Until next time… Let’s seek to understand more and judge less. Have a wonderful week and a safe New Year celebration. – Brian

Precision Profiling – What Makes You Tick? Through ‘Motivational Fingerprinting’ we uncover what you do, how you do it and why you do it, and most importantly, the hidden patterns that lead to your success, and that of your staff.

Yesterday was Fathers Day Downunder so I am going to be a little self indulgent and share my ‘perfect day’ with you. I was woken an hour earlier than I’d planned to the raucous chorus of my seven and ten year old. I received toast crumbs in my bed and juice splashed on my bedclothes, with the delivery of my “binb” surprise. I was compared to aliens from other worlds and came out on top (‘best Dad in the whole Solar System and Galaxy’). My gifts (nothing over $5 allowed please) brought tears of laughter as I invented a myriad of uses I could put them to and then some, much to the satisfaction of my little boy and girl. I played adjudicator for the argument between siblings as to whose presents were better (declared a ‘draw’). I watched my Fathers Day lollies being devoured by those more needy than me, and I agreed that a trip to the local pancake house was indeed my choice of eatery for lunch. And then there were the hand designed and written cards… the icing on the proverbial cakes.

The Picasso picture of me on the card was a stunner. More than a passing resemblance to ‘yours truly’ according to their Mum (see attached). The carefully crafted poem (don’t all cards truly worth their investment have ‘rhyming poems’ on the inside?) was such a masterpiece that it deserves to be shared with you here…

“You can have your in-bed lay… because it’s Happy Fathers Day!”

And the ‘Love Hearts’ drawn all over the cards told me that when words fail to express the full sentiment, a love heart will always suffice (p.s. they are also an excellent cover for last minute spelling corrections).

According to my little girl, I am being considered as a future husband unless someone better comes along, much to the merriment of her older and ‘wiser’ brother. He didn’t escape being the object of some humour either when he declared that that ‘Mummy could enjoy Fathers Day too, except that she was a woman.’ And let’s not forget the hugs, the tickles and the trampoline bed display, before we all climbed out to face the day.

(I might add that later that day the children rang my brother to wish him ‘Happy Funcle’s Day’ and we have decided that ‘Funcles’ should be added to the list of family roles worth celebrating.)

So there you have it. Self indulgent but short and sweet as a trade-off.

No matter what the world throws at us. No matter what trials and tribulations we may face. No matter what hopes and fears we may hold for our children as they forge their own path in life, there will always be that time when we can look back fondly and say… “I remember.”

My prayer for all of the fathers reading this, is that you too have had or will have one day cause to pause and reflect on a more innocent time when love’s expression came in the form of a handwritten card, a simple gift and a hug that almost squeezed the life out of you. And in honouring that thought, let us also give thanks to our own fathers, either present or absent, who gave us the life we lead so that we may share the love we have with those who follow.

As the saying goes… “Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a Dad.”

Happy Fathers Day!

Drop me an email to brian@precisionprofiling.com.au if if you would like to share your own thoughts with me on the topic of parenthood or anything else for that matter.

Until then… Let’s seek to understand more and judge less. Have a great week – Brian

Precision Profiling – What Makes You Tick? Through ‘Motivational Fingerprinting’ we uncover what you do, how you do it and why you do it, and most importantly, the hidden patterns that lead to your success, and that of your team.

If you’ve ever doubted the awesome power and influence of Love, then consider this true story of one of Victoria’s and Australia’s “living treasures” – Australian Rules football legend – Ron Barassi.

This beautiful story is about Ron Barassi and his father the late Ron Snr, who was killed in action in Tobruk during the Second World War. Knowing he was mortally wounded and barely conscious… his last dying communication with his mates gathered around him was his deep abiding love for his little five year old son – “Ronnie” – and his total concern as to who would be there to watch over him as Ron Jnr grew from a child to an adult over the ensuing years.

One of those surviving mates relived those final moments of communication from Ron Snr on a TV documentary some 70 years later during a show involving Ron Jnr tracing his family history. Ron had never before heard this story until he was listening to this WWII war veteran share his recollection and until this day never really had any lasting memories of his father to treasure being so young when his father left for war. Naturally the resulting heartfelt experience that played out live in front of the cameras and the depth of the emotion it conjured up in Ron Barassi was a magical moment to behold for anyone watching.

Even now as Ron  recalls this episode in other media, the tears of gratitude and a sense of closure are never far from the surface of his normally stoic exterior.

If anyone wonders about this single influence pattern that transcends time and distance consider now how the power of love plays out in our earthly lives. Here is an example of a father’s love for his son and how that message of paternal love and concern at the point of his passing was relayed to his son through communication some 70 years later and the most positively influential effect it had as a result. For Ron it is as if his father was speaking to him today in the most awe-inspiring way.

So what is Love? (Agape as so named by the Greeks – meaning selfless wholesome love)…

It can mean so many things – Self Love; Spiritual Love; Parental Love; Familial Love; Filial Love; Selfless Love; Love of Humanity; Love for one’s Work (Passion); Sacrificial Love; and yet so often it is only ever discussed in our media in the form of Emotional Love; Infatuation; or Sexual Love.

My feeling is that this is the one true influence pattern that we speak so much about but understand so little of — And in our fast paced, electronically engineered increasingly superficial world, this is the time that we need to get to know it and all of its manifestations even more than ever before.

I have seen it play out many times in my communication as a business coach and profiler that I have never been able to fully explain, but certainly have seen enough evidence of its influence to believe in its powerful tangibility and its ability to make a huge difference to building business relationships.