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What’s your royal flush?
Permaculture and regenerative agrictulture both start with the soil. The soil is king, queen, and the whole royal flush it you will.
Why did you do that?
Our ‘why did you do that’ comes from an angry place rather than a place of learning. ‘What did you learn?’ might even be a better question.
Being Specific
We think we are keeping our options open by being general, but often it is in the specifics that change happens.
The Keeper of the Keys
Carrying a perscription around was a basic form of data portability. I was the courier and the keeper of the keys.
Consistency
Consistently showing up day after day after day is viewed as boring, unattractive, and not noteworthy. And may be one of the most powerful.
What if?
What if our lives were different? Had different goals? Metrics? Here’s a series of questions to get your started
Hardening
There is often a tenderness to new ideas and change that are killed off if put too soon into organisations. They require hardening.
Patience
Patience. It’s not a strong characteristic of mine. I tend to be the impatient kind. Build, measure, learn. Don’t wait for perfect.
What are you ‘for’?
The challenge is to highlight what we are for more than what we are against. Or at least regularly reminding others what we are for.
You can’t
You don’t know how many ‘can’ts’ there are before ‘you can’. This is true for you, me, and everyone. And for everything we learn to do.
We don’t believe it anymore
Previously, the clock in our kitchen was three minutes fast, but now is about 6 minutes fast. We don’t believe the time anymore.
We see Arrival, rarely the Journey
We see the arrival and rarely the journey. If you are walking to Toronto, it makes a big difference if you start in Niagara or Vancouver.