My students in Romania will remember me with my red Travel Girl journal...notes, lesson plans, vocabulary lists, email addresses, prayer requests...EVERYTHING is in my red Travel Girl journal. One of the sessions in the evening was a video of Jim Collins (author, Good to Great) speaking at Willow Creek church. At the end of the video, he listed ten things that companies that are in danger of collapsing do to recover...
1. Do your diagnostics-take an assessment of where you are.
2. Count your blessings-literally! In a spreadsheet...and at least 100
3. What is your questions to statements ratio-double it!
4. How many key seats are on your bus? Fill them with the right people.
5. Do "team on the way up/down" diagnostic (something from his website).
6. With the right team, create an inventory of the brutal facts.
7. Everyone has a to-do list...what is our STOP DOING list?
8. Show results...each one is a click on the momentum fly-wheel.
9. Double your outreach to young people by changing methods but not compromising the fundamentals.
10. Set a BHAG...big, hairy audacious goal...
I started making my list of blessings at camp...and won't bore you with the details...but (insert random comment) let me say, I have since found out that there are only two countries in the (entire???) world where you can get furazolidon (medicine for giardia...intestinal parasites...) over the counter...Romania and Poland. I'm not sure if that is a comfort or a fright, but this traveller is quite thankful...it definitely ranked pretty high on my list.
Ok...back to the topic...so one man was sure he should stop his list of blessings at 1000, because it would take over a day and he would lose time. Collins' rationale for counting your blessings is interesting...when we begin to account for all the good things that have happened to us that we DID NOT CAUSE, or successes in our lives that we DID NOT CAUSE, it's unbelievable...
So, I challenge you to start counting your blessings...literally...count them one by one...in a spreadsheet...because it will count them one by one for you :)
Some of my blessings...in random order (hence, no numbers or letters...)...from Liderii de Mâine in Suceavița
#. God's grace and mercy
@. You, yes, YOU!
^. Coca~Cola
&. Saltines :)
*. Shower in the room
>. prayer covering of Alege Viața staff and students
<. Facebook
/. people who would charge my camera
\. my small group from English class
+. Mentoring time
1. Do your diagnostics-take an assessment of where you are.
2. Count your blessings-literally! In a spreadsheet...and at least 100
3. What is your questions to statements ratio-double it!
4. How many key seats are on your bus? Fill them with the right people.
5. Do "team on the way up/down" diagnostic (something from his website).
6. With the right team, create an inventory of the brutal facts.
7. Everyone has a to-do list...what is our STOP DOING list?
8. Show results...each one is a click on the momentum fly-wheel.
9. Double your outreach to young people by changing methods but not compromising the fundamentals.
10. Set a BHAG...big, hairy audacious goal...
I started making my list of blessings at camp...and won't bore you with the details...but (insert random comment) let me say, I have since found out that there are only two countries in the (entire???) world where you can get furazolidon (medicine for giardia...intestinal parasites...) over the counter...Romania and Poland. I'm not sure if that is a comfort or a fright, but this traveller is quite thankful...it definitely ranked pretty high on my list.
Ok...back to the topic...so one man was sure he should stop his list of blessings at 1000, because it would take over a day and he would lose time. Collins' rationale for counting your blessings is interesting...when we begin to account for all the good things that have happened to us that we DID NOT CAUSE, or successes in our lives that we DID NOT CAUSE, it's unbelievable...
So, I challenge you to start counting your blessings...literally...count them one by one...in a spreadsheet...because it will count them one by one for you :)
Some of my blessings...in random order (hence, no numbers or letters...)...from Liderii de Mâine in Suceavița
#. God's grace and mercy
@. You, yes, YOU!
^. Coca~Cola
&. Saltines :)
*. Shower in the room
>. prayer covering of Alege Viața staff and students
/. people who would charge my camera
\. my small group from English class
+. Mentoring time