Co-operation

My community recently participated in an online competition for consideration for funding from a corporate donor.  At first we were encouraging people to only vote for our own project, but we were a small community and were not generating sufficient numbers.  There were some other small communities on the other side of the country who were in the same boat.  We began to support each other, potentially giving the competition a boost over ourselves, but recognizing their effort and need. We left messages of encouragement for each other, we voted for each other.  We encouraged and voted for an individual project that was discouraged by their lack of followers.

Not only did the three small communities succeed, we all won in that we found a larger community and had the chance to give back while we were making a request.

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. "
~Albert Schweitzer

Employment counselling is rekindling. Where else can we do this?

In co-operation,
Keltie Creed

Attitude

Thanks to Michelle, one of my colleagues, for sharing this quote.

"Attitude
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes."
~ Charles Swindoll

Enjoy!
Keltie Creed

The doctor says...

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
~Theodor Seuss Geisel

Enjoy!
Keltie Creed

Marine theme

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
~Rabindranath Tagore

and

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there”
~Edwin Louis Cole

Enjoy!
Keltie Creed

Re-focus

To continue in the same train of thought:

"If a captain does not know the destination, for his ship any wind will be wrong"
~unknown

and 

Alice: Can you tell me which path I should take?
Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to go!
Alice: I don't really know.
Cheshire Cat: Then, clearly, any path will do!
~Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll

Enjoy!
Keltie Creed

Focus

Phrases I hear daily are "I just want a job" or "I'll do anything."  Kudos for motivation and willingness to be flexible, but not the most useful approach to job search.  They often don't realize that employers usually prefer someone who has experience AND interest in the specific task that they are hiring for, not "anything". Being a team member and willing to take on anything requested of them is different from saying that they will take any job.  Care about the specific job, then add the flexibility.

"If you try to catch two rabbits, both will escape."
~ proverb

Enjoy!
Keltie Creed