Do I have more of CCC or am I deceiving myself?

Captain Ergin's log (Earth calendar 2014, October 24, 10:16 CET)

My day started rather interesting this morning. The events were all very normal events, nothing really unusual about them. The interesting part was how I handled them, so let me walk you thru my morning

- around 07:00 CET I get up, breakfast and coffee, like any other normal day at home.

- 07:30 brush my teeth and thinking about what I will do today, looking at the thermometer, 6,2 degrees centigrade, 76% humidity, the trees wave as the wind blows outside.

- 07:41 I turn on my laptop to prepare for my meeting which will start at 09:00. I see an e-mail from the person I am going to have the meeting, which he sent 07:23 that he had to prioritize other things so he had to cancel the meeting.

- 07:42 I confirm his e-mail and propose a few new dates and times to setup a new meeting. If this was say 6 months ago I would have been frustrated but not this morning.

It's some where here I started re planning my morning and decided to go for a power walk. I put on

clothes and shoes and at 08:03 exactly I was outside. I knew I was prepared for the meeting and there wasn't much else I could do. I instead decided to take the chance to something I needed to do, my training for Kilimanjaro and went for it. So far so good, as I was warming up I was more aware of the weather, wind and humidity. This wasn't the the first time I was out for a walk or a run in this kind of weather. This was the FIRST TIME I was going for a walk in this kind of weather LOOKING FORWARD to it. I had a smile and I was already feeling energized. In the forest, along my path there were a lot of water, which I used to have an excuse for not going out this kind of weather, but today I saw them as challenges and opportunities to train my balance and jumps. My feet got a little wet and it was not a problem at all.

During the walk which lasted around 1 hours and 40 minutes I had a lot to think and remember a quote from Robin Sharma, "At the heart of mastery lives consistency." This was the first of the three C's I was thinking of. Was I more consistent than before. I have been committed to my training sessions and psychically feeling great.

I also started thinking about if I was taking my decisions more consciously,  the second of three C's. I recently changed my path in life, trying to find my way in a for me totally new arena and find my "right to exist". All the decisions I have been taking the last few weeks, were they more conscious or were they taken randomly. I have met a lot of very interesting and inspiring new people. I also discovered that many of the people I know had ideas and thoughts I wasn't aware of. This awareness was it because of me or was it gonna happen any way?

Was I more courageous?  The third of the 3 C's. A few days ago I have delivered my first all way workshop for a customer in Visby, Gotland. I started with "Min resa" and continued with "Diversity awareness workshop". I was happy how the whole day went and so was the customer, a group of 30 HR specialists. A few minutes before I was going to start, I turned on the song I listen to get into stage mode and being stage ready. I felt great and happy, to be among 30 people I never met before, all experts in their profession.

I recently heard "we don't get more courageous, we get better at showing our courage". These few words reminded me that I wasn't more courageous, I was getting better at showing my courage in some circumstances. The fact that I have been preparing for a long time, by reading many articles, watching countless Youtube films, discussions with experts and friends, did help me to ground myself.

With this experience I will have the courage to book meetings with potential customers and/or partners.

May be I have a dash of more CCC, consistency, making conscious decisions and better at showing courage. Or may be I am just deceiving myself, only time will tell.

A penny for your thoughts on "circle of life" and "gravity"

In a matter of days the season change is very obvious where we live. As I went out for a walk yesterday, the 11th of October 2014, the rich colors were all around me. I was surrounded with with thousands shades of brown, yellow and green. I realized I was at the front seat and observing two (2) profound rules of life as we know it.
1- Gravity, as the mild wind was giving the last gentle push needed for leafs to their last dance as they slowly and elegantly flew around and softly land on the ground.
2- Circle of life, as the falling leafs, branches and trees were providing the means necessary of all the other living things to feast, nurture and regenerate life.

 I took a picture and posted it in my fb-page, with some comments of CIRCLE OF LIFE and GRAVITY. I knew that there were more things to be looked into and elaborated. I needed definitions as well as a way to explain my thoughts on these phenomenon. So at home I googled for it and found these definitions;

Cirlcle of Life: Nature's way of taking and giving back life to earth. It symbolizes the universe being sacred and divine. It represents the infinite nature of energy, meaning if something dies it gives new life to another.

Gravity: The natural force of attraction between any two massive bodies, which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

It started thinking about of these two profound powers and rules would also apply to relations in our lives. These rules govern everything in the infinite universe as we know. We now know that out there wild explosions of giant stars give birth to a nebula which is the birth place of many new stars planets, moons and so on. Everything goes in circles, the galaxies, solar systems, moons. I was now thinking about what and where our own role is, and our place in this infinite nature. And how about how everything in the universe is one way or another effected by gravity and celestial bodies circle around each other.

