Thursdays Insight For Change
Matthew Sorg, CHST, CESCO
Regional Health & Safety Professional JW Danforth
Good Morning Friends,
One of the most difficult things we attempt to do in Life is?change. The reason creating change is so difficult is that there’s a part of our personality that? resists it at every turn. I’m sure that each of you can?attest to the mental push-back that always accompanies changes we are trying to make in our lives. I bet there’s something important in your life that needs to change if you want?to find the health,?happiness and positive attitude?you seek. Since it’s our thinking that drives our behaviors, all change begins with our thoughts. The key to creating change in your life and giving you a real opportunity to reach your goals is changing your approach. Jim Rohn once said,?“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”?Here is a list of 5 things you can do to help create the changes you want or need in your life; first choose one thing you really wish to change then follow these five steps:
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1.Clearly describe the goal. 2. Break that goal down into 5? workable steps.
3. Clearly define the actions needed to accomplish each of those steps. 4. Create a time frame for implementing and completing the 5 steps. 5. Then take on the mindset of the change agent, who’s charged with managing and supervising this project, and make it happen.
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Change happens slowly in a structured, measured and cumulative fashion. I hope you find the information as useful as I have and it helps you in Your Journey.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~?Leo Buscaglia
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee
~??Marian Wright-Edelman
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The starfish
Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached, he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.
The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached, the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.
As he came up to the person, he said: "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said: "It sure made a difference to that one!"
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Thursday's?laugh...........
A preacher was completing a temperance sermon: with great expression he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river."
With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river."
And then finally, he said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river."
He sat down. The song leader then stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, "For our closing song, let us sing Hymn # 365: "Shall We Gather at the River."