3 Diagnostic Questions that will tease out your values and priorities

Three Questions You Must Answer Before You Die

1. If you won the lottery (pick a large number) what would you do with the money?
2. If you had 5 years to live and would have perfect health until you passed what would you want to accomplish?
3. if you had 24 hours to live how would you spend them?

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Mike Tyson Returns Holyfield’s Ear

Footlocker Commercial 

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Anger as Zombie Virus

Anger wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t contagious. One angry person infects the next and before you know it the world is full of angry people who are spewing venom with their lips, drawing blood with their fists, burning homes with their armies. Anger kills.

Like Zombies

Anger is like a zombie plague. It infects faster than the infection in World War Z or The Walking Dead. People can “turn” in an instant and they are first wishing someone else harm and possibly pursuing it.

Angry people are even more dangerous than zombies because angry people can be smart and conspire with other angry people. Unlike the mindless masses mostly looking to employ jaws and teeth angry people have the whole human panoply of power to employ against their enemy.

Unlike Zombies

Unlike zombies anger is not always permanent and terminal. Sometimes it is. Some people devolve from being a person who is angry to simply being angry and losing themselves, and everything else in the process.

Also unlike the zombie contagion the anger virus can be resisted from the inside. In fact, it is one of the toughest things about it. We are all responsible for what we do with our anger because we could have done differently.

De-Zombification

Can I self-confront about my mood and behavior?

Can I ask God for help?

Can I get help from others?

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Guidelines for Leading Meeting from Alban Institute

Leading Meetings

  1. How we view ourselves as group leaders matters.
  2. People enter the group with 2 questions: Why are we here? how may I participate?
  3. Groups need balance of task-work and teamwork
  4. Groups need leaders who are flexible and adaptable
  5. Groups must learn how to deal with dysfunctional member behavior
  6. Groups function best when everyone contributes
  7. Groups profit from collaborative decision making
  8. a simple agenda can lead to a lively meeting

 

 

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Monogamy and World Peace

Just a reminder. Posting things on my blog does not constitute or suggest endorsement. I post things I might want to retrieve later usually for work purposes.

This was posted by a good friend (not a Christian) who deeply endorsed it. It seems to be the logical outcome to a worldview as suggested in the first paragraph.

“Five Reasons Why Monogamy is a bar to World Peace: Why World Peace will never happen as long as we cling to monogamy.” 

The server went down. Was this just link bait? Did it go viral? Google cached text version

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The Opposite of Love

“How to program your wife…“

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DQ Worker Helps Blind Man

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Congressman busted for cocaine voted to drug test food stamp recipients

Huffpo

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Sticky Faith by Kara Power

Huffpo Summary

  1. Share verbally about their own faith journeys
  2. Ask their children who they turn to when they have doubts.
  3. Connect their sons and daughters to at least 5 caring adults
  4. Reinforce that their faith is bigger than any moral failure or mistake
  5. Talk to High School juniors and seniors about life after college
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Recreating Childhood Photos

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