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Conscious Service: Ten ways to reclaim your calling, move beyond burnout, and make a difference without sacrificing yourself
Conscious Ten Ways to Reclaim Your Calling, Move beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself will help all types of service providers understand and move beyond burnout and compassion fatigue while discovering a renewed energy for serving others. Each of us can learn how to thrive and find fulfillment in our vocations as we make a positive difference in our homes, workplaces, and communities.
Using everyday examples, personal stories, and illuminating questions, Elizabeth Bishop invites us to reimagine how we think about, train for, and embody service. Blurring the line between the traditional and the alternative with expertly chosen spiritual and self-help insights, Conscious Ten Ways to Reclaim Your Calling, Move beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself offers pragmatic and inspiring guidance for service providers and the people responsible for the systems and structures through which service is delivered. Even if serving others isn’t the core focus of their vocation, readers will discover keys to avoiding compassion fatigue, feeling better, living with purpose, and contributing with impact.
Using everyday examples, personal stories, and illuminating questions, Elizabeth Bishop invites us to reimagine how we think about, train for, and embody service. Blurring the line between the traditional and the alternative with expertly chosen spiritual and self-help insights, Conscious Ten Ways to Reclaim Your Calling, Move beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself offers pragmatic and inspiring guidance for service providers and the people responsible for the systems and structures through which service is delivered. Even if serving others isn’t the core focus of their vocation, readers will discover keys to avoiding compassion fatigue, feeling better, living with purpose, and contributing with impact.
240 pages, Paperback
Published April 19, 2022
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June 20, 2022
Conscious Service by Elizabeth Bishop is a guide to developing a holistic understanding of what conscious service truly means and how one can achieve it. It is built upon the idea of nurturing oneself to serve others. The book makes use of images, anecdotes, and storytelling to help us reimagine how we think about, train for, and embody service.
And the book is meant for all of us irrespective of the fact that we are connected to any human service-based profession. Because we all deserve the love of self and this book makes a strong point for the same.
Some of my takeaways from this 10-chapter book include:
– Become aware of your purpose. Have clarity on the same.
– Ensure you have a personal philosophy announcing your bigger purpose.
– Whatever you do, show up fully. Show up fully for yourself too. Make time for a self-care routine.
– Build emotional intelligence and think in multiple ways (cognitive/ metacognitive/ conscious)
– Embrace responsibility towards others and self.
– Set the right intention for things, fully accept yourself and then see the magic flow.
And remember, the tiniest acts of kindness can move us in love.
This book of 10 invitations could be an amazing pick for anyone interested in developing a deeper sense of self-worth and love.
Written with compassion and grace, Conscious Service aims to help us in elevating our inner self so that we could fully achieve our purpose in this life.
And the book is meant for all of us irrespective of the fact that we are connected to any human service-based profession. Because we all deserve the love of self and this book makes a strong point for the same.
Some of my takeaways from this 10-chapter book include:
– Become aware of your purpose. Have clarity on the same.
– Ensure you have a personal philosophy announcing your bigger purpose.
– Whatever you do, show up fully. Show up fully for yourself too. Make time for a self-care routine.
– Build emotional intelligence and think in multiple ways (cognitive/ metacognitive/ conscious)
– Embrace responsibility towards others and self.
– Set the right intention for things, fully accept yourself and then see the magic flow.
And remember, the tiniest acts of kindness can move us in love.
This book of 10 invitations could be an amazing pick for anyone interested in developing a deeper sense of self-worth and love.
Written with compassion and grace, Conscious Service aims to help us in elevating our inner self so that we could fully achieve our purpose in this life.
August 13, 2022
•When people choose work as a profession, they have passion inside of them that makes them work day and night in starting. But after a time, passion lessens and makes their ignition close to zero. Now they work just to survive for their living. A person who is working for an organization can do his role anyhow but for people who are working in service-providing occupations like medical practitioners or nurses, it gets tough to even proceed with their daily routine work. Let’s read something that can help them find that base so that they can work without getting baseless, introducing CONSCIOUS SERVICE by ELIZABETH BISHOP. The cover page is very well dedicated to the content and the title. The genre is self-help.
