is very loudly claiming that he doesn’t need anything in his life…but then he sees a chair, stops, grabs it and keeps loudly mumbling: “oh. but I’ll need this chair..and that’s all I’ll need!”, few more steps “Oh, this lamp…I’ll need this lamp, and not one thing more!” few more steps “Oh, look, this thermos…I’ll need this thermos, this chair, this lamp…but, that’s all I’ll need!”…and on, and on. Funny stuff/scene!
And I could imagine that some of us are just like that – and maybe that is one of Rosa’s hidden thoughts of the day? How many times has that little ego guy inside lured us into thinking that we ‘have it all’ when, in fact, we might of looked and acted like a Jerk, when our dose of reality set back in?
Personally…there are times when I believe that us men should not be up on two legs yet! Not our fault…the brain grew faster (or we like to think so…) than the rest of us! I’ve had moments where I only open my mouth, to change feet! But seriously…both positions were many full moons ago! But…not forgotten! Sometimes called ‘growing up’?
I believe that all of the things we can imagine…are already out there. ‘IT’ already exists…the non-connect is US! At birth, we are in a few short months…such lively spirits! Full of joy, aloha, energy. Then first day of First Grade – that big god-like person standing up in front, talking loud, tells us that we are all stupid – that’s why we are in school, and we have to do what they tell us to do, because they know better! And THAT IS WHEN OUR BEAUTIFUL BRAIN SHUTS DOWN, DISCOVERY HALTS. We buy into what the Big He or She is telling us…we begin to believe that we didn’t know it all, after all. And we regress, and go backwards!
We should be inspiring keikis, motivating them, nurturing them, using all of our Managing with Aloha techniques that Rosa has taught us! They are not too young…no age minimum on truth! But society has gotten real good at: following the herd! Just get in line, shut up, and do as you’re told!
See…I was just a little different. One of my media associates asked me one time “I’ll bet when you were a little boy, you were incorrigible, weren’t you? Your poor mother!”
Poor MOTHER? I vaguely recall her assigning me a nickname…something like: po’opakiki? I think…And I remember my father always snickering a little whenever a car dealership tv commercial would come on, touting “Lo,lo prices!”
We can be our own worst enemies. We get in our own way. And do not recognize it! And now I understand…that through Ho’ohana process, we get to go back to discovery! Back to those all powerful spirits having the human experience! Makes perfect sense, yeah?
Love what I do? You bet! And what is that? For me = breath!
Mahalo Rosa, Monteman

]]> By: Managing with Aloha http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Managing with Aloha Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:51:15 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=428#comment-937 <strong>Ho‘ohana! Everything you need, you have.</strong> Today, as I reached into my mailbox with great happiness over the March delivery of O The Oprah Magazine, it occurred to me how my life’s timeline has looked like a changing evolution of magazine covers ” for instance, there Ho‘ohana! Everything you need, you have.

Today, as I reached into my mailbox with great happiness over the March delivery of O The Oprah Magazine, it occurred to me how my life’s timeline has looked like a changing evolution of magazine covers ” for instance, there

]]> By: Joyful Jubilant Learning http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Joyful Jubilant Learning Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:02:07 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=428#comment-938 <strong>Setting the Table, The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business</strong> Danny Meyer has been called “America’s Most Innovative Restaurateur” and that’s the tagline his publisher has grabbed for his book cover. Whether he likes it or not, today he is more CEO than restaurateur, yet Meyer lives up to this Setting the Table, The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

Danny Meyer has been called “America’s Most Innovative Restaurateur” and that’s the tagline his publisher has grabbed for his book cover. Whether he likes it or not, today he is more CEO than restaurateur, yet Meyer lives up to this

]]> By: The Teaching with Aloha Blog http://talkingstory.org/2007/03/hoohana-love-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-939 The Teaching with Aloha Blog Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:37:36 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=428#comment-939 <strong>Ho‘ohana: Joy in the Work of Teaching</strong> To discover what your Ho‘ohana might be, try to answer this question: What would you love to do, often and intensely, trusting that you’ll somehow get paid for accomplishing it? This is the question I answer in Managing with Aloha Ho‘ohana: Joy in the Work of Teaching

To discover what your Ho‘ohana might be, try to answer this question: What would you love to do, often and intensely, trusting that you’ll somehow get paid for accomplishing it? This is the question I answer in Managing with Aloha

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