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Change Your Life – Test Run Life At A Monastery!

Rebecca — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:39:19 +0000

An Austrian monastery, near Vienna (and also an order of Franciscan nuns), is offering men (and women) the opportunity to test drive life as a monk. To be honest, when I first saw this, I thought it was a prank, but I later confirmed it on the BBC News website, so I believe this to be a true offer.

However, I have now thought about this, and although the religious life is not a life I would consider, it is certainly seems to offer people an opportunity to devote their life to a greater power and to serve the local community through acts of charity, etc.

Over the last decade or two, as religion comes in and out of popularity, could this sort of “offer” entice people into the Church?

How To Buy The Best Baby Gifts At That Baby Shower

Laura — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:44:10 +0000

Over the last 3 months, 5 of my close friends and family member have announced they are pregnant – so, come august and September, I am going to be attending a lot of baby showers )and possibly be a Godmother a few times over!). As I don’t have children of my own, and won’t be any time soon, learning all the ins and outs of baby clothes seemed a long long way off. Well, not anymore!

Now the first scans are out of the way, and all babies are fit and healthy, we have been “allowed” to start looking at for gifts and clothes, and other little things that will help the new Mum’s out. So, I have been looking online and in shops for ideas, and have found some amazingly cute little outfits. But before reaching for my credit card, I realised something; it’s currently February, so the current “style” for newborn outfits have a winter-warm feel to them. But our little bundles won’t be here until the middle to end of summer! This means most purchases now will be totally useless for the new babies, and by the time winter comes around, they will be a couple of months old, and a lot bigger.

So, do I “guess” the size they may be, and buy the cute stuff now, to be put away for a year? Or do I wait until nearer the time? Decisions, decisions.

Punctuality

Rebecca — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:58:07 +0000

One of the areas people improve theirselves in is punctuality, I know Tom mentioned this in the last post but I felt it deserved a full post as it is more of a big deal than people think.

Like Tom I had a problem with this and at the time I thought, “it’s only a couple of minutes what’s the problem”, but it does have an effect on the rest of your day and the way you feel, in turn it effects the way in which you work and could damage your performance as a member of staff. There is no particular key to cracking this, you just need to make sure you have the motivation to get up early enough to chill out as you get ready for work, rather than rushing around.

Organisation is the Key

Rebecca — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:35:09 +0000

Many people complain that they can not get anything done or have no time for anything. The big question is why is this?

The know the answer to this question, you have to look at many of the people who complain and see what’s the same across them all.

Analysing the lives of them, you will come to a conclusion that most of the people have very poor organisation and time management skills.

This is true. Time management and organisation are very important (Why then would big companies pay millions a year on such courses?).

Become organised and see how much more time you have!