When trying to decide on what your THERE for life, marriage or children is, it’s a good practice to use the “5 whys”. This simple exercise was adopted from The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. The 5 whys help us better learn the meaning behind our statement. Say I had a THERE to be the CEO of my own company. My first question would be the first why.
1st Why? To have several employees
2nd Why? I want a larger sphere of influence.
3rd Why? I want to be able to provide a place for good people to work and grow.
4th Why? To serve others.
5th Why? Because God told us that to love him I should love others as I love myself. We have now come to the point of it all. The THERE isn’t to be the CEO of a company. It is to serve others …show more content…
Serving them through their reintegration issues. I could have led by a better personal example of how to overcome the struggles that reintegration throws at you. That example could have possibly made a difference for the men in my command. Instead I was feeling off. I was feeling a little depressed and even unmotivated each time I would come home. What should have been a joyous occasion, became “going through the …show more content…
You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.4 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. –NKJV Having a THERE for our lives helps to create the structural tension for creating the path of least resistance. We begin with the end in mind. Where do I want to be when I stand before the judgment seat of Christ? Our scripture readings tell us that we are supposed to love and obey God above all others. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves and serve them with our spiritual gifts. If we do all these things we are investing in a great treasure and will hear, “Well done, good and faithful
1st Why? To have several employees
2nd Why? I want a larger sphere of influence.
3rd Why? I want to be able to provide a place for good people to work and grow.
4th Why? To serve others.
5th Why? Because God told us that to love him I should love others as I love myself. We have now come to the point of it all. The THERE isn’t to be the CEO of a company. It is to serve others …show more content…
Serving them through their reintegration issues. I could have led by a better personal example of how to overcome the struggles that reintegration throws at you. That example could have possibly made a difference for the men in my command. Instead I was feeling off. I was feeling a little depressed and even unmotivated each time I would come home. What should have been a joyous occasion, became “going through the …show more content…
You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.4 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. –NKJV Having a THERE for our lives helps to create the structural tension for creating the path of least resistance. We begin with the end in mind. Where do I want to be when I stand before the judgment seat of Christ? Our scripture readings tell us that we are supposed to love and obey God above all others. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves and serve them with our spiritual gifts. If we do all these things we are investing in a great treasure and will hear, “Well done, good and faithful