When did you not know what or how to pray? How did God help you through that situation?
Dear God, thank You for Your Spirit’s help when I don’t know how to pray.
Reflect and Pray
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Are You Present
- Awareness: Get your face out of your phone, and stop thinking about what you’re going to do later today. Pay full attention.
- Reception: Be willing to receive new information. Let go of opinions, and be willing to drop your biases.
- Engagement: Being engaged involves back-and-forth fairness, like a Ping-Pong match. “I talk, you talk,” says Nickerson.
- Understanding: Listen with the intention of interpreting what the other person is saying. Get into a place of understanding, where you’re both speaking the same language, figuratively and literally.
- Persistence: Be willing to stay the course and not let your mind wander. If you get bored and tired, push through to maintain your attention.
- Resolution: Bring the conversation to a close with takeaways and next steps.
- Emotions: Respect the existence of emotions and their roles. “Emotions can work for you or against you,” says Nickerson. “Recognize their roles and learn to discern them and their effect on your ability to hear others.”
- Senses: Employ your other senses to help you remember. Look for body language clues in the other person.
- Ego: Try to take your ego out of the conversation.
- Nerves: Look for stress or tension; it can get in the way of being able to listen.
- Tempo: Get in touch with the rhythm of the speaker. Being out of sync with their way of talking can make it hard to listen.
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Continuous Growth
Develop curiosity, an open mind, and a desire for continuous growth…People who are naturally curious see conversations as learning opportunities. They are always looking to discover or learn something new and see everyone they talk to as having the potential to teach them something. They are open to the idea that their own way of seeing things may not be the only, or necessarily the best, way and don’t feel the need to always defend their own point of view or way of seeing the world.
For them, listening to others becomes an easy and natural way to continue on their self-development journey.
“Each day, ask yourself, ‘What am I going to be curious about?’” says Gregersen. “Stewart Brand, [editor of the Whole Earth catalog,] wakes up every day asking himself, ‘How many things am I dead wrong about?’ Both questions effectively open your ears. It’s having a beginner’s mind-set walking into a conversation.”
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Authenic Self
When you make me uncomfortable my voice is going to get BIGGER because I’m not going to let you SHRINK ME. We have to stay firm in our TRUTH. -Miss Fame
We’re not doing anything malicious we’re FOLLOWING our DREAMS and doing it GRACIOUSLY, doing it KINDLY and doing it while putting smiles on other people’s faces. -Beau Jangless
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something
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Clean the Garbage Disposal
This is not a spring cleaning -specific task; it’s something you should do every week or two. Take a few minutes this month to make it part of your cleaning routine. With the machine off, scrub the opening with a bottle brush. If the disposal stinks, freeze vinegar in ice cube trays and let the disposal blend them to icy slush. As always, run water the whole time the disposal is on, and use cold water, not hot. Grease melts with hot water, then resolidifies when it cools inside the plumbing, causing clogs.
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
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