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A woman went twice a day to get water. She carried her water in two clay pots attached to a sturdy pole.

One pot was perfect, the other was cracked and leaked. Each trip to the stream only yielded one and a half pots of water because of the cracked pot.

The cracked pot was ashamed that it could not carry a full pot of water.

One day cracked pot apologized to the old woman saying

“I feel badly that you must go to the stream often because of me, leaking water all the way back and ending only half full”.

The woman looked at the cracked pot with a loving smile, “Have you never noticed that flowers grow on the side of the path that I carry you?

I planted seeds on that side knowing that you would water them and now your side of the path is a riot of colour and beauty. ”

Thank you Gail for this beautiful story.

This story is namaste.

Teams

A woman went twice a day to get water. She carried her water in two clay pots attached to a sturdy pole.

One pot was perfect, the other was cracked and leaked. Each trip to the stream only yielded one and a half pots of water because of the cracked pot.

The cracked pot was ashamed that it could not carry a full pot of water.

One day cracked pot apologized to the old woman saying

“I feel badly that you must go to the stream often because of me, leaking water all the way back and ending only half full”.

The woman looked at the cracked pot with a loving smile, “Have you never noticed that flowers grow on the side of the path that I carry you?

I planted seeds on that side knowing that you would water them and now your side of the path is a riot of colour and beauty. ”

Thank you Gail for this beautiful story.

This story is namaste.

Productivity

How do you get your employees to really “buy in” to their work and passionately “join the team” all the way?

As the picture above suggests, success is often built, piece by piece, by an engaged group of workers.

The delightfully-named David Zinger has a 39 page ebook with 300 zen like suggestions on increasing the engagement of your team members. Click here to download this ebook.

Energy?  Being fully engaged in something you believe in — there’s energy there!

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The constant in life is change.

Sometimes in the hurly, burly of life we drive ourselves forward to do this and that.

It is important to take time to reflect on what has been achieved and where that is leading.

Often we become creatures of habit, the same thoughts, the same outward strategies, the

same feelings of familiarity and yet is there something more?

Something more can be unsettling even frightening, what would happen if…….

What happens when things fall apart, the truth is they are always falling apart just as they are always regenerating.

A friend of mine thanked me recently for making a difference in her day. I combed my mind for some deep truth I had expressed.  She explained “when we were  shopping you stopped to look at the flowers and that reminded me to do likewise”.

Remember to stop and see the flowers, see the beauty that is literally everywhere shining from flowers and faces.

See the beauty that is your being.

Namaste, eh.