During recent weeks the Altered Image Foundation has undergone a few changes. Several new projects have been incorporated into the Foundation so I thought it best to list them all on here as an update....
1) The AIMS Project - the pioneering project that began the Altered Image Foundation, this project is working towards the provision of musical instruments and training in their use for Bulgarian youngsters.
2) Because Someone Cares - a project aimed at making a difference to people's lives by the use of small gestures and gifts distributed around the community.
Click here to visit the Because Someone Cares website
3) Ilfracombe Community Nurses - a project designed to support these valuable members of the Community Medical team by providing certain items of equipment that is not NHS funded
4) Oaktree Children's Nursery - the foundation provides up to £150 worth of support each year by way of donating raffle prizes.
5) Rowcroft Hospice, Torbay - financial donation made in 2009 but more hands on support being planned for 2010
6) Toy Appeal - starting January 2010 the purpose of this appeal is to provide toys for terminally ill children.
This in brief is the current list of projects supported by the Altered Image Foundation, this list will be growing during 2010 as I hope will the number of people who care.
So have a fantastic Christmas and remember
Don't predict the future - CREATE IT!
DAve
Tuesday 22 December 2009
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Pathways to Change (Part 3) Strategy
Part 1 of Pathways to Change concerned itself with Knowing Your Purpose, it dealt with identifying what you were about, “moving from one place to another, always requires a "purpose"” therefore by definition change requires purpose.
Part 2 of the Pathways to Change series looked at the desired outcome – it is simply Knowing What You Want.
Now in Part 3, having clarified the Purpose and the Outcome, we need to look at how we get there, the STRATEGY. The strategy is the plan of action and details how we intend to reach our desired outcome.
For example, if we look at the example used in the first part we considered a shopping trip with a purpose of being therapeutic; the outcome was to enjoy a feel good state, possibly to buy some much needed items for the wardrobe etc. So now we need to create the Strategy to make this happen.
This planning process will probably include many actions, some of which can be considered automatic and others specifically allocated to the task in hand, for example :-
Pre planning
Identify the day
Identify the place
Identify travel method
Identify the budget
Micro Planning
Time to get up on day
What to wear on day
What to eat on day
Time to leave house
Money for travel
Fuel for car / Ticket for train or route to walk
This list is by no means fully comprehensive and does not take into account all the decisions involved in the process but it does provide an indication of the steps required to achieve the desired outcome.
Now to illustrate the point about having an effective strategy I would like to tell you a short story about a person who decided that he wanted to see a spectacular sunset. He boldly proclaimed “that’s it, I am off to find the most spectacular sunset in the world and when I have found it I am going to photograph it and bring the pictures back to show you”
He knew what his purpose was – find the most spectacular sunset in the world
He knew what his outcome was – photograph it and bring the picture back to show it off
So what did he do next?
Well, he set off walking and kept walking for days and days, the days turned into weeks, the weeks turned into months and the months turned into years but he never came across the most spectacular sunset in the world.
The one thing he got wrong was his strategy – throughout the time he was walking he never once realized that he was always heading East and as every schoolboy or girl knows the sun always sets in the West so he was never ever going to find his sunset.
This brings to a close the Pathways to Change series, I hope that you have found it interesting and that you will put these three lessons into practice whenever you want to make a change to your life.
It will probably be January before I publish the next entry on here, so let me wish you the Compliments of the season, have a great Christmas and New Year, take care and remember
Don’t predict the future – CREATE IT!
DAve
Part 2 of the Pathways to Change series looked at the desired outcome – it is simply Knowing What You Want.
Now in Part 3, having clarified the Purpose and the Outcome, we need to look at how we get there, the STRATEGY. The strategy is the plan of action and details how we intend to reach our desired outcome.
For example, if we look at the example used in the first part we considered a shopping trip with a purpose of being therapeutic; the outcome was to enjoy a feel good state, possibly to buy some much needed items for the wardrobe etc. So now we need to create the Strategy to make this happen.
This planning process will probably include many actions, some of which can be considered automatic and others specifically allocated to the task in hand, for example :-
Pre planning
Identify the day
Identify the place
Identify travel method
Identify the budget
Micro Planning
Time to get up on day
What to wear on day
What to eat on day
Time to leave house
Money for travel
Fuel for car / Ticket for train or route to walk
This list is by no means fully comprehensive and does not take into account all the decisions involved in the process but it does provide an indication of the steps required to achieve the desired outcome.
Now to illustrate the point about having an effective strategy I would like to tell you a short story about a person who decided that he wanted to see a spectacular sunset. He boldly proclaimed “that’s it, I am off to find the most spectacular sunset in the world and when I have found it I am going to photograph it and bring the pictures back to show you”
He knew what his purpose was – find the most spectacular sunset in the world
He knew what his outcome was – photograph it and bring the picture back to show it off
So what did he do next?
Well, he set off walking and kept walking for days and days, the days turned into weeks, the weeks turned into months and the months turned into years but he never came across the most spectacular sunset in the world.
The one thing he got wrong was his strategy – throughout the time he was walking he never once realized that he was always heading East and as every schoolboy or girl knows the sun always sets in the West so he was never ever going to find his sunset.
This brings to a close the Pathways to Change series, I hope that you have found it interesting and that you will put these three lessons into practice whenever you want to make a change to your life.
It will probably be January before I publish the next entry on here, so let me wish you the Compliments of the season, have a great Christmas and New Year, take care and remember
Don’t predict the future – CREATE IT!
DAve
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