This past weekend we had our annual "evolutionary retreat" - an opportunity for our lead trainers known as evolutionaries to come together and share insights, key learnings, get feedback from participants and explore what it means to be a part of evolution.

This year our key focus was the key evolutionary manifesto. It is an ever evolving document that underpins every aspect of what we do in the business. It is also a way to approach life. The process of creating it and sharing it was very moving and I think all of us feel very inspired to be partners in it.

Below is the first page of the manifesto - it represents who we are for ourselves, our clients and the world (apologies for the formatting. Seems to be a google Blog constraint. gonna have to switch to tumblr)


The Evolutionary Manifesto

Mission, Vision, Growth & Strategy

Our manifesto, as our Company name suggests is an organic and ever evolving document and process. It forms the basis of all that we do and how we relate to ourselves, to our work mates, to our clients, to our community and to the world at large.

It is the basis of our commitment to being and creating something extraordinary. The program and the business are founded on the idea of sustainability. Sustaining a great community. Remembering that a result is not a result unless it is sustainable. Remembering that for our world to work we need to live in a sustainable way in all that we do.

This underpins every aspect of evolution the business and how it engages with all stakeholders - evolutionaries, staff, clients, suppliers, local communities and all others who come into contact with us.

1/ The five pillars of the program are:
1. Accountability – I am your partner in holding you accountable. It starts with attendance, intensity & results
2. Flexibility – frequency & utilisation of sessions, locations, content and evolutionary support.
3. Affordability – A price point for sessions that is attainable & and an open mind & policy that caters for a clients life situation
4. Variety – Different locations, trainers, session content, days, people, & ability levels
5. Community – Local, like minded, open, authentic and facilitated by an evolutionary

2/ It’s all about them: - I make every conversation or interaction about them and what they need.
“If I help enough people to create a life that works for them then life will automatically work for me”

3/ Integrity is the foundation of my success in my KLIK and in my life. Integrity is being my word, doing what I say that I am going to do. In my KLIK that starts with my Sunday text. I teach my clients what it means to do what you say you are going to do.

The only thing that is ever missing when someone does not do what he or she says they are going to do is a compelling reason. It is my role to create that for them.

4/ Inspiration & Purpose:
I do something that I love & something that makes a difference & I make more money in less time & have fun doing it. We are part of the solution AND not part of the problem in all and everything that we do.

5/ The butterfly effect.
One small act of seemingly insignificant impact can create great impact - only the little things matter.

6/I am the space in which it happens. It is always, only and ever about who I am being. So if I am the space then I am responsible and if that is true then there is only ever one question to ask “Where am I responsible? In that role / space I seek first to understand and then be understood

Clients are always saying or thinking the following (whether consciously or unconsciously)
“Do I like you, do I trust you, & will you take care of me"

If there answer to that question is a consistent YES then I will always succeed. We call that question the ONE. If I get the ONE question right then I will experience the incredible rewards of success.

To create that success I have three things that I must always DO / BE
1. Be Authentic and in so being create authentic connection
2. Be consistent in all that I do (be my word and remember that it was the tortoise who WON the race)
3. Create certainty because certainty = safety and trust.

Daily Deals and Swipe and Go - What's happening to us

My commitment is that I blog when I have something to say rather than committing myself to writing a blog every x number of days.

The Daily deal sites have proliferated and in the past few months have become the primary way that we market the evolution brand. When they first launched I was incredibly excited by the concept. I thought that it made such perfect sense. It's no brainer simplicity was akin to the invention of the paper clip - simple genius.

While aspects of it are amazing I think it also brings something insidious that again proliferates all aspects of this social media facebook driven phenomenon we find ourselves in.

This is how I see it:

On the plus side, the daily deal companies promise diverse experiences to its consumer base, a chance to sample a myriad of different things from tango lessons, to fine dining, canyoning to hair removal.

