Entering the holiday season invokes all kinds of emotions for people. Some with great joy and longing and others deep sadness. As we make our way through the next few weeks let us all keep in mind that one universal gift we all can give and like receiving is “Kindness.” Let me be the first to extend my thoughts of gratitude for you and hope that your days are filled with kindness.
Author: g_u1de_2021
JKL Associates – celebrating 30 years, a trip down memory lane with lessons learned, adding tools to the toolbox and building life long relationships.
As we enter the last days of 2020, it is a time of reflecting on all that has taken place in our world and our culture. The ups and downs of the pandemic and elections and how they have and will shaped our future. These short term elements of our culture will eventually seek and find their rightful place and influence.
Over the past 12 months of 2020 there is one thing which is certain, communincation both the good and the bad, the rational and irrational were conveyed in various ways. As a result of this communincation, we formed views, opinions and plans based on what and how information was communicated.
When the word culture is spoken, many ideas bubble up in our minds. Maybe we think of culture based on ethnic foundations. Maybe we think of culture in terms of the environment in a business or group. Maybe we think of culture as the melting pot of many diverse people coming together in unity. What ever your picture of our culture, believe it is good and can be better for without a positive outlook for the future all of our visons of our culture will wither and dry up.
At this time of year, JKL Associates would like to extend a warm heart felt Thank You to all of our readers, clients, colleagues, friends and supporters who have entrusted in us over the past year. It is all of these relationships which ultimately define our purpose.
Ponder for just a moment all we have to be thankful for? Far beyond possibilities, we live at a time of abundance. Yes, the equity and spread of possibilities and abundance have disparities but in reasonable comparison to many cultures we have very little we do not have some access to. Leave no stone unturned as you seek out your possibilities and abundance.
Ever had the experience where you felt like you were totally and completely exposed without anything to give you cover?
In an age of technology where pc’s, smartphones, tablets, voicemail, texting and email bombard us with noise, all being represented as conversation. We owe it to ourselves to break free from the threads of short sentences and dive deeply into a one on one conversation with someone we love and cherish a relationship with. The discovery of conversation at a personal face to face level is amazing. So grab your favorite beverage and engage in real talk!
Trust in a relationship is not something that just automatically exists. You may have a sense that an individual is potentially worthy of being trusted but like respect it is earned through demonstrated behaviors. Trust is something that can take hours, days, weeks or even years to build but can be lost in an instant if just the right behavior is done or not done. Trust is as fragile as a piece of thin glass bowing and flexing as you carry it across a rocky terrain. It can also be as strong as a steel bridge connecting two individuals or organizations to one another.