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Hey listen folks, if I would of had more time, I would have written a shorter "It's Saturday." 

When I was growing up on the farm a mile and quarter south of Roseland, MN, Chester and Anna gave me a lot of responsibility, beginning as a young kid. I think they wanted me to learn to make decisions and to grow by them and even learn from them even if my decisions weren't soooo good I think. They impowered me. I liked it but I didn’t always like it!

I think a good definition of impowering is giving someone the authority or power to do something. It appears to me that most folks like it when others impower them. The opposite would be not to have power like to not give them any responsibility (e.g. being a puppet). It appears being impowered gives a person self-worth a.k.a. as confidence. And how important is confidence to a person?

Sooo do we like to have someone micromanage our life or our actions or our job? I don’t think sooo. I was visiting with a friend recently about an action they are contemplating in their life. We talked about the pros and cons but I told them the decision is completely up to them, no one can make or should make that decision for them. I sorta kinda impowered them. I don't know if they liked what I told them. I think they wanted someone else to blame if it didn't work out. Yikes!

I have read that employees really like to be impowered to make decisions on their own, it's their decisions, they are given complete control in making the decision. It is saying, I trust you. When we do that in business or in a personal relationship, we are really saying to that person, I trust you completely. What a complement and relationship builder. Think about that. Try that, you might be surprised how beneficial that is for both sides.

Flipthepancake! But should all be impowered or does everyone want to be impowered. Maybe many folks do better having someone else tell them what to do. Think about that. That is why we hire others to manage parts of our lives as we don't have the expertise to do it. Look around, that's not rocket science.

There are parents still making all the decisions of their adult children. I wonder how that makes the adult child feel. I think I know. Daddy and mommy aren’t going to live forever! Da! I wonder how in a marriage that works if mommy or daddy are still trying to make the decisions for their child and spouse in the marriage. Da! I guess that is why kids sometimes move far away from mommy and daddy to Timbuctoo!  hahaha

Here is an interesting impowering situation. Yakima's school district is 60+ Hispanic. 10 years ago there were very few Hispanic. They come from Mexico to work in the fruit industry. They like it here and seem to be accepted very well. I was visiting with a guy who works with the Hispanic and he told me that one of the biggest adjustment that older Mexicans (i.e. not sooo much for the younger Mexicans) have is that their tradition is the man runs the house Well, the women get Americanized a.k.a. impowered and the men aren't soooo sure they like that! All I can say is--they will get over it!

I believe that the greatest empowerment of all kinds is being impowered by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit we get by believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. The Holy Spirit is Father, Son and Holy Spirt a.k.a. The Triune God (i.e. that can be hard to understand alright). If we believe that then the Holy Spirt is always with us which makes us have a different attitude which makes our life much better. That’s my opinion. But look around folks, it’s not rocket science!

The world tells us to be impowered we need Red Bull. I think that's a bunch of bull! Very temporary and artificial, my opinion. ItchieBitchie says--Soooo much of what is told us is propaganda! 

Do some folks always look happy and others always look unhappy a.k.a. wearisome! I think soooo! Why is that? I always say that unhappy females are not pretty. It is soooo obvious, my opinion. An acquaintance, who is becoming my friend, said that it's nature and nurture a.k.a. genetics and environment. He thinks his mother really affected his attitude of life. Saturday question--Do you see any common denominators for being happy and being unhappy?

This cat in our neighborhood sits on our back fence just looking for an opportunity. It does it a lot. A great hunter it appears. That cat is sorta kind an inspiration to me to be always looking for opportunities. I guess that cat sorta kinda impowers me. I have told you before that I pray for opportunities, pray that I might recognize them and pray for the courage to act on them. Sometimes I have to jump off the fence! Ouchy ouchy!

Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:

erv

MyDeceasedFriendJean said--Many hands make light work.