From a vendor perspective we are given the opportunity to expose ourselves to a database in the hundreds of thousands and do it all within the context of a risk free advertising model, only paying a percentage of those deals sold. And then having the opportunity to expose these people to the services that we offer with the intention that they become loyal advocates and full paying users of our product or service.

The reality though is quite different and while we have created some amazing new clients through this medium I feel like we are participating in yet another variable in the slippery slide of transience.

Whatever happened to good old life long, hard earned, authentic loyalty. What happened to savouring and stopping and listening, and feeling and researching. What happened to commitment ? what happened to community and sustained togetherness?

That has become my challenge at evolution and my challenge with fulfilling a vision of creating communities of people who train together.

For these communities to exist people MUST

1/ Invest in each others lives.
2/ Be genuinely concerned and considerate about the needs of another
3/ Take the time to get to know others
4/ Become accountable to each other
5/ Go through the highs and the lows together
6/ Stick around
7/ Be a tribe

While this tribe mentality is recognised we have another opposing force that calls for many changes, many experiences, many friends. In the sphere of many there is not capacity for depth. And it is the depth that is missing.

So how does it work at evolution ? It works this way.

A group of people from a local area come together in a beautiful local park or beach and they train with a local trainer. They are respectful of the other locals who use that area. They engage in activities that are sustaining from an interest and physical challenge perspective. And those activities are constantly changing so as to keep it varied and interesting and life rich.

And those local people get to laugh together, train together, run together, stretch together. And as they do so a common bond develops and over time they start to get to know each other, enjoy each others company and support each other. They go through the cold winter mornings and the perfect sunrises, they feel the rain and the heat. They get bitten by mozzies and irritated by flies, they get to feel warm grass on their cheeks and the cold and the wet on their buttocks. And they go through the myriad of facets of a life experience together.

And into that fold, over time, come other locals. And those locals get to see and experience the same. And they do it by going through the same process. And they are at all times led by a local trainer who is truly invested in them. And so the community grows and is nurtured and it flourishes.

And all of this takes time and commitment. And it is beautiful to behold.

To maintain this sense of community when being inundated by hundreds of people looking for a 'deal' has been almost impossible and has impacted the fabric of what evolution is. Because to convert that message takes time and readiness.

But I and all our evolutionaries will stick to this vision. Despite opposing forces we will set out to create sustainable communities of people who want to be a part of something and want to contribute to that something. Who want to experience what it is like to be a part of and create a tribe through all the highs an the lows and the ups and the downs.

Authentic, vulnerable, inclusive, responsible and sustainable. It's what Mother Earth calls out for.

The Power of a Partnership

In the Old Testament God creates Eve as a helpmate for Adam. God also creates a custodial relationship with Adam whereby he is charged with the awesome responsibility of overseeing all of creation in tandem with God.

I am generally reluctant to quote any religious doctrine in my blogs and make any reference to God for two reasons.

The first is because of how emotionally charged the whole topic of God and religion is and the second is because of good old gender bias - God as a male or female character.

I open with the "God in partnership" quote because it resonates for me that the creation story begins with the idea of partnership and duality. From nothing, something was created and therein lies the very spark of creation and the world coming into being.

It is no secret that at the core of the evolution philosophy is this idea of community and specifically the 'sustaining of community'

Community is born from partnership and so underpins everything we do.

So how do we create it ? Quite simple really. We illustrate to all stakeholders that the power of 2 is far greater than the power of 1 provided that the two are in alignment and agreement. If they are not, conflict will ensue and this will be followed by chaos.

I surround myself with this idea of partnership. It exists with personal and business coaches, with my friends, with my children and their mother/s, with the community projects that I am involved with, with my evolution business partners and with our clients.

As such, nothing that I do occurs in isolation and this leads to a richer, deeper, more accountable way of living life.

Let me elaborate from both a personal and professional perspective.

My best mate (as he is fondly known) Brett and I set up a collaborative life purpose structure. It is called the 100's list and is composed of the following:

I have a goal to have 100 KLIK's (evolution groups) by 2019. He and I aim to create 100 mens groups ( a social project we are involved in) by 2021. I am going to hold 100 courses for married couples by 2023. We have a list 100 projects that we want to do before we die from creating a veggie patch where I live now to owning an Audi R8.

