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Focus on Your Breathing for ONE Minute
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Enlighten Your Heart for TWO Minutes
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Elevate Your Mind for THREE Minutes
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De-Stress for FOUR Minutes
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Financial Planning
Or Lack Thereof…. I thought that I should add just a few thoughts with regards to “The Dream”. My reality is that I did not properly plan financially for my retirement. I understand that if you are my age, we need “MILLIONS” of dollars saved in order to live comfortably when we retire. In my attempt to be transparent and hopefully, help others, my savings does not even come close to “MILLION” (singular). My 401K took a beating like many of ours over the past several years and so did many pension funds.
But, as the Lord would have it, I was eligible for the early retirement buy-out when it was offered and I had reached the retirement age in accordance with the guidelines of my company (which by the way, I achieved in Sept., 2011… Coincidence, I think NOT!) So I will be drawing my pension, but I will have to wait on Social Security… No, I won’t hold my breath!
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not flying solely by the seat of my pants. I have figured out how much income that I will need to bring in from “Order Your Steps” (more info to come on that). But although we don’t have any credit card debt, we do still have a mortgage.
So without telling you all my business, I am sure that a LOT of you are thinking… “SHE MUST HAVE FALLEN DOWN AND BUMPED MY HEAD!”
I would love to hear your thoughts and I promise to take the constructive criticism with an open mind 🙂 ……
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FEED Your Spirit for THREE Minutes
TODAY…
ELEVATE Your Mind For Three Minutes,
FOCUS on those Things that will take you …
Beyond where you are Today!
FEED Your Spirit for TWO Minutes
During your day,
Allow the EYES of your Understanding (Your Heart) to be ENLIGHTENED!
Take TWO minutes to Meditate on your favorite scripture,
A poem or An inspirational quote.
FEED Your Spirit for ONE Minute
During your work day,
Take an entire MINUTE to focus on your breathing.
Take Real DEEP breaths, fill your belly with air,
INHALE & HOLD IT ….. THEN EXHALE!
You may be AMAZED at how long ONE Minute really is.
The Recovery
I survived what I considered a Major setback when we failed the certification, but in the early ‘90’s, I did become a manager once again. God had to get me ready and now was my time. I was no longer “defensive” (for the most part). I remember being in a staff meeting and I was given, what I considered an “unreasonable” (rather dumb in my opinion) request. I responded, “So what do the rest of you think about that idea?” When I saw the expression on their faces and it appeared that they truly understood my point of view, I knew that I had passed my initiation.
If you still haven’t made the connection, please continue to read throughout my journey. There are things in our work and our home lives that occur that are simply out of our control, which makes it critical to hold on to the moments of Order that we can create. Life, in this day and time, can be so very stressful. We must do anything that we can do to minimize the “stupid” stuff that really doesn’t matter anyway. When we organize our day to maximize our quality time with family and friends, and promote those things that give us peace…..
We then capture the Joy in Life that God intended!
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The Certification
Hope you enjoyed my little segway blog post, “Purely Random” and it was really random…
Back to the Certification, the day of was extremely nerve-racking, to say the least. Our two-inch 3-ring binder was complete with colorful dividers and creative title pages.
The people had been quizzed and quizzed some more, and we were ready. The managers and I gathered in the conference room to be tested for several hours. We had to prove that we knew what we knew and did what we said. But at some point during the process, the examiner seemed somewhat agitated with our responses. The atmosphere became rather tense.
- AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
What is happening here? I planned this whole thing out and this was going to be the icing on the cake… Although this was a new process, I anticipated a rather calm, smooth “testing” session??
Needless to say, we didn’t fare so well….
Pre-Certification
The 2nd of the two positions that I spoke of last time, was an Organizational Effectiveness Specialist (OES). I literally got to create my own role and responsibilities. At the time, the company was preparing for a quality certification and my task was three-fold. One to get the people excited about the process and two, to prepare them to correctly answer the questions that may be asked when the examiners came to our facility. I created crossword puzzles with key words and phrases and I had the “Question of the Day”, with public recognition for those who answered correctly. I actually enjoyed that job.
Third, I was to ensure that the organization passed the certification. We had to develop a notebook with all our key work processes documented and to make sure that the organization understood and adhered to them.
But of course, with Order comes Chaos….
Next Post – The Certification
Pass or Fail?
Finding Order in Chaos 