Sling shots and wasp nests.
Mousetraps and kittens. Boys, cow pies and gulf clubs. These could be
called recipes for disaster. Most
anything successful however, follows a recipe for success. In most cases it isn’t a matter of
reinventing the light bulb, success really should be as simple as following
what others have proven to work already.
That being said, I have found that self-made recipes; or those that were
concocted by our own trials and failures seem to be the easiest to follow. Maybe it’s because they are crafted to our
tastes and in our language, or maybe it’s just because we are more apt to
follow something that we fought hard to figure out. In any case, lately I have found that going
back to those hard earned lessons are important to getting back on track.
The easiest example, and one I shared at the meeting, was the process of
blogging. My recipe requires a note book
carried in my vehicle (most frequent place of work) to jot items that come to mind
through the week. I require an alarm to go off during blogging morning as a
reminder of required preparation and reminder that evening. I need to set time
aside to read my teammates blogs. That
serves to both keep up with my teams success, and stimulate blog juices.
Every challenge of the I Ho chuan has a recipe for success. Coming up
with a cookbook seems to be a combined process of taking ingredients from the team,
but never leaving out that which you have worked hard to figure out on your
own.
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