We have listed 100 adventures from renting a Villa in Tuscany, working on Kibbutz with the kids to diving with with whale sharks. We love and collect watches and presently buy one new watch a year which we share. Our goal is to have 100 before we die. So some of those 100's overlap, some we will do together and some we will do seperately. What we do together is inspire each other in their creation and their fulfillment .

Evolution is run with a similar ethos of partnership. Each evolutionary (KLIK/Group owner) is a business partner in their group. The highs and low's of each group success is experienced directly as we partner in creating a business with them that is rewarding both personally and professionally.

This refreshing way of doing business makes each evolutionary totally accountable for getting the most out of themselves and for inspiring each person in their care to do the same.

Within an evolutionite context (clients who attend our groups) we create the same ethos. Wherever possible we buddy people up - from carpooling to performing exercises together. We encourage people to get to know each other so that they can consciously and unconsciously support each other inn their individual commitments to creating an exercise habit at sunrise.

And the same can be said of my family (of which evolution is a part). I have learned with my sons moms to work in partnership. To collaborate and share and support so that we all live in harmony with one another and focus our energy on creating lives that we love rather then on trying to fix personal discord.

This same sense of partnership was evident last weekend when i attended the "awaken the dreamer" symposium. It is a symposium designed to alert us to what is occurring in he world from an environmental perspective and what we can do as partners in creation to intervene and support. One of the videos they the played was called four years GO. It is a totally inspiring 3 minute video campaign created by one of the symposium attendees in 2010.

If this Blog has inspired you in any way please watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOFSEB-xNI (if the link does not work for any reason go to you tube and search "four years go movement")

And today, take a moment and consider where an opportunity exists for you to create a partnership (in any area of your life) that will get you one step closer to creating a more fulfilling, enriching and community oriented existence.

Upward and Onward
And yours in partnership
Mike

What does it mean to belong

I often sit in full movie houses and wonder to myself whether the experience is indicative of community experiences in the 21st century.

People, surrounded by people all of whom are craving connection but who sit there in silence. We do not acknowledge our neighbour, offer them some popcorn, share a laugh, a tear, a shoulder or a tissue. Yet in those moments where everybody laughs or cries all who are present light up and the energy erupts like a charge through the audience

Then the curtain closes, the lights go up and everybody shuffles out in silence looking neither right nor left , just staring at the floor and avoiding the possibility of eye contact with one another.

This past Saturday night I went to movies for the very first time ever on my lonesome. I would like to say it was liberating. The only positive was that I managed to escape the summer heat.

It was confronting because I feel so clear that human beings are not meant to exist in isolation. We are community creatures. We crave connection, we crave like, we crave touch, we crave belonging.

So what is it that is creating this community of people who are able to facebook anyone, anywhere, anytime yet are unable to connect with the person sitting right next to them ? And what is it that sustains us in this crazy world of ours.

That question has been my passion for the past 17 years and the primary motivator behind creating evolution group training now known as KLIK's. The original idea was this:

' to create a context in which a group of people could authenitcally engage with each other in the pursuit of their own (and the groups) betterment.

he second layer of that community was the community of trainers (evolutionaries) who would become a group of people empowering others to create, nurture and sustain these communities.

These communities would then go out into their world, their greater communities and spread this sense of community.

To an extent i feel we have achieved that. We have an amazing sense of community within each an every ne of our groups. And each group seems to reflect the unique nature of it's leader.

So far as the evolutionaries go i am not sure. I am not sure how deeply the commitment goes to creating and leading lives that make a difference. And I am not sure how much of that is about me or whether I just push to hard instead of allowing things to flower in their own good time. I push the evolutionaroes hard. I can see there potential and the potenital of what evolution can mean to them from a personal and fincaial perspective. And i don't settle for less then the actualisation of that potential n the process. Perhaps I drive some of htem mad in that but I only take on people who I feel have it in them to actualise that potential. IAnd sometimes I see them as much greater then they see themselves.

