Joan's Journal

Sunday, September 22, 2013

MODERATION: CREATIVE NEGOTIATION

See Journal Entry 8-18-13 (pp.25,26)

While reading Philippians 4:5,

"Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand,"

I started researching the term "YIELD," and I stumbled upon this VERY interesting and insightful article.

Read the article:

http://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article02.htm

MODERATION = G1933 (epieikes), 1)seeming, suitable

2) equitable, fair, mild, gentle

Root:

1503 (eiko) to be like (as in a faint copy)

1909 (dpi) on, over across, against

PICTURE: 4-Way Stop

QUOTE:

"On the plus side, compromise takes a measure of goodwill and little creativity. On the minus side, compromise often involves lazy communication or problem solving. You may have heard the classic tale of two sisters who argued over who would get an orange. They compromised and split it in half. One sister ate her half and threw away the peel; the other, who was involved in a cooking project, grated the peel of her half and threw away the rest of the orange."

"Creative negotiation involves looking for the hidden opportunities presented by challenges."

1. Our natural tendency is to come up with stances,

2. We are inclined to focus exclusively on our needs

3. Our emotions get in the way regularly

4. We frequently fail to explore beyond the obvious solution

Creative Negotiation

Gregorio Billikopf Encina
University of California

(This article was incorporated into a full chapter at http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7labor/17.htm)
^{ROMANS 12:18}If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

THINK AND GROW RICH: NAPOLEON HILL (FULL LENGTH MOVIE)

Whether or not you believe in the power of positive thinking, or wether you embrace the words of Paul the Apostle in the Bible in Philippians 4:8, you cannot deny the scientific truth that whatever you focus on you will move toward. This is an undeniable fact.

Some people scoff at the Dale Carnegie principle that basically says that you can change the outcome of things by the power of the mind. Verifiable instances of individuals being able to lower their heart rate through the power of thought put a kink in the skeptical minds of the naysayers. But I will venture to say that you will find that the "unlucky" people in the world are more often than not the ones who do NOT believe that what you think, you become. Conversely, those who believe that thoughts are a power beyond logic are more often than not ones who, by some strange phenomenon, seem to rise have uncanny successes and more than their share of happiness in life.

Take a very thoughtful and careful glance at the concepts of Napoleon Hill, based on the foundation of what he gleaned from Dale Carnegie who said, "You ARE what you THINK."

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

I AM A WOLF: "WISDOM OF WOLVES"

The folllowing exerpt is from Twyman Towery, Ph.D., a professional speaker and consultant who studied the lessons of leadership in nature, has captured them in a book for Simple Truths called Wisdom of Wolves. Twyman shares the parallels between the wolf pack and human behavior...in business life, family life, and personal life.

An excerpt from
Wisdom of Wolves
by Twyman Towery

The attitude of the wolf can be summed up simply: it is a constant visualization of success. The collective wisdom of wolves has been progressively programmed into their genetic makeup throughout the centuries. Wolves have mastered the technique of focusing their energies toward the activities that will lead to the accomplishment of their goals.

Wolves do not aimlessly run around their intended victims, yipping and yapping. They have a strategic plan and execute it through constant communication. When the moment of truth arrives, each understands his role and understands exactly what the pack expects of him.

The wolf does not depend on luck. The cohesion, teamwork and training of the pack determines whether the pack lives or dies.

There is a silly maxim in some organizations that everyone, to be a valuable member, must aspire to be the leader. This is personified by the misguided CEO who says he only hires people who say they want to take his job. Evidently this is supposed to ensure that the person has ambition, courage, spunk, honesty, drive—whatever. In reality, it is simply a contrived situation, with the interviewee jumping through the boss's hoops. It sends warnings of competition and one-upmanship throughout the organization rather than signals of cooperation, teamwork and loyalty.

Everyone does not strive to be the leader in the wolf pack. Some are consummate hunters or caregivers or jokesters, but each seems to gravitate to the role he does best. This is not to say there are not challenges to authority, position and status—there are. But each wolf's role begins emerging from playtime as a pup and refines itself through the rest of its years. The wolf's attitude is always based upon the question, "What is best for the pack?" This is in marked contrast to us humans, who will often sabotage our organizations, families or businesses, if we do not get what we want.

Wolves are seldom truly threatened by other animals. By constantly engaging their senses and skills, they are practically unassailable. They are masters of planning for the moment of opportunity to present itself, and when it does, they are ready to act.

Because of training, preparation, planning, communication and a preference for action, the wolf's expectation is always to be victorious. While in actuality this is true only 10 percent of the time or less, the wolf's attitude is always that success will come—and it does.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

REALITY IS NOT NECESSARILY WHAT YOU SEE

Commentary: Reality Shows

8/21/13. MikeHuckabee.com

QUOTING:

"Friends and family of reality star Gia Aleemand are still in shock over the news that she died Wednesday, apparently after trying to take her own life. The star of ABC’s “The Bachelor” was just 29. She was beautiful, famous and envied by countless strangers. She seemed to be well-grounded and happy. Once again, it serves as a sobering reminder to young people who worship celebrities and wish they could be beautiful and famous, too, that those things alone don’t protect you from the pains of life.

With the rise of reality shows, people feel they truly know the person on their TV screens, but there has yet to be a reality show that actually showed reality. We can never really know what goes on behind other people’s closed doors. If you want the truth, don’t look for it on television, any more than you should look to fame, beauty or wealth for happiness and fulfillment. That cautionary tale was first told over a century ago, in a poem called “Richard Cory,” about a handsome, wealthy man admired by everyone – a perfect candidate for “The Bachelor” - who suddenly, one night, killed himself. And in the poem, as so often in real life, we never do learn the reason why. "