A quote from Epictetus that I’ve heard many times:
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
It leads to something interesting questions:
How can you use this quote to improve your pastoral care?
How can your team use this quote to improve the atmosphere at youth events?
Is this [...]
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I was encouraged recently to read some books by Edward de Bono - of Six Thinking Hats fame. So I went to the library and picked up How to have creative ideas . The book takes the premise that creativity isn’t just something you have or don’t have but that it is something you can develop. As someone [...]
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Dafont is a site with nearly 8,000 free or nearly free fonts all neatly organised and regularly updated. Well worth going to.
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Seth Godin has a great post on managing urgency, he highlights how if we spend our whole time dealing with the urgent then the long-term never happens. That means our job becomes putting out fires, being reactive, not proactive, and therefore we miss our calling.
Alongside us as individuals this also happens to our ministry as [...]
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We all have those people who we avoid if we see them coming. We avoid them because we know as soon as they see us we will be in a 30 minute conversation full of their drama, bitterness and emotions. We know after the 30 minutes we will be useless, we will have emptied ourselves [...]
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I’ve managed to get my back up system sorted for my hard drive. If there’s one thing that nags most computer users in the “I-know-I-should-but-I-don’t” way, it’s hard drive back ups. We’ve all been there: as long as your hard drive keeps on spinning, it’s easy to ignore the whole back up thing - until [...]
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David Allen, author of Getting Things Done and inspiration for a lot of ‘lifehack’ thoughts around the world, is giving away a free four-page PDF at his website that covers his basic principals for keeping email organized. Getting specific without going too in-depth, touches upon:
the “two minute rule”
why action-able emails should be kept separate from others
why you [...]
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Lifehack has a great post on how to maximise efficiency by grouping tasks. The gist of it is that is you constantly swap tasks you waste time in the dropping and re-picking up of a task, e.g. logging in and out of a program, finding the equipment.
Here are a few clips:
Your mind organizes not at a [...]
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I have an urge to purge, to unclutter, to organise and sort out. At the moment sizeable portions of my office, and bits at home do not feel like they are in order, and as I have been working high numbers of hours at work it only seems to get worse. Alongside that I have [...]
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College Degree has just released a new great list highlighting the top 100 productivity and lifehack blogs. I had a quick look at it tonight, and some of them are ones I regularly visit, but there are many new ones that I look forward to having a look at and commenting upon.
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