How does that relate to community ? I am not totally sure. I guess I se part o their potential as creating this amazing sense of community around each other. Deep meaningful friendships, a corproate culture that is unique in its authenticity, and vulnerability, a group of people who liv hanging out with each other. who recharge when they are together as they share their highs and lows, their dreams and ambitions. A group of people who truly learn and grow together and absolutely support one another in creating lives that they love.

Thats the vision. I am not sure how close I am to achieving it.

The Cleanse Wrap up

We have just completed our first cleanse of 2011 and it was suggested that I compose an email for all our current active evolution clients and provide a bit of a wrap up of the past 10 days.

For those who participated - May it strengthen what you have learned.

For those who have not done it - You will get another two opportunities this year. Alternately you might be totally inspired to go and do it right now, in which case all the information you need is on the evolution website.

The cleanse is about two things

1/ Eating with awareness and paying attention to what you are putting into your body

2/ Learning that things that control you are called addictions (and they are not your friends)

From eating with awareness and putting whole foods into your system you get to feel a complete shift in energy. What surprises most people is how little needs to change for them to feel vastly different. By day 4 once the caffeine headache has receded and the grumpiness is gone they start to feel lighter, clearer and more in tune. Bloating and heaviness diminish and by day 10 they feel positively great.

From learning to let go of an addiction comes a whole new lesson. For most it is coffee, alcohol or sugar. Those are the three demons. And for the smokers amongst us there is also the good old cigarettes.

And in the letting go of addiction lies the profound lesson of the cleanse.

The evolutionaries (trainers) know how much I love my gadgets and my reading so for my birthday they bought me my first Kindle - which I am loving. last night i download a book called the Slap.

Here's a quote from the book " he and Aisha had a graceful morning of slow delightful sex, and he'd wrapped his arms around her and whispered, you are my greatest commitment. She'd turned around with a sardonic smile and replied, No I'm not, cigarettes are your true love, cigarettes are your true commitment........she had wounded him, shattered his pride. and he was mortified to realize that it was only his feverish sucking on cigarettes that allowed him any measure of self control in the argument"

Such a poignant reflection on the insidious nature of addiction. Addiction can be a subtle little monster because it parades itself as our friend but always it contains both the high and the low and that is why the cleanse can be such a powerful tool to start to reclaim your own power, step by step, slowly slowly.

And here you were thinking that evolution was just about getting your butt kicked by a trainer by 6am.

And that is the beauty of doing the cleanse as a group. Sharing the victories and disappointments and feeding off each other as we take one step after another on the road to leading an optimal and meaningful life.

What was great about the cleanse this year was that all the evolutionaries took on doing it (that is an evolution first) and from that they started to make a difference in their lives and the lives of their evolutionites (you)

Tomorrow you will wake up and relish that you can have that first coffee. Relish it I say, enjoy it, enjoy the ritual and the aroma but do not let it be your crutch or your sustenance.

Do not let sugar or alcohol be that. Do not let cigarettes be that.

Take your sustenance from laughter with friends and family, the sun rising over the horizon, a shared moment with your partner as you pour every ounce of yourself into an exercise, a private victory as you climb to the top of a hill for the first time, a beautiful book, a great movie, shared intimacy and vulnerability.

Those are things that will fill your cup. I hope the cleanse has been another brick in that wall

Onward and upward

Mike and the evo team

Cleanse me please

Day 1 - 3

Nothing about cleansing ever really feels exciting. "At the end of the day I am going to have to sacrifice a whole lot of stuff for some kind of future return that I don't really believe in yet. And I feel like all my favorite stuff is being taken away from me " and so the internal dialogue goes.

That's not made any easier by the current heat wave and this general feeling of lethargy permeating all of Sydney. Add to that trying to get to sleep without an air conditioner and we have a lethal combination.

