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Work/Life Balance Is A Myth | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • Work/Life Balance Is A Myth
  • When I ask busy executives to describe a satisfying life, they often envision a scenario in which they work hard but dictate their own assignments.
  • What they really need is control. But, frequently, what they think they want is balance-
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  • That myth compels many of us to view an ideal life as a set of perfectly level scales.
  • In reality, that perfect balance almost never occurs, except for those rare, fleeting moments when the trays pass each other on the way up or down--and we’re too frazzled to appreciate that brief moment of self-actualization anyway.
  • There’s always a lot of chatter in the media about the latest trends in work-life balance.
  • I’ve noticed a couple trends of my own
  • when it comes to work-life balance, we often adopt a victim mind-set.
  • Second, we want to believe there’s a quick fix that we’re somehow overlooking
  • Doing what that guy in the photo was doing is impossible for more than a few minutes at a time.
  • don’t say if no if you don’t have any leverage
  • In practice, however, what I’ve seen is that people often invest that free time in doing more work.
  • Their identity is rooted in work, and that’s where they want to be. Outside of work, in the complex dance of family and community responsibilities, they lose their autonomy. Their professional expertise doesn’t mean much.
  • We need better ways to manage work-life boundaries, understanding that we are subject to phases, often dictated by events out of our control, in which our work lives and personal lives ebb and flow in their demands.
  • Shore up the home front
  • f you feel overworked to the point that you complain about it constantly
  • Say “no” strategically
  • Quit complaining
  • Take control instead
  • Gary Patton on 30 Jan 12
     
    Here's how you can defeat the myth of work-life balance!
Gary Patton

The Art of Asking Questions - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • But asking questions effectively is a major underlying part of a manager's job
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
       
      I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! It "blows my mind" that theis powerful relationship communication skill is not taught at school. But then, some argue, that John Dewey, one of the Founders of the Humanist Society and principal author of the "Humanist Manifesto"
  • three areas where improved "questioning" can strengthen managerial effectiveness
  • Good managers therefore are always asking themselves and others about what they could do better or differently.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
       
      Both getting and giving good feedback is another major life-skill challenge for many of us. Ask me for my S-M-A-R-TBriefing™ on each of these life-skills because ... "All feedback you get or, better, can encourage, is helpful and able to assist you irrespective of it being complimentary, contrarian or contentious!"~ gfp '42™
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  • Many managers don't know how to probe the thought process of their subordinates, colleagues, and bosses — and instead make assumptions about the basis of their actions. And when those assumptions are wrong, all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can be created.
  • probing needs to be in the spirit of accelerating progress, illuminating unconscious assumptions and solving problems
  • many of the best managers I've seen have an uncanny ability to engage in Socratic dialogue that helps people reach their own conclusions about what can be done to improve a plan or project, which of course leads to much more ownership and learning.
  • Asking these questions in a way that does not trigger defensiveness and that is seen as constructive is an important skill for managers.
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Few of us are effective questioners. And being good at the skill of asking questions effectively is not just a major underlying part of a manager's job as is the focus in this excellent article. I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! A major life challenge of many of us is that we don't know how to probe the thought process of our bosses, colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially our partners and other relatives. Instead we make ill-informed and unwise assumptions about the basis of their actions and behaviours. And when those assumptions are wrong ...as they usually are..., all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can result. gfp (2011-11-23)
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Discover in this article why what you weren't taught in school can be a major draw-back in your career and life!
Thomas Claire

Make Your Life Better by Selecting Life Coach in Adelaide - 0 views

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  • Thomas Claire on 20 Oct 14
     
    There are times when people find things are not falling into place the manner they would expect. This is the time when they feel there is something missing in their life. However, most of these people fail to determine what it is.
Thomas Claire

Marg Hobby - Life Coach - 0 views

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  • Thomas Claire on 20 Sep 14
     
    If you are looking for a Life coach in Adelaide, then you can rely on Marg Hobby health and life coach Adelaide. She will help you to become the person you always wanted to be through her coaching sessions.
Thomas Claire

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  • Thomas Claire on 24 Nov 14
     
    Life coaching holds a great importance in achieving the real-life goals. Marg Hobby helps you achieve the set goals with an optimistic, infallible approach. Marg ensures the health and wellness of your mental as well physical state through various life coaching programs.
Gary Patton

"Only Holy Spirit Knows What's Coming Down Your Track" - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 17 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • However, as
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 17 Sep 13
       
