Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Out of synch & Clouds

Lately I've been out of sync, my body is often tired and thoughts bounced randomly.
I need to seek Him more. Sometimes you hear His voice, sometimes you don't. But the key is to seek Him anyway. Perseverance are only borned out of persevering , never given freely.

I think in our postmodern culture, we are too driven by feelings. I don't feel it, I don't feel like it, I am not feeling it (Sounds like Randy on American Idol!) etc.

The finicky part of feelings is, they come and go , as strong and as soon.

What I'm trying to say is: feelings help to spur you but never sustain you and great things are achieved not by feelings, only by perseverance. In everything, from giving my best shot at work, to intentionally nurturing the relationships around me, to giving my utmost for His highest, to ticking off the to-do list...this illusion of 'feelings' need to be uncovered for what it really is : sloth and plain apathy or worse, disobedience.

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Oh and clouds....today I did some persevering at my balcony, reaching for Him inspite 'not feeling' it and strangely when I peeked out , I saw a strange formation of clouds...an image of a huge figure sitting in what appears to be a throne. No kidding.

Out of sync eyes? Or plain awesome?

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Found it!

Finally....couldn't get this song on mp3 but spotted it in Youtube.
to quote McDo: I'm lovin' it!

Listen to this

Monday, April 09, 2007

Leadership 101

Something to share what I've read:

If I can't lead myself, others won't follow me.
If I can't lead myself, others won't respect me.
If I can't lead myself, others won't partner with me.

-John Maxwell- Christian motivator, writer

How true..I've been reading his latest book on leadership : The 360 degrees Leader.
It's about developing influence and leadership to people around you, top to bottom and across.
Really good stuff, whether in work on in ministry.

Here are 7 ways to lead yourself:
1. Manage your emotions - good leaders know when to display emotion and when to delay them
2. Manage your time- until you value yourself, you won't value your time, until you value your time, you will not do anything with it
3. Manage your priorities- 'stop doing' list is equally important as 'to do' lists
4. Manage your energy-major on teh major, minor on the minor
5. Manage your thinking- the greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness, 1 minute of thinking is better than an hour of talk or unplanned work
6. Manage your words- say things that are edifying, useful and adding value to others
7. Manage your personal life- success is having those closest to us love and respect us the most