Rejoice ~He is Risen!

Embrace Life & Celebrate Change

Jesus is risen from the grave!  The disciples of Jesus, from the moment they realized He was alive, entered a new season of life with opportunities and new challenges.

Like the early Christians, we sometimes find ourselves thrust by circumstances into a new season.  And also like the disciples, we may find it a frightening experience.  But changes are necessary to make way for new opportunities.

If Jesus did not die, we could not be forgiven.  If He did not rise again, we could not have new life.  If He did not ascend into Heaven, the Holy Spirit could not come.

This change brought new opportunities. In our lives, changes can be gradual or happen instantly. This season we celebrate the Risen Savior and how His resurrection changed the world forever.

Celebrate change!  As you face the twists and turns in life, stop resisting them.  In fact, embrace life through all its changes and embrace the new opportunities that follow.

May your heart be touched and your life be changed.

Jesus is Risen!  He is Risen indeed!

Wishing you a very Happy and Joyous Easter Season,

Sharon

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard, author

Do you love life?  Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Brian Tracy, author and speaker

In The First 90 Days, a book for new managers, Michael Watkins points to research that suggests there are several common traps managers fall prey to that undermine their success.  Two of those traps, taking on too much and misalignment, also happen to be two of the key impediments to effective time management.  Let’s look at these a little more closely.

Taking on too much

Being the effective time manager you are, you probably have a to do list capturing all of the actions you want to take, from completing that morning workout to cleaning the kitchen to dropping the kids off at school to preparing for that client meeting to interviewing a potential employee to meeting with your team to scheduling that out of town trip to checking in on the status of a number of projects to having dinner with the family, making time for the kids, spending some protected time with your spouse to reading email, listening to voicemails and reviewing reports….  Sound familiar?  If you’re like most of us, the list above doesn’t begin to cover all of the many tasks, actions, projects, meetings and relationships that you must navigate every single day.  How many of us look at our schedules and lives and wonder, “How am I possibly going to get everything done?” (more…)