The biggest missing in the first couple of days is the good old cup of coffee. I think I would speak for the vast majority of cleansers who say "just give me my coffee GRRRR !!" - something about the coffee ritual and the so called coffee kick start is what we so crave.

And then there are the addictions. They are the painful letting goes. Most commonly they are cigarettes, alcohol, and sugar (in all its guises) and most often all three at once. That takes something and for the cleansers who are giving it a true go, they will be in a world of pain.

I am fortunate that the only addiction (of which I am aware) is the old morning cup of coffee.

It is a daily ritual and something I will often drive right out of my way to satisfy. Luigi's in Bondi is my absolute favourite and I have been known to drive there from Coogee just to get a my dose of flat white.

I am not really counting but this is probably my 20th cleanse in the past few years. I usually do the 10 days but once did 29. I know that the first 4 days are tough and then everything starts to go woosh but right now there are no wooshes.

I am irritable, grumpy, a little headachey, slightly vacant and also feeling lots of sadness. I recently farewelled someone that I love deeply so maybe all the "pushing it down" is not so easy now. Who knows ?

What I do know is that letting go of anything takes something and it is so incredibly freeing to know that you can let go. There is an incredible feeling in knowing, or at least glimpsing that you are whole and complete and do need anything to make you okay or make it okay.

You do NOT need the coffee, the cigarette, the glass of wine, the lolly or the person.

That does not mean you turn into a selfish git or an Island of self assurance. What it means is that you can start looking beyond your own selfish needs and be more cognisant of the needs of others.I used to love Simon and Garfunkel as an adolescent and I remember the words of one of their songs "I am a rock, I am an Island, and a rock feels no shame (Pain?) and an island never cries" - so aptly put.

So what the cleanse teaches you is not to be some stoic I have got it handled and all sorted type.

Instead it teaches you that in being self contained you have the strength to open up.

And then there is the physiological benefits, the simple experience of putting goodness into your body, of truly treating it like a temple for 10 days and experiencing its profound response. Your body is your temple. never forget that. When the headaches go away and the bowels have settled you will feel a new sense of energy, a glow, an ease and you might even drop a couple of unwanted Kilograms.

So that's all that there is to look forward to but today, right now, I am still feeling the last of that headache, that little bit of grumpiness, and the sadness that I mentioned. I know that this to shall pass even if i have to drown in an Adzuki Bean Stew

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Onwards and Upwards

Mike

Is 40 the new 30 & If it is What can we learn from it ?

I turned 40 last week and it felt like a real milestone. As my birthday happens to be around the new year period it happens to fall during a 'contemplative time'. I would have to say that this was my first contemplative birthday.

I remember my Dad turning 40 and 40 just seemed so grown up. It also seemed like an apt time for reflection. So I hit 40 with a few things I (and others) thought I would or would not have.

I have a full set of hair, I have two beautiful kids, I am single, I still have a six pack, my business is established and I am doing something I love, I have an intimate group of friends, a home that I love, very few wrinkles, energy to do the stuff I love to do. And in the name of lightheartedness I asked my Mom to bake me a BOB the Builder cake for my birthday. She complied.

One of the gifts that I received was a book by Malcolm Gladwell called Outliers. Yesterday, on a flight to melbourne I had a read of it.

The book challenges the premise of success, how it is both created and defined. What I loved about it was that it stirred my own creative juices.

I have been fortunate to create a business that centres itself around creating success, creating an optimal life and a life that works. While exercise and wellbeing are an important piece of that pie they are only a piece. And the pie itself is multifaceted and totally integrated and intertwined.

