Archive for the ‘time management’ Category
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Ever sit in a meeting or brainstorming session and wonder how you were going to make your random notes into an outline encompassing all the aspects of your plan and turn it into something that works with the way you think? If you haven't tried mind mapping yet, there's no ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Ever get to the theme park, concert, or festival, try to reach one of your students or volunteers whose new cell number never got into your phone? How about your students' friends who came along? Yeah, me too.
As you're loading the vehicles for your next trip, give each ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
I'm going to say something a lot of you don't want to hear. It's a reminder we all need. Ready?
Marriage is a higher calling than being a youth minister, youth director, youth pastor. In fact, the adjective 'youth' could just as easily be left off, while the nouns could be ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Submitted by Brit Windel I don’t know if you struggle like I do in ministry with being able to say NO! I was speaking to a friend from back home just the other day and he was upset because he had to turn down a Discipleship Now opportunity that ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
After a hiatus, Youth Hacks returned recently to offer true wisdom on a subject that affects youth ministers always, exhaustion. Josh writes:
I’m returning to you with something quality: a word from the Lord Himself.
If you’re like me, you’re tired. And I don’t mean the kind of tired that can be ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
You know you've been meaning to. However, because [fill in reason here] you just haven't gotten around to organizing, archiving, and backing up your computer files and another [week/month/year] has gone by.
Today's tip will prevent the loss of last year's mission trip pictures, your videos, your lessons and letters, but ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Among the hundreds of youth work staff and volunteers I've known, I don't think I've ever met one that loves meetings. To be honest, it's a rare youth workers that even likes meetings. Be that as it may, meetings with pastors, leaders, students, community members, parents, elders... well, the list ...
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