Remacue Monthly
Each month one or more of our leaders or community members share their thoughts in short articles designed to provide you with insights you can immediately apply in your own way in order to improve your life and your work. In this sample issue our CEO Ian Berry shares his ideas on one of his favourite subjects.
The World We Share
A recent trip required several hours in the car. At one point I listened to question time in the Australian parliament on radio (get a life I hear some of you say). I found it fascinating from the perspective of how not to be in the world. Everything the government said, the opposition fought and vice versa (how incredible that in the age of collaboration, we have to have an opposition!)
The most basic of actions required to have high value relationships of mutual reward were being ignored by these highly paid so called representatives of ours. It was so sad I had to stop the car and have a strong coffee.
We live in three worlds; the world in here, the world out there, and the world we share. In here our views are just that, out there are other people’s views. In the world we share are the views we agree on. In any successful relationship the world we share is the critical one.
Human conflict is fundamentally the result of failure to agree on the goal or failure to agree on the strategies to achieve the goal. This second one was causing all the trouble for our parliamentarians. It seemed they all had the same goal; a more harmonious country, a more civil universe for all. But do you think they could agree on the strategies to achieve theses most noble of purposes? Not on your life. Every speaker I heard was only interested in the world in here.
I guarantee that today all of our troubles, personal, local and universal, are fundamentally based in our perceived need to hang onto the world in here, our issues with the world out there, and, our failure to focus more on the world we share.
In the free countries of planet earth we can express our personal views without fear. What makes life really worthwhile is when we can share our views (without ridiculing one another as these politicians did on this particular day) and come together with a shared view, which may mean we let go of things we previously held dear.
I trust that today and every day you will resolve to build more of the world we share and be less precious about the world in here or the world out there.
Best As Wise As You Can Be
Ian
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