      God has a plan for you. He came to earth in flesh and bones and lived a sinless life as Jesus. As ordained, He bled and died on a torture instrument for you. He then, rose from His grave to save all those who'll believe and follow Him from their sin nature and sins plus. At the same time, He also gives them an abundant, new and eternal life plus peace ...regardless of what they've done It's not too late. It's never too late. It's never too late for you! His plan is gonna be wild. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be full of Him ...because God a plan just for you! It says so in His love letter to you, the Bible, in this passage and in Romans 10:8-12 at http://diigo.com/0lk6j . The door to new life in Jesus is always available for those who don't know Him personally ...in fact Jesus is there knocking right now. He also says that in His love letter to you at http://diigo.com/0lk60 .
  • 1 Corinthians 2:8-10
  • it is written:“What no eye has seen,    what no ear has heard,and what no human mind has conceived”[a]—    the things God has prepared for those who love him—(C) 10 these are the things God has revealed(D) to us by his Spirit.
  • Gary Patton on 17 Sep 13
     
    "Only the Holy Spirit Knows What's Coming & Can Interpret Scripture For You" 1 Corinthians 2:8-10 in the Christian new Covenant (Testament) makes clear that Jesus Followers can read all the commentaries they wish but it is ONLY Holy Spirit who confirms for us in our spirit what any Scripture R-E-A-Lly means (Regenerating & Relational - Engaging & Effervescent - Authentic & Actualizing - Loving & Life-giving). © GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2012-11-21)
Thomas Claire

Marg Hobby - Health and Wellness Australia - 0 views

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  • Thomas Claire on 15 Oct 14
     
    Marg Hobby Health and Life Coach Adelaide are doing a great job by providing consultation to the people of Adelaide. Margret's Life coaching sessions are proving very helpful and improving Health and wellness in Australia.
Gary Patton

"Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week" and making staff do it! : Lessons from Sheryl ... - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week
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      Gary Patton on 03 May 12
       
      Much research clearly seems to proves the advice in this article and Sheryl Sandberg's family-oriented practise is wise. I suggest you stop if you also are requiring your staff to do it too! As a "recovering Type 'A' workaholic", I speak from experience because I couldn't work, at all, for over 5 years after the dis-stress on my body, mind, emotions, will, and spirit caused a life-threatening event in my life in 1995. gfp (2012-05-03)
  • Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12
     
    "There's a century of research establishing the undeniable fact that working more than 40 hours per week actually decreases productivity." gfp (2012-04-26)
Gary Patton

KONY 2012 - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 10 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Gary Patton on 10 Mar 12
     
    "Where you live [as a child] should not determine whether you can live!" ~ Invisible Children KONY 2012 is a film and campaign of "waging peace" by Invisible Children Inc.. It aims to make Joseph Kony, the LRA leader in Uganda, more infamous ...not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. Please invest 27 minutes of your life in watching this video and learn why Joseph Kony MUST be stopped., this year, in 2012. Hear the cry of kids who are being robbed of life! Then, write the leader of your country and demand his involvement in Kony 2012. gfp (2012-03-10)
Gary Patton

Our Temporal and Eternal Homes - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 04 Apr 12
       
      When we believe this, 1 John 5: 11-13 at ? says we are guaranteed to spend eternity with God because of what Yeshua/Jesus did (past tense) for us. He paid the full penalty for our sin nature and sins when He by His choice and willingly gave up His life on a cross (torture instrument) for those who believe in His gift and "Good news" of salvation through Him with His and our heavenly Father.
  • For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
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      Gary Patton on 04 Apr 12
       
      The Bible in more than one place makes clear that human beings live only one life. It says there is no reincarnation during whicch we can strive and work to be better to earn reconciliation with God. At the end of our one life on earth, we each will be held accountable for everything we've done here during it. And God will not measure our relative goodness for we "...all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". (Romans 6:3) In deciding whether we can and will spend eternity with Him in heaven, or heavenly Father only will check on our relationship with and followership of Yeshua/Jesus of Nazareth, God Incarnate (God with us) ...His eternal Son. Our eternal fate will depend solely on whether or not trusted in Yeshua/Jesus to have paid the full penalty for our sinful nature and sins on His cross when he died for the degradating behaviour of every human being who ever did, is or will live!
  • 2 Corinthians 5:1-15
  • Gary Patton on 04 Apr 12
     
    Reverend Brian Bell, in 2004, opened his "Meditation" at my Mom's funeral with 2 Corinthians 5:1-15. He was the then Lead Pastor of "The Meeting House Yorkdale", in North York of The Greater Toronto Area. My Mom's, Ina Donelda Patton's (aka Donna and Donnie) funeral was held on January 22, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. at the Simple Alternative Chapel in that city. gfp (2012-04-04)
Gary Patton

