Day Fifteen - Performing, and Donny Osmond
Well, time trucks on ... two weeks down ... and we're about to enter week 3 of lockdown.
I'll start with today's beach photo. Stunning but also very blustery.
This photo is a little misleading - the black clouds behind, to the west, brought rain not long after!
The evolution of things:
I want to refer back to when I worked for an organisation in the 2000s that focussed on organisational change, personal transformation and the like. We developed, refined, and shared many "tools & models" with our clients - and, it's fair to say, each other along the way. They were zany productive days that were ultimately more valuable than any of us working there at the time realised.
Those days were challenging, they built robustness and resilience within us all, and enabled us to pick up a fair measure of insight along the way, all of which has held us all in good stead to this day. I remain forever grateful for those unique and challenging times.
And we all still catch up every now and then, all these years later.
One of the models we worked with revolved around how teams work, inadvertently, through their natural stages of evolution.
The model works just as well for families, flatmates, any group of people operating together - including in lockdown!
Week 1: FORMING - You're forced together, and there's no choice but to work out how it will work best. You're going to be together in this for a while. Working out how to make it work best is a good thing.
Week 2: NORMING - You've sussed what's working well. You'll tweak a few things. You can live and work alongside each other in relative harmony, enjoy each other's company and be productive. It's okay. For now.
Week 3: STORMING - Those two previous weeks of lockdown are proving a bit much and differences are showing themselves. It's inevitable there will be clashes; daily life has its challenges. Refer back to Week 2!
Week 4: PERFORMING - This is when everyone has a deeper understanding of each other, of human being-ness, of the important things in life. And there's light at the end of the tunnel ...
Whether family, flatmates, or even if it's just you alone ... you're likely to go through this cycle.
I want to say a huge shout out to the people working in the invisible sectors - those working behind the scenes to make so many things tick. Freight, logistics, delivery services ...
The frontline health workers and supermarket staff are always in the daily spotlight - but I make a special shout-out here to those who do what they do so life has some semblance of normality for those who don't need the health sector but still need to live. Those of us who need essentials ...
In this vein, I have to say I realised I had a need for an item I'd never thought of an essential - a hair dryer! There isn't one at the Omaha beach house. I did an online order at Noel Leeming a couple of days ago. It was on special and it was delivered today. Great job.
I must say I feel very privileged to be at the beach where it is peaceful and quiet and beautiful. There's a sense of serenity here despite the chaotic state of things. Thank goodness the rebuild was complete!
Dinner: Yorkshire puddings with last night's leftover Chicken Panang and glazed beans/carrots.
SHARE-NOTE OF THE DAY:
Donny Osmond ...
Who remembers Donny?
Who can forget the charismatic teenager who stole girls hearts all around the world back in the 1970s??
I was one of the 10 zillion original fan-girls who adored his good looks. Great body, could dance, could sing. That smile. He often featured in Jackie mag, awaited eagerly every week.
The Donny & Marie show was a bit slapstick but it was a chance to see Donny in action every week.
I was alerted to a wonderful authentic interview between Donny and Piers Morgan - tells lots (but still, I suspect, not everything).
Donny - who seems to be quite an exceptional man all round. Married at 21, still married to Debra Glen, with five sons.
I'll start with today's beach photo. Stunning but also very blustery.
This photo is a little misleading - the black clouds behind, to the west, brought rain not long after!
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| Omaha Beach photo of the day - layers of nature |
The evolution of things:
I want to refer back to when I worked for an organisation in the 2000s that focussed on organisational change, personal transformation and the like. We developed, refined, and shared many "tools & models" with our clients - and, it's fair to say, each other along the way. They were zany productive days that were ultimately more valuable than any of us working there at the time realised.
Those days were challenging, they built robustness and resilience within us all, and enabled us to pick up a fair measure of insight along the way, all of which has held us all in good stead to this day. I remain forever grateful for those unique and challenging times.
And we all still catch up every now and then, all these years later.
One of the models we worked with revolved around how teams work, inadvertently, through their natural stages of evolution.
The model works just as well for families, flatmates, any group of people operating together - including in lockdown!
Week 1: FORMING - You're forced together, and there's no choice but to work out how it will work best. You're going to be together in this for a while. Working out how to make it work best is a good thing.
Week 2: NORMING - You've sussed what's working well. You'll tweak a few things. You can live and work alongside each other in relative harmony, enjoy each other's company and be productive. It's okay. For now.
Week 3: STORMING - Those two previous weeks of lockdown are proving a bit much and differences are showing themselves. It's inevitable there will be clashes; daily life has its challenges. Refer back to Week 2!
Week 4: PERFORMING - This is when everyone has a deeper understanding of each other, of human being-ness, of the important things in life. And there's light at the end of the tunnel ...
Whether family, flatmates, or even if it's just you alone ... you're likely to go through this cycle.
I want to say a huge shout out to the people working in the invisible sectors - those working behind the scenes to make so many things tick. Freight, logistics, delivery services ...
The frontline health workers and supermarket staff are always in the daily spotlight - but I make a special shout-out here to those who do what they do so life has some semblance of normality for those who don't need the health sector but still need to live. Those of us who need essentials ...
In this vein, I have to say I realised I had a need for an item I'd never thought of an essential - a hair dryer! There isn't one at the Omaha beach house. I did an online order at Noel Leeming a couple of days ago. It was on special and it was delivered today. Great job.
I must say I feel very privileged to be at the beach where it is peaceful and quiet and beautiful. There's a sense of serenity here despite the chaotic state of things. Thank goodness the rebuild was complete!
Dinner: Yorkshire puddings with last night's leftover Chicken Panang and glazed beans/carrots.
SHARE-NOTE OF THE DAY:
Donny Osmond ...
Who remembers Donny?
Who can forget the charismatic teenager who stole girls hearts all around the world back in the 1970s??
I was one of the 10 zillion original fan-girls who adored his good looks. Great body, could dance, could sing. That smile. He often featured in Jackie mag, awaited eagerly every week.
The Donny & Marie show was a bit slapstick but it was a chance to see Donny in action every week.
I was alerted to a wonderful authentic interview between Donny and Piers Morgan - tells lots (but still, I suspect, not everything).
Donny - who seems to be quite an exceptional man all round. Married at 21, still married to Debra Glen, with five sons.
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