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Plan Your Life

Jennifred Jones

Yes! You plan your very own life!

Examine your life, your needs, responsibilities, wishes, dreams, family and begin to plan how to do things better. Consider how to grow and learn about what you are already doing and how to do things better.

Time yourself in your daily tasks – not so they can be done more quickly, but so you can expect how long it will take in your daily routine.

Think about:

  • What do I want to do right now?
  • What do I want to be doing tomorrow?
  • What do I want to know more about?
  • What do I find interesting?
  • Where would I like to volunteer and help?

How can I do better…

  • with my family
  • organizing my house, kitchen, bedroom, desk, car
  • keeping up with day to day at work, at school, with homework and personal studies

These may seem like insignificant items, but they are clues how to manage your own life for your good.

I don’t believe living our own life with our own values, likes and dislikes should be hard to figure out. It becomes hard when we begin thinking how other people think we should live them.

Plan a good life for you and begin living it!

Manners

Jennifred Jones

‘Who are you to talk to me about manners?? I’ll do what I want!’

‘That’s old-fashioned malarky! Times have changed! We’re progressive! Anyway, who cares? I’m free. It’ my life, my space, my place, and I know I’m right anyway!’

So, we push, and we shove, and we ignore, overlook, disrespect, step on and drive over anybody in our path. And don’t we like it when others do unto us as we have done unto them??

That’s why manners came about. So people like us in our hurry and thoughtlessness don’t ignore, overlook, disrespect, step on and drive over those who don’t cooperate according to our schedule.

Let’s take a look at the last 24 hours – the last 2 hours…where could we have been a bit better person to another person? We’re all in life together. We’ve all got family, job, career, neighbors, other drivers, clerks, even ourselves trying to get stuff done.

Maybe if we each just pause before we say and do, or think that mean thought…where are my manners? Do I hope to be treated like I’m about to treat them?

And our kids are watching…

We all in our heart of hearts want to become better people.

Let’s not disappoint ourselves.

We America

Jennifred Jones

We America, yes us in the land of the free and the home of the brave, living in the land God gave us, the beautiful land of freedom that most of the world wants to come live in because of her abundance, wealth and freedoms.

Many of us have lost our compass, not knowing right from wrong or wrong from right ‘It’s all relative anyway, whatever I want is the way it’s going to be…all for my comfort and satisfaction,’ some say.

We end up living our lives thinking pretty much only about ourselves and not others or the long-term effects of our thoughts and actions. I don’t think this has been intentional, it has crept upon, causing us not even to consider other peoples’ well-being on a personal level…maybe even our own well-being.

We may donate to charities, we may go to church, we may live in a nice house and have good kids, but are we setting a good example? Do we run people off the road when we’re in a hurry to get somewhere? Do we take out our frustration behind the wheel, intimidating others because of weaknesses in ourselves? This week in a parking lot a woman was almost run over at the crosswalk where she exited the store, by a driver who didn’t see the stop sign at the crosswalk. As we passed each other walking, she said, ‘I think people are so busy and distracted these days, they don’t even notice.’

This softened my heart. People – we – us – are trying to live our lives, keep up with family needs, and get out doing what we need to do.

I ask that we slow down and begin to see other human beings as like flesh and blood as ourselves. We all bleed the same.  People are not just another ‘face’. They have a family, they have work to do and places to go just like we do. Life is too precious. It goes by so fast and can be snuffed out quickly.

Today, I will not allow myself to be so preoccupied that I cannot look out for others, because I hope others will be looking out for me.

Amen.