Comments on: What’s Your Ministry? http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/07/whats-your-ministry/ Rethinking Customer Experience & Marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jodee Bock http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/07/whats-your-ministry/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Jodee Bock Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:48:24 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2005/07/20/whats-your-ministry/#comment-151 Chris: As usual, you're right on. We all know that our actions do speak louder than our words, and our BEING actually has a bigger effect than our DOING. We, each of us, brings to any conversation our own context regarding the words we use. We can hear "MINISTRY" as it relates to some religious context we might have some experience with and that term can carry baggage with it which doesn't allow us to get beyond our own viewpoint. Or we can recognize the 2 D's that come up for us (Defensiveness and Debating) and replace them with the 2 L's (Listening and Learning) which is exactly what happens with most of what I read from you, Chris. I LEARN SO MUCH when I suspend my previous experience and look at things from a new perspective. Thank you, once again, for being in my soul space - and for sharing your BEING and your ministry. I'm grateful that we're in this together!! Chris: As usual, you’re right on. We all know that our actions do speak louder than our words, and our BEING actually has a bigger effect than our DOING.

We, each of us, brings to any conversation our own context regarding the words we use. We can hear “MINISTRY” as it relates to some religious context we might have some experience with and that term can carry baggage with it which doesn’t allow us to get beyond our own viewpoint. Or we can recognize the 2 D’s that come up for us (Defensiveness and Debating) and replace them with the 2 L’s (Listening and Learning) which is exactly what happens with most of what I read from you, Chris. I LEARN SO MUCH when I suspend my previous experience and look at things from a new perspective.

Thank you, once again, for being in my soul space – and for sharing your BEING and your ministry. I’m grateful that we’re in this together!!

]]> By: Rosa Say http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/07/whats-your-ministry/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Rosa Say Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:39:49 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2005/07/20/whats-your-ministry/#comment-150 I agree Chris, that is a good line, a good way to reframe your thinking about the particularly vexing challenges we can all face at times: Are we whining about them, or are we the ones who can turn them into catalysts for some reinvention or transformation? It strikes me that I often think of Managing with Aloha as a ministry, although I've never used the word before. I have to admit, it fits. It also instills a greater sense of responsibility. Malama, aloha e ahui hou, Rosa I agree Chris, that is a good line, a good way to reframe your thinking about the particularly vexing challenges we can all face at times: Are we whining about them, or are we the ones who can turn them into catalysts for some reinvention or transformation?

It strikes me that I often think of Managing with Aloha as a ministry, although I’ve never used the word before. I have to admit, it fits. It also instills a greater sense of responsibility.
Malama, aloha e ahui hou,
Rosa

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