As I was searching for cool websites for my mobile phone I found a website that is definitely worth adding to your mobile favorites.
Cantoni keeps a list of popular mobile websites. Save this to your favorites and then look for websites that you use.
I was surprised to see so many options for mobile web users.
This week I registered to run in the Las Vegas Marathon (Half-Marathon)! I really haven't told too many people yet, but I am getting quite excited about this. For me this is a result of a journey I have been on over the past year. Through my coaching relationship with Bill Simmons, I have lost over 30 lbs and I am nearing the best shape I have been in my life. The race is the first week in December so I have more than 5 months to begin to prepare.
This isn't the first race I have been in. A few years ago I ran in a 5k road race. I finished and then completed 3 months of physical therapy when I was done! I was foolish and pushed myself too hard while I was running which resulted in a torn calf muscle. It was really kind of silly. There was this guy in front of me who was wearing a t-shirt that said something like, "You can't catch me". So, I was like, "what's up with that!" I tried to catch him and ended up hurting myself in the process. Well, since I don't expect him to be in this race I think I'll be OK.
As I start to train…got any pointers for me?
Recently I accepted the challenge of being the Event Manager for Canyon Ridge's Leadership Summit. This is mostly a logistical job with lots of small details. A job like this is completely outside of my comfort zone. So why did I take this on? Well, mostly I did this because I wanted the challenge and I also wanted to expand my experience with a project like this. With a little more than a month to go before the Summit, things are going pretty good. I owe any success that I have had so far to my administrative support. I think, because I am not a 'details' person that I have leaned into Gina more than other people would. A good leadership move?
This is what I know: It wasn't a mistake for me to take this on, even though it's outside my comfort zone, but I did have to make it my own and rely on my personal strengths and depend on people who are strong where I am weak.
What are you working on that is outside your comfort zone and how is it going?
Want to know how much my wife loves me? She bought me a data package for my phone! Yippee! Maybe I'm a little superficial but I feel sooo appreciated!
Last week I downloaded the free audio book Deadly Viper Character Assassins from the deadlyviper.com website. (Major props to the authors for writing a book and then putting it in the hands of people at no cost!) I got about to the middle of the second chapter and decided that I needed to buy this book because it's that good. I think the thing I was surprised the most with is how many character assassins I'm dealing with these days. When I first started the book I thought I would be challenged with a couple of the assassins but I didn't think that every one of them would have my number!
So what did I learn? I need to start my own dojo. I need to train myself and my leaders in the art of defeating these assassins. I bought a book for each of my leaders and we're going to go through this book chapter by chapter and discuss our strategies for disarming our character assassins. By the way, in the book, Jud and Mike really raise the bar for authenticity so this will be a pretty challenging task!
Do you know who your character assassins are? I'd like to suggest that you download a copy of this free book (did I mention it's free?) and determine how you will identify and disarm them.
Wow, who would have thought that I could misspell "Assassins" six times!
Well, its official, I'm a Jotter. I've been using it for a whole day now and I really like it. I've sent 4 emails from my phone and Jott.com translated them almost flawlessly into text. I was surprised to see how easy it was to set up and immediately start using. And free… who can beat that? I plan on using Jott to send myself messages when I don't want to forget something and when I'm on the run and remember that I need to send someone an email. I plan on getting my Dad set up with Jott also. He has an extreme aversion to typing… so I expect this will open up a whole new level of communication between us! Hey, I can dream can't I?
In case you're keeping score at home, that means I have two new things I started using this week: Google doc's "live form" and Jott!
This past weekend it was my responsibility to give the communion meditation. The topic was pride. This was actually pretty challenging. I stand in front of a few thousand people and talk about pride, try not to be thinking about how I look, sound, or how I'm being received by the people. All of these were actually have at least some motivation in pride. Three minutes on pride…was a humbling experience!
Recently, while playing around with Google docs I have discovered a new way to get information and get it into a spreadsheet so I can actually use that information. And the best thing is that I don't have to wait for anyone to compile responses for me!
This is what I did:
I uploaded a spread sheet with various questions in the columns to Google docs.
I clicked on "share" create a form.
I chose if I wanted text or multiple choices for each of the questions
That was it. It was ready to be sent out. I added the email addresses that I wanted to send out the form to, and as soon as each person filled out the form I instantaneously received the data. Oh yeah, as usual, it's all free with Google.
A practical application:
A way that I used this is with volunteers who do follow up with connection requests in the Single's Ministry. My wonderful Coordinator, Linda, is able to easily and quickly fill out a form with all of the data my volunteers need to do follow up with someone. Then, they are able to view the latest and greatest list on Google docs spreadsheet, make their own comments and then Linda and I can see how we are doing with staying on top of follow up through our volunteers system.
With our Senior Pastor, Kevin Odor, on a three month sabbatical we had the pleasure of having Travis Fox, our Next Gen pastor, teach a 3-week series called "Over Yourself". These are the pastors that were involved with this week's services: Travis Fox (Age 28 he preached), Garret Fay (Age 30 he was did the welcome, prayers and announcements),Michael Bien (Age 35 he is our Missions Pastor and he did an interview in Travis' message) and myself (age 33 I did the communion meditation). All of us together, not one over the age of 35 ran the services from the stage this weekend. Although I don't think it was intentional, it was definitely pretty cool. So, this makes me wonder, "How are our churches doing getting the younger generation involved in the 'main' parts of our churches?"
Today, I shamefully looked at my last blog post. The date was May 8th! It took me a while even to look at my blog because I was sure it was mad at me for ignoring it. I think I was right because it still isn't talking to me! Now, I have some really good excuses for not blogging lately… Here are my top reasons:
10. The first time I wrote this blog post Microsoft Word "quit working" and I had to re-do it
9. I reinstalled Vista on my computer and I had to look up my TypePad account info
8. I have been in the middle of planning season at Canyon Ridge
7. I moved 5 miles (everyone knows that's the hardest move to do)
6. While I was moving I didn't have internet for 3 days
5. I've been enjoying other's blogs so much I haven't had time to write my own
4. My Leadership Coach (you know who you are) and I haven't been connecting lately
3. I got lazy
2. I'm a procrastinator and the more I get behind the worst it gets
1. Between May 8th and now I have traveled to NY and California, I got so busy I lost my rhythm
There is a little truth in all of these, although I will admit some of them are lame. I think I'll give myself a little grace as I get back on the wagon here. I know I want to have blogging as part of my lifestyle, so I'll keep on working at it as I go along. More to come…
Recent Comments