Nigel Buxton Update
Wondrous Revelations about the "Weather"! February 2006
 
  Dear Nigel,

Can you handle the "weather"? When the rain comes (read a hike in interest rates or the strengthening of the dollar), can you pull out an umbrella and carry on, or do you have to rush to stop the water flooding in under the doors (read instant cost cutting to stop losses)?

When your partner takes on a new hobby or pastime, and starts saying how he/she wants to experience new things: is the weather changing?

Being aware of the weather is being sensitive to change. And change it does and change it will.

It is great to talk about the "weather": one of the oldest conversation topics in the world! But let's also talk about the emotional weather, the social weather, and the economic weather and the environmental weather.

Change will happen, but beware resisting it. It is like you know a hurricane has come, you know another will come shortly and you know that others will continue to come in the future. How long do you want to hold on to those old patterns for?

 		 
 
You are not here to enjoy the weather!

I was reading yesterday about the weather at General Motors, where they have started to count the number of days the corporation can be kept alive without any action being taken.

When someone is struggling for their life, don't you go rushing in with massive action to try and save them?

The weather will always be. Sometimes sunny, and sometimes not so sunny. But you are not here to enjoy the weather. The verb "to weather" means "to survive". You have gone beyond survival.
YOU HAVE A HIGHER PURPOSE!

You need that higher purpose to keep growing. The wind and the rain will in time destroy the strongest building. You must constantly renew and maintain the structures that support your life.

You are not here just to handle the weather, you must design yourself a higher purpose! Otherwise you become like a lifeboatman waiting for an SOS from a ship in trouble, or a fireman waiting for a fire.
 
 

I always come back to the concept of a castle when I think of something to be protected. You do need to be prepared to fight for your territory (what is important to you). But at the same time you must realize that castles, in the medieval sense, are not the most practical for living in today. The structure which you depend on should not be so rigid and unmovable so that it impedes the way you live and how you operate.

It is the bamboo that survives the hurricane not the oak!

Mr. Honda, known for his motorcycles and automobiles, had his factory bombed numerous times in the war and also levelled by an earthquake. Each time he rebuilt. He had something important he had to do: the weather was not going to stop him.

When you want to go to the cash-dispenser, you select the direction, you pull up the collar of your coat, you walk round the puddles, you navigate your way through the people and you go to the machine. You do it with purpose.

Do you have a HIGHER purpose?

Nigel coaches you to freedom – freedom from limitations, freedom to do/be more, financial freedom, emotional freedom, freedom to be yourself.

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nigel
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