But if you were to honestly and humbly examine how you expend your effort on a daily basis, you will likely find that most of it is geared with a remarkable imbalance towards your career, business, and a host of other not-so-important things like hobbies; movies, TV sitcoms and reality shows; video and computer games; and Internet surfing, Facebook, MSN, chat rooms, and pitifully, pornography. Even without referencing any survey, no one would argue that the world is wasting way too much time than ever before (and yet we complain of not having enough time). We fool ourselves by thinking that the expectations people have of us are unrealistic when all the while we are fully engaged in inconsequential activities that require much more time and effort.
We keep saying that our children are the future and yet keep manufacturing things that are not helping them better prepare for the future; we ignorantly applaud the electronic gadgets that instill an extremely high level of competition in them, things that limit their meaningful communications with others, things that causes them to spend more time in front of unproductive objects instead of people.
By no means may these time-stealers be considered the axis of evil, but the negative impacts on families, relationships, and spirituality is extremely alarming. If in doubt, just take a minute to think of how much time these activities consume (especially) in the western world versus how much time is spent building families, relationships and spirituality. How much time do you spend overworking or watching TV versus how much time you spend with your children ' intentionally getting engaged in their world academically and socially? How much time do you spend shopping or salivating over things you can barely afford versus how much time you spend on just a stroll with your partner holding hands, admiring each other, the wind, birds, trees and lake? "To put the world right in order", Confucius once said, "We must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
The Inconvenient Truth is that not many people have aligned their available time to what they claim matter the most; not many people invest the necessary time to Enhance their Personality, Energize their Marriage, Equip their Parenting, Enrich their Spirituality and Enliven their Relationships. In fact, it is almost becoming embarrassing to refuse a social invitation on the grounds that you have to go home to be with your spouse and children. In the same way, spending time with God, reading the Bible, praying and participating in other spiritual activities is becoming the top secret of those who do, since no one really wants to mocked for 'leaning' on God. Nevertheless, these remain the topmost areas of life that people say matter the most to them. I would rather be found leaning on the Omnipotent God than on any of these time-wasters; worst still, on medications, liquors and drugs, which societies are 'legally' prescribing to people who, in most case, just need a friend. What are you leaning on? How much time are you wasting everyday?
As a Life Coach, I have been fortunate enough to work with a lot of people around the world to align their actions with their true innermost desires, and thus, have seen the amazing impact that the simple concept of making and sticking to plans does in people's lives. If you need help to develop the character muscle necessary to better manage your time without unnecessary stress, send me an email and we will gladly work together to make it happen.
No one on their dying bed regrets not having spent enough time at work, not having watched enough TV, not having spent enough time on the Internet, not having played enough computer games, or not having participated in social activities enough; but the number of people regretting not having dedicating enough time to personal growth, to family (marriage and parenting), relationships and spirituality continues to increase. And I am determined not to be included in these statistics. Ask yourself this moment about the percentage of time you spend on other things versus the time you spend on What Matters Most. It is an exercise that great accomplishers do every day. According to Pope John Paul II, "As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." My question to you is what are you doing to make a difference? In the case that you are unaware, a full time employee spends about 75% of their wake time at work; and this excludes the work taken home and the time spent thinking and talking about work outside work. To read more, click here.
My friend, foolishness is a perfect word to describe the misuse of time. Effective time management is not a secret to success; it is an acute imperative for success. If there was ever a time that we should focus on the family, it is now, for time is fast running out. This is why we, at The Exhortation, have been facilitating Marriage Enrichment Forums and Parenting Enrichment Forums for many years. What is more? It is absolutely free for single parents and those who are unable to afford the minimally allotted cost of venue. To have great relationships, you must build one - which requires time, effort and a conscious mind.
If you want to keep your job, you would not shortchange your employer in the time that you are paid for. It is the same with your family; you cannot wish for a harmonious family if you continuously shortchange your spouse and children in the time that God gave you to expend for them.
