Thank you so much for your blog. I am a new leader (Clinical Supervisor) and am trying to learn so much. I live in the Marshall Islands for 5 years and the aloha spirit speaks to my heart. It is such a gentle and respectful attitude. I hope to learn a lot from you and learn how to treat my co-workers the aloha/mahalo way. Mahalo, Loretta

Thoroughly enjoyed the conversation we had while reconnecting on Twitter, and I learned from it; did you catch my JJL-connected mahalo to you in yesterday’s posting? As you say, bloggers (and all authors for that matter) do have to earn our attentions and that is what I feel my renewed commitment to “one place as true blog — here at Talking Story” will help me do. I realize what I am asking of readers: As I mentioned to Ulla, I am also using earned and/or rotated spots in the Talking Story blogroll to help me read/select — and you are there too Lodewijk! — and I will ask myself, How did they earn that spot with me, and can I translate what they did into my own self-coaching as a blogger?

Taking off my blogger hat, and putting my reader hat back on, all of this really does go back to selecting what we read, and using it better, shaping our personal habits intentionally (came up in yesterday’s talk-story too with Dave). There is a great blog post up right now at Rands in Repose about the hierarchy of data —>> information —>> knowledge —>> wisdom and A Story Culture.

Blasphemous and contradictory as this will sound at first, I have always loved the reasonableness of our Talking Story comment culture, and that I don’t get an overwhelming amount of comments (yesterday and today is admittedly unusual)” I do read a few blogs via RSS because I do not sync with their comment culture, and I only wish to read the posts. I am increasingly aware of readers who feel that way about Talking Story regardless what I think or try to present, and thus my asking today included my urging for clicks, i.e. “I was here Rosa! Just not a day I choose to speak up.”

The Google Reader subscriptions are there for when I need inspiration or something to read, but they often fill the gaps or just get scanned. The email subscriptions “creep in” on between my email, and I keep up with my email pretty good. So a blog needs to earn its place in there ;-) (you’re on email since yesterday).

Oh … and for as what I want – that was what you were asking at the end – I want to inspire others to learn and laugh. My blog is one of the platforms to enable that. Come visit me (pretty please?) :-)

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Good feedback in your asking Ulla, mahalo :-) Figuring prominently in my Take 5 for 2010 is my focus on serving the Alaka‘i manager (the manager with a calling for Alaka‘i managing and leading), however there is no managing or leading others without the foundation of self-managing and self-leading, so I will continue to have that woven into the whole. Your asking does have me thinking about the ways I can better articulate the “universal” part of our values discussions too however; will work on it.

What I find is that RSS faithfulness has ebbed for many as a good reading habit since social media pushed it down the pecking order with our attentions, and I admit, I am one of them. Admittedly, there is a bit of “be like me so we communicate in the same way” in this posting for me. I very much appreciate you being here as you are, your way.

But I will always comment, and am glad it sets your heart on fire :-)
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