Craffies Coaching

Whilst reflecting on the rat race we are engage in every day… With responsibilities as husband, farther, a job and I enjoy it by the way and the list goes on.

Being realistic we all just have twenty four hours per day, so what we keep ourselves busy each day will determine the outcome of our lives. The question most probably is then what are the actions in our do lists?
Is it actions that take us nearer to our goals?
Is it actions whereby we live out our gifts?
Is it actions that create a legacy for us or is it to please other or to please our own ego’s?
Is our actions balanced to contribute to the following parts of our lives?

We must reflect on what we do to ourselves in this rat race, our days could be filled with joy living to the fullest each day, our just surviving.

What will people say looking back at your live, it was a live lived to create a legacy or will they put an inscription on your tombstone:

To do done
Dead anyway!

Yesterday I had to go and do a presentation in the Rustenburg area. My customary way of planning would normally have let me to work out on a map what is the most appropriate route to drive, also to take into account the road I am most accustomed to.

However this time I trusted the GPS. So on my way, GPS set on the shortest route to the venue. So initially it took me on the roads I usually would have travelled. Then it started taking me on roads I did not now, and then on a fourteen kilometer dirt road and then another thirty k’s of dirt road.

Plus minus four k’s along this road, I got a sign; “traveling along this road is at your own risk.” So what now, do I go along or turn back and trust the “recalculation” for a better road. So I thought let I go ahead, the road was bad but the scenery beautiful.

Driving slowly and enjoying the scenery despite the adverse road conditions, my thoughts wondered to the words I so easy pray: “ Lord let your will be done.” As with the dirt road, I so easy start to wonder if the road is not what I expected, however the Lord will always get me to the destination in His time and in His way. So what would the reason be that I do not enjoy the ride? Is it that I do not trust, or is it that my Ego get’s in the way, or could it be that I just don’t want to let go?

May you have a wonderful weekend.

God bless.

Pragtige paar woorde vanoggend per sms’s ontvang en deel dit graag:

Toe ek wakker word vra ek mysêlf waaroor die lewe eintlik gaan? Is alles die moeite werd? Toe kry ek die antwoord in my kamer!
Plafon sê: Mik hoog!
Venster sê: Kyk na die wereld daar buite!
Weker sê: Elke minuut is so kosbaar!
Spieel sê: Jy is uniek!
Kalender sê: Vandag is die eerste dag van die res van jou lewe!
Deur sê: Druk hard om doel te bereik!
Mat sê: Kniel en dank God vir ’n nuwe dag!
Bed sê: Staan op.
God sê:Ek is met jou en sal jou nooit verlaat nie.

Skrywer: Anoniem.

At the Ken Blanchard Presidential Leadership summit during May 2008 the panel consisting of some of the world’s most influential leadership guru’s determined the following four broad leadership competencies as the most important:

Self Awareness.
The ability to create and manage highly effective teams.
The ability to listen to diverse opinions.
Having a strong set of core values.

Interesting… again looking at these competencies how integrated they are and all starting with the self. Self I define as a conscious/mindful contributor, in this context.

Merry-go-round or Worry-go-round…..

How are you living your life, how am I living my life, as a happy chap or long faced and sorry for my self. The questions that we need most probably have to answer firstly to ourselves are the following:
· Am I happy?
· What am I living for?
· Are my thoughts in the past? Worry about things that I can not change.
· Are my thoughts in the future? Thoughts about things what might happen.

We must remember that I thought shape our lives.

Dr Andrew Weil once said the following:” Wherever nerves are, activities of the mind can travel.”So thoughts don’t only influence our moments of tomorrow in terms of our actions but also in terms of our health and our mood.

So lets remember the merry-go-round and keep our thoughts in the moment and enjoy each moment of the ride on the carousel….like kids.

Enjoy your week.

Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.

African proverb (Ethiopia)