Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week - March 26, 2024

 Be kind to yourself.  You are doing the best you can in this moment. – Ella Sommer

Self-care is not selfish! It is the only way we can give our best to the world! - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/164311086391664086/

As we are approaching the end of the first quarter of 2024, it is time to start analyzing the year to determine our progress and decide if changes need to be made to move us towards accomplishing our goals.

For the author, she is amazed at how the year is going for her.

Work is keeping the author extremely busy even though she is only doing one job this year! Even with this busy schedule, the author is determined to keep the promise to herself for self-care. 

As an update on self-care for the author, she is doing well. For the first update, the author’s health. She continues to work out each day and continues to research ways to improve her sleep. Second, the author is embarking on new volunteer opportunities. In early March, the author became an honorary commander for a group at the local joint reserve base. The author is so excited as she met with the colonel this past week to discuss ideas and has already started working on her first opportunity to help the airmen/airwomen.

Third, the author is working on socializing and her friendships. Since the author moved back to Texas, this area has been a challenge for her. A friend of the authors said it took her three years to make friends when she returned to Texas and the author would agree that it has taken close to the same amount of time.

ACTION: How are you doing with your goals and focuses for 2024? Are there any changes you need to make to accomplish your goals this year? Determine what tweaks you need to make in your life to put you on a path to accomplish your goals and dreams.

Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week - March 19, 2024

 Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein

A place for everything, and everything in its place. - Benjamin Franklin

Spring starts today. Adventures await. New opportunities are on the horizon. Dreams are ready to be fulfilled. Is the reader ready?

This past weekend, the weather was dreary in Texas, so the author took the opportunity to clean out her house. Yard work was accomplished. Files were cleaned out, floors scrubbed, and the closet was organized! The closet had been on the author’s mind for a month, and she had started it, but never finished. She placed tasks on her to-do list, but never accomplished them. Now, it is clean, and space is available. Walking into her closet the author smiles as she sees the space and organization she created.

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. – Marie Kondo

Why is it important to have a clean home? There are many reasons, but here are a couple for the author:

·        When the author’s closet was cluttered, she did not sleep well. After organizing the closet, she felt calm and was able to sleep.

Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes. - Terri Guillemets

·        A cluttered home with papers all around disrupts accomplishing your goals and dreams.

·        One must have a life that is ready for new opportunities when they knock. John Wooden said:

When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.

ACTION:   How will you declutter your home in March?

 

Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week - March 12, 2024

 Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party.’ – Robin Williams

Spring is the time of plans and projects. – Leo Tolstoy

Spring will start one week from today. We are so close to having made it through a dark cold winter and now it is time to have fun. 

If the reader follows the author on Facebook, the reader has seen that the author has started new adventures in 2024.

Why do we need to play and have fun in life? According to Greg McKeown in Essentialism:

Play expands our minds in ways that allow us to explore: to germinate new ideas or see old ideas in a new light. It makes us more inquisitive, more attuned to novelty, more engaged. (p. 86)

Here are examples that Howell lists in Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People where people were playing, and new ideas were developed:

Columbus was at play when it dawned on him that the world was round. Newton was at play in his mind when he saw the apple tree and suddenly conceived of the force of gravity. Watson and Crick were playing with possible shapes of the DNA molecule when they stumbled upon the double helix. Shakespeare played with iambic pentameter his whole life. Mozart barely lived a waking moment when he was not at play. Einstein’s thought experiments are brilliant examples of the mind invited to play.

By playing, we allow our minds to relax and look at ideas and problems from a different perspective.

ACTION:  As spring is arriving soon, how are you going to play to stimulate your brain?

Resources

·        McKeown, G. (2014). Essentialism. Crown Business.

·        Howell, E. M.D. (2011). Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People. Harvard Business Review Press.

Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week - March 5, 2024

 When you make the right decision, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks. - Caroline Kennedy

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. - Mark Twain

The author hopes the last month of blogs on decision making was beneficial. For the author, she learned a lot through this experience and is happy to report that her new furniture arrived. On delivery day, the author was frustrated because the delivery men were delayed. The next day after the author calmed down, she was happy with her decision.

This decision had to happen extremely quickly, and the author did everything she knew to do to make the best decision. Having to trust her gut/intuition with this decision worried the author. However, she now knows she made wise decisions at every step along the journey.

As the author thought about this whole situation, the author realized that she had been researching this decision for months and even years. Before the author bought her house, she watched various shows on HGTV, Magnolia Network, etc. to see what she liked. Gathering this data helped with the intuition/gut decisions she made for her new items, which means we are continually gathering data in our brains to make decisions.  

ACTION:  What decision(s) did you make in the last month that you realize you have also been researching and preparing to make for years?

Resources

·        https://cms-assets.life.church/Media/Craig-Groeschel-Leadership-Podcast/Leader-Guide-Show-Notes/145%20-%20CGLP%20Leader%20Guide%20-%208%20Habits%20of%20Great%20Decision%20Makers,%20Part%201.pdf?utm_content=id_7e3ad138-8e52-4766-acbc-3f12cb78e9a9-name_8-habits-of-great-decision-makers-part-1-language_EN-path_%2Fleadershippodcast%2Fleadership%2F8-habits-of-great-decision-makers-part-1&utm_source=life_church  

·        https://cms-assets.life.church/Media/Craig-Groeschel-Leadership-Podcast/Leader-Guide-Show-Notes/147%20-%20CGLP%20Leader%20Guide%20-%208%20Habits%20of%20Great%20Decision%20Makers,%20Part%202%20FINAL.pdf?utm_content=id_85fe4e37-3ee9-4098-8431-70d270299ba1-name_8-habits-of-great-decision-makers-part-2-language_EN-path_%2Fleadershippodcast%2Fleadership%2F8-habits-of-great-decision-makers-part-2&utm_source=life_church

·        https://api-assets.life.church/uploads/message/2468/podcast_show_notes/8-habits-of-great-decision-makers-part-2.pdf

·        Discover Your Decision-Making Style - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjMsY0kv9A&t=748s

·        https://www.realtimeperformance.com/ulysses-s-grant-12-leadership-lessons/

·        Email from Keith Craft dated July 9, 2023 titled “The art of decision making”.

·        https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/how-did-ulysses-s-grant-make-life-and-death-decisions/331198