adaptability

questions to ask yourself

art-questionsUse these questions to evaluate your day:

      1. What were the seeds that started to erode your adaptibility today?
      2. Were there circumstances where you struggled with adapting? What was your response? Did you become irritable, angry, quiet or difficult to be around?
      3. Did situations arise where you had no control today? Did you adapt or react negatively?
      4. Was there a situation in which something new was introduced to you? Did you seek to learn more about it or reject it because it was unfamiliar and required effort on your part?
      5. Were you able to use prayer or meditation to help you through a new and possibly unsettling situation?
      6. Did something unexpected happen today? What was your reaction?
      7. What types of situations put you on edge? Out of stock menu item, late bus, bad internet connection….discuss.

          quotes

          art-pearls

          The LORD had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." -- Bereishit 12:1-3

          "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will." -- Romans 12:2

          "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace." -- Kohelet 3:1-8

          "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." -- W. Edwards Deming

          "The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out." -- Mishlei 18:15

          "If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." -- Mary Engelbreit

          "And no one puts new wine into used wineskins. For if he did so, the new wine would split open the wineskins, it would be poured out, and the wineskins would be destroyed." -- Mashiach Yeshua, Luke 5:37, DHE

          "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." -- Forrest Gump

          "He said to them, 'Follow me, and I will make you into fishers of people.' " -- Mashiach Yeshua, Matthew 4:19, DHE

          "The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."   -- Kohelet 1:5