happiness is 9-5

well...work...wot can i say??

I used to think that it was a "product of the fall", but after reading a few books ("Work-prison or place of destiny?" etc...etc...) i had changed my mind.
I have been on a journey of sorts, and the more i have embarked on it, the more sense it has made.

I got into setting up TEEM180 to not only teach Beatboxing, nut to use it to facilitate team building. I started the journey after attending a "team building" day at an NHS trust where i was working at the time.

Terrible.
We were told off for at least 1.5hrs, because (apparently) we didn't support our illustrious manager. I found out that the facilitator worked for the NHS trust, and basically was making sure we were all singing the same 'tune' (i.e: We love the Trust, we will put up and shut up, please use us and abuse us etc...). I realized that actually we as a team / department, weren't being invested in for our own good at all.
So...i started the journey into teams and work.

The most recent book that sums it all up is this. You can read it free online and it is pure fun and common sense (ok..and a few other things!..) but it is brilliant!

Sometimes i don't understand all this business lingo, but when you break it down into real terms, you realise that its not just for the professionals, but that you can improve things at at a real level.

When you break it down, its really some values that i would call "Kingdom Values".
As a Christian, people think that Jesus was this white, middle class, wet guy who was utterly religious. Actually, the values and the way that he did things were (and still are) absolutely Radical. If he did the same things today, he would make front page news and I'm sure you would love him or (sort of) hate him, coz he would disrupt and turn things upside down!
He said mad things like 'go the extra mile' for people, and to love others like you love yourself.

When you apply his teachings and lifestyle to things like business, you can actually see that to invest in people, as opposed to making as much money as possible (at others expense) isn't such a bad thing after all. The person who feels invested in, then feels like they have some worth and something to contribute to the business. The business then goes from strength to strength etc....and so on....

Anyway, all i can say is READ IT!

Laters.