In that integrative context we do the following at evolution. All our evolutionaries (lead trainers) buddy up with each other. They are then given a very basic goal setting structure that has 6 categories that essentially incorporates their whole lives. The aim is to create three specific actions in each of the categories. The structure is loosely based around that advocated by Stephen Covey in his book 7 habits of Highly Effective people (which to date has sold in excess of 30 million copies)

The categories are

1/ Work within evolution. 3 things I am up to as an evolutionary

2/ Work/finance outside of evolution. what am I doing and creating

3/ My health and wellbeing

4/ My friends and family

5/ My greater community

6/ Self/spirit/awaerness development

The goals need to follow the classic SMART Framework

S = Specific

M = Measurable

A = Achievable

R = Realistic

T = Timebound (within a specified timeframe)

Doing that in our own lives enables us to do that in the lives of our evolutionites (clients) and other people in our world for whom we can make a difference.

So while its a simple process it is also incredibly empowering especially when Buddies hold each other to account.

My buddy is Brett who happens to also be my closest friend of 20 years. At my 40th party in lieu of a speech he composed a poem about us which he read out. As a 40th birtday gift he created a 7 minute DVD that tracks our friendship in video and images while the poem is reading the background (check it out at http://www.vimeo.com/18946092 if you like)

Gladwell makes the same point over and over again in his book. To be great at something (anything) takes persistence, commitment, passion and lots and lots of practice. SO I feel like having hit 40 I have had lots of practice at this thing called life.

I have had ups and downs, highs and lows and many obstacles to climb over. I have fallen hard many times but I have always gotten up. And I have learned some key lessons the most important of which is probably this:

"Do what you say you are going to do"

Be your word, be accountable to what you say. It makes you clear. it makes you trustable. It makes you accountable. It makes you believe in yourself and it grants you enormous power

I am not sure if it is possible to know that lesson at 30 but I know at 40 that I have a spring in my gait and my waist is still the same size it was when I was 30. I laugh with more ease then I did at 30 and I am clear that I know alot less.

I am more forgiving of myself and others and less likely to debate. I listen more and talk less. I need less sleep. I read as much but not as widely. I have forgiven God and I have found my own way. And I am surrounded by many people that I love.

I have some great possessions but I know they come and go and I have a vocation that I love.

And I am looking very forward to the next ten years and am planning on meeting them as a present and open man who knows that whatever this is - it to shall pass.

Is Love Really All Around At Christmas Time

Reflection time and New year go hand in hand. Somehow you can't get away from it.

Beneath all the Christmas cheer is this little voice that says "reflect" on the year that has been, on where you were this time last year and where you are now.

A few years ago I was told something very simple that had a profound impact on how I lived my life from that moment on. I was told

"There are only two emotions - love and fear. You are either in a state of love, openness, or in a state of fear, contraction. It is that simple."

Those words had a profound impact on me because on reflection I realised them to be true. When all the shades of grey were taken away, all the mental games broken down to their most basic component part I realised that it was that obvious and that simple and that liberating.

Those same sentiments were echoed beautifully in an article I received recently written by Charles Poliquin. He writes " There is no such thing as discipline. there is only love. Love is the most powerful creative force in the universe. You are the result of what you love most.....If you truly love yourself then you will make truly loving choices."

I love that because it incorporates what I know to be inherently true about wellness and about what we are up to at evolution (the business and community).

That is why I don't need to write about effective carb choices at Christmas dinner or not obliterating yourself at the New Years Eve Parties.

And here is the beautiful 'curve ball' spoken by one of my martial arts teachers many years back

"A little bit of poison is good for you".

If you can temper that with loving decisions then you are truly on the path.

So how do you do that ? Simple, Ask yourself " What love would LOVE do now ?"

And don't think that the answer is always cheesy. Because sometimes love will have a crazy new years eve party or go wild over the Christmas Turkey. that is what makes the journey fun, engaging and challenging.

You see if love was as simple as always doing the 'right' thing then life would become so very boring and predictable. And predictability is death.

In my experience it is about keeping it enriching, curious, fun, and sacred. I remember always that my body is my temple and that my health and my children are my greatest gift

I remember that this moment will not come again and this experience, however it looks is part of a tapestry.

