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Bettering Yourself
I’ve said it before that I’m always learning, but I want to further describe here how inclusive that truley is. You see, even on my way into work, I was learning and improving my driving skills from yesterday. Every-time I wrote a new post on this blog or write something I improve my writing as a whole. Same with reading. Every-time I go to a new temp job I’ve learned something about getting better at handling phone calls. All of this is because I’ve seen more, I’ve experienced more, I’ve understood more about how the world works and how I function in it. Part of this is also about learning…
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Stewardship and Giving Back
Last night at the youth group I volunteer with we had a great time talking about stewardship. It was very interesting and helpful to hear about scarcity and abundance mindsets in this context. We talked about how scarcity mindsets lead to greed, and selfishness. And how, alternatively, an abundance mindset leads to generosity. It’s a good challenge to think about changing our perspective. We ended the evening going into our local neighborhood and giving bags of treats and thank you cards to local businesses. Each leader drove the students around and they went about going up to each business and handing them a bag, or leaving it in at the…
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Staring at my Phone
I saw a brilliant ad on TV the other day. It was for Indeed a job searching site. I’ll just let you watch it here. It challenges the stereotype that just because my generation are on our phones a lot, sometimes we’re searching for things that are genuinely valuable. See I love how this ad takes an assumption and flips it on its head for the better. I’ll admit I’m using technology a lot, while adding that I’m often using it for my job search or to create something, or learn something in general. That said, this isn’t always the case, as you might have guessed. I would argue many…
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Thoughts from a Co-Working Trial Experience
Today I am finishing a trial run at a co-working facility in my area. I saw an offer for a free week, and thought it could be good to try out as I may be working remote in the future. It’s more expensive than I thought it would be. I mean it would actually be cheaper for me go out to eat at a coffee shop, and chill there for most of the work day. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, because space costs money but, it definitely threw me off, and I’m writing this at one of the cheaper options availible. It’s not perfect, and the vibe isn’t exactly what…
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Integrity, Wisdom, and Courage
In the book of Daniel, we meet a man called, well, Daniel. If you grew up in the church you may know many of his stories, especially if you watched VeggieTales; even if you didn’t grow up in the church you may know of them because they are so iconic. I had the privilege of teaching Sunday school again today for Sr High Ministries. In a nutshell here’s some of the stories. First you have Daniel and his friends eating a healthy diet over the king’s. Then you get the story of Daniel interpreting dreams. Followed by the story of how his friends survived a fiery furnace. Then the story…
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Do You Want to Go to Chapel?
Today I was looking through my documents and I found the parody of “Do you want to build a snowman? That I had written in my first year of college, shortly after the movie Frozen came out. I had started saying just the title phrase to my friends, and somebody suggested writing the full thing out so I did. It’s not perfect, but it is funny. Here it is, enjoy. Chorus 1 Do you want to go to chapel Come on let’s go and sing We never go anymore let’s go some more it’s like you want to stay away We used to all go and now we don’t i…
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Energy Doesn’t Always Look the Same
I have a look of energy, but more recently my family more aware of how I can use it and how it truly affects me. You see it isn’t just about me going to play sports, or going to swing dances. It’s also about how my brain goes a million miles an hour with different thoughts. That is, there is more to energy than the physical portion it’s also somewhat mental. Energy can be as simple as talking really fast or trying to think through too much at once. Energy for me often often looks fast in general. Energy isn’t refreshed for everyone the same way either, take the simple…
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Here’s the Thing
Here’s the thing I’m not the norm I’m not just another person I’m not trying to be the norm either Here’s the thing Sometimes I am Sometimes I get judgmental Sometimes I fall into habits that I myself hate Here’s the thing Being cheesy can be fun, but sincerity is more important Questioning things can be good, but you have to be careful Making mistakes can be good, but you need to learn to correct them Here’s the thing You have to make effort to try to do things right You have to be ready to treat others as you would like to be treated You sometimes have to prepare…
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Do More Than the Minimum
Recently I’ve been working on a project, and I’ve taken it to the nth degree. No I’m not a try hard, though I may be somewhat of aa perfectionist. You see, when working on something you want to do well at, you should want to do more than the minimum. It’s hard, but man it can feel good to get so much done.
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You Probably Have What Someone Else Wants
Even if you are lacking something you want. I have a friend who has her own home with her husband, and a job. But when I expressed how lucky I thought she was, she then told me how dissapppointed she was to live far away from her family, and how she left a job she loved to move to where her husband had a great job. I, on the other hand live with my folks, and in the same city as most of my family and friends. I live with my parents, and I’m still job searching. I also acknowledge that I don’t have to worry too much at this…
