Season 1, Episode 30 - In this week's episode, we look at how we can develop new skills in this new year - ones that will help us weather difficult seasons in ministry and life.
The Harvard Business Review had a good article on how to deal with bad days. They shared these insights:
1. Pinpoint the problem.
2. Take a moment to be grateful.
3. Take Action
4. Change your routine
5. Set realistic expectations
These can help, but as clergy, we need additional help, including:
Wellness Practice - Lectio 365 App
What Is Making This Week Good - 1 Second a Day App
Mindfulness Meditation:
From Nadia Bolz-Weber: A blessing for the new year:
“As you enter this new year, as you pack away the Christmas decorations and get out your stretchy pants as you face the onslaught of false promises offered you through new disciplines and elimination diets as you grasp for control of yourself and your life and this chaotic world. May you remember that there is no resolution that, if kept, will make you more worthy of love. There is no resolution that, if kept, will make life less uncertain and allow you to control a pandemic and your children and the way other people act. So this year, May you just skip the part where you resolve to be better do better and look better this time. May you give yourself the gift of really, really low expectations. May you expect so little of yourself that you can be super proud of the smallest of accomplishments. May you expect so little of the people in your life that you actually notice and cherish every small lovely thing about them. May you expect so little of the supply chain and the service industry that you notice more of what you do get and less of what you don't and then just tip really well anyhow. May you expect to get so little out of 2023 (now 2023) that you can celebrate every single thing it offers you, however small because you deserve joy and not disappointment. So, I wish you a Happy as possible New Year.”
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