It was hard, if not impossible, to try to make a good analogy and I decided to give a try anyway. I hope you can bear with me just a little longer and share your wisdom with me on these powers and rules.

If that's the case that circle of life and gravity play role in our relations I end up with many questions and very few answers? Here are some I would like to know;

• Around whose gravity (love and care) you're circling around? Who is your sun, if you were the earth? Who is your earth if you were the moon? Is the attraction of your masses (gravity) in perfect balance?
• As the moons gravity give earth it's axis tilt which make seasons possible, how about your seasons and circle of life? Do you have emotional winters, summers, springs and autumns? Do you enjoy each and everyone of these seasons?
• If you were the planet and end up in the gravity of a black hole, result of a giant star explosion, which sucks everything and nothing, not even light can escape, are you able to detect that destructive force in time? And let's say do the discover that fact you're pretty close to this "emotional black hole relation" what do you do?
• If our relations were in fact also under the influence of circle of life, falling leafs and dying trees, do they provide what's needed for new relations in time? If one relation, whether it's a love relation or friendship, if you loose or choose to leave the relation, do "infinite nature of energy" equip us to go on to new relations? If it's so when we break up and/or end a friendship, is to be perceived as a good thing since we both will have access to "infinite nature of energy" to build new relations and friendships?
• If you eventually find your celestial body and you both happily revolve around each other, are we still at the mercy of universe's violent powers? When a new larger body shows up with more gravity than you could ever imagine, how does that affect the gravity and attraction in your relation?
• If you were the planet like earth with one moon and you think that's fine. If you were like Jupiter and/or Saturn with tens of moons with different properties, what does that mean to you? 
  
• Sometimes destructive forces give birth to a beauty we all admire. Saturn's rings are result of collision of former moon(-s) and asteroids. As the light is reflected they put up a beautiful show. Do a destructive relations end can give birth to a beauty we can admire eventually?

I am no longer sure if I make any sense at all and that's fine. You may be also thinking why do I go these lengths in my effort to find answers to these two phenomenon, "circle of life" and "gravity". Well, it's fun, developing and enriching to analyse the whole concept and also I like good metaphors ans analogies.

No matter what, everyone of us have the ability and responsibility to our own gravity (love and care). We also are smart and clever enough to understand, employ and maintain our own circle of life (notion that if something dies it gives new life to another) in our relations.

A sensitive and caring significant other and/or friend should always be in a place which is far enough so have his/her trust, comfort, freedom is always present and at the same time feel his/hers unconditional "gravity". He/she also knows at whenever he/she is in need of your gravity, you'll be there in an instant to support and to listen. He/she is always prepared to be there for you when you need his/hers gravity and he/she is happy knowing your circle of life is in perfect balance.

So, a penny for your thoughts. Feel free to join in and share your wisdom with me and others who bother to read this. Have a great Sunday! 

I am more optimistic than ever before...

This week, the be precise week 40 of year 2014, I have had the pleasure and privilege to visit two (2) schools in my home county, Södertälje. I met young minds whom have future plans and a lot of questions. They see a lot of opportunities in the future and for them diversity is a given fact of life. They daily interact youngsters at their own age from different cultures at school and they play online games with friends all around the world. They also had environmental and social awareness which was impressing in these trying times.

My task was to explain for them what is meant to be an entrepreneur in a way to that they could relate to it. I saw that they have many ideas and dreams for their future and some had started to work with their business plans.

I am optimistic for the future. I think in the future we don't need to explain for enterprise management teams how diversity can enhance product development, sales and profitability.  I am sure that the workplaces will be more diverse and including and the simplest things we fight for will be considered as obvious. I am convinced that these leaders and entrepreneurs of the future will strive for sustainable business practices and thereby will have the competitive edge against the enterprises whom are merely looking the keep the status quo.

I am optimistic for the future. I would like to believe that there's a thing called karma and hope that all the good deeds will somehow bring back some good fortune to those whom have been unselfish. I am sure that people around those unselfish ones recognize the desirable qualities and support them in any way they can. I am convinced that if they had the means, time and opportunity they would like to join forces to change the world for the better.

I hope to continue to visit schools and meeting youngsters because it's also very refreshing and energizing for me. The feedback is great and the questions are though. I am looking forward to my next assignment which is at Husbygård school the 14th of October 2014. :-)

Have a great day!