A repost: My sister-in-law sent me this. It was so nice that I wanted to keep it by posting it in my blog. Thanks Gits!

HEALTH:
01. Drink plenty of water.
02. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
03. Live with the 3 E’s–Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
04. Make time to pray.
05. Play more games.
06. Read more books than you did in 2011.
07. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
08. Sleep for 7 hours.
09. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

PERSONALITY:
10. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
12. Dream more while you are awake.
13. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind people with mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
16. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
17. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

SOCIETY:
20. Call your family often.
21. Each day give something good to others.
22. Forgive everyone for everything.
23. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
24. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
25. What other people think of you is none of your business.

LIFE:
26. Do the right thing!
27. GOD heals everything.
28. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
29. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
30. The best is yet to come..
31. When awake in the morning, thank GOD for it.
32. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST :
33. Please forward this to
everyone you care about…

It’s so easy to be selfish in fact, we are born that way. I remember someone taught me about survival – thinking of yourself and your need before others.

There’s one incident I vividly remember when I started working. During lunch break, we gather in our small pantry room and eat. One girl brings her home-cooked lunch everyday and doesn’t share until she is done with her food. Her mom specificially taught her not to share or give out her food to others unless she is finished or doesn’t like it anymore. Which is fine, right?

Some may be offended but for others, it’s fine. Logically speaking, it’s her food and she is entitled to eat them and do whatever she decides with it.

But the Bible speaks of us and our need for community. I learned in life, I wouldn’t be able to fulfill God’s Will in my life apart from the people aroud me – family, friends, churchmates, colleagues and etc.

Lord, help me not to be selfish in all circumstances. That I will not think of myself all the time but include others as well. And that, I will go beyond myself and have compasssion for others.

A repost from P.Steve:

Creating a Healthy Corporate Culture (in a Church)
I think I blogged about this sometime in the past few years, but since I can’t remember for sure, you probably can’t either.

Yesterday I spoke to 30 of our Victory-Manila and Every Nation Philippines admin staff about the corporate culture we are trying to create. Here’s the culture we intentionally build in our Manila-based Every Nation, Victory-Manila, Lifebox (campus ministry) and Real Life Foundation admin/mgt/ops teams.

1. A MISSIONAL CULTURE: The Passionate Vision of a World-wide Church-planting and Missions Movement.

- missional simple means to think and act like a missionary

- we must think and act globally, not just locally

- we must realize that we face spiritual opposition

- our work, evangelism & church planting, is spiritual and requires a miracle & the grace of God

- if satan was able to stop the Apostle Paul at times (1Thess2:18) then he will certainly try to stop us

- all of the above applies to everyone working in our organization whether they are on front lines as a campus missionary or in the office working on financial reports

- “the share of the men who stayed with the supplies is the be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike.” –David (1Samuel 30:24)

2. A PROFESSIONAL CULTURE: The Organizational Excellence of a Multinational Corporation.

- A professional culture means the way we handle finances and facilities must be at the highest international standards

- A professional culture starts with a biblical view of work

- Work is a blessing not a curse.

- Originally work was part of man’s purpose, not punishment for sin (Genesis 2:15)

- Man was made to work

- We rest one day so we can work the other six. We do not work so we can rest.

- If we have a biblical theology of work, developing a professional culture will be relatively simple

3. A RELATIONAL CULTURE: The Caring Atmosphere of a Church Family.

- how do we create a culture that is both professional and relational?

- The starting point is to acknowledge that churches and ministries are in the “people business”

- People matter to God, so they must matter to us

- Jesus died for people not for organizations, logos, policies and vision statements

- Learning to forgive is essential to creating and maintaining a relational culture

If leaders spend more time and energy building a healthy corporate culture based on biblical values, then we will spend less time enforcing policies and rules. I am not sure we always succeed, but that is what we are trying to do.