Have we turned anxiety into a virtue? Is our level of anxiety supposed to be an indicator of our grasp on reality? Certainly there is plenty of reason for worry and anxiety in the world today. But have we turned it into a badge of honor, the only way to prove we really care about [...]
September 20, 2010
0 Spiritual Gift of Administration
Think – bossy! As a kid administrators are always organizing the other children into teams, for work or for play. These are the people who wants to make up the rules and come up with the ideas. These are our administrators. Definitely one of the speaking gifts as opposed to a serving gift, administrators are [...]
September 20, 2010
0 Spiritual Gift of Exhortation
To exhort means to encourage, to speak truth urging the listener to take action. Exhorters are talkers! They are also incurable optimists. Exhorters don’t see difficulties, they ignore them. This can make them seem naïve or pollyannah-ish. They want to encourage everyone to be their best and can see the potential in people. Both their [...]
September 16, 2010
2 Gift of Perceiving
Perceivers are deeply invested in knowing exactly what is right, and what is wrong. They find security and control in figuring out what the right way is and then following it. They are often perfectionists, taking whatever time is necessary to research something and then implement it correctly. This gift is meant for building up [...]
September 9, 2010
0 Success Habit #2 – Taking Action
Setting goals is a vital start to success as we have seen. Goals are necessary but by themselves they are like a Lamborghini without a driver. Going nowhere, but looking good sitting there. Reaching your goals and becoming the person you want to be requires ACTION: A= Activity C= Conscious Choice T = Time for [...]
September 6, 2010
0 Success Habit #1
Success comes to those who prepare for it. It is never an accident, it never surprises the recipient. No one wakes up one day and finds them self unexpectedly successful. It takes work and planning. It takes a willingness to adapt success habits and attitudes. It takes change. One of the foundational success habits is [...]
September 6, 2010
0 The Gift of Teaching
The gift of teaching, like perceiving, is one of the communicator gifts, more outspoken and more of a go-getter than the server. Teachers like to research, find information and share it, academics come easily to them thanks to a higher than average intelligence.They don’t have the strong perceiver need to be right or to make [...]
September 6, 2010
0 The Gift of Serving
Servers come out of the womb looking for someone to help. As a child a server will wander into the kitchen while mom’s making supper and sets the table without being asked. This is the person who wants to help other people often at the expense of letting their own responsibilities slide. Servers are quiet, [...]