Where are your golden eggs?

Hi Folks;

I've come accross something I really need
to share with you .

Where are your golden eggs?


You know sometimes we're so busy chasing goals
that we lose ourselves in the process. Remember
the story of the goose that laid the golden egg?

One day, a farmer discovers his pet goose has
laid a golden egg. But instead of looking after
the goose and nurturing it, he decides to splice
open it's belly to get more eggs!

To his dismay, the farmer doesn't find any more
golden eggs and even worse, the goose is now dead!

Being successful is not just about getting more
golden eggs or results. If you want to be happy
in the long run, you also need to take care of
the asset that creates your results - that is YOU!

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Len McNally

The 80/20 Rule

Hi Folks;

I was reminded yesterday that the old 80/20 rule applies in
almost every aspect of life.

I talk a lot about the 80/20 rule - or the Paretto Principle -
in connection with time management where I point out that
80 percent of the time you use produces only 20 percent of
the results you achieve, and its corollary, 20 percent of the
time you use produces 80 percent of your results.

In this case the principle manifested itself in a small
business organization to which I belong when we were
nominating people for our three person executive.

Several people declined nomination until I pointed out that
everyone who benefits from membership in the organization
should feel obligated to share the work required to make
the organization effective. Otherwise you're looking for a
free ride.

This is where the 80/20 rule comes in. In virtually every
service club or organization, 80 percent of the work is
done by 20 percent of the members. 80 percent of the
members get a "Free Ride." I don't believe that your
membership fee entitles you to that.

The serving president as Chair, pointed out that she would
prefer to have people decline nomination rather than to
accept, be elected and not do the job.

My position is still that the organization might be better off
without those members not prepared to accept the
responsibility to share the load. Membership requires -
demands, responsibility.

What do you think?

Do you have an example of the 80/20 principle in action?


Len McNally

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Lest We Forget

Hi Folks;

Tomorrow, November 11 is Veterans Day -
Remembrance Day in Canada.

I hope everyone who can will be at a cenotaph to honor
those brave souls who fought - and often died - so that
you and I could have the kind of life we now so often
take for granted.

Even today more men and women are putting their lives on
the line every day in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and
whether or not we agree with the reasons for their being
there we must understand that they believe they are
doing a job that must be done.

I hope we can all be supportive of our soldiers no matter
what our politics.

I served for ten years in the Royal Canadian Air Force -
all of it peace time and had the privilege to know many men
who had served in WW 2 and in Korea and never knew
one of them to brag or to complain about the experience.

We don't just owe them a lot.

We owe them everything.


Len McNally

Election Day!

Hi Folks;

Today is election day in the USA, a day many people have
been anxiously awaiting.

Many have been awaiting this day because they are hoping
that someone will be elected
who will make a real difference in the world. If you are
one of these I sincerely hope your
candidate fares well.

As many as those people are who are hoping for a better
world, there are probably three times
as many folks who KNOW we will have a better world,
starting tomorrow, because we will
no longer be inundated with all the nasty innuendoes, snide
suggestions and sly remarks about
"the incumbent" or "the wanna be".

I wonder if politicians ever stop to think that when they
put down the incumbent they are telling
the electorate, "You elected this person. You must be a
bunch of idiots."

Wouldn't it be great to experience an election campaign
where every candidate (or even most of them)
presented the good things that could happen if he or she is
elected. The changes that could be made and the differences
those changes would make in the lives of the electorate.
There was a time (you may be too young to remember) when
that is what politicians did. They talked about the future,
created dreams of what could be and presented plans of
action designed to make the dreams a reality. (Kind of like
we do on this website.) Now it seams there are no dreams,
only promised nightmares if candidate x is reelected.

Well, at least its over (for about a year) and who knows,
maybe some of those elected really will learn to dream, and
to plan, and to make the dreams come true.

If we don't have hope......


Len McNally

Peanuts and Leadership

Hi Folks;

A writer for our local newspaper stirred up a hornet's nest
this week when she suggested that parents of children with
peanut allergies should take the responsibility to "street
safe their" kids by teaching them what they must not do to
protect themselves. The controversy started when a school
banned peanuts and other nuts to protect one allergic
child.

I'm sure we all agree that to see a child die from
something as silly as drinking from a friends drink when
the friend had just eaten peanut butter would be a tragedy
but who should bear the burden of prevention?

Peanut is a staple in the diet of many children - for some
families, the only healthy food they can afford - and it is
difficult to find a candy bar certified nut free.

There is also the issue of enforcement. Can you really
prevent every child in a school from picking up something
containing peanuts at the corner store on the way to or
from school? And what is the appropriate punishment? Is
"possession of peanuts" to become a felony (this could be
attemted murder), is a child to be warned, sent home,
banned from school or ?????

Is this ruccuss really about peanuts or child safety?

Is it just one more example of the new age expectation that
"Big Brother" (the state) must look after us from cradle to
grave?

Should it perhaps be about responsibility?

Please feel free to jump in on this one folks it's a lot
more important than it seems on the surface.

Len McNally