Melva Gifford

Apparently during a rainstorm last Wednesday, the young men and young women of the church had a project where the teenage girls were each given a cookie. They were given the assignment to find a box outside that would protect their cookie. The young men of the congregation had the responsibility of protecting the girls with an umbrella against the rain. Some of the girls didn’t come to the activity of their coats, so they stood at he door and didn’t want to go outside..

Apparently some of the guys not only offered to use their umbrellas to protect the girls but may have offered their jackets as well. I thought this is a delightful lesson that emphasizing how each gender may have traits that work in their favor. Girls may have a nurturing attitude toward the family while boys leaned toward being a protector.

I thought that the leadership of the youth did a very good job in use this object lesson to help the young men and women to use the positive traits and helping each other. One young man said during testimony meet that he liked have the opportunity to be a protector and to take care of the girls.

I can see that the cookie could represent children of a family with a father and mother each sharing separate roles for their nurturing and protection. The Cookie could be symbolized in other ways too.

So today’s blog is a complement to some leaders who uses one of object lesson to teach the value that each person possess and helping others.

Do you have an object lesson that you helped form for a youth group, organization that taught a valuable lesson? Please feel free to share in the comment section this blog. Thanks.

Yes, right now I feel pretty frustrated at our past president. I learned from the media on the right that it was President Bush who was the one who signed into law that no military base could have weapons on base. It’s a military base! Our soldiers are trusted to have weapons to fight for our freedoms, but yet they are defenseless when someone shoots them on their own base. And the fact that it happened twice.….

I think it’s terrible that Bush Senior signed this law.

It would be my hope that the media on the left would be as honest about a shortcoming of the own politicians as this particular media pointed out about the actions of this past President.

My second thought is that the current and past administrations and congresses do not give adequate support and help (such as medical) to our troops out in the field, or when they returned home, or to their families.

Bad: compitition

Good: competition

How to remember. Where do you see a lot of competitions taking place? In dog or cat shows. So the way to remember comPETition is people’s PET shows.

Do you have a better way to remember how to spell this correctly? Feel free to share it in the comment section this blog.

–          Go to an auction in advance so you can see how things are done and you become familiar with the environment and the procedures.

–          Maybe have someone with you who isn’t emotionally invested.

–          Have multiple choices so you’re not attached to a specific property only

–          Some auctions may have tutorials of how to do things

–          Maybe have a mentor who can tell you tips and tricks

–          Doesn’t do research to know in advance what the properties are worth

–          Let’s ego get in the way

–          Take prop0erty ownership before bidding begins

–          Has no present limits

–          Engages in bidding wars with other emotional bidders.

–          As an alternative

–          Do research first

–          Determine in advance how far you’ll go up

–          Be willing to let liens and deeds go

–          Avoid bidding wars and pay more and not make a profit

–          Stick to a predetermined game plan .

Stand and deliver: 3 – 30 – 14

I attended a lecture about body language and self-improvement. Here are some of my notes.

–          Don’t die with your message still inside you.

–          Want to present energy with your presentation

–          Connect with people involves eye contact.

–          Three rules.

–          A. don’t be boring. Add inflection in your voice

–          B. bring the energy with you

–          C. always deliver 100%

–          set rules

–          a. High level of respect

–          b. Have your mind present in what you do

–          c. Manage your communication device. This is not necessarily mean your phone, but the way you communicate by voice, stance and behavior.

–          when you set rules you move up a level

This is the conclusion of notes I took while attending a very good workshop at the Timpanogos storytelling conference from an educator by the name of Sherry Norfolk. In the previous week I shared ideas that Sherry offered of how teachers can use storytelling more effectively in their classrooms. These are more notes to that presentation.

–          Why do we remember things? Remember things that are relevant to us. Whatever important points. We remember in a story or the points are concepts that we can most relate to.

–          Talk about the characters. What are they doing what is the setting. Have kids collaborate. When there is conflict about who wants to do what. In a collaboration. For example, when you want to have mapped out a scene. Instead of finding have them determine a way to make a vote. Such as taking turns or playing hammer and scissors to choose something

–          have kids and create a story in small groups

–          finally have a child tell the own story.

–          Second and third graders tell the story to a partner. This helps set the story in the child’s mind before the asked to write it down and having to think about how to write words to fit the story. Don’t force them to use cursive at this point you want to have them simply write down the story. That is seen verbally tell the story before writing it down helps to remember the story.

–          More training is to have kids tell the story using different voices to depict different characters. Then have been described have the voices sound like an attach those voices to add verbs like growl wheeze.

–          Fourth to fifth graders have to tell how and why things happen, such as the alternate story to grandma a grandma spider is when the moon stole the light and animals tried to get the light back. Prairie dog was afraid of the moon, and that is why the prairie dog never comes out during the day.

–          Common core requirements state present story to help meet standards.

–          When you tell a story in a city full of details.

–          Imagination is essential for telling and hearing the story.

–          When telling a story tell the story with details, actions, and a variety of voices.

–          Stories teach prospective, cause-and-effect.

–          Went on the teacher was given the assignment to teach some inner-city schools populated with African-Americans, the moment of history of the reef formation. (Freeing the slaves away from sin plantation owners were some freed slaves participated in sharecropping and others moved to the North. As information was presented to the classes. She then divided up the students into groups of 31 was to be representing the previous landowner, another was to present the point of view of the sharecropper, and the third student to present the point of view of the previous slave to move north. Each of the students or to try to persuade the others, use the details of history presented by the teacher and by reading and study, and it gives the others to have an understand the point of view of the person represent.

Sherry’s website: http://www.sherrynorfolk.com/

Bad: complient

Good: compliant.

An ant is very obedient and compliANT to the rules of the nest. Thus compliANT has ANT in it.

Here are some notes from a presentation on job searching. What I gleaned from it is I need to have a clear sense of purpose in my job search. These questions can help determine my specific goals and where to concentrate my energies to match my strengths. If you can answer the following questions you will gain a clearer direction. I’ve also taken the liberty of as additional comments.

–          my name is

–          my profession is. You may not have to only use your past titles and labels the occupation search. But your skills and knowledge of other occupations can empower you to go in a new direction. If you desire.

–          my expertise, function, specific capabilities are: start searching for examples of where you have stood out from your peers. Are there moments of recognition that you receive because of your contribution to pass company. The more specific you can have in giving examples of success. The more you can stand out potential employers.

–          my unique strengths are: here, also state very Pacific examples and if you can provide percentages or money amounts that can support your observations that will even be better.

–          one of my professional accomplishments is: if you have more than one, then document that. Go through the list of common questions that interviewers asked and have, in advance, planned responses with specific successes in your answers to any of you

–          type of industry and size: if you board for a variety of different size organizations. This will illustrate your versatility as an employee.

–          my plans are… <define them for yourself>

–          I am looking for… <define them for yourself>

Please feel free to add to the list for any ideas you have.