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“What is important to you? Why do you get out of bed in the morning? What do you want to have accomplished by the time you are seventy?” Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once. By Jeff Sandefer
I want to train and inspire people. I want to increase their ability to find joy and fulfillment in their job. I want to help them have their interactions more meaningful and productive. I want to help them see that they can be excited to come to work; show them that they help people with their job.
"Visualize yourself at age seventy (or one hundred if you are an optimist). The setting can be an awards dinner, or if your tastes are slightly more morbid, your own funeral. Which role from your life do you want the speaker to mention first? Second? Third? What do you want them to say? How do you feel about the areas that have been left out? In this exercise are the sparks of a calling." Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once. By Jeff Sandefer
-That I inspired people, that I helped them find joy and happiness in their day, that I left things better than I found them, that I loved my Family, that I had strong morals and values, that I was an example of a Disciple of Christ
"If you hold that your career and parenting responsibilities are equally important, how will you react when your largest customer demands a meeting the very evening of your daughter’s first dance recital?"Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once. By Jeff Sandefer
"To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. . . . I urge you each to discover your gifts and to seek after those that will bring direction to your life’s work and that will further the work of heaven." [Robert D. Hales, “Gifts of the Spirit,” Ensign, February 2002, 16]
What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"Other types of gifts that you may notice in yourself include the ability to praise others effectively, to identify and encourage others’ talents, to organize information in a concise manner, and to see a problem from multiple angles." What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"These sorts of gifts may not suggest a particular career path to you, and that may seem like a disadvantage. I challenge you to try thinking differently. The gifts I have just listed have market value. They are also highly portable. You might express those gifts in many professions or organizations. Consequently, finding your calling in life may not be a matter of finding the one right job. Instead, it may be that your calling is to bring your unique spiritual gifts to whatever position the Lord blesses you with." What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"I testify that when you focus your work first and foremost on blessing others, you will become extraordinary at what you do and will find fulfillment and success much more reliably than if you spend your time at work trying to get ahead or get rich. My brothers and sisters, work to serve! Remember the words that greet you at the gateway of the university: “Enter to learn; go forth to serve.”" What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." -Randy Pausch
"But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people." -Randy Pausch
"Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted." -Randy Pausch
If you treat each experience as an experiment, it is not so scary: i.e. 100 page book, that can take time, but I will read 10 pages as an experiment, not so scary!. -Treat Life As an Experiment
Tom Kelley, IDEO
“What is important to you? Why do you get out of bed in the morning? What do you want to have accomplished by the time you are seventy?” Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once. By Jeff Sandefer
I want to train and inspire people. I want to increase their ability to find joy and fulfillment in their job. I want to help them have their interactions more meaningful and productive. I want to help them see that they can be excited to come to work; show them that they help people with their job.
"Visualize yourself at age seventy (or one hundred if you are an optimist). The setting can be an awards dinner, or if your tastes are slightly more morbid, your own funeral. Which role from your life do you want the speaker to mention first? Second? Third? What do you want them to say? How do you feel about the areas that have been left out? In this exercise are the sparks of a calling." Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once. By Jeff Sandefer
-That I inspired people, that I helped them find joy and happiness in their day, that I left things better than I found them, that I loved my Family, that I had strong morals and values, that I was an example of a Disciple of Christ
"If you hold that your career and parenting responsibilities are equally important, how will you react when your largest customer demands a meeting the very evening of your daughter’s first dance recital?"Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once. By Jeff Sandefer
"To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. . . . I urge you each to discover your gifts and to seek after those that will bring direction to your life’s work and that will further the work of heaven." [Robert D. Hales, “Gifts of the Spirit,” Ensign, February 2002, 16]
What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"Other types of gifts that you may notice in yourself include the ability to praise others effectively, to identify and encourage others’ talents, to organize information in a concise manner, and to see a problem from multiple angles." What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"These sorts of gifts may not suggest a particular career path to you, and that may seem like a disadvantage. I challenge you to try thinking differently. The gifts I have just listed have market value. They are also highly portable. You might express those gifts in many professions or organizations. Consequently, finding your calling in life may not be a matter of finding the one right job. Instead, it may be that your calling is to bring your unique spiritual gifts to whatever position the Lord blesses you with." What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"I testify that when you focus your work first and foremost on blessing others, you will become extraordinary at what you do and will find fulfillment and success much more reliably than if you spend your time at work trying to get ahead or get rich. My brothers and sisters, work to serve! Remember the words that greet you at the gateway of the university: “Enter to learn; go forth to serve.”" What Is Your Calling in Life? by JEFFREY A. THOMPSON, BYU Associate Professor, June 1, 2010 • Devotional
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." -Randy Pausch
"But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people." -Randy Pausch
"Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted." -Randy Pausch
If you treat each experience as an experiment, it is not so scary: i.e. 100 page book, that can take time, but I will read 10 pages as an experiment, not so scary!. -Treat Life As an Experiment
Tom Kelley, IDEO
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