Ken Furness – A Trainers Diary #4

Thought I’d best do another blog entry. I think it’s going to be a fortnightly thing rather than a weekly thing as I’m not strong enough to do it every seven days. Obviously that makes me two week (do you see what I did there?).

This past couple of weeks have been busy, no seriously, really busy.

What has made us very busy is the fact that we had a bunch of trainers from our contract seconded away to be trained to train new trainers. (That’s a lot of trainers to get in one sentence!)

Next week should be more manageable, as we will get one of our retrained trainers who was traini… etc. back with us -[Hi Fran]- and it will be in at the deep end for her as she will be delivering a two day course, that she actually wrote, for the first time ever.

♫♪ It’s the pet hate of the week ♫♪

Because we have always had a lot of customers coming through our doors each and every week, this could mean that every day (in the past) we ended up with a lot of used cups, often into double figures, just dumped in the sink or left on tables. Now however, we have signs all over our kitchen cupboards “please wash your cup”, “don’t leave it in the sink” etc. etc. The result, the number of unwashed cups has been significantly and I mean significantly reduced.

Problem now is not that customers leave a sink full of cups, it’s staff!

So my call to all staff, to all of us who visit another department, be it for a training day, a staff or even business meeting, set an example, wash up your cup.

♫♪ It’s the ponder of the week (or fortnight as the case may be) ♫♪

Now this one is quite heavy in a spaced out sort of sense (or “this is really gonna bake your noodle” as a famous oracle once said) but give it some thought, as this ponder has been with me for a long time…

If the universe is an ever expanding entity with…

• no boundaries
• no sides
• no edges
• no end. 

It follows that by default, every single part of the universe sits at the centre of the universe.

Try thinking about it like this…

If you imagine that you are hovering at the centre of a huge glass sphere that you can see all around you, you are an equal distance from the entire interior surface; ergo at the centre. Then remove the sphere, you stay in the centre because you can’t get close to an edge or a surface as there aren’t any and it doesn’t matter where you are in the universe (it could be millions of light years away from where you are, or it could be you and the person sat next to you), the situation is exactly the same for every single point everywhere!

So right now you are not just at the centre of the universe. You ARE the centre of the universe.

And remember, there is no spoon.

Catch up with you all later,
Ken