APRIL 2021

 

Business Tips:

TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System)

Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us.

~1 year plan and rocks~

Provide an opportunity for everyone to share what they believe the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are. This is the classic SWOT analysis, a management tool for helping an organization take a good look at itself and clarify its current state, both good and bad. This is the Annual Meeting Pulse, and nothing is sacred. Working your way through the V/TO, take a hard look at your core values, challenge the core focus, make sure everyone is still on board for the 10-year target, and confirm that the marketing strategy is still unique and valuable to the customer. Where you’re not on the same page, discuss and debate until everyone is in sync.

Rocks to make sure that they are on track. Review each Rock one at a time—first the company Rocks and then each person’s individual Rocks. Each person reports that his or her Rock is either “on track” or “off track.” No discussion—the discussion will happen later. When a Rock is off track, it’s dropped to the IDS portion of the agenda. “On track” simply means that the owner of the Rock feels he or she will accomplish it by the end of the quarter. Even if a Rock is on track but someone wants an update or has a concern, it should be dropped to IDS. Rock review should take no more than 5 minutes.

Wickman, Gino; Wickman, Gino. Traction. BenBella Books, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

Personal Tips:

~ Accounts~

Start by thinking of all the various compartments that make up your life. Most people can organize their lives into seven to twelve distinct areas. We call these Life Accounts. The Circle of Being. The innermost ring is a collection of activities focused solely on you in relation to yourself. It includes your spiritual, intellectual, and physical accounts. The Circle of Relating. The second ring is a collection of activities centered on you in relation to others: your marital, parental, and social accounts (e.g., friendships, church or synagogue, book club, and so on). The Circle of Doing. The third ring is a collection of activities dealing with you in relation to your output: your vocation (job), avocation (hobbies), and financial accounts.

Hyatt, Michael; Harkavy, Daniel. Living Forward . Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

 

Life Skills:

What if you could develop these tools this year?

·         Critical thinking and creative thinking

·         Problem-solving and decision-making

·         Interpersonal skills and communication

·         Assertiveness, equanimity, and self-control

·         Self-awareness and empathy

·         Resilience and coping with emotions and stress.

Mastering Body Language

According to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), people consider information from body language over facial expressions when perceiving emotions. This study effectively proves that you can get your message across to people more firmly if you use the right body language. That makes this one of the most important skills to learn.

Now, “body language” itself is quite an extensive subject involving gestures, eye contact, body posture and much more.

To master your own, try out these 11 body language tricks. Bear in mind that body language doesn’t improve overnight. In fact, it’s a subconscious change that occurs over the course of months.

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/11-body-language-tricks-make-you-successful-life.html

 

Notable quotes: They are italicized above.

What do you know about the Abrahamic Covenant? Why do we need to know about it? What good does it bring us?

Palestinian Covenant. This unconditional covenant, found in Deuteronomy 30:1-10, noted God's promise to scatter Israel if they disobeyed God, then to restore them at a later time to their land. This covenant has been fulfilled twice, with the Babylonian Captivity and subsequent rebuilding of Jerusalem under Cyrus the Great; and with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, followed by the reinstatement of the nation of Israel in 1948.

Something I want you to know:

Take a look at your 1 year plan and rocks, learn your “accounts”, and mastering your body language.