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July 2008: ‘Ike loa, the Hawaiian Value of LearningJuly 1

This month is somewhat of a first for us

After publishing online for four full years, this will be the first time that ‘Ike loa [literal translation: long or lengthy (loa) knowledge (‘ike)] serves as the value of the month for our Ho‘ohana Community. ‘Ike loa is very well known to MWA readers and practitioners as the Hawaiian knowledge of learning and the seeking of wisdom.

ALOHA ~ ~ ~

Have you newly arrived here at Managing with Aloha Coaching?

Each month, we adopt a Hawaiian value to study together in a universal way, thus the tagline you see up top: Value Your Month, Value Your Life.

I publish a new essay here every Tuesday. This is my Day One Essay for July 2008. 4 additional articles will follow this month about ‘Ike loa, the Hawaiian value of Learning.

Welcome!
~ Rosa Say

There are two reasons it has taken me this long. As a value and not a simple verb, learning is deeply woven into my psyche; it’s one of those things I just do implicitly versus explicitly talk about. On the other hand, some would say I talk about it pretty incessantly. As I had written in Managing with Aloha;

“‘Ike loa is the value that my managers have told me “turns you into an absolute fanatic” and I suppose that’s true. It is o

Tuesday Essay #4: Hope, thy name is OptimismJune 24

I once heard it said that “hope has nothing to do with what is going on in the world.”

I wish I could remember who had said it. My wish goes beyond wanting any accuracy or context for that statement, and my wish isn’t so that I can give credit where credit is due (though I would like to do that too).  I’d like to say mahalo, and thank them as best I can, for those words have really stuck to the walls of my brain, my heart, and my gut, giving me all the context I need when I think about the future, and how I go forward.

There are two things I know about that great four letter word HOPE. One has to do with Ka lā hiki ola, our value for the month of June, and another with ‘Imi ola, the value of vision and personal mission:

“Hope has nothing to do with what is going on in the world.”

1. Hope for tomorrow, and for each day after that, has everything to do with Ka lā hiki ola’s certainty there will always be the dawning of a new day and the fresh new start it represents.

“Hope has nothing to

Tuesday Essay #3: Say Ka lā hiki ola to make it yoursJune 18

We have a Managing with Aloha Coaching first today! Adding voice to our value of the month study with a web-based software program called VoiceThread.

Think of this as a twofer: Two lessons for your one click to visit with me today!

I have long thought about doing some kind of podcast to offer our current studies of Managing with Aloha on audio. At minimum, I wanted to share the pronunciation of the Hawaiian values and words I present to you. What I love about VoiceThread is the added dimension of visuals, especially since photography is a new hobby of mine.

But there’s much more to it than that; VoiceThread offers the capacity to have you join me with comments shared in your voices too, versus me producing a one-sided broadcast. I think the blend of our voices will be much more interesting, and it will also give you a much better feeling for how our Ho‘ohana Community is evolving.

The second part of the twofer, is that VoiceThread is yet another way to continue Brex, the short acronymn I have been using for our 2008 ‘Ike loa initiative, Brave Experiments in Digital Learning (Full Brex Index.) —‘Ike

Ka lā hiki ola and Ho‘ohikiJune 3

The first time I went out on the ocean with the Alaka‘i Nalu, I was in seat five of their first and oldest canoe, the seat where the steersman could best keep an eye on me. The canoe was named Ka lā hiki ola, the dawning of a new day.

My kaona (hidden meaning) in that day was that she represented my hope in all we would do together as an ‘Ohana bonded by our Aloha and Mālama for each other. When I climbed into that canoe, I was making a deliberate choice as to what I was going to give my attentions to.

That day figured prominently in my own search for Pono, and it would be a turning point in my relationship with the Alaka‘i Nalu: They didn’t believe I could understand them completely until I had been out on the ocean with them.
—from Ka lā hiki ola in Managing with Aloha

I now suspect that the Alaka‘i Nalu were much wiser than I in knowing that I needed some of that “Can do” confidence in the canoe for myself most of all. It wouldn’t be the first time I had much to learn from my employees, nor the last!

Within Ka lā hiki ola is a little word that is immensely powerful: hiki.

Hiki means Can do.

It implies both possibility for lā, the day at hand, and ability, the abi

A New Publishing Schedule for Managing with Aloha CoachingJune 2

Ka lā hiki ola is The Dawning of a New Day

Choose This Day as Your Ka lā hiki ola too: Shift with me in the new.

What you read here yesterday is very much a statement of where I am right now, where I want to be and intend to be, and where I hope you will join me.

I have decided on some shift for Managing with Aloha Coaching, and kēia manawa, it starts right now, today.

I love this site and I remain devoted to my mission here, to bring value-aligned living and working into the daily habits of our Ho‘ohana Community one value at a time, one month at a time, whether our practice of them be at work or elsewhere. It is important, and it is my Ho‘ohana.

Yet even that which is important can be too much in our already busy lives, and thus overwhelming at times. My personal and very diligent study of Ma‘alahi (a persuasion for calm contentment) over the past few months has helped me understand that has been the case here.

Our Shift: This