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by Anna Woofenden

1. Keep your word. 
2. Be sure to follow through. 
3. Refrain from gossip. 
4. Be a friend. 
5. Never make a coworker look bad. 
6. View everything from the other side. 
7. Learn to appreciate the differences in others. 
8. Don't try to impress others, let them impress you. 
9. Remember that the greatest hunger that people have is to be needed, wanted and loved. Give a compliment. 
10. Be enthusiastic and positive.

Concepts on Delegation (Peggy Morrow)

• Communicate the results you want, not the details of exactly how to do it. Everyone will approach something a little differently. And that's good! 
• Establish specific objectives for delegation. People want to know what it is that they are expected to get done. 
• Establish specific reporting times. 
• Keep track of your delegations. Keep people accountable. 
• Delegate the right thing to the right people.

Looking at the Delegation Process Chronologically.

• Preparing. Establishing the objectives, specifying the task and deciding who should accomplish it.
• Planning. Meeting with the person who will be doing the task and ask them to devise a plan of action. "The secret of success is not in doing our own work but in recognizing the right man to do it." Andrew Carnegie 
• Discussing. Review the objectives of the task, the plan of action and any possible obstacles and ways to avoid or deal with the obstacles. Clarify the desired result, not the process. 
• Auditing. Mentor the progress of the delegation. 
• Appreciation. Accept the completed task and acknowledge the efforts.

Called to Serve: Volunteers and Teams By Peter Corney
14 clues for sustaining volunteers

1. Create teams and build communities among volunteers, have fun together, eat together. 
2. Keep the vision behind the task bright. 
3. Affirm, encourage, praise, recognize the cost. 
4. Keep them informed. 
5. Show personal interest and support. 
6. Where appropriate, commission them publicly. 
7. See they have the resources they need. 
8. Give them a clear, simple, written job description. 
9. Give them training to equip them. 
10. Empower them, give them real responsibility and participation in decision making. 
11. Meet with them regularly to encourage and supervise them and to evaluate the task-but don't overburden them with meetings. 
12. Sign them up for specific time lengths. 
13. Relieve them before burnout. 
14. Resolve conflict before it arises.

“There is a distinction of loves that most people find difficult to recognize. This is because most people of eminence and wealth also do helpful things, but without realizing whether they are doing them for the sake of themselves or for the sake of service. It is particularly hard to tell because there is more fire and passion for service in people who love themselves and the world. Yet the first are doing helpful things for the sake of their reputation or for profit and therefore for selfish reasons. In contrast, people who are being of service for the sake of service, or doing good for the sake of goodness itself, are not acting on their own but from the Lord.” Divine Providence 215.12

“You were not an accident. You were not mass produced. You are not an assembly line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted and lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman.” Max Lucado

“God definitely has something very special in store for your future…continue to seek Him and Him only. Don’t get caught of in the cause of ‘being educated’ or the cause of this—or the cause of that. College years have a tendency to make one’s life ‘cause oriented’. Continually empty yourself of you—and fill your self with His Spirit. Don’t get caught up in the ‘cause of Christ’. This is one of the better trappings of Christian colleges. Make your number one ambition to live your life in harmony with Jesus-so that your natural life is a mere extension of Him.” Doug Gline

So you may ask yourself, “What am I going to do to serve the Lord today?” Ask yourself, “what’s God calling me to do to serve others today.” Or, “What can God accomplish through me today?

I challenge you to add to that question, “In what WAY am I going to serve the Lord today?” Are you serving Him from love, kindness, honesty, trust, gentleness, confidence and faith?

“There are small and large acts of leadership…small acts of leadership can chance the world as surely as large acts. Ultimately they can have as much effect on people’s lives as the big ones.” Cathy Fiorina CEO Hewlett-Packard

“The secret of success is not in doing our own work but in recognizing the right person to do it.” Andrew Carnegie

Doctrine of Charity 158 Looking to the Lord and avoiding evils as sins, people who do the work of their office or employment sincerely, justly and faithfully become embodiments of charity. This follows from the proceeding law, that the human being is born to become charity and that, to become charity, a person must do the good of use constantly from affection and with pleasure. When people do the work of their office or employment sincerely, justly and faithfully from affection and the accompanying enjoyment, they are constantly in the good of use, not only toward the community of public but also toward individuals or private citizens. But this implies that they are looking to the Lord and avoiding evils as sins. For the first step in charity, as we showed above, is to look to the Lord and avoid evils as sins, and the second is to do goods. The goods that they do are goods of use, which they do daily. When they are not doing them, they are thinking of doing them. An interior affection remains within and desires it. So they are constantly in the good of use from morning to night, year in and year out, from early life to life’s close. They cannot otherwise become embodiments or containers of charity.

“It is not important that we do extraordinary things, but that we do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” Mother Theresa

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, It’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates other. ~Marianne Williamson~

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:11-13

“Evil spirits never attack anything except those that a person loves, and the more ardently she loves them, the more fiercely do they attack.” Arcana Coelestia 1820

“Go in peace, your journey has the Lord’s approval.” Judges 18:6