Ho‘ohana Aloha

There is a lot of wisdom in this article: Find some quiet time to sit with it this weekend. It makes me think of Aloha, of ‘Ike loa (the value of learning) and of Kūlia i ka nu‘u (the value of achievement), wherein we address competition within Managing with Aloha:

Competition is not a goal.

Kūlia i ka nu‘u is a reminder that competition serves no purpose if its only objective is to leave someone else behind.

Kūlia i ka nu‘u reminds you to strive to be your best, not just better than someone else. It calls for some introspection, being sure that you are not your biggest obstacle.

If you must compete, compete against your previous self; improve.

I find this summation of Raha’s article very affirmation-worthy (it was on my email subscription to the DailyGood):

Learn. Love. Work.
Learn to love work; love to learn work; work to learn love.

The original version of it was taught to the author by his dad:

Growing up in India, I had a hard time with most of my subjects, especially math. One day, after looking at my grades, my father had a heart-to-heart chat with me. He said, “The way to crack your subjects is to fall in love with them. When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in love.” I was in sixth grade around then, and decided to take him seriously and literally said, “I love you” to my math textbook.

…and it reminded me of this episode with my own father:

Pretty sure I was in the 6th grade, maybe still the 5th, when I figured out why we go to school… Manager as Teacher; Learning to Learn.

Sears will close in Ala Moana Center too: Quite sad, for it’s been an anchor there since Statehood.

This is a lesson in Kūlia i ka nu‘u (the value of achievement in Managing with Aloha): You can choose not to compete (e.g. when Sears dropped its catalog business) but you can’t choose not to excel.