Tag: work

Take the Risk!

Jennifred Jones

Do you have any idea how many people have not been spoken to in a meaningful way by anyone today???

You might be one of them!

Let’s take the risk – and speak to – acknowledge one another. Everyone needs this gesture.

Covid 19 is past, but the after effects are long bearing. People have gone into and are still hiding! Help them come out into life again.

They may not be hiding behind a mask. It could be the phone, the EarPods, the laptop, the coffee cup, the outward busyness or preoccupation with whatever. I believe we have a responsibility to befriend our fellow human beings…even if only with a smile, or ‘Hi’ or opening the door, letting them go first in line…a multitude of ways to show them that others see them and are watching out for them…even if only for a moment. But that moment will last longer than a moment in the person who’s been in hiding. It will sink into their subconscious and begin to work.

Yes, there is work to be done and we need to be some of the workers in whatever capacity we find ourselves.

Take the risk. Do your work. Lead with this ‘work’ and transformation will happen!

I guarantee it will!

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!

Thoughtful Thoughts

Jennifred Jones

So much going on – inside my head!

So many thoughts – the more I listen to others’ thoughts, the more thoughts there are inside my head!

It occurred to me thoughts can be like weeds springing up seemingly out of nowhere. Some don’t need any water; they just appear and grow in the garden of my mind.

I’ve got to tend my garden, or the crabgrass will overtake me – sending tentacle claws every direction – rooting down causing many other growth thoughts to have to be weeded. But I am the gardener of my mind, and I must do the work. I am the only one that can. Others may tell me what to think, yet I am the master – the controller of my mind. I am not powerless over myself, but it takes control – me controlling me!…pulling out or chopping down one weed at a time, one leg of crabgrass rooted here, one baby thistle getting started there – ‘but wait! thistle flowers are so pretty, and they smell good too!’ But their thorns are very sharp, and they grow tall and strong and will take over.

The sun is coming up now and I must be busy tending the garden of my mind. What am I going to listen to – or not listen to?…to keep the weeds down and allow room for the real crops I wish to grow.