January! Work

January - Work

This is the principle that many, many, many people think is hard to think of as being good for us.  It seems that most people spend their lives working so that they can then retire and not work any more.  My father is 79 and he is still working because he loves to work.  He found his life’s mission for work (researching integrated circuit design) while in college.  But his habits of working hard were already part of him as he worked on the familly ranch growing up and spent hours hiking and being a boy scout as a youth.  He has inspired countless students at the university where he taught, Young Men that he led as a scout master, and missionaires as a mission president.  And he started out as a farm boy in Bear Lake who walked to 5 miles to school and milked cows, he worked hard and played hard.

Whenever people become converted to the gospel they become very hard working.  This month’s scripture is about the people of Ammon who completely changed after becoming converted to the Lord.  So to were the Mormon pioneers and converts today all seek to better themselves, whether in their work, their studies or their talents.

So as we try to become more like our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ we too will find our talents, our gifts and our missions in life and working will become what we want to do.

For everyone to do -

Go to this website - https://www.lds.org/family/work?lang=eng, watch the video, read the quotes, CHOOSE one of the quotes and click on read more.  Read or listen to the talk of your choice.

Read the section in your copy of For the Strength of the Youth on Work and Self-Reliance OR read it here https://www.lds.org/youth/for-the-strength-of-youth/work-and-self-reliance?lang=eng.  Make sure you click on show more.

Watch this video with one of the most famous coaches of all time talking about success - http://www.ted.com/talks/john_wooden_on_the_difference_between_winning_and_success?language=en#t-448996  Write, draw, paint,  compose what you think success is.  

Watch Gifted Hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s33R7JhFO6s When do you think the turning point was for Dr. Carson?  In your opinion, what was the most important thing that happened to him to lead him to be able to help so many people?

We will be discussing all of these plus you’ll get to share what you’ve learned from the choice inspirements - but it won’t be a show and tell,  go around the room thing.  Be prepared to make connections! Also DO NOT wear Sunday clothes as we will be having a challenge activity.

Choose at least one of the following

Watch this extremely amusing TED talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY . Start to learn something new.

Read  the attached sections of “Created for Work” by Bob Schultz

Spend 1 day working as hard as you can all day and keep track of what you did during each hour from 6:00 am to 11:00 pm.

Read or listen to Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - read it here http://www.onereads.org/outliers-gladwell-malcolm?page=0,0

or listen to it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596wT4mRq8w

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/printouts/T-Chart.pdf

Make a T-chart of things Dr. Carson worked at.

Choose a leader whom you admire, this could be someone still alive or not, in an official position of leadership or not, do some research on them in regards to work.  Where, when and especially HOW have the worked?  Make a presentation about it - T-chart, Prezi, Power Point, or Poster.  Examples - Church, Humanitarian causes, Science, Business, Sports, almost anything.  

Do a word study of Work on lds.org and in the 1828 Dictionary - http://webstersdictionary1828.com/

Collect 5 quotes on Work and bring a copy for everyone.  Don't be shy about using LDS leaders' quotes.  They have great ones.  Be careful not to choose ones that disparage working!

It Couldn’t Be Done

           BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done

    But he with a chuckle replied

That “maybe it couldn’t,”but he would be one

    Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin

    On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

    That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;

    At least no one ever has done it;”

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat

    And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

    Without any doubting or quiddit,

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

    That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

    There are thousands to prophesy failure,

There are thousands to point out to you one by one,

    The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,

    Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing

    That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

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• And they began to be a very industrious people; yea, and they were friendly with the Nephites; therefore, they did open a correspondence with them, and the curse of God did no more follow them.  Alma 23:18

• • And for this cause I write unto you, that ye may know that ye must all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ, yea, every soul who belongs to the whole human family of Adam; and ye must stand to be judged of your works, whether they be good or evil:

    Mormon 3:2
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