60 Minutes of your Life

What would you do if the first hour of everyday was scheduled with purpose?
Looked for some ideas on line...
How much does the first hour of every day matter? As it turns out, a lot. It can be the hour you see everything clearly, get one real thing done, and focus on the human side of work rather than your task list.
Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day. You should too.
1.Don’t Check Your Email for the First Hour. Seriously. Stop That.If you need to make sure the most important messages from select people come through instantly, AwayFind can monitor your inbox and get your attention when something notable arrives. Otherwise, it’s a gradual but rewarding process of training interruptors and coworkers not to expect instantaneous morning response to anything they send in your off-hours.
2.Gain Awareness, Be Grateful.Robbins suggests setting up an “Hour of Power,” “30 Minutes to Thrive,” or at least “Fifteen Minutes to Fulfillment.” Part of it involves light exercise, part of it involves motivational incantations, but the most accessible piece involves 10 minutes of thinking of everything you’re grateful for: in yourself, among your family and friends, in your career, and the like.
3.Do the Big, Shoulder-Sagging Stuff First
4.Choose Your Frog"Choose your frog, and write it down on a piece of paper that you'll see when you arrive back at your desk in the morning, Tripani advises."If you can, gather together the material you'll need to get it done and have that out, too."
5.“Customer Service” (or Your Own Equivalent)
By Kevin Purdy


So maybe you don't agree with all of these items , that's okay, it's somebodies point of view , just like my writing is.
My curiosity was inspired by my conversation with a friend the other day. In the form of a question. How are you? Wow , that was loaded with ammunition.Why? Because lets face it we all put on a happy face before our last look at ourselves in the mirror as we head out the door, and our typical response is always , I'm just fine thank you. Every things good, I'll be alright. Like when I'm sitting in Church Sunday morning , being inspired to let go and let God. And I say yes, and I'm feeling so good, and less than an hour later I'm wondering what happened? If only I could plug into Church everyday, catch a church service to set the grove for the day.Or would that just end up a roller coaster of emotions that end after each service is over?
If I think about it for myself , I think I need to have a routine everyday, starting with God. Hello my friend, it's me Margret, yup me again. And then throughout the day take time to check up on my friend again. Take some me time, take some giving time, take some silence time.
What our your thoughts?
Thankful for

 1.Good Friday-Joint Langley church service at -CLA service was amazing , check it out on line

2.And Easter Sunday NLCC church service, Pastor Matthew preaching check it out on line, he is so amazing.

3. Herb and Rosalie Ekkert who hosted 40 of us for Easter dinner.

4. Mattias and Stacey, nothing like young love

5. Kerry and Dan, so glad you could join us

6. Ben and Katie, and the joy you bring to family dinner

7. Being an Opa and Oma , I'm blessed everyday

8. Munchkin smiles

l0. La Conner tulip Festival

11. Sharing it with this special guy by my side.

 12. Ivy Inn a great bed and breakfast getaway.

 

Thursdays Thoughts

We gravitate toward beauty, longing both to be beautiful and to surround ourselves with beautiful things. Beauty points us God-ward in ways we can't explain. The Sistine Chapel calls forth a yearning for the Eternal Source of beauty, just as a field of wildflowers or spring blooms can evoke praise. We humans thirst for beauty and ache at the golf between hints of what we experience here and the dazzling reality that waits somewhere past the edges of the world.

Leigh Mcleroy

 

 

Although I strived to make myself beautiful a big chunk of my life, I still decidedly feel less than lovely most days.  Less than the woman next to me, or the woman looking back at me in the mirror. Mirror, mirror on the wall , who's the fairest of them all?  Why do I wish for another woman's hips, or straight hair or fill in the blank          ?  And why when somebody gives me praise do I immediately look at my flaws and point them out? Because I'm not sure , not sure that I can trust my own eyes, or someone elses for that matter.  I know far to well the imperfections that I am hiding. What changed from my early childhood when people told me I was cute or had beautiful eyes?
 It is no wonder that children loved the lap of Jesus and flocked to his praise of them.
"God in flesh would have celebrated each little ones unique glories and perfectly reflected them back. And they would have undoubtedly believed him. ."
" It's no wonder the disciples tried to shoo the children away . They were too big for the lap they wished might rest in and too ashamed to admit they longed for his affirming words ."

"True beauty isn't manufactured . It's reflected.Every glimpse of true beauty-his beauty-that comes in the meantime will whisper his name"
"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God. Pope John Paul II.
"But in Jesus , man has seen , touched , and handled the Beautiful One and not only lived to tell but found promise of eternal life and unending beauty. He is beauty. And he alone makes us beautiful. Nothing less will ever be enough."Leigh Mcleroy

Listen , O daughter , consider and give ear: Forget your people and your fathers house. The king is enthralled by your beauty;Honor him, for he is the Lord. Psalm 45:10-11
Did you catch that? The king is enthralled by your beauty. Wrap your head around that , let it sink in. The king is enthralled by your beauty, he really is.