Post House#4 Reflections.

Respect, Understanding, and Encouragement.

I think were the three important elements towards this build. Mix them together and you have a working formula of an awesome team building experience for people who hardly know each other.

Even better, these three elements overlap each other to create patience, resilience, inspiration and power.
As I observed the way everyday people who come from different backgrounds,sizes, strengths, with and without knowledge and skills of using power tools and 'labouring', become so proficient and confident with themselves over the shortest period of time. Understanding allows people to literally understand that not all of us are gifted with using our hands to actually build something, yet, from the most literate to the most challenged ones, understanding helps empower people, shape them to do better.

Credit is due to great leaders, at the top and at the team zones to reflect and teach these virtues. Never have I  ever heard so many words/phrases of encouragement - Great job! Well done! Excellent! and Good stuff! - were among the most powerful words you can ever use to inspire and help bring about  the best in people. You may not see it at first, but you slowly start to see the power of these words when shared among people.

Strange we don't have them enough here in the city, but I had to hear them most in the jungle. When nature calls perhaps.


This time around, I've experienced many challenges - from being utterly frustrated from errors, to going hungry at night (due to the random flood which blocked the only road out for us to get food at night - yet, we pulled whatever food/water we had left and shared, sang songs and waited for the rain/flood to subside; t'was beautiful, semi-managing people, and getting things to eventually work at the end of the day - very daunting, challenging, and exciting tasks at hand.

Credit is due to the Big Man who makes all things possible with whatever little faith/believe we have, in despite of being such shitheads sometimes. Thank you.

This home (i hope) doesn't just impact Atan and his family, but also towards the other builders who I hope take back something new in their lives. Something to shout about, to learn from and to share with others - it may not be to build another home or along the same lines, but to spearhead, inspire and lead new powerful initiatives to make where we live, a whole lot better.