If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
9/4– Can You Spare A Minute?
9/4–Imagine you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every dollar each day!
We all have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely. It carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can’t borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts fresh. Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you can’t appeal to get it back.
There is never any borrowing time. You can’t take a loan out on your time or against someone else’s. The time you have is the time you have and that is that. Time management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide how you spend the money. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.
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You have ability to do things within you that you can’t even begin to imagine!
You have talents and skills within you that you haven’t even began to reach for yet!
When the end comes for you let it find you climbing up a new mountain not sliding down an old one.
How sad to reach the point of death only realizing that you have never really lived! You realize that you have never even scraped the surface of your potential!
To reach your dreams you must have a plan of action, be relentless, have a dream, and let nothing stop you!!
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But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
Story:
There was a King that had two slaves. The King told the slaves that he would paid them a years wage if they would take the all the water out of his well and dump into a wicker basket.
The slaves agreed to do the work. The first slave took a bucket and
filled it with water and dumped it into the wicker basket. He did this two or three times and relized that he was not accomplishing anything so he told the
other slave ” This is foolishness, we are not accomplishing anything, I am
leaving!”
The other slave tried to reason with the first slave saying
“The Master already paid us our wage, we have to do this!!!”
The first slave left anyway. The other slave picked up the bucket and continued the work until the well was dry. When he finished he looked into the basket and saw a basket full of diamonds. They were transparent to the eyes
while in the water.
When the master returned he praised the faithful slave and gave him the basket of diamonds in addition to the wages he already had recieved.
In God’s organization some times we do not always realize what we
are doing or why we might be doing something but God never asks us to do anything that will harm us, and if we are a faithful servant of God’s, He will reward us with a treasure beyond imagination.
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Scripture:
Matthew 20:1-16
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Humor:
My great-aunt looked confused when I told her that my daughter was 18 months old. “Oh,” she said. “I thought she was a year and a half.”
“But Aunt Marie,” I said, “18 months and a year and a half are the same.”
If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
9/3– Can You Spare A Minute?
9/18–9/3–Don’t underestimate the power of the word. The movie, stand And Deliver portrayed the story of Jaime Escalante who was an incredibly successful teacher in a rough high school.
In his class were two students named Johnny. One was a bright student and a joy to teach. The other wasted his talent and bucked authority. At the first PTA meeting for parents, Johnny’s mother asked Jaime for a report on her son’s progress. Jaime’s reply was, “Johnny is a joy to have in my class. I’m glad he is there.”
The next day, rebellious Johnny walked into the classroom with a new attitude and demeanor. He ran up to Mr. Escalante and said, “My mom told me what you said about me. I’ve never had a teacher who wanted me.” He became a model student. Mr. Escalante had thought that Johnny’s mother was the mother of his best student. His comments were meant for the other Johnny but the results were dramatic. The word -spoken at the right moment -carefully crafted -caused dramatic change. Encourage someone. Ah, communication is an art!
Excerpt from “Live First, Die Last” by J D Canter
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It’s been said that teenagers all go through a stage where they feel “smarter” than their parents.
Now consider Jesus. While still very young, since he was perfect, he no doubt was smarter than his mother and foster father. He certainly astounded the teachers at the temple, didn’t he?
But did he take advantage of this? No, but the Bible informs us he “continued subject to them”.
Youths today can learn a great deal from his example.
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I wonder how many has been marooned and stuck on Someday I’ll?
Like Tom Hanks in the movie Castaway.
The cemetery is one of the richest places in the world. It has more riches that Fort Knox. Songs never sung, speeches never delivered, love never revealed, and talents never used.
I want to do, as the motivational speaker Les Brown encouraged, and to “Live Full And Die Empty”
I do not want to take anything with me I want to use it all. I don’t want to die never letting my friends and loved ones know how much I truly cared.
I want to be like a wet cloth that you take and wring very drop of water out until there is nothing else left inside!
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I worked in Customer Service related jobs for 51 years. Somehow, I learned how to deal with difficult customers
The first thing I tried to do was to listen intently. I tried to understand before I tried to be understand.
I sought to see how they felt ( after all, most are caught up in an emotion).
Even if I knew the solution when they first started their disappointment, this let me know how to frame my solution.
I would tell them about other cases, similar to theirs, where a great solution was found.
I started out working for a company in customer service, where the customer is always right and their satisfaction is not only desired but guaranteed.
You can win the battle with someone but lose the war. A satisfied customer may tell someone, but a disgruntled customer will tell almost everyone who will listen.
I know we are talking customers, but the beauty of it is that it works everywhere. Your spouse, your job, your friends , and many more areas in your life, work the same way!
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I was admiring my aunt’s necklace when she surprised me by announcing, “I’m leaving it to you in my will.” I was overjoyed, perhaps too much. “Oh!” I shouted. “I’m looking forward to that!” —Mona Randem
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