So many questions!
Apr. 17th, 2021 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Talking to my spiritual director about the different forms of love, they recommended 'The Four Loves' by CS Lewis, and 'The Five Languages of Love' by Gary Chapman. Feeling inspired, I ordered both from World Books (who don't just sell books but do Good Things, too). Both duly arrived yesterday and I had a quick look at them.
T5LoL is aimed at couples - there are a number of variants including for teens and kids, and one about God, which MAY have been the one my SD actually meant! Anyway, when I opened my copy there was an inscription inside - To X & X on the occasion of your wedding(!!!) [date] from X, X, X & X. So, now I want to know - are the couple so loved up they don't need a book to help them? or is the opposite true? or did something happen to the couple who GAVE the book, and the recipients thought, 'sod THAT!'.
I imagine the givers to be like, 'Oh, we have this book - it's AMAZING! It's the secret behind our marriage - you HAVE to have it!'
Anyway, it'll go on my 'to read' list but I'll start with the CS Lewis one.
I'm having lots of Ideas about work and how to improve stuff - but then I came across the D x V x F > R (where D = dissatisfaction, V = vision, F = first steps, and R = resistance) equation. Am I the only one dissatisfied? If I am, I'm not going to take anyone with me. So, I'm going to sound people out and see what they think.
At the very least I want to do some sort of team building exercise because the rest of the team is still quite new. My gamer colleague is moving to another role so I was going to wait until they've gone to do that but then I thought I'd ask them to facilitate so that I can join in! I've found a website called Session Labs that has LOADS of team exercises.
It feels really good to have plans.
And the shops are open again, so I'm going to pick up some frillies AND some every day underwear. One outcome of the pandemic is that I'm never going back to underwires!
T5LoL is aimed at couples - there are a number of variants including for teens and kids, and one about God, which MAY have been the one my SD actually meant! Anyway, when I opened my copy there was an inscription inside - To X & X on the occasion of your wedding(!!!) [date] from X, X, X & X. So, now I want to know - are the couple so loved up they don't need a book to help them? or is the opposite true? or did something happen to the couple who GAVE the book, and the recipients thought, 'sod THAT!'.
I imagine the givers to be like, 'Oh, we have this book - it's AMAZING! It's the secret behind our marriage - you HAVE to have it!'
Anyway, it'll go on my 'to read' list but I'll start with the CS Lewis one.
I'm having lots of Ideas about work and how to improve stuff - but then I came across the D x V x F > R (where D = dissatisfaction, V = vision, F = first steps, and R = resistance) equation. Am I the only one dissatisfied? If I am, I'm not going to take anyone with me. So, I'm going to sound people out and see what they think.
At the very least I want to do some sort of team building exercise because the rest of the team is still quite new. My gamer colleague is moving to another role so I was going to wait until they've gone to do that but then I thought I'd ask them to facilitate so that I can join in! I've found a website called Session Labs that has LOADS of team exercises.
It feels really good to have plans.
And the shops are open again, so I'm going to pick up some frillies AND some every day underwear. One outcome of the pandemic is that I'm never going back to underwires!