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Memorial Day Plans! What are your plans for Memorial Day? - Cooking out with friends and family? 🍔🌭 - Spending quality time with loved ones? ❤️👨👩👧👦 - Working through the holiday? 💼🛠️ - Going on a getaway? ✈️🏖️ Share your plans with us in the comments!

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TRUE - - - It is time, isn't it? TIP: our only point of 'control' is the present. 🕒 If we wait for 'someone else' to take a stand or push back against dishonorable behavior, nothing will change. Over nearly a decade, I've witnessed and experienced what I define as 'Systemic Avoidance of Duty' (SAD) within Management, HR, and Unions. 😔 The truly SAD aspect is that those who perpetuate this toxicity may not realize how much better their work and career experiences could be. It often functions as a trauma response. We should expect and demand more from those entrusted with 'The Public Trust,' especially when they violate that trust. ⚖️ It has to stop. The data supports this. There's no cost savings or financial benefit to maintaining a toxic environment—it merely reinforces undiagnosed narcissism or sociopathy among those in power, who pretend to be 'doing their job' when they are not. 🚫 Transforming toxic operations into healthy environments is always a win:win. The problem is, those guilty are afraid of being exposed. From a POTU perspective, demanding punitive measures only perpetuates 'Structural Violence'. We need to make it safe for change to happen. The problem with SAD is that it's all about using 'force' and abusing 'power', rather than stewarding power to create a non-toxic environment. 💪 When refusal to end toxicity persists, external oversight and litigation become necessary for positive change, which should be unnecessary among fair-minded and reasonable people. If policy and justice fail, depending on the severity of the harm caused, human beings eventually rebel when they lose faith in the systems supposedly preventing SAD. 🔥 We enjoy fictions like 'The Punisher' and 'The Equalizer' because they address unchecked corruption that leads to toxic, and eventually criminal, activities. Such corruption evolves when we fail to challenge SAD in our lives, work, and careers. Being a business owner, for example, does not grant the right to be abusive. 👊 We have a lot of work to do. It begins by each of us taking personal responsibility to expose, challenge, and say 'no' to SAD when it shows up. It also involves documenting events in support of those targeted and being an honorable 'witness' to those who dare to stand against it. 🛡️ Too many people are waiting for 'someone else' to act, while merely complaining. That does not work. 💬 - POTU David 💖 Love/Like, 🔁 Repost/Share, 💬 Comment with your thoughts, share. Our world needs to learn how to live the principles it already knows. #potudavid #howtothinkpotu #management #HR #unions #sadmanagement #sadhr #sadunions

Ase' or Ashe' is an African word from the Yoruba language, which originated in the country of Nigeria. Asé means three particularly important things: A.) (And the most widely known meaning)- Asé is a word of affirmation, like the word ‘Amen’ at the end of a prayer. It means, “Right on!” “Yes!” “I’m with you!” “I can dig it.” So, when someone says something, you like, say Asé loud and proud, for it is not a meek and retiring word. It is bold and powerful and affirms aloud that which resonates in your heart as true. Asé? B.) Asé is a word that means life force or life energy, like the concept of Prana in Sanskrit or Qi in Asia. Each person comes into this life with a certain amount of life force, which can be increased or decreased throughout our lives, depending on our choices. For example, negative thoughts and actions can decrease your life force, and positive thoughts and actions can increase it. In the Yoruba culture, it is said that our Ancestors bring us the Asé. Those who have come before us have generated for us and left behind for us a certain gravitas that becomes our Asé in this lifetime. Similarly, our descendants, those who come after us, increase our Asé as they help increase our bloodline and therefore our influence on this Earth. C.) (And perhaps the most important meaning)- Asé means the power to create that which you speak. As we’ve already discussed, Asé means life force, so it makes sense then that you are adding life force to every word that comes out of your mouth. This is one of the many reasons it is crucial to be careful of what you are saying. It is imperative to choose your words wisely and intentionally. If you only realized how much Asé you must create that which you speak, you would become much more aware of the words you add your life force to.

One of the most significant shortcomings one can have is failing to make an attempt. This can occur when one is afraid of failure or feels that the risks are too great. It is essential to recognize that not trying at all can be a more significant failure than attempting and not succeeding. Inaction can result in missed opportunities for growth and learning, as well as the chance to achieve one's aspirations. To avoid this, it is vital to take calculated risks, learn from failures, and persevere towards one's goals.

The earliest recorded festivities in honor of a new year's arrival date back some 4,000 years to ancient Babylon. For the Babylonians, the first new moon following the vernal equinox—the day in late March with an equal amount of sunlight and darkness—heralded the start of a new year. The early Roman calendar consisted of 10 months and 304 days, with each new year beginning at the vernal equinox. According to tradition, it was created by Romulus, the founder of Rome in the eight-century B.C. In 46 B.C, Julius Caesar instituted January 1 as the first day of year, because over the centuries, the calendar fell out of sync with the sun, and to partly honor the month's namesake: Janus, the two-faced Roman god of beginnings. New Year's resolutions also date back to 2000 B.C., with the Babylonians celebrating the New Year with one common resolution of returning borrowed farm equipment to start farming season, which coincided with the vernal equinox. According to recent research, as many as 45% of Americans say they make New Year's resolutions, while only 8% are successful in achieving their goals. How long will your resolutions last? Happy New Year to you and yours and good luck with making your resolutions. May they last longer than then the time it takes to create them.

The wisdom of Maya Angelou is known globally and her impact is unquestionable. I was drawn to this quote while thinking about my own coaching journey, and my Why? I began coaching in the 1990s, while leading and building my team of distributors to 300 throughout the UK. The challenges weren't just about maintaining the channels of communication so that I was available to support the individual dustributor when they need it, the reliance on being available, and ready to roll up my sleeves and get stuck in to help members of my team who themselves wanted to build their teams, and mainly at the weekends. This meant extensive weekend travel to various locations in the UK. However, my biggest challenge of all was running that business and bringing up a young family concurrently. I will always remember the struggles to find suitable and trustworthy cover to take care for my children, and if I ever had a reason to give up that would have been it. Balancing the love for my children and the love for what I did, helping others succeed, was at times like climbing a mountain without the correct tools, harnesses, helmets, etc. This had brought me to many crossroads, where my decision-making ability often under went much scrutiny. On every occasion, the decision was, giving up 'is not an option! ' What helped me to continue to do what I loved were - having a mentor, who was also my accountability partner - having a plan - gaining the knowkedge of how to execute my plan - having and exercising self-belief and self-discipline - building resilience and faith - doing the work required Looking back, I feel a sense of achievement and satisfaction that I helped my team and, myself, to reach some big goals/milestones in business, and being recognised and awarded for our achievenents, many times over. This is because I had pursued doing what I love. If you're still struggling with - doing everything alone - not have a workable plan - not knowing how to move forward in your business - you don't believe it's possible to have a viable and profitable Startup - you want to fall in love with your Startup I'm here to help. DM me. The details are below #startup #startupfounders #business #success #leadership #goals