We break a lot of crockery at my workplace. And we do it intentionally.
Yes - we actively encourage team members to smash cups & plates.
Newbies always struggle with this.
“No – it’s a perfectly good mug!”. “It will make a noise!” “It will make a mess!” “This doesn’t feel right”.
We ask people to intentionally break crockery because it is counter habitual. It’s also fun.
We want our team to lean into scary, awkward, flinch inducing moments.
This concept is well described in the short online pamphlet called
The Flinch - a highly recommended 10 min read.
Too many of us avoid doing new things because we have a fear of the “flinch” moment.
You know; that moment you abandon the safe, the habitual, the tried and proven.
This week I saw two instances of Rotary members conquering flinch moments. Both deserve recognition.
One, was a member who has embraced the preferred Direct Debit payment option. (You know who you are, and you really made my day.)
The other was how our members have considered Zone 8 Regionalization with an open-minded “Yeah – let’s have a look at that, it might be interesting”.
Moments that might make us flinch are everywhere: talking with strangers, learning a new language, courageous conversations with loved ones.
Let’s all find something that might be awkward or scary… and do it anyway!
Go on, break some crockery!
Our fourth mayoral candidate presentation last Tuesday – as President Dave said in his welcome to Efeso Collins - “the candidate to beat”.
A warm welcome to our latest new member – Holly Bennett, who founded and runs the government relations agency, Awhi. Holly is the 2022 Newmarket Young Business Person of the Year, and honoured recently by our club. Welcome aboard Holly. We love that giggle!
As some of you know, last weekend, many of the book worms of Auckland converged on the Aotea Centre for the well-regarded Auckland Writers Festival. 60,000 bums on seats listening to over 200 writers talk about their books, society, culture, local, national and international affairs, life, death - the lot. Now why I enjoy some of these sessions is not necessarily for the highbrow stuff – just help in directing my reading. For example, here’s one must read from an early session – Operation Trojan Horse [2021] by Stephen Davis. Flight 149 landed in Kuwait in August 1990, at the time of Saddam Hussein’s invasion, because of a bad miscalculation by MI6 and the British Government that has never been fully acknowledged and still reverberates today. Try It! Or Lucy Mackintosh’s Shifting Grounds – deep Histories of Tamaki Makaurau. [2021]. Plus 101 other presentations. Interested? Might see you there next year!
POLIO ALL TRANSIT 2022
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