Sentences with phrase «challenging some days as»

«The generosity, partnership, and goodwill are helping us to get through some very challenging days as we try to do as much good as we can.»

I'm now in my late 60s, have MS and am partially blind in one eye while finishing up raising my 16 year old granddaughter whose mother, my middle daughter is brain injured so I deal with many different challenges every day as well as being recently widowed after being married for almost 42 years.

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«Working with Clarence was the toughest challenge in my career,» says Scott, «as the more you gave of yourself, the more was expected of you — seven days per week and always driven by a man whose own anger and frustration with what had happened to his people by «white guys» made him determined and impatient to advance his own nation's well - being.»

The day - to - day challenges for business are not death defying, but they are just as dramatic when an entrepreneur lays it all on the line, or all on the wire.

As you surmount obstacle after obstacle and overcome new challenges on a daily basis, remember that the air of excitement you foster in the first days will be the tone of your company.

Since you're time - challenged, as well, you could set up an agreement with a few colleagues to swap blog posts in order to get a day off from your own blog while also helping your friend.

According to the most thorough study on goal setting to date, by psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham, very specific and challenging goals such as «Create three logo variations by the end of the day» push people to work harder than nonspecific goals like «Work on logo variations.»

And who wouldn't like to serve a huge market connecting millions of customers having urgent technical needs, limited alternatives, and little concern about price with millions of highly skilled professionals who would love to be their own bosses, fill their days with challenging and diverse problems instead of bullshit make - work jobs, and have countless opportunities served up to them on a regular basis which they can pick and choose as they wish.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

Assignments that are out of the comfort zone and challenge me are key to my future development as a business leader one day.

Lau spends 30 minutes every other day meeting with individual employees so he can hear first - hand any challenges or issues staff are facing, as well as the good things they're doing.

As I've come to learn, taking time off is extremely important: It helps you «reset», focus on big challenges, and come up with creative solutions that you otherwise might miss in the day - to - day grind.

Pragmatism may be preventing Bezos from pulling the trigger on long - rumored initiatives such as same - day delivery and a move into brick - and - mortar retail — two projects that remain tremendous financial challenges, even for a company of Amazon's scale and execution prowess.

Get the right backers from day one that will support you, add value, and understand your challenges as an entrepreneur.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

You need to find work that's not as challenging as your day job and / or that allows you to do something different.

Teachers will be treated to a day off campus, in a nice facility such as a hotel or restaurant banquet hall, and engage in interactive, cross-discipline workshops that will challenge and entertain them.

As part of my role leading Summit's team in Europe, it is a privilege to work closely with these talented entrepreneurs every day — individuals who are at the forefront of their industries, tackling some of today's greatest challenges and building strong businesses with new, game - changing technology solutions.»

2015.07.02 Bubba Watson among 14 in - year PGA Tour Winners Confirmed for 2015 RBC Canadian Open Bubba Watson, Team RBC players Jim Furyk, Jason Day, Brandt Snedeker, and Nick Taylor, as well as Matt Every and Chris Kirk among 2014 - 15 PGA TOUR winners set to challenge Glen Abbey...

Bubba Watson, Team RBC players Jim Furyk, Jason Day, Brandt Snedeker, and Nick Taylor, as well as Matt Every and Chris Kirk among 2014 - 15 PGA TOUR winners set to challenge Glen Abbey...

As Tonbo explains, modern - day battlefields, critical infrastructures, unmanned reconnaissance, transport vehicles driving in the dark — all offer challenging environments for effective visualization.

The biggest challenge here is that exchange rate volatility currently makes bitcoin a poor store of value, at least if your time horizon is measured in months, weeks, or even days, as it is for people who get paid daily or (bi) weekly and pay their rent or mortgage monthly.

Of course, as is the case with traditional forex trading, the profit potential is very tempting, but beware that entering the world of investment through short - term trading or day - trading often leads to steep losses, as it is one of the most challenging fields of financial markets.

Many companies are engaging in corporate challenges, such as bike to work day, wellness competitions, community service events, and other activities to help build a sense of teamwork and togetherness.

As we have warned several times in recent weeks, swing trading in low - volume environments is challenging because day - to - day price action tends to be more erratic and indecisive.

More than ever it should be your constant companion as you deal with the day to day challenges associated with working in the international property industry.

May 23, 2015 — 2:15 PM Industry Insights: Next Stages of Growth This interactive discussion summarizes the day's main topics and analyzes the future role of connected health in the smart home, including crossover opportunities with other IoT categories as well as the challenges in consumer privacy and data security for sensitive health data.

This interactive discussion summarizes the day's main topics and analyzes the future role of connected health in the smart home, including crossover opportunities with other IoT categories as well as the challenges in consumer privacy and data security for sensitive health data.

As a business owner himself, President Donald Trump understands the unique challenges that business owners — large, medium and small — face every day.

«Doing this challenge during the 30 days of Ramadan is even more of a test as I won't be eating or drinking during the day.»

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture that cast salvation as little more than a ticket out of hell that you cash in on Judgment Day, I've personally been enthralled and challenged by the emerging church's perspective on the Kingdom of God.

And as it turns out, though many of the believers in these churches know their Bibles well, few of them actually live out what they know in their day - to - day lives, nor are they reaching out with the gospel, which challenges the idea that these sorts of churches are actually doing a good job making disciples.

In many ways the challenges that Dominic faced in his days, eight hundred years ago, are very similar to those that the Church faces today, and therefore Dominic has a message for us now as to how we can meet those challenges.

I also agree with you that we face a new challenge as clergy: the day when it was assumed you were a participating member of a parish is gone.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

He served as the Chair of the Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Education, acted as a mentor to a group of young disciples, and hosted Take Over Challenge days with young people.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

I'll take a «laudatory commentator» any day over a «derogatory commentator» who is always carping on others» faults and failings that s / he perceives as annoying or challenging to a comfortably familiar worldview.

As a mechanical engineer which would include using math and physics principles to help with the design of a product with a particular function; I challenge you now; that when you can create a living person with all your intelligence and not use a woman to do it; I will be happy to listen to you... until then, I believe that God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit worked together in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th Day and Santified and Hallowed that dDay and Santified and Hallowed that dayday.

The sermons that are preached from our pulpits may not be as bad as mine was, but most Father's Day sermons tend to beat up on dads rather than encourage them and challenge them to dream big, take risks for God, embark on an adventure, charge ahead, and be a man!

In your ministry, your work, your vocation, your day - to - day, you may feel as if the challenge is insurmountable.

(To this day I personally find the idea that being gay is ok as long as you remain celibate to be the most disingenuous of all positions as to me it goes completely against the Spirit of the gospel and the challenge of Jesus that brought us to a place where the heart issue is as important as any action one might take.)

On the one hand, we wish to challenge the implicit individualism inherent in the traditional understanding of the Risen Christ as a separate individual existing apart from his Christian followers, either in some resuscitated form during those forty days Luke speaks of (Acts 1:3) or as assimilated within the Godhead.

The challenge of our day is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

Rev Morris presented the challenge after a new study found elderly care home residents have as little as two minutes of social interaction per day.

Back in the warm summer days of July, New York magazine posted an article entitled, «All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting», an examination of the current emotional and mental state of today's parents who were depicted as being harried, frustrated, and unfulfilled by the challenges of raising children.

«One of the saddest moments during my time as Education Secretary was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity, were under constant attack.»

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $ 30 F aced with the challenge of finding something new to say about the Holocaust, a lesser author will offer a picture of Nazism that resembles his present - day political opponents.

The challenge of our day, however, is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.