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Inspiring your authentic week - Neil Crofts
Most of us will be familiar with Gandhi's challenge that we must "be the change we want to see in the world", but I wonder how many of us find ourselves able to achieve it or even fully understand the implications?
If we want a fair, just, sustainable, honest, peaceful, caring, respectful, kind, meaningful, supportive world then we must be all of those things ourselves - so far so simple!
One of the elements in the Authentic Guides workshops that participants find most challenging is when I suggest that the very best, most successful, most long lasting business relationships are the ones where there is love. Not romantic love, but love as in the sense of a deeper meaning to the relationship than the purely transactional, love in the sense of a relationship that is fair, just, sustainable, honest, peaceful, caring, respectful, kind, meaningful and supportive.
And yet if that is how we would like our world to be, we must be those things. Not just with those we feel aligned, we must be those things with everybody. We must be loving in our working relationships, we must be loving on the phone to the call centre, we must be loving with homeless people on the street, we must be loving in our assessment of the many challenging characters portrayed in the media and we must be loving with our family members.
Being loving does not mean being soft, or letting people get away with things (loving our children does not mean we let them get away with things they should not). Neither does it mean that we have to have loving relationships with everyone, it means that if we do choose to have a relationship with someone (business or friendship) the question of whether there is, or can be, love in that relationship should be a key guide to whether we pursue that relationship or not.
Being loving in our relationships means making the time and energy to listen and understand, it means communicating our own needs without fear, it means entering into relationships with generosity and trust, it means respecting and honouring those around us and especially those we choose to interact
with. If you do not feel that you can enter a relationship with a person in this way, why would you choose to? It is these unloving relationships which end in conflict and mistrust, why would you choose that?
Some of the great dangers of our time are caused by fear and insecurity, if we can can meet that fear and insecurity with love we start to change the world - one relationship at a time
With love
nx
PS - Although Authentic Education (for more details see
http://www.authenticbusiness.co.uk/archive/AECN1/ ) is not yet set up as a charity (or anything else), it needs energy to make it happen. Some of that energy will be provided by all of the wonderful people who have volunteered to help. Some of that energy needs to be in the form of money so that we can pay for the venue for the planning meeting and getting set up as a
charity. If you would like to contribute and would prefer to spare the cash rather than the time please send your contribution to Authentic Education, The Old School House, Lower Westwoood, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, BA15 2AR.
PPS - For details of transformational workshops and coaching see
www.authentictransformation.co.uk
neil crofts
Authentic Transformation - profit from authenticity
07775 658534
neil@authentictransformation.co.uk
www.authentictransformation.co.uk
Neil's books "Authentic" and "Authentic Business" are available here www.authenticbusiness.co.uk/discover/ABhtcarypb/
"What day is it today?"
"It's today" squeaked Piglet
"My favourite day" said Pooh.
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