New Year Report 9th January 2009

Well made it through the first week of the new year and a lot to reflect back on.

1. The Christmas break enabled me to relax a bit from the work and college activities and church and voluntary and etc work I was doing.

2. The trip to Georgia, Atlanta in USA ws great, to spend time with family and see my nephews that created quite an impression to me. With there frequent quoted word 'mine' and what's that?' and 'because, because..' saw lots of nice places too locally around including pictures above on myself at Ann Ruby Falls.

3. Came back to work and straight into a number of people passing away and trying to give what support I can. Also a client R with CWC and my palliative care work died and I wrote a very upfront letter to the husband and also offering help if he needed. That got me back thinking to pastoral role I am undertaking as on Monday 5th I went to LRI where a church lady is at the moment and spent an hour in her presence in active lisetning mode and said at the end 'I am going to pray openly for you now' which I thought was a big one for me to do. I am now really thinking I should come out of the shadows and take this role more formally perhaps.

4. Get fit for Life enters final work booklet on Nurtition, plnety to chew over there. Already completed the first part of the assignment, thinking more towards what can be my 'goal' in this module? Not to reduce weight (that never happened even in USA over 3 weeks with hardly any structured exercise) so it has to be eat better if possible.

5. NLP part 2 course starts next week, already keeping a mental note on progress with using the resources, attitudes, Meta model, Hero's journey etc. Think the rest from the NLP has been more conscious than unconscious, is this possible? Some pointers have been 'reflecting back at comments realistically and without negativity' also when people behave as they do 'unreasonably' I just think that is their problem and they have to deal with it. I have been quite upbeat with getting a good start each day and have so many projects going off I can not really think boring thoughts or being unfulfilled.