The ‘Help Me’ Thanksgiving Day Prayer

The ‘Help Me’ Thanksgiving Day Prayer ~ Samuel F. Pugh -edited

Oh God, when I have food, help me to remember the hungry;

[When I am dressed warm, help me to remember who need clothes to be warm]

When I have work [and a pay check], help me to remember the jobless [who don't];

When I have a home, help me to remember those who have no home at all;

When I am without pain, help me to remember those who suffer,

And in remembering, help me to destroy my complacency;

Stirred my compassion, and Help me be concerned enough to help;

By word and deed, those who cry out for what we take for granted.

[We ARE most thankful for your gift of Jesus, Your Son, The Christ and our Savior. And in his name I pray, Amen!]

 

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone and to Everyone a great nap!

Serving Him by Serving His,

Ray Ivey

 

Leading at a Higher Level - Task versus Relations Oriented Leadership

Kenneth Blanchard writes, "The leaders in high performing organizations know that their bottom line depends on their customer, their people and their investors - a triple bottom line."

 

"To keep your customers today, you can’t be content just to satisfy them; you have to create raving fans. Raving fans are customers who are so excited about the way you treat them that they want to tell everyone about you..." 

 

In my "Customer Satisfaction" presentation, I talk about 'delighting' the customer. You have focused on what means to achieve it.

 

"When you are leading at a higher level, you have a “both/and” philosophy. The development of people is of equal importance to performance. As a result, the focus in leading at a higher level is on long-term results and human satisfaction."

 

"Leading at a higher level, therefore, is a process. It can be defined as the process of achieving  worthwhile results while acting with respect, care and fairness for the well-being of all involved. When that occurs, self-serving leadership is not possible. It’s only when you realize that it’s not about you that you begin to lead at a higher level." ~ Leading at a Higher Level - Kenneth Blanchard

"In general, the leader who is more highly rated by superiors and peers, who is most satisfying to subordinates, and whose approach results in the good performance of the group is likely to be both relations oriented and task oriented in an integrated fashion." Bass & Stogdill, Leadership & Management, Chapter 23 Task versus Relation Oriented Leadership, p.510.  http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/pi/ppf/Bass.pdf

Goals: Ways & Destinations

When Alice asked him which way she ought  to go  and said she didn't care where she went, the Cat simply replied, "then it doesn't matter which way you go." From Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
   Aren't there many who are simply looking for another interesting path to follow and entertain themselves along that way with little concern for the results or long term consequences? They run almost aimlessly. Oh, they have a wish list. But they dream at night only wake to the same days they've already spent and thus they seek a new way of spending it without consideration of where it will all truly end.
   What are your purpose and goals in life? Do you have the commitment and discipline to realistically pursue them? The passion to set them as a priority in your life?
   If one has a goal, then there are objectives to achieving that goal and THEN MOST IMPORTANT, there are tasks to achieve each objective. All measurable so when the next new year occurs and measurements are taken, they can see if they are in fact closer to achieving what they've dreamed about and not simply keep dreaming and wishing.

 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize ? Run in such a way as to get the prize . Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize."
  1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NIV
And What Ultimate Prize?
   If you are to have a life spent on a cause greater than oneself. Then what would that be? Nothing could be greater than our eternal purpose in Life to glorify God. Are You IN?
 "I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians  3:14 NIV

This is Ray Ivey and I am - Joining Others on a Journey to a Destination in the Future