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