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Scratch 2/1/2017


Business Tips:
·         SAFETY: Leaders find ways to make their job safer and look out for your fellow workers. We continually do not want folks to get hurt in what we do. We also want to do things efficiently and correctly.
·         IMPROVING: Find ways to make yourself better and make sure to let your foreman and manager know what improvements you are trying to make. Let them know where you would like to be and when. Set up a plan for progression and promotion.
Personal Tips:
·         INTAKE: Watch your intake. We all could stand to be healthier. Recently a friend of mine attended a nutritionist to receive tests that told deficiencies and abundances in diet. Since 80% of our health has to do with our diet. I guess we really are what we eat.
·         PARENTING: A good parenting book we are reading right now: Shepherding Your Childs Heart by Tripp
·         FINANCES: A good finance book we constantly recommend is: Financial Fitness by Woodward/Brady
Let us know if you need copies of these and we will make sure to find a way for you to get them.

Life Skills:
Faith, Family, Fitness, Finances, Friends, Fun, Following, Freedom; we call these the 8F’s in life. Many of these categories can tell one where their priorities are in life by measuring the time one would spend in one of the above categories. This month, let’s talk about Faith. I’ve always been told to know why you believe what you believe. I would recommend for you to do the same. You don’t have to follow my lead, but I would ask you to determine for yourself the following questions:
·         Why am I here on this earth?
·         What does moral law mean to me?
·         Is there good and evil and how do I know the difference?
·         What happens to when one dies?
·         Why do bad things happen to “good” people?
These are some of the questions that I wanted answered for myself. I pray you will find the answers in your study and with your family. Feel free to pull me aside or give me a call anytime. I already love you as brothers and sisters on this journey in life. I appreciate your opinions.

Notable quotes:
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John Christian
“People forget what you kept, but they will never forget what you gave.”
“The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.”
“If you fill your head with positive thought there won’t be any room left for negative ones.”
“What we have and what we are given are not as important as what we contribute and what we leave behind.”
“Don’t mistake thinking for action & don’t mistake action for results.”

What do they mean in your own words? Go…….

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