You better start dreaming.
I am supposed to be doing this every day. I just read a book about scheduling out what I should be doing. I will start getting a habit for this.
I am thankful Amanda and our family is in the cottage kitchen bakery business.
I am thankful I have the hope of opportunity in the parcel business.
I am thankful for the traveling I have done in my life.
I am thankful for my relatives and friends.
Anytime is a good time for a new direction if that direction takes me to a better place.
Sunday mornings I like to take some time to reflect on the week. What went well, what I learned and what I need to change to make next week better.
My family and I spent a couple of days in St. George this week. It was nice to have a break from teaching. I enjoy teaching and it’s nice for a change in the schedule.
Mike and I had the chance to pitch incentive compensation this week. I am getting better at it, I learned some things I think I should do better in the future. Hopefully, I get to try this again soon. I know this will change the lives of the people that get involved.
I started reading The Happiness Advantage I like the things this book talks about and I plan to bring the suggestions into my life.
Principle #1: The Happiness Advantage
Principle #2: The Fulcrum and the Lever
Principle #3: The Tetris Effect
Principle #4: Falling up
Principle #5: The Zorro Circle
Principle #6: The 20-Second Rule
Principle #7: Social Investment
This week one of the people I am working with from a company felt things were not going as they should and reached out to the salesperson. This is difficult for me because believe I am working hard and then someone complains about how things are happening. It made me upset at first. I felt like quitting the project and wishing I had another job.
Then I remembered some of the things my brother Dennis was telling me about taking a step back and asking a few questions. The first being, “Is what I am thinking true?”, “Is the customer and the salesperson really upset with me?”
Then I started thinking, “can I control how they feel?”
So I set out to see if I could smooth things out. I discovered I was missing some information and had miscommunicated a couple of things.
Admitting to everyone that I had written some things when I meant to write another helped with things.
I don’t know if they calmed down or it was just me calming down but everything seemed to work out okay in the end.
Today I am thankful that I have a job.
I am thankful I get to teach college classes.
I am thankful for a four-year-old that is constantly reminding me we can be happy all of the time.
I am thankful for my wife and all the work she does.
I am thankful for my children and the things they do without being asked.
I am thankful to be a primary teacher.
I am thankful I am comfortable with technology
I am thankful how easy it is to study the gospel with technology.