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This is the third in a series of amazing natural phenomena… Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater  elevation that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone  they exhibit when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding  waters. They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to  explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would  support sea life due to poor water circulation – leaving them eerily  empty. Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remains that  have been discovered, preserved in their depths.

Antimimeticisomorphism - Nature #3

This is the second edition of the antimimeticisomorphism series…

When a thick lava flow cools it contracts vertically  but cracks perpendicular to its directional flow with remarkable  geometric regularity – in most cases forming a regular grid of  remarkable hexagonal extrusions that almost appear to be made by man.  One of the most famous such examples is the Giant’s Causeway on the  coast of Ireland (shown above) though the largest and most widely  recognized would be Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Basalt also forms  different but equally fascinating ways when eruptions are exposed to air  or water.

Antimimeticisomorphism - Nature 2/7

This series will have you looking at nature in a completely different way. Over the next week, I will be sending you one example of Nature’s antimimeticisomorphic tendencies… I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did when I first saw it!

The  mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley have  been a center of scientific controversy for decades. Rocks weighing up  to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at  a time. Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds  and surface ice account for these movements. However, this theory does  not explain evidence of different rocks starting side by side and moving  at different rates and in disparate directions. Moreover, the physics  calculations do not fully support this theory as wind speeds of hundreds  of miles per hour would be needed to move some of the stones.

Antimimeticisomorphism - Nature

Vision Boards are a great motivational tool – you should try scrapbooking – it can be a lot of fun – turning your dreary old photos and mementos into real keepsakes… like this one!

Scrapbook Your Successes For Fun!

Below is a quick chart that a lot of people can relate to. I call it the Then and Now Chart. It’s not meant to be a value judgment, just a realisation some people have about some of the disappointments they have.

Someone very wise drew this for me in my early twenties (and I can’t for the life of me remember who it was…). I’ve quite a few really good mentors and I didn’t note who said what – I just committed WHAT they ALL said to memory…

Dr Marc Dussault - Then And Now

But here’s the thing…

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Today’s post is something that is truly amazing… A close friend of mine was his room mate. This was TRAGIC when it happened, shocking us all that it would happen in Sydney AND to such a nice guy…

I don’t know about the whole miracle thing, but I do know that you should NEVER, EVER GIVE UP…

Read the story here –> Sydney attack victim David Keohane wakes from coma!

People who know me are usually astonished by my ‘keen’ sense of urgency. I’ve been told I have the attention span of a goldfish (3 seconds)… But the reality is that I can focus on ONE thing for HOURS if and ONLY IF it is the highest and best use of my time. I never could have completed my Ph.D. thesis in 3 months without that level of singular focus and concentration…

That being said, several people in the last few weeks have asked me where I got this ‘sense of urgency’ and even though I was partially ‘born with a proactive’ and optimistic attitude, my training in the printing / reprographics industry is where it was ingrained in me at the tender age of 15 when I started working full time as a student.

Printing is NOT about the photocopies, the prints, the binding of the reports, the business cards…

It’s ONLY about TIME.

Doing it FAST.

It doesn’t matter that the brochures are perfect if they are delivered the day AFTER the trade show.

Some people just don’t get that.

Of course you have to do the job right, but that is SECOND to doing it ON TIME.

We used to manage our priorities by changing them AT LEAST EVERY 15 minutes – ALL DAY LONG… Can you imagine juggling 10, 20 or even 30 balls in the air at the same time?

That’s what it was like. I learned from the best. The SINGULAR focus on DELIVERY and SPEED was pervasive.

Back in the 1980′s we spent $1 Million out of +/-$10 Million in Revenue picking up and delivery jobs.

$1 Million.

How’s that for commitment? We ran our own fleet of cars and trucks with a full-time dispatcher across 5 branches.

What’s the point?

You need to know WHAT INDUSTRY YOU’RE in so you can have a sense of urgency and IMPORTANCE about what you need to focus on.

• A sit-down restaurant is NOT about the food – it’s about the EXPERIENCE, FEELING, ENVIRONMENT with food as one of the MAJOR COMPONENTS, but not the singular one.
• A hire car is NOT about the driving. It’s about WAITING for you and the CONVENIENCE of NOT having to be worried catching a taxi.
• A hotel is about treating a guest like a king or queen – everything else is SECONDARY – I blogged about this recently.

So how can you learn to be more PROactive?

Set your deadlines and FORCE yourself to meet them. If that means you have to stay up late until 2 AM – DO IT. Set deadlines that SEEM to be unrealistic and see what happens. I just did a website makeover for a client in 3 days “for the fun of it” to see if it could be done. Now I know that it could be done in 24 hours with ONE day of planning.

Push yourself to keep chasing the clock and you’ll soon realise that your competitors will be left in the dust with nowhere to go.

Or just ignore this blog post and hope your competitors don’t lift their game!

This suggestion from a worried American – he suggests patriotic retirement: There are about 40 million people over 50 in the workforce – pay them $1 million apiece severance with the following stipulations:

1. They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.
2. They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.
3. They either buy a house/pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.

Can’t get any easier than that!

Have a nice day.

This men’s underwear commercial is antimimeticisomorphic… Another instalment of fun videos that get you to see the world from a different perspective and viewpoint. I promised you a lot more FUN in 2009 – am I delivering on that promise or what?

I don’t know about you, but I’m having a lot more FUN this year – and people around me keep telling me we’re in a recession… So what?!?! Life’s too short to be too serious.

Start having MORE fun and see what happens to your results and your relationships!

Today’s blog post is courtesy of Personal Breakthrough Creator Yvonne McIntosh. It’s a 16 minute YouTube video that I promise you is worth watching on so many levels. When you have an Exponential Mindset, you understand your role and responsibility in this world is BIGGER than you.

This inspirational video will touch you as it did me – watch it to the end to get the FULL moral of the story.

I have a similar story that ‘validated’ what I did for many employees – about 7 years after-the-fact. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, just believe it’s worth it…

Because you’re GREAT, an AWESOME force for good in this world. Every person you touch is someone who is better off for knowing you. That includes your family, friends, clients and COMPLETE strangers on the street that you come in contact with via a smile, nod or other acknowledgment and validation.

Enjoy!

You deserve it because you are fantastic!