That same tapestry is why we created evolution and why we train at 6am. That is life truly lived, a life that is full of sunrises, fresh air, the smell of wet grass, the sound of a city waking, frosted breath, sand between toes, the feel of rain on a face, a muddy t-shirt, a well deserved coffee, the buzzing of a fly, the splash of water, the sound of a bird, the wind through the trees, the laughter of a group of kindred souls.

Have a beautiful loving Christmas

Onward and upward

Mike and team evolution

What Are The Measures Of Success

I recently received an accolade from a friend who lives overseas about the 'success' of evolution.

he see's the facebook posts and the photo's and concluded for himself that evolution is very successful.

In my books he is successful. He has a beautiful wife, great kids, a multimillion dollar home and his own Company. He also happens to come from a very privileged background.

I shrugged off his compliment. I must have thought it wasn't warranted.

On reflection i wondered about it. Why did I not take on what he said with a beaming chest and a sense of pride and that got me thinking "What is the measure of success"

Here are my top 4

Commitment and adherence to a clear vision that is shared by a group of inspired people: - To have a dream and then set out to create it is an honour. I created the evolution vision over a decade ago. I called the Company evolution (my brother came up with the name) because I knew that as we went on the journey that vision would evolve.

There have been many ebbs and flows, & ups and downs but with tenacity, belief, consistency and sometimes sheer will we have turned the vision into reality.

That vision is also shared by an inspiring group of people. My measure of how much this vision is about me is 'hit by a bus theory'. I ask myself often, "If I were hit by that proverbial bus would evolution keep going". At our recent Company Retreat I said to those present " evolution is now in a place where it would keep going because we have two key things - Great people and great Systems and I am now merely the spark and not the flame.

Creating something that makes a difference in peoples lives: - I feel like this has two aspects. The first is leaving things better then I found them. Knowing that our product has no negative social or environmental impacts and does not mislead consumers and stakeholders in any way. When we first modeled the evolution concept we agreed that there needed to be a WIN for clients, trainers, the Evolution business, and the greater community. And that is what we have done and we have done that consistently. We also have the privilege of seeing that difference every single day. Giving our clients the joy of sunrise, enriching their lives, creating meaningful relationships, and watching their own wellbeing transform. Equally, seeing our evolutionaries (head trainers) becoming true leaders in their lives and in the lives of those around them. That is true success.

Financial reward: - The money is important because with the money we have the tools and the freedoms to do the things we love, provide security and sustenance to those who depend on us and make a difference in the broader community. And so the financial success of evolution is very important to me. To know that our clients feel like they are getting great great values for money and to see our key stakeholders get a great financial return for the time and energy they put into evolution. The key then in the world of finances is to always keep it in perspective.

Recognition from Parents, family and friends : - recognition feels great. it does not mean our name ablaze in lights or having speeches made about us but it does feel great when those whose opinions we value tell us how proud they are of who we are and what we have achieved. It feels really good, engenders respect and is a barometer that we are on the right track.

The Will and Grace BL - Amazing smoothie

The Will and Grace BL - Amazing smoothie

Background: This smoothie was originally created by Mike but was perfected by Caz. It has come to be known as The Will and Grace BL - Amazing Smoothie. The story as to how it got its name is for another time (and definitely worth hearing)

it also contains every possible antioxdiant age enhancing, free radical eradicating blah blah that you could want...........and it tastes great

What you will Need

1/ A sense of humour

2/ A hand blender (much better then a liquidiser)

Ingredients

• Fruit juice (Mango is best) - About one teac cup full to cover everything
• Yoghurt (Jalna Bush honey is reccomended) - 2 large dollops
• Frozen fresh berries (Sara Lee mixed berries is great - a handful
• Tahini in a jar (Mayvers unhulled) - one large soup spoon
• flaxseed oil (expensive but worth it, very high in Omega 3 - one large soup spoon
• Juice plus fruit and vegetable capsules (two of each)
• Manuka Honey - heaped teaspoon

Next

• Mix all the ingdredients together and blend until smoothie
• Drink and enjoy

Other things you could add

More sense of humour

olive leaf extract

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