How We Helped Each Other Today

 

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Emmaus Work Connectors had our monthly meeting this evening.

The group is about helping each other in our work journey.

We started out with the following encouraging words and a brief prayer:

Isaiah 41:10. “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. ...
Psalm 37:23-25. “The steps of a man are established by the Lord, and He delights in his way.

We then started with the question:

• In one minute, explain what would be the best outcome of this time together tonight?

Everyone took a turn. Some people were there to help others. Some had things they were working on that they needed help with. Here are a few highlights of the meeting.

1. We talked about how to get motivation to get to our goals. This article was shared: "How To Master Your Goals With The Ulysses Pact" on the trello blog.

Someone mentioned that this was along the lines of a book they just picked up titled "indistractable" by Nir Eyal

2. One person was working on an introduction of themselves to a class they are taking.
We worked together on ideas of how to write a good introduction. 

It was mentioned that telling a story makes it more memorable. One person remembered that tomorrow the Vyond team is offering a "tour" online (for free) that goes for several weeks on Wednesdays called the "Virtual Story Telling Tour".

We also discussed how we can use mind-mapping for brainstorming in writing ( which a few people in our group are doing ) or presenting (which I do a lot of)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept-_and_mind-mapping_software

We talked about creating an effective headline - for LinkedIn and for our introduction:

https://cultivatedculture.com/linkedin-headline/

3. It was mentioned that in a future monthly meeting (or in one of the weekly small group meetings) we could work together on our LinkedIn headlines as a task to help each other with.

 Conclusion:

These meetings are glitzy, they're not all that structured, but they are helpful to the people who participate by either sharing their needs or helping others. And, just like one of our main goals states, by helping each other, we create strong net-working bonds.  We use the team "Net-working" because we network by working together on each other's work-journey goals.

Maybe you'll consider joining us at some point. 

Please comment here about what you have found to be effective in your work-journey or in helping others.

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