Quick Hits

First Quick Hits Of the year!

School - school is going great so far, no real complants, poly sci is hard as advertised but i spoke today about the Gleaning laws in the old testament and i was so pumped! Guitar has been fun, i'm learning volleyball and the class is ultra competitive (Which is great) so i'm always running around the drills and trying my hardest and sweating and trying to encourage people around me, its sweet. And voice lessons are great! I Heart singing more then i heart playing music, its just so easy to express my soul with my voice, just like... JASON CASTRO!

Shows - As you all know i love my TV, and so you should also know that as sad as i am with Secret Life, HSM: Get in the picture, Monk, and Psych ending, i'm equally (if not more) excited for HEROES! THE OFFICE! SMALLVILLE! and HOUSE! starting back up.. i think i am more excited about season three of Heroes then i am about graduating college! which reminds me...

Internship - I Just officially ended my internship over at oak hill, and it was the time of my life (i probably say that a lot cause i get excited easily) but when i move on in December imma be ubber sad cause imma miss Pastor Nate and All the kids, but i'm very excited (and nervous) to be moving on to the real world! I spoke the last 6 weeks about the Armor of God and i had a great time because the Spirit Of God moved through me and gave me lesson ideas and stuff that i could never have thought on on my own! so yeah, good times.

Strength Quest - I just took this cool thing to show me what my strengths are, and i wanted to show them to you because i thought it was cool hearing what i am good at! Cause i think a lot of times we as people think of our faults (Like.. am i TOO good looking, or am i TOO sweet...lol jk jk jk jk) but here they are!

Developer

Theme Description

You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact, potential is all you see. In your view no individual is fully formed. On the contrary, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you are drawn toward people for this very reason. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them experience success. You look for ways to challenge them. You devise interesting experiences that can stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you are on the lookout for the signs of growth—a new behavior learned or modified, a slight improvement in a skill, a glimpse of excellence or of “flow” where previously there were only halting steps. For you these small increments—invisible to some—are clear signs of potential being realized. These signs of growth in others are your fuel. They bring you strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek you out for help and encouragement because on some level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine and fulfilling

Positivity

Theme Description

You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation. Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. But either way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your enthusiasm is contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with repetition or, worse, heavy with pressure. You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject drama into every project. You celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more exciting and more vital. Some cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your Positivity won’t allow it. Somehow you can’t quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive, that work can be fun, and that no matter what the setbacks, one must never lose one’s sense of humor.

Woo

Theme Description

Woo stands for winning others over. You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people and getting them to like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On the contrary, strangers can be energizing. You are drawn to them. You want to learn their names, ask them questions, and find some area of common interest so that you can strike up a conversation and build rapport. Some people shy away from starting up conversations because they worry about running out of things to say. You don’t. Not only are you rarely at a loss for words; you actually enjoy initiating with strangers because you derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection. Once that connection is made, you are quite happy to wrap it up and move on. There are new people to meet, new rooms to work, new crowds to mingle in. In your world there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet—lots of them.

Includer

Theme Description

“Stretch the circle wider.” This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. You want to include people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. You are an instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person’s feelings. Why do that if you don’t have to? Your accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same. We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the least we all deserve.

Communication

Theme Description

You like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write. This is your Communication theme at work. Ideas are a dry beginning. Events are static. You feel a need to bring them to life, to energize them, to make them exciting and vivid. And so you turn events into stories and practice telling them. You take the dry idea and enliven it with images and examples and metaphors. You believe that most people have a very short attention span. They are bombarded by information, but very little of it survives. You want your information—whether an idea, an event, a product’s features and benefits, a discovery, or a lesson—to survive. You want to divert their attention toward you and then capture it, lock it in. This is what drives your hunt for the perfect phrase. This is what draws you toward dramatic words and powerful word combinations. This is why people like to listen to you. Your word pictures pique their interest, sharpen their world, and inspire them to act.

Those are sweet, my sister Krystal told me she took the strengthquest and it just told her she was

AWESOME

so i wish i got that one, but oh well! ill stick with WOOOO!

enjoy,
arod