October - December 2011
TEAM work

What do we do when we feel overwhelmed with a project, feel inadequate to a task or can’t get started? Build a team of people with different strengths to get the job done! Simple ways to gather your team include:

• Gather your family for the family meeting. Share with them a project you have in mind. Ask how each can contribute to the project using what they do best.
• Gather your friends together to support a cause. Ask each of them to bring a friend to the meeting.
• Gather your co-workers and find ways to support each other in having power periods. Find a way that each team member can have an undistracted time to get their heavy duty work one.
• Gather your faith family together to support those in need around you with child care or healthy meals.
• Get together with a friend and review, edit and declutter each of your closets.
• Gather a group for a kids clothes swap. Set a date and some ground rules for bringing and taking home clothes.
• Gather your grandkids and have a no technology day, learning how to use a yo-yo or play jacks. Your grandkids learn and connect with you regularly, creating an extended support for them.
• Gather your family together for a power hour to get house cleaning knocked out.
• Gather a team to co-write a proposal or power point presentation. Someone begins the content, another edits for grammar and spelling, and another embellishes the visuals.
• Gather your co-workers to align strengths with daily responsibilities in the office.

The school year means everyone working together for their best year yet! Each family member helping makes all the difference.

• Start homework time at the same time for all your kids. This way all the distractions of television, texting and more are all stopped simultaneously.
• Host your family meeting and create a community chart for your family. Across the top are the days of the week, down the side are the family member's names. In the grid are the daily responsibilities of each person. Post the chart in the kitchen where everyone can see it.
• Create partnerships to complete family responsibilities. Partner with unusual pairs, such as dad/daughter, mom/son and mix it up! That way everyone shares the job and the joy of kitchen cleaning, toilets and laundry.
• Develop your core in your family team. Set aside times for family members to have one on one times for fun, such as date night for mom and dad or a special trip for a parent and child to share.

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