Comfort Food For The Working Soul is a weekly podcast filled with practical advice on how to enhance your career by making your work relationships succeed. It invites you to take a coffee break and time out to savor motivational tips and strategies to increase your relationship-building savvy.
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There is significance in the number three. It represents the Trinity, The Godhead-Three-In-One and personifies wholeness, unity and completeness. The number three represents balance, even though in numerical terms it’s an odd number.
Consider how we are taught from a young age to brush our teeth three times a day, morning, noon and night. Most medicines when taken in quantity are prescribed three times a day. Our meals are to be eaten three times a day–breakfast at the morning hour; lunch at the noon hour, and dinner at the evening or night hour. The twenty-four hours of every day is divided up into three units of time–morning, noon and night.
David said in Psalm 55:17 that the Lord would hear his voice lifted up with purpose three times a day. How wonderful it must have been for David to form such a profitable habit as spending time in prayer with God three times a day. I wonder how he disciplined himself to do this?
With the busy schedules of today one can’t always retreat from responsibilities for any length of time, but if diligent, prayer can be incorporated into the daily schedule. Use this devotional to explore the benefits of seeking the Lord in prayer morning, noon and night.
Being able to experience Godly relationships is a gift from God. As we share our needs with another person, the result is mutual contribution of similar interests, ideals, and experiences that develop into personal interaction.
To better understand the relationships God would have you develop, commit to undertake this Prayer Focus for 31 days.
Potlucks have always been a simple way for co-workers to get to know one another by sharing a meal.If you’ve worked on a team or in a group setting for even a short while you know that the time will come when you’ll have to bring food for some festive occasion to be shared by the entire group.The “Worker-On-The-Go” is always looking for quick, easy and delectable dishes to bring to an office potluck. Once the sign-up sheet has been posted, you’re faced with an overwhelming decision—what can I bring that will be a crowd-pleaser and create a WOW Factor?
Yet, Office Potlucks are more than just food and fun. They can be filled with hidden agendas, conflict undercurrents, whining and complaining. When this happens, the WOW Factor is lost and team dynamics suffer severely. But you can do something about it! You can create your own personal WOW Factor at work, and avoid the traps and snares that impede career success.
A WOW Factor is something impressive or surprising that makes a person say Wow! It’s another way of describing a good work experience. Use our WOW Factors as inspiration to help you build work experiences that exceed expectations and empower leaders and co-workers. Click Here for more details.
A boss is a person who manages, directs, and exercises authority over workers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 37.7 million individuals are employed as bosses or in related positions. For the past 10 years, various workplace surveys have confirmed that one of the most important elements of job satisfaction is a positive relationship between boss and worker.
Most workers would agree that there are both good and bad bosses. Almost everyone has had at least one boss who was less than perfect, and some of us have been fortunate enough to work for good ones along the way.
Yet there are more stories, jokes and comedy routines about bad bosses than good ones. Even management training programs use an exercise that asks participants to describe the best and worst bosses they have had. Invariably, the list of attributes of the worst bosses always outnumbers those of the good bosses.
Bad bosses are like damaged tree trunks. When a tree trunk experiences minor damage, it gradually heals over and no permanent injury results. However, severe damage causes a serious loss in vigor and tree health resulting in the loss of branches, an unsightly appearance and if left untreated the death of the tree.
Given the importance of leaders to an organization, when bosses lack certain key traits, disorder, confusion and mayhem can result. Bad bosses can make going to work annoying, humiliating and infuriating.
To find out what makes a Bad Boss bad, check out the Bossometer and learn the truth about bosses.
Everyone needs encouragement. Bosses and co-workers alike face difficult situations and make mistakes or fail on a daily basis. They need help to cope with disappointment, fear, doubt and uncertainty.
Even if people act tough–as if they are successfully handling the overwhelming emotions that accompany a mistake, don’t believe it! Somewhere deep inside, they are awash in despair with intense feelings of fear about having made yet another blunder or slip-up.
What they desperately need is an encourager to come alongside them and offer support for trying in the face of failure…someone who really cares about them…who accepts and acknowledges them by helping to keep their self-esteem intact in spite of the failure.
You can be that encourager. Discover 10 strategies to help you become an “On-the-Job Encourager”.
The oldest Baby Boomer turned 60 at the beginning of 2006, and is most likely re-evaluating career and life plans. The vast majority of Boomers are looking for a career change—either to new careers or to add more excitement, energy and boost to their current ones.
Rare Vintage Boomers have new attitudes toward work. These attitudes are not determined by age but by a continual need throughout life to belong, control, master, renew and take stock. These workers view jobs or careers as vehicles for self-expression and growth. Career decision making is seen as a series of continuous choices across one’s life span, not a once and for all event.
If you’re one of the nation’s 78 million Baby Boomers (born between 1946 to 1964), and would like tips and strategies on how to re-evaluate your career and life plans, then get this free special report.
Career Roadblocks are situations or conditions that prevent you from accomplishing what you’ve set out to do. They keep you from achieving desired outcomes for your job and career.
Most career roadblocks stem from mental obstacles such as unproductive habits and a negative attitude. One of the most common is PROCRASTINATION. When we procrastinate on the job, we tend to consistently engage in busy work to avoid the difficult and critical tasks that absolutely must be done.
Why do we procrastinate? Most of the time it’s due to fear or laziness. (Proverbs 10:4). To overcome procrastination:
The good news about procrastination and other career roadblocks is that you can learn to move past any obstacles that stand in the way of your career success.
Check out these common career roadblocks and strategies you can use to overcome them.
Research suggests that as many as 8 out of 10 employed adults are in the wrong job or career! They are in poor career shape or have little or no career stamina.
If you are one of the eight or your goal is to shape up, it’s important to have a good understanding of some basic career management principles for a healthy career workout, and to help you make the best decisions about your career on a daily basis.
Check out these 10 proven tips to maximize your career workout. From setting goals to finding career fitness tools, with a little effort and continued use, these tips will become second nature.
A career is a blessing and a gift from God and He has given each person a job to do. Scripture outlines these key things all of us need to know about work, a job and a career:
A Christian’s career is part of the unique work that God has called him or her to do. When our careers align with this unique work, other people are significantly impacted for eternity (1 Peter 2:9).
