Stretching Your Mindby Rick Warren

In the book “Putting the One Minute Manager to Work,” one of the key concepts is this: Don’t Just Do Something—Sit There!

Too often, many of our problems arise from acting before thinking. We confuse activity with productivity. We think, “I’m so busy, I must be accomplishing something!” In reality, we may just be spinning our wheels. Like sitting in a rocking chair, you can expend a lot of energy and create a lot of motion, but you still aren’t going anywhere.Progress and productivity always require thought!

The Bible says:“A wise man thinks ahead; a fool doesn’t and even brags about it!” (Proverbs 13:16 LB).

“A good man thinks before he speaks” (Proverbs 15:28 LB).
“The wise man looks ahead. The fool attempts to fool himself and won’t face facts” (Proverbs 14:8 LB).
“A wise man is cautious and avoids danger; a fool plunges ahead with great confidence” (Proverbs 14:16 LB).

Unfortunately many parts of your work seem to conspire to keep you from thinking! Pressures, deadlines, appointments, and interruptions fill your day so you have no time to think. You stay so busy swatting mosquitoes that you have no time to drain the swamp.Nothing is as important to your job as thinking, yet nothing is harder to take time to do. The solution is to schedule “think” time. Make a daily appointment with yourself to simply think about your work.

Think about what you do, how you do it, and the results you are getting:

“Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts” (Proverbs 24:3 LB).

Your mind is like a muscle. It develops with use. The more you develop it, the more productive you will be. Your brain is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God. Think about it!
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This week is also a tired week .... Every week tired one hahah .

But nevermind let give thank ....But treated this as a habit ...if not will become no life .

Let see this week ....

I did not start the week very well

But thank god for leading me through leading worship ....Thank god for Kai en for playing hahah

On thur , I late for my fitness program ...Then if late no attentent mark mean no present for first meeting . That what they said la but I a bit dont believe .But by the grace of god , that give chance because it the first week .

Fri , I overslept ...then when the walk to the bus stop the bus just arrived and it is not so crowed =)

Today watch Harry Potter .....7pm at suntec need to study now ...tomorrow going service ......
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Tired ................................................ I felt like doing what I want ........... Meeting expectation drain me .............. Pleasing Men and only men ...................... When I fear it always happen .......I really cant think when i nv happen..........................I know he is good , faithful and just....... but I just dont know why he always make my fear come true .............. testing my faith ??? ............ Ppl close to me who know my life , like to say my life like very tough like that ........True ... but it not like there dont have any good time .......But for me good times come unexpectedly but bad time come as expected ...... if like I know when bad things going to happen dots ...........for today is the second ut my key board failed me ...............

When home with my ex-classmates ....... they was like asking me "Hey what happen to you stephen.your ut grade does not reflect you " ... Beat me like I know .......Am I slacking or am I that busy ...........hahah nehe is year 4 ...should be god plan .... if god plan for me year 4 go ahead lor ... your servant have no choice .....hahaha I know what my ex-sheep backsilde he just dont want to be control by fate hahaha .....he want to create his own ........I want to vend my anger my emotion here ....But I will just cause more trouble for me ......hahaha so who bother ......think I so free ah always want ppl to rebuke me becuase of my blog posts ..... LOL ..... I need to believe he is in control ......my mind believe 100% my heart - 100 % . 100% + -100% = 0% hahah ..... Let see how it goes .....
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Authentic fellowship is not superficial, surface-level chit-chat. It's genuine, heart-to-heart, sometimes gut-level sharing.It happens when people get honest about who they are and what is happening in their lives.

They share their hurts, reveal their feelings, confess their failures, disclose their doubts, admit their fears, acknowledge their weaknesses, and ask for help and prayer.Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in many churches. Instead of an atmosphere of honesty and humility, there is pretending, role-playing, politicking, and superficial politeness, but shallow conversation.

People wear masks, keep their guard up, and act as if everything is rosy in their lives. These attitudes are the death of real friendship.It's only as we become open about our lives that we experience authentic fellowship.

The Bible says, "If we live in the light, as God is in the light, we can share fellowship with each other . . . If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves" (1 John 1:7-8 NCV).

The world thinks intimacy occurs in the dark, but God says it happens in the light. We tend to use darkness to hide our hurts, faults, fears, failures, and flaws. But in the light, we bring them all out into the open and admit who we really are.Of course, being authentic requires both courage and humility. It means facing our fear of exposure, rejection, and being hurt again.

Why would anyone take such a risk?

Because it's the only way to grow spiritually and be emotionally healthy. The Bible says, "Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed" (James 5:16 MSG).
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