Connecting to the world

• Knowing I make a difference in the world – believing the world is a better place because I am here Being worthwhile is about understanding, not the work It is how I help others – not how much I earn The result is self esteem – this is real power • Goal sharing – everyone works towards a shared goal Trust – putting others first –this will lead towards everyone supporting the shared goals. Making sure everyone helps in goal setting – people support what they create. Goals drive you into the future to the place you want to be in. They focus attention and productively. • Values are the guide for decisions and goals and actions Our plans are our future – our values are now Plans are set – values are lived. Plans get us to move on – values keep our focus (they sustain the effort) Values are only effective when you demonstrate them by your behaviour and insist others behaviour the same way. In any successful business values are the real boss. When we get together to do a work it is not the ...

Australian troops at Milne Bay World War 2 - Papuan campaign We remember those who fought for our freedom Australian forces defeated the Japanese attempt to capture the strategic Milne Bay area in August 1942. During the Battle of Milne Bay two brigades of Australian troops, designated Milne Force, supported by two RAAF fighter squadrons and US Army engineers defeated a smaller Japanese invasion force made up of Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces units. This was the first notable Japanese land defeat and raised Allied morale across the Pacific Theatre.

If we want to understand what we believe we need only to look at what we are involved in. I know that amongst successful business people they talk about things like leadership, innovation, persistence and longevity. I know that all of these are important and I feel and speak passionately about these things often. How ever to achieve in any of these areas it is our beliefs that will set our values and our character will be the example of theses. We all believe something – what we believe is important to success. Belief is not a gift – it is learned from others – it is something we can teach others. We can give someone a dollar, but it soon will be spent and be in the pocket of another. Teach someone something valuable they can believe and they set a value they can use to reproduce that dollar. We can give presents, compliments, advice and embrace one another in moments of despair. But to teach another a right belief is a commodity for which time passed, or circumstance can never take aw...