Guarding The Most Valuable Assets In Your Life - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • “Our most valuable asset sits 63 feet ahead” (referring to the driver of the truck).
  • really struggling with stress and not able to get everything accomplished that I wanted to get done. As a result, I had begun putting a lot of pressure on myself to become more productive.
  • I love progress and I love getting stuff done. However, what God showed me was that people and relationships are more important.
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  • “I figured that God is bringing this person into my life at this moment for a reason – either for them to speak into my life or for me to speak into theirs.
  • I was stunned. It occurred to me how often I do not demonstrate this in my own life, especially with my own fa
  • Truth@Work
  • “The way I look at it, if I honor God in conversations like these, He will take care of what needs to get done on my task list.”
  • Perhaps my biggest problem was my lack of faith.
  • more faith in myself to get work done than I do in my Heavenly Father’s ability to empower me to accomplish what has to be done. Because of my displaced “faith,” I sometimes put tasks ahead of people.
  • ily. My attitude so often is, “I can’t talk now. I’ve got something really important to get done!”
  • ), a ministry to people in the workplace.
  • www.christianroundtablegroups.com
  • Bleedership: Biblical First-Aid for Leaders.
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      Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
       
      See what people say about Jim's book @ http://is.gd/tqIhNw gfp
  • online blog, www.5feet20.com
  • Reflection/Discussion Questions
  • Proverbs 17:17, 18:24, 27:23-27; Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31; John 15:13; Ephesians 6:5-9
  • Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
     
    Is work a 24/7 proposition for you? Has it become a depressing rather than fun activity? Do you not know where to turn to get off the treadmill? This short article by Jim Lang, of the Christian Business Men's Committee has some freedom-producing answers for you! gfp This
  • Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
     
    Is work a 24/7 proposition for you? Has it become a depressing rather than fun activity? Do you not know where to turn to get off the treadmill? gfp
Thomas Claire

Neuro Linguistic Programming - 0 views

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  • Thomas Claire on 11 Nov 14
     
    Neuro linguistic programming is an effective technique that uses the language of the human mind, aiming to generate desired outcomes. Marg Hobby, a leading Life Coach in Adelaide, is the best life consultation agency that offers reliable telephonic consultation service.
Gary Patton

Senior Adult Health | Health News Magazine - 0 views

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    50% of the North American population dying with some form of cardiovascular disease that both cuts their lives short and often impairs their quality of life for many years prior to death. And the other biggies, cancer and diabetes are not far behind in terms of the percentage of people who are also being ravaged by these killers. This short article includes a number of Biblically based wellness truths that will
Gary Patton

Why Hire A School/Business/Life Coach Now? - Google Docs - 0 views

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    A short S-M-A-R-TBriefing™ re the power one can add to their performance with a life coach.
Gary Patton

"Why Zombies Should Matter" - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 08 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Why Zombies Should Matter to Christians
  • Zombies now are featured in top-rated cable TV shows, and in apocalyptic novels and survival guides.
  • The zombie myth is rooted in something quite real, and quite terrifying. The zombie stories emerged in a Caribbean context of brutal slavery. The zombie’s horror is that he is, she writes, a slave forever. After all, if even death cannot free you, you can never be free.
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  • That’s exactly the point, and here’s why it should matter to Christians.
  • They are horrifying because they represent what ought to repulse us: the rotting decay of death. But they still walk. And, beyond that, they still crave. In their search for human brains, they are driven along by their appetites, though always under the sway of a slavemaster’s will.
  • That’s our story
  • The biblical story of the Fall of humanity is one of a humanity that comes under the sway of death by obeying the appetite.
  • He sentences us to the curse of death so that, ultimately, we can be redeemed.
  • The Gospel tells us that, apart from Christ, we were walking in the flesh, that is slavishly obeying our biological impulses and appetites without the direction of the Spirit. As such, we were “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1).
  • This walking death, the Apostle Paul writes, was driven along as we “carried out the desires of the body and the mind” (Ephesians 2:3).
  • Caribbean people could resonate with the horror of zombies because they knew what it was like to be enslaved by evil people, with no hope of escape.
  • The Gospel doesn’t just extend our lives forever into eternity. That’s what we, left to ourselves, think we want.
  • Jesus points out that he wants to eternalize his present state rather than to be hidden in the life of Jesus Himself. That’s a zombie walk, and Jesus loves us too much for that.
  • Jesus offers instead life, and that abundantly, as we eat of His flesh, drink of His blood, share in His triumph over the accusing slavemaster.
  • Gary Patton on 08 Dec 12
     
    "Why Zombies Should Matter" This article would better be titled: "Why Zombies Should Matter to All Those Who Don't Now Follow Jesus!" Read on to discover why this is true and what one can do to avoid a horrible coming reality!
Gary Patton

