Fly and spread your wings my little bird!

In 3 days one of the most amazing people I have ever met in my life is leaving Norway. R. appeared over 1 year ago in Bucharest smiling and nervous and I have loved her ever since. I have had the luck of spending almost every day with her for the last 11 months, experiencing her in all her splendour, seeing her challenge herself, develop, wanting more, spreading her wings, sometimes crying, almost always laughing and teaching me about life an myself.

On Friday she will go to Romania, to live a crazy month of double work, double emotions, double the fun.

It breaks my heart a bit. Not because I am upset with you, but because I will miss you. Our team will not be quite the same in the office, we will all be a bit lost. And we know you will be here in heart 200%, and that is more heart than most people even have! And that's exactly why our hearts will be a little lost.

I am already excited about seeing you in June. I am already excited about team days although they are far away. And tomorrow night, and Thursday night, I want to party with you!

All my love my dearest. My friendship is forever.

Presence

Are you thinking of what you are doing right now or of what you should be doing? Are you there 100% with your mind, soul and body? Or are you somewhere else, in a different place, a different time, a different reality?

Let's give our experiencing self a drug-kick. Let's make now AWESOME. Right now.

My 2010 so far...

The following projects I have started, been involved in or been in charge of since 1st of January 2010

• MCP elections
• MC Sales: Raised TNs
• TN delivery: Workpermit issues with UDI
• LC structure revision
• DT Projects startup
• Hunting for LCPs
• Selecting full MCe team
• IPM
• FK Project
• Financial Model Revision
• Budget 2010-11
• Start building MCe team
• UNITE National Conference
• Apply for Steering Team
• Building National Leadership Team with LCPs and President’s weekend
• MCP transition
• MCVP transition
• Design National Planning Framework

What 3,5 months.....

Uselessness of being worried

Being worried is a very human emotion. Being no expert (on anything, really), I believe it comes from our frontal lobe's ability to imagine/project the future.

The way I see it, when we don't have enough information to assess a future happening to our own satisfaction, we worry. It's not really the outcome itself that worries us, but the insecurity tied to the outcome of the future event.

The interesting thing is that we know very well that worrying doesn't help us in any way what so ever. It won't give us the information we need, and if anything, it will prevent us from making a decision.

What can we do about this? Here is my personal "recipe".

1. Being concious about our inability to really know anything about the future (including next five minutes), anyway.
2. Accept that a low amount of information for future decision making is ok! We usually probably only have 15-20% of the information we really need, but we usually overestimate it's value by something like 4 times meaning we believe we have between 60-80% of the information we need. A reduction from 15% to 5% isn't really very much, in both cases we don't know squat. But the perceived reduction from 60% to 20% seems very much
3. Take risks and smile at them :-) Life goes on

Expectations?

Found this video on the blog of Juan and I thought it was awesome!