If you wish to excel at work, you must be open and willing to learn, unlearn and relearn what is required in the life of duty. In the same way, if you wish to Enhance Your Personality, Energize Your Marriage, Equip Your Parenting, Enrich Your Spirituality and Enliven Your Relationships, then you must be open and willing to learn, unlearn and relearn; you must be open and willing to engage and be engaged in these areas of your life; and you must make yourself available to coach and be coached. When it is all said and done, this is the only way that you can find yourself not guilty of the "unconscious" abandonment of those you love ' your spouse, your children.
You make or break your family and relationships by the amount of time you spend learning and practicing proven techniques of building and maintaining great relationships. Those who were surprised by the divorce offer from their spouse or the allegedly sudden wayward behaviour of their children failed to invest the time necessary to learn and practice techniques of how to keep their families together. This is an Inconvenient Truth!
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Some anti-abortionist advocates favor candidly showing actual abortion videos as a means of dissuading women who are considering an abortion. Films of an actual abortion are certain not to pop up at abortion clinics; so just where could they be shown? Here are some other alternatives.
We live in a world that thanks to people like the well intentioned Al Gore is now nearing the panic stage with fears of global warming. One article recently posted online said ignoring global warming should be ?criminalized.? The common term most often used for liberal progressives who are the staunchest supporters of the green movement is the ?far left? which is curiously close to an older but equally familiar phrase, ?far out.?
How far out can a nation go? Shall we criminalize ignoring the panic associated with possible global warming before asking the fifty million aborted babies what they think about rising temps? Would they tell us that they think America is truly the land of opportunity where all are treated equally and justice flows like a river? Or would they charge us with subjecting them to the real ?inconvenient truth? that their lives were counted for nothing even when the temperature was normal.
I care little who believes me or who chooses to be the scoffer. After a lifetime of study in the Bible, eschatology, history and human nature I can promise with absolute assurance that this world does not end because of rising temperatures. What is rising (as predicted) is the wholesale immorality of a reprobate generation that brings the judgment of God on their own heads. Follow Armageddon.
The green machine has gotten up to speed much faster than the highly spurious and suspect ?theory of evolution.? It took about forty years for secular educators to sell this pabulum to a generation who would be more than surprised if both the science of global warming and Darwinism were more carefully examined. Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
The fact that fifty million human beings have suffered death at the hands of abortionists even while there is no proof of even one single death due to global warming is a total no brainer. No rocket science needed here, no math degree. What is needed is a whole lot less panic and a huge helping of honesty. It is a matter of the heart not the brain. The appeal to the heart can sway the hardest and even the most intelligent person even if the intelligence is of the more common pseudo-intelligent variety. Are acts that are de-humanizing, cruel, heartless and deadly given respectability because they are performed by those who are considered to be ?intelligent??
With the recent advances of forensic science a murderer can only frantically try to cover their tracks in vain. It leaves us wondering how a nation can cover the slaughter of fifty million babies either in real time or in the conscience. It would seem that if science is willing to supply the deception then Hollywood is willing to bring the distraction to the big party.
While science labels the faithful as morons it promises us that our ancient fathers and mothers were once monkeys in the murky mist. There is no culpability where there is no accountability, aren't we just doing what the rest of the animals on the planet are doing? Hollywood steps up to stroke the national libido and lull a nation into a collective obsessive compulsive disorder that would make Caligula and the ancient Romans blush.
Harsh, don't judge too quickly, at least wait until after the six o'clock news. If Hollywood hasn't sufficiently distracted you then wait for the film at eleven. Massacres, murders and mayhem are followed by sports and weather.
It is not hard to see how the murder of fifty million infants can be pretty much swept away from view in the national conscience of a nation. Yet, swept away they are not. Rather they are swept under the brightly woven carpet called laughter and distraction.
For those who haven't given in to it all, the living grows harder especially if they have lived long enough to see the world around them taking on the appearance of a cartoon episode in Mad Magazine. In the new world order Chicken Little wins a Nobel Prize for his part in the great distraction. Law makers are busy passing laws to protect perversion and Hollywood brings up the rear with a full compliment of fluff to make it all just so darn entertaining.
