Little Footprints

Yup, you heard it Quid Pro Quo - heard this phrase WAY TO MUCH this week. I used to only associate this with sexual harassment, now in the media, it is way more prevalent with the impeachment process going on and this phrase being thrown around... Then I realized, I got hit with it. I wanted to throw the employees in my office a nice holiday party this year.  We have all worked hard and I thought what a way to end it.  Upper management told me sure-----but first I need to get a project done (which takes about 24 man hours to complete) before I leave for Thanksgiving break.  If I get THAT done, I can throw the party. It all comes down to one activity. One report and I'm afraid I'm going to let my team down.  But here I am, rocking this report on a Sunday so I can accomplish this goal. Yeah, it's a goal, right??!!  Or is it Quid Pro Quo? With that said, I decided to take the survey with my leadership team in mind. I wonder if I should share this w...

This week's survey, I scored highest on Duty Ethics . I was content with this as it validated: I follow the rules and do what I think I am supposed to do when facing ethical dilemmas I focus on fulfilling my responsibilities and doing what I think is the right thing to do. After I took the survey, I was dealt with a dilemma. Should I submit an application with what I know to be true (and correct and right) or submit the application with how my boss says to do it?  Find out next week....I will update you to see what happens. ____ I updated the application to what my boss said to--and we were actually able to correct the information that I saw.  I'm still torn as to if it was REALLY the correct information--I do have it documented that this is why I did what I did.

Wow, another week accomplished and I'm soooo drained! However, I really liked the fact that I was able to reflect on what I learned with how I am professionally and where I "fit" in at church. I took the questionnaire with my job in mind.  It's definitely different than my life as a follower in church. I was kinda proud of myself - I was EXEMPLARY ! Really, YESSSSSS. Woot! Then I watched this   video. So yes, I'm exemplary at work---but personally (and in church) guess what, I "alienated" myself. I have been so disengaged in church because I put my career first. MIND.BLOWN. My question----why do I have two followers living in me.  Why can't I be just one? I went to church just last Sunday - the first time in FOREVER.  Now I'm watching videos on what kind of follower I am.  Woah.

This week, I have struggled with a dilemma.  I brought it up to my senior leadership to only be told to "leave him alone...he wakes up at 5a..." I brought up something that is losing a company money AND possibly not treating all employee(s) equally. I am at a stall right now.  So this is all I 'm going to write about.  PLUUUUS I haven't received any surveys back :-( Chapter 11 Survey Results Let's hope I find a good resolution to this dilemma I have soon.

Today, while I was driving to Urgent Care (I fell---hard...in a parking garage), I decided to stop by my parents to stay hi...and well, who doesn't want their momma to look at their injuries? I wasn't there too long--but long enough to hear all of the terms of endearment my dad used on my mother.  "Honey..."; "Sweetheart..." . The funny thing is, I answered to all of them--conversations meant for my mother. My dad laughed and said "I was talking to your mom".... My parents used these words with me (and my sister) growing up--how would I not know he wasn't talking to me?  The point that I'm getting across--I'm 41 years old and I still like being called "honey". 

“Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” ( Matthew 20:26–28 ) I couldn't help but correlate this chapter to the Bible.  Jesus taught us in the New Testament that all  leadership should be servant leadership. I did not always grow up as a Christian.  I did not seek Jesus until I was 24.  I wasn't in a leadership role at all (work-wise).  My husband and I soon became in charge of a small youth group.  THAT is where I started serving.  I served not only my Savior but the kids I worked for.  This set the stage for how I would view leadership later in life. For the past year or so, I have struggled with getting back to church and be a servant there.  This week, it has been nagging on my heart to go back to church.  They are looking for volunteers in the nurser...

Soooooooo......last week was challenging!  I traveled for the first time since 9/11 and was introduced to TSA real fast, I had to work and complete my assignment for 4 classes. Part of my trip to DC, I made it my goal to visit Arlington National Cemetary.  I'm not one to do things by myself.  Taking a tour by myself was exactly what I needed that afternoon.  I was so moved by the graves.  Graves of people (even under aged kids) that fought for this country, because they did what was right.   They did what they did to keep this country free. Arlington National Cemetary October 9, 2019 Me at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (October 9, 2019) I traveled back to Kansas City that evening.  When I got off the plane--I received a flood of text messages that my grandfather had passed.  The last of my grandparents. It hit me hard, I already had anxiety of traveling by myself, working and accomplishing school work, now this, what in the wo...