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Look After Your Agreements

Agreements can be a tricky thing. What happens with most people is that agreements at some area are assumed. Assuming an agreement is a slippery slope, and what we look at within any innate system, any living system is that there's agreement more than by assumption. It's by a cohesive working together, and in the case of human beings it's either spoken or written. Agreements set up the framework for a relationship. An agreement is not necessarily a contract, in…
Mark Postles
August 20, 2019
in8model® UpdatesYour LifeYour People

Thank You

As many people in the world pause to honour the celebration of Christmas it is appropriate to also reflect upon our life and world with the gratitude that it deserves. Too often in our busy life we get immersed in the day-to-day business of living and working. We keep our head down, bum up and nose to the ‘grindstone’ and sometimes forget to smell the roses. Let this Christmas/New Year period be the reminder to give thanks. The other day…
Mark Postles
December 18, 2018
Quadrant 1Your LifeYour People

Light Up Their Lives

The story of a rich man who was dying comes to mind when I think of this topic. The man called his three sons and said to them. “I wish to leave my fortune intact, so I will set each of you the same task to see which one is the most capable at managing money. In my warehouse there are three large storerooms, all of the same size. Here is a bag of silver each. Your task is to…
Mark Postles
October 29, 2018
CaringQuadrant 3Your People

Care More Than Others Think is Wise

"Excellence can be attained if you... Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible." - Jim Gentil This week’s quote has so much wisdom in it so we will explore it under the 4 topics that it deserves. I suggest that if you take the time over the next four weeks to focus on each of these statements you will…
Mark Postles
August 19, 2016
Quadrant 1Quadrant 3Your LifeYour People

Eating Elephants

There are many obstacles that stand in your way of being able to empower those in your circle of influence. Sometimes that task seems so huge that it even seems fruitless to start. The social group-think machine of limitation is so pervasive and it has spread its tentacles into every corner of people’s minds. Regardless of your individual role in life you are in the business of getting along with others and shifting others perspective to another viewpoint. Whether you…
Mark Postles
July 22, 2016
Quadrant 3Your People

Accept responsibility to hold others accountable

This is a series of thoughts addressing the theme of excellence based on a famous quote from Rita Mae Brown, the American novelist and activist. She stated that “You cannot invest your life’s spirit into a compromise” and I am visiting some of the key components of this viewpoint and how it relates to your life. Theme - Accept responsibility to hold others accountable As we discussed earlier in this series of blogs holding oneself accountable to one’s values and…
Mark Postles
June 28, 2016
Quadrant 3Your PeopleYour World

Bring on the Stress

When people go into the weightless environment of space gravitational stress is eliminated to a large degree from their bodies. In this environment their body has nothing to push against and starts to weaken, muscles start to atrophy and bones start to demineralise. The innate intelligence within us all needs forces, commonly known as tropisms to grow to. Without opposing forces we shrivel and die. The avoidance of stress is endemic in our society. We have developed a culture that…
Mark Postles
April 26, 2016
Your LifeYour People

It pays to be Deaf?

A group of frogs were travelling through the bush, and four of them fell into a really deep hole. All the other frogs gathered around the top of the hole. When they saw how deep the hole was, they realised the magnitude of their plight and yelled down to the four frogs that there was no way that they could get out. As far as the observers were concerned they were as good as dead. The first frog was the…
Mark Postles
April 12, 2016
in8model® UpdatesYour PeopleYour World

Eco-Systems

Some people try and fit the in8model® into a box where rules and classifications of people abound. The in8model® is not a psychological tool. It’s not a system of naming or diagnosing personality types. It’s not a system of fixing people. I like to think of the in8model is a sustainable, clean, energy efficient, non-polluting celebration of life. Based on the fundamental premise that we are living in an organised and intelligent world we study what normal looks like and…
Mark Postles
April 5, 2016