It isn't about who is playing the fiddle while Rome burns. It is about the fact that children burn too. Christ said that anyone who offended or harmed the children would be better off if he were anchored with a stone and thrown into the ocean. (Mark 9:42) There is absolutely no reason to believe that he wasn't also referring to the unborn in this pronouncement.
Some children were named while still in the womb by God or the angels but Christ had the distinction of being named before he was ever conceived. How far back does God go when he refers to the offense we so callously lay on children? I would say beware, it may go all the way from eternity to eternity.
I have a friend that is heralded for being the world's largest internet evangelist. He hosts a live TV program every morning and sends well written and powerful daily devotionals to over forty thousand people a day. He espouses the idea of using a film of an actual abortion to shock people into looking at what is really going on in the bloodied rooms of the clinics around the nation. I find it hard to disagree with him but I'm fairly sure that not everyone will respond to this favorably. The hard part would be finding a national media platform that would show the entire matter in its horrific detail from beginning to end. Put another ?don't hold your breath? here.
Another possibility would be to show the child to the expectant mother and the father if possible. The new 3-D ultrasound technology adds a whole new dimension to this that has not been available until recently. New computer aging enhancement software could also be utilized to bring the knowledge of what is really going on in a woman's uterus to the light without being the least bit negative.
The new techniques can show parents what the baby will look like when it is born and even further ahead in time. The prospective parents can see the child they would have to wrap up and rock gently to sleep or feed. Its character and humanity would be harder to deny or resist.
I had the good fortune of hearing a story repeated by my wife about the 3-D ultrasound her niece had undergone. Later I asked questions to her niece myself. As she recounted the event to me, others in the room both men and women laughed, gasped and their faces lit up with smiles as she described every facet of the procedure.
The 3-D image is a thousand times more revealing than the older ultrasound results and she said it was like watching her tiny unborn laying in his crib and acting out his little personality quirks and tendencies.
Both parents watched in awe as the child slept with both hands over his head. He moved from time to time but was obviously sleeping so the parents not wanting to disturb him waited a full forty five minutes before gently poking mom's belly to disturb him. At several points he responded to the poking with a grimace and began to cry. He wasn't too keen about being woken up.
After he was fully awake he managed to move and twist until he finally was facing his parents. He seemed almost inquisitive but he must have been hungry. They said he was a big boy and a layer of fat could be seen folding over on his neck.
He reached down to grab his foot. With a deliberate yank he tried to pull his foot up into his mouth much like a baby pulls a bottle to his mouth, he missed his mouth and poked his eye with his own foot. He was startled and needless to say so was his parents who grimaced together at the result of his poor aim.
Undaunted he simply gave up on his foot and pulled his hand down to his mouth and began to suck his thumb. Both the leg pull and the thumb sucking were done with the right hand. Being right handed was to be his fate. Being watched and adored by his loving parents was also his fate and his good fortune in that magic moment in time.
His grandmother who was present during the sonogram exclaimed that he looked so clear and alive that she wished she could just reach in and take the child into her arms for a while and then lay him down gently in his bed.
If pregnant moms and their partners could see only this much wouldn't they be hard pressed to reconsider any notion of an abortion. I believe they would.
In preparation for his birth his parents chose a name then began to buy him clothing and furnishings for his own room. They arranged baby showers and answered countless questions of how he was progressing that his relatives and his parent's friends were asking almost daily. All this looking and preparing and anticipation were for a human baby not a fetus.
All of that preparation and enthusiasm juxtaposed against the cold preparation to bring his life to an end in a cold sterile abortion clinic is like the difference between life and death. No, it is the difference between life and death.
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Computer Program For Kids Having home schooled your kids at the comfort of your own homes is going to be the trend of modern education. I believe it is going to stay for good as most government is facing shortages of teachers