Anecdotes

Outside of your immediate family, it’s important for each of us to always have a teacher (mentor), be a teacher to someone (mentor), have someone that ALWAYS encourages you no matter what, and to have someone that you ALWAYS encourage no matter what.

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Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.  You name them –work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all of these in the air.  Work is a rubber ball, if you drop it, it will bounce back.  But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass.  If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered.  They will never be the same.  You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.

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There is a formula to think about when communicating with anyone:

Intent+Style/Communication =  Interpretation/Impact. If someone has the intent of A+, but delivers the message with a style/communication of a D+, then the message recived is a C+, not at all the impact the person expected or the idea or message deserved. Make sure your delivery conveys your intent.  Your facial expressions, emotion, volume tone and delivery timing and method all affect the impact and result.

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When filling up your time with what matters in life, imagine having a giant  glass jar on the table in front of you. You fill it with big rocks (family, health, faith and work), then the little rocks (social time, Facebook, worry), then sand (cleaning the house, cutting the yard.)

Now if you fill your jar first with sand (cleaning the house, cutting the yard ) and the small rocks  (social time, Facebook, vacation), you’ll probably never get ALL the big rocks in the jar! It will be 1/3 full.

But if you put the big rocks in first, then the small rocks will settle in between and then add the sand, it will too settle around the other priorities and you’ll have room for everything, but your priorities will all fit and be considered first.