To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
Author unknown.
www.bobproctor.com
Friday, August 14, 2009
Arouse in the other person an eager want
Giving someone the desire to do something that will benefit both of you. This implies you must know what they want.
Every act you have ever performed from the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. If salespeople can show us how their services will help solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We will buy because the service is something we want.
Move to Action
Gain enthusiastic cooperation, and win people to your way of thinking by finding out first what they want, find a solution that will benefit both of you.
www.dalecarnagiesd.com
Every act you have ever performed from the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. If salespeople can show us how their services will help solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We will buy because the service is something we want.
Move to Action
Gain enthusiastic cooperation, and win people to your way of thinking by finding out first what they want, find a solution that will benefit both of you.
www.dalecarnagiesd.com
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Architects of Change
This is an amazing video/song that was shown at the Midwest Rural Assembly.
http://midwestruralassembly.ning.com/video/architects-of-change-mw-rural
Enjoy!
http://midwestruralassembly.ning.com/video/architects-of-change-mw-rural
Enjoy!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Organization...
16. Messages
Does your family answer the phone and you never get the messages? Would you like a central place for the family to leave messages to each other? Create a Family Message Center. Purchase a white board and attach it to your kitchen cupboard or wall and make sure it is right by the hone. Get in the habit of checking it first thing when you come in and last thing before you leave home.
17. Kitchen
When you organize your kitchen and start putting items back in the cupboards - think A, B, C. A's are items you use daily and should be put lower in the cupboards and closer toward you. B's are items you use weekly and can be put a little further up and farther back in the cabinets. C's are items used monthly or seasonally. They can be put WAY up high or not even stored in your kitchen.
18. Meals
Prepare a whole week's worth of food on Saturdays. Then, you'll just have to heat up your pre-made meals during the week. This is a great idea if you want a healthy meal, but get home too late from work to cook. If you're really ambitious - cook enough for a month! Don't forget to use your crock pot, also, to make an easy meal.
www.elizabethhagen.com
Does your family answer the phone and you never get the messages? Would you like a central place for the family to leave messages to each other? Create a Family Message Center. Purchase a white board and attach it to your kitchen cupboard or wall and make sure it is right by the hone. Get in the habit of checking it first thing when you come in and last thing before you leave home.
17. Kitchen
When you organize your kitchen and start putting items back in the cupboards - think A, B, C. A's are items you use daily and should be put lower in the cupboards and closer toward you. B's are items you use weekly and can be put a little further up and farther back in the cabinets. C's are items used monthly or seasonally. They can be put WAY up high or not even stored in your kitchen.
18. Meals
Prepare a whole week's worth of food on Saturdays. Then, you'll just have to heat up your pre-made meals during the week. This is a great idea if you want a healthy meal, but get home too late from work to cook. If you're really ambitious - cook enough for a month! Don't forget to use your crock pot, also, to make an easy meal.
www.elizabethhagen.com
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Mastermind Group
I am considering starting a mastermind group in the Huron/Mitchell area. Are you interested? Here are a few links regarding this experience. Please email me @ jkonechne@sdfu.org if you are interested in participating in this experience!
http://www.passionforbusiness.com/articles/mastermind-group.htm
http://personaldevelopment.suite101.com/article.cfm/mastermind_group_personal_growth
http://www.passionforbusiness.com/articles/mastermind-group.htm
http://personaldevelopment.suite101.com/article.cfm/mastermind_group_personal_growth
Midwest Rural Assembly
I am currently the second and final day of the Midwest Rural Assembly. What an experience! There are attendees from 13 states and Canada! Check out their blog @ http://midwestruralassembly.ning.com/. I am blogging about my experiences for them.
I have made some great contacts, and have used my elevator speech multiple times! Thanks to REAL, I am not afraid to introduce myself and talk about my passions regarding rural America.
My question to you: How do you define "rural America"?
I have made some great contacts, and have used my elevator speech multiple times! Thanks to REAL, I am not afraid to introduce myself and talk about my passions regarding rural America.
My question to you: How do you define "rural America"?
Monday, August 10, 2009
Things we have to learn every year...
YOU CAN PICK CAPTAINS BUT YOU CANNOT PICK LEADERS (THE FOXHOLE TEST)
When we think our team is ready each year, we have our players take the foxhole test. They draw a circle to represent their foxhole. They write their name at the front of the foxhole. They draw a line at their rear, their left, and their right. On each of those lines they write the names of teammates they would want in their foxhole if they were fighting a life and death battle.
The position to their rear is worth three points and is awarded to their most trusted, courageous, and tough teammate. The position to their left is worth two points and is awarded to the second most trusted, etc. teammate, and the position to their right is awarded to the third teammate they would pick and is given a value of one point. This test cuts through all the friendships, cliques, and is the truest measure of what players really think of their teammates.
It might be a good idea for each coach on the staff to do this with his/her coaching staff, administrators, teach associates, and of course your team. There of many people who would love to have around on the golf course or in a duck blind but deep down you know that defeat is assured if they are in your foxhole.
taken from http://www.coachmeyer.com/
When we think our team is ready each year, we have our players take the foxhole test. They draw a circle to represent their foxhole. They write their name at the front of the foxhole. They draw a line at their rear, their left, and their right. On each of those lines they write the names of teammates they would want in their foxhole if they were fighting a life and death battle.
The position to their rear is worth three points and is awarded to their most trusted, courageous, and tough teammate. The position to their left is worth two points and is awarded to the second most trusted, etc. teammate, and the position to their right is awarded to the third teammate they would pick and is given a value of one point. This test cuts through all the friendships, cliques, and is the truest measure of what players really think of their teammates.
It might be a good idea for each coach on the staff to do this with his/her coaching staff, administrators, teach associates, and of course your team. There of many people who would love to have around on the golf course or in a duck blind but deep down you know that defeat is assured if they are in your foxhole.
taken from http://www.coachmeyer.com/
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