starting to work with High School students

Well I have finally started the GOE course for young high school students.

This was not something that I had in my plans for the promotion of the book, to tell the truth. It sort of developed after a few Junior Achievers sent me an email about how the Create Your Garden of Eden book affected them after I gave a speech on the book and offered all of them a free ebook.

Well, I was so touched by the fact that these students felt more empowered to live their dreams that I decided to do a bit more. I offered all members of the JA Trinidad and Tobago class of 2008 the option to communicate with me directly for the rest of the summer, to help then work through the exercises in the workbook.

I'll post updates on this blog as to how this little exercise is going.

But this is how Creating Your GOE happens. You make your short term, medium term and long term plans. And you open yourself to the Creator to allow his plan for your life to unfold. And then, who knows what doors open.

The JA door opened and I had to make a choice right away. Then when I considered it, I realized it could be the opportunity to begin to refine the GOE process to make it more applicable to young high schools students. And to prove that the GOE process can work for anyone: young or old, rich or poor, smart or not so smart.

So I stepped out and began. This is what you also should do when a similar opportunity appears. If it is consistent with your endpurpose, then go for it.

Keep reading the blog to see how things are progressing.

It's the rainy season here

Over the last several days here in Trinidad, we have been subject to very heavy and continuous rains. Fortunately, I have been indoors for most of the time, but on looking through my windows at the traffic, the wind and the rain blowing across the Savannah, I see the unfortunate souls who have to walk and wade through the downpour.

Quite a few persons had to seek shelter from the rains because they were not equipped or prepared for the heavy showers. Now this is June and the rains in the tropics start in May and heavy rainfall is always expected around this time. Indeed, even though I did not have an umbrella for several months, as soon as the first clouds of the season appeared, I made a deliberate point to buy one. And I also made a note to keep more "wet weather" shoes handy. (these would be closed toe shoes, as opposed to the open sandals I prefer to wear.)

This is one of the lessons we learn from the Create Your Garden of Eden teachings on Day Four. The sun and the moon were placed in the heavens to chart the seasons.

And as I stated in the book, the seasons are predictable. We know when they will come again. And we are to consider what is necessary for the particular season and plan ahead. For me, it was buying an umbrella in May before the heavy rains came.

As you analyze your life, whether your career, your Ministry unto others, your business, your family or even your physical health, I ask the question. What season are you in right now and what does it require? Or more important, what lies ahead and what should you do now to prepare for the future season?

We are not to live unaware or ignorant of the seasons of our industry. If you don't know, then research, ask others, find help or ask the Holy Spirit for direction. This is what we are to do if we are to be well-functioning humans on God's planet--be equipped for the seasons that life will bring us.