You are a living magnet.
What you attract into your life is in
harmony with your dominant thoughts."
Brian Tracy
Living Lavita
Building the wellness culture at home triggered lots of conversation.
Judy talked about thinking about the concept that everyone wants to be great and that when you are married you should never assume your spouse just knows what you are thinking. So Judy said that her and her husband go golfing every weekend and she realized that she never gave him praise when he hits a good shot, so she started to acknowledge his good shots and she noticed that this put him in a different frame of mind. So she took this one step further and started praising him about his cooking and it has just put everything in a more positive frame of mind...
Helen also shared a story about her two boys, one gets straight A's without studying and the other struggles with school and does not like to study. The other night the son who does not like to study told Helen that he had a big project due in two days and it is about two weeks of work.. Both Helen and her husband could have easily gone down the negative communication path but they decided to stay on the positive side and noticed that this son took great pride in his skate boarding... So Helen praised him about this and when she approached getting his project done, he was much more cooperative and was spending his day off school, working on his project and getting it done before the deadline...
Tanya shared a story about her husband and that due to Tanya talking about pathways and staying positive, he now recognizes that he is not in a good mood and Tanya and her husband work together to think of all the positive things they have in their lives and it worked.. His frame of mind changed and they had a pleasant evening... Tanya said it could have easily gone the other way...
Helen shared that when she gets down she makes a list of the 10 things you are thankful for and it takes you from the negative side and puts you in a more positive frame of mind.
The team also spoke about the 3 tools that help support the wellness culture, and we thought that they were: Building the Big R, Being on a Roll, and the 3s's of yes....
Our closing conversation was on work life balance and the team talked about the guilt of needing to work long hours and how we put pressure on ourselves so that lead to talking about quality of time vs quantity of time and we decided to work on: Leaving Work at work, focus that we are not setting ourselves up for a stressful day and making going home at night a more enjoyable place to be....
Salsa Brew Crew
We first had an open discussion, on how everyone's weekend went and how the beginning
of the week was shaping up
Member 1)
Sends out a "thought of the day" within the department.
Advises everyone what they accomplished the day before.
Sends out inspirational emails to group, and tries to encourage others in the group
to do the same to keep momentum going
Fernando Cevello, Mike Fantasia, Nicole Hummer, MariAnne Wozniak, Shannon Haines
Presidential Detail
Get Smart
Opening question "How do we build a wellness culture"?
"Everyone wants to be great" and we need to continue to build Big "R's". Think collaborative and conduct free flowing communication.
All of us feel better when we are operating on the front side of the energy map! It feels good!
We listened to the DVD and agreed that we need to send employees home "gift wrapped". Building a wellness culture at home as well as work is important.
We talked about the Plaza 4 job cuts due to the start up in Peru. It is important to continue to work on the wellness culture in P4 in light of the realignment of resources.
Chris shared with our team his job responsibilities in his current procurement position. It was interesting to hear the diversity of his current position. Our POIS team rocks!
Glenna Takats, Joan Channell, Chris Walton, Cindi Phalen
T.O.P (Tools of Pathways)
The team discussed the effectiveness of Building a WC at work, but noted there are some challenges doing so. Shared many personal stories at home. Lots of good advice on continuing at home. Very supportive team mates!
Specifically, it was acknowledged that building a WC is more effective when contained within a smaller group setting - but when it is necessary to expand into a larger network, it becomes more difficult to instill positive change. This is especially the case when others within the large group have yet to be exposed to Pathways and therefore, may not understand, nor be receptive to the concept.
One potential solution discussed is that when confronted with a difficult area or person, the nearest affiliated POIS team leader could be consulted with and possibly act as a conduit between the parties if needed. This would not have to be anything recognizable to the participants, just some additional intervention that may be beneficial.
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