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Chet
28. September 2010 11:59
I am continuing to read John Piper's book, Don't Waste Your Life. Today I read a chapter entitled "Living to Prove He is More Precious than Life."
It just so happens that I'm also embarking on a portion of my "being coached" adventure that necessitates me setting a stopwatch for every 15 minutes and then categorizing what I have done for the previous quarter hour... every 15 minutes, All. Day. Long. And I have to do this for 5 days in a row.
Want a way to self-examine yourself to see if you're wasting your life? Write down what you do every 15 minutes from midnight to midnight for just one day in a row... let alone five! The feeling I'm getting right now is not one of wasting my life, but it's also not one of using it to it's fullest. As I look at my morning so far, it's quite scattered, from taking care of myself and family to eating to returning emails and phone calls... it wasn't until around 10:00 that I settled into doing one thing for more than 15 minutes. And it wasn't until...
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Chet
19. August 2010 09:32
Today I wrap up a week of sales training focusing on communications and getting appointments. I have had several meetings this week with existing customers and at least one of them has already turned into a great short-term contract for services. Another also opened up opportunities for referrals and a possible strategic alliance, while others simply expressed where I am in my business and life right now, and made some friends aware of the bigger picture of my life.
COMMUNICATIONS
Effective communication only happens when both parties understand their own thoguhts and can express those thoughts in a way that the other party can also understand. A combination of empathy, high self-esteem, confidence, and non-verbal communication give me many avenues to increase the effectiveness of anything I have to communicate.
Listening is a skill that can be developed. It gives me more opportunities to fully understand, while also giving the other party an awareness that I care about what the...
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Chet
28. May 2010 09:24
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE(I don't know who wrote this)
I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze. A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease.. I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud, With hair cut square and eyes alert He'd stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years. How many died on foreign soil How many mothers' tears? How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea How many foxholes were soldiers' graves? No, freedom isn't free. I heard the sound of Taps one night, When everything was still, I listened to the bugler play And felt a sudden chill. I wondered just how many times That Taps had meant "Amen," When a flag had draped a coffin. Of a brother or a friend. I thought of all the children, Of the mothers and the wives, Of fathers, sons and husbands With interrupted lives. I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea Of unmarked graves in Arlington. No, freedom isn't free.
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Chet
16. May 2010 07:04
True Friendship"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)"A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity." - Solomon - Proverbs 17:17
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."- Euripides, Greek playwright
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."- Cicero, Roman Philosopher 106BC – 43BC
"A true friend stabs you in the front."- Oscar Wilde"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."- Helen Keller
"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."-Benjamin Franklin"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."- Martin Luther King Jr."Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”-Solomon – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10&ld...
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Chet
10. May 2010 13:26
Here is a copy of a speech that I helped a 16 year old at my church develop. It was both fun and rewarding to help her with this and watch it and her develop over time. But it was even more interesting to see how her life suddenly got crazy busy while she was working on a speech about busyness and how we can be prepared for it and handle it. Not avoid it. Be ready for it. Because there are times, and perhaps even entire seasons, of life, where it’s both unavoidable and important to do what we are doing.
She sent me another quote a week or so after the fact from Abe Lincoln: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Good job, Tabi. I'm very proud of you.
Am I too busy to serve the Lord?By Tabi Layton
Some years ago a young man looking for work approached a foreman of a logging crew and asked him for a job. “It depends,” replied the foreman. “Let’s see you take this one down.”
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