Seth's Blog: Don't expect applause - 0 views

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  • Don't expect applause
  • you have sold yourself short
  • Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12
     
    When you expect applause, when you do your work in order (and because of) applause, you have sold yourself short. gfp (2012-04-26)
Gary Patton

Psalm 23 KJV - The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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  • Psalm 23
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      Gary Patton on 04 Apr 12
       
      The King James translation of the Christian Bible was the one my Mom used most of her life. This passage was read at her funeral by my Friend, Adele van Caulart. It was one of Ina Donelda Patton's favoutites. My Mom also was called Donnie by my Dad and members of our extended family, as she had been as a child by her 8 siblings. Mom's Friends and catering business colleagues usually called her Donna.
  • I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever
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      Gary Patton on 04 Apr 12
       
      This is God's eternal promise to those who trust in Him and His plan by following Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus). He died a sacrificial death as God Immanuel (God with us) to pay the full penalty for the sinful nature and sins of everyone who believes that Jesus' death on the cross, not our "good works", gives us the salvation we all need. Our sin and sins separates us from a relationship with God (Romans 3:23 & 6:23). Only Jesus' death can reconcile us with our heavenly Father for eternity the Bibles says clearly in John 14:1-6 & 22-27 at http://diigo.com/0pfky .
Gary Patton

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (.epub ebook 11%) | Goodreads | - 0 views

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  • All warfare is based on deception.
  • Gary Patton on 17 May 12
     
    Select strategic ideas that are Biblical from the Master Genera's timeless book. Then apply to business and life to enhance one's success in being best used by God
Gary Patton

How To Solve Difficult Problems - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Remember when you were staring at the ceiling in elementary school, and the teacher asked you whether the answer was on the ceiling? Maybe it was.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      You guys NEVER ever did that ...right? gfp (2011-10-04)
  • One potentially appropriate therapy for procrastination lies in teaching something akin to time management
  • it is desirable that not only that there should be an interval free from conscious thought on the particular problem concerned, but also that that interval should be so spent that nothing should interfere with the free working of the unconscious or partially unconscious processes of the mind. In those cases, the stage of incubation should include a large amount of actual mental relaxation"
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Might it not have been more understandable for his readers for this academic to have simply said: "When you have a really difficult problem ...go to sleep!" Or: "Take a shower!" The latter usually works best for me. And to enhance the former, I keep a pad & pen on my bed-side table so I can jot down a quickie reminder, without really waking up, because I seldom can rember my brialliant idea in the morning? What do you do? gfp (2011-10-04)
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  • Helmholz described how new thoughts came to him: After previous investigation, "in all directions," .. " happy ideas come unexpectedly without effort, like an inspiration ... they have never come to me when my mind was fatigued, or when I was at my working table ... They came particularly readily during the slow ascent of wooded hills on a sunny day" (p. 91).
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Athiestic scientists describe the event this way! Some call it 'serindipity' to similarily disguise the real source! I more accurately and unasamably call it what it is: GOD! gfp (2011-10-04)
  • Einstein would "allow the subconscious to solve particularly tricky problems
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Apropos my note above re 'serendipity', and contrary to common myth, Einstein was at best a diest late in life but not a Christian, according to those who knew him well. gfp (2011-10-04)
  • They engage in the "preliminary period of conscious work which also precedes all fruitful unconscious labor" (Poincare, 1924).
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Don't you just love academic writing? gfp (2011-10-04)
  • Of course, the "illumination" that is the result of incubation needs to be followed by more conscious work. Ideas that arise as a result of incubation need to be evaluated (Smith, 1994);
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Really? Duh!! gfp
  • Incubation sometimes requires a very long break:
  • can also occur with breaks of shorter duration.
  • it can also happen in very short breaks, a few minutes or even moments.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      God seldom works the same way ...every time! gfp
  • I have found that these breaks work best when they are devoted to something fairly mindless: washing just a few dishes, filing just a few papers, or doing some light exercise.
  • In fact, high achievers may actually take more time.
  • perhaps some of the "non-stop" working was staring at the ceiling. If high achievers appear to accomplish tasks more quickly than others, I suspect it is only because they put in so much more time.1
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      "Type "A' Personalities", please take note! (This is a note to myself!! :-) ) gfp
  • Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
     
    In this helpful, short article the author outlines, simply, how to unleash your creativity best by using the simple process of incubation. gfp (2011-10-04)
Thomas Claire

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  • Thomas Claire on 15 Oct 14
     
    In such a circumstance, the million dollar inquiry is - does the idea of Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP bode well? The plain and basic answer is - Yes it is worth the money.
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