•This book is specially written for all the people who are working as service providers to other human beings. For them, it gets tough when they lose their base for working like this, and then it degrades their lifestyle and mental status. At that time it is very hard for them to continue like that, this book can guide them very well. The author has described a different way to tackle these types of scenarios and help those people without degrading their point of life.
Read and get a different perspective to deal with when you get stuck in your life!
•The book deals with and helps the readers to come back with compassion without sacrificing their whole life and not being able to provide that level of care to their people. The author has very well chosen this topic and explained it nicely
•This book is specially written for all the people who are working as service providers to other human beings. For them, it gets tough when they lose their base for working like this, and then it degrades their lifestyle and mental status. At that time it is very hard for them to continue like that, this book can guide them very well. The author has described a different way to tackle these types of scenarios and help those people without degrading their point of life.
Read and get a different perspective to deal with when you get stuck in your life!
•The book deals with and helps the readers to come back with compassion without sacrificing their whole life and not being able to provide that level of care to their people. The author has very well chosen this topic and explained it nicely
May 27, 2022
p3 "Our words are geared up for battle. It's no wonder that we so often see a challenge as an enemy and a service relationship as a place to win or lose."
p6 "It recognizes that compassion does not make us tired; overextension of self and lack of self-compassion are what exhaust us."
p15 "Purpose, as I'm using the word here, is less to suggest that there's one narrow and specific use for you in the world, and more a way of describing how actions taken on purpose are completely different from events that happen by accident."
p23 "This running assumption about scarcity, combined with an unwillingness to value the work of schoolteachers and home health aides as highly as the work of bankers or advertising executives, perpetuates the myth that service requires sacrifice. A system that's based on this foundation both encourages and expects service providers to burn out."
p41 "You don't need to have all your shit together before you can be of service in the world. You do have to be willing to admit, at least to yourself, that you don't. You do have to become aware that parts of you are healing and growing. You do have to become willing to venture into the dark corners of your own soul and accept the weirdness of your own mind."
p47 Ways to reconnect with your physical channel and establish presence within your body: step outdoors, get moving, eat with intention, check in
p51 Stomachs are second brains: clear link between gut health and emotional/behavioral health
p58 "Like critical thought, creativity also requires the ability to suspend judgment; to get outside your comfort zone; to consider alternative perspectives; to take risks; and to be willing to consider options and possibilities that don't yet exist."
p60 "Acknowledging our thoughts can often be enough to satisfy their desire to be heard."
p67 "Just hoping a situation will be different, without intentionally showing up in it in a new way, is a recipe for disappointment."
p75 "The basic premise is that whenever I observe behavior in another that bothers (infuriates) or attracts me, I'm learning more about myself than I am about the other person."
p89 "Believing that your responsibility extends to changing others, making them grow, or creating specific outcomes is a setup for disillusionment."
p93 "False responsibility is the lie that tells you that you need to control something beyond yourself."
p99 "What you focus on grows. Be sure you are directing your energy toward what you want to create rather than what you want to avoid."
p145 "Even when we are not in a state of self-love, we still attempt to love others."
p152 "Spending a few quiet moments to clarify your intention prior to any communication with others can make an enormous difference to both the process of the interaction and its outcomes."
p 159 "Denying ourselves the joy of thinking big, following our passions, and expanding our lives really doesn't protect us from the possibility of disappointment. In fact, disappointment is exactly what awaits us if we deny our heart's desires over the course of our lives."
p163 "You may suspect by now that the primary human experience that blocks enlightened communication is fear."
p204 "Even if we intend our remark as a way to make connection or establish rapport, this kind of us-centered interruption undercuts that desire."
p221 "Everyone is contributing - either to maintaining a situation or to changing it. There is no such thing as neutral. We almost have a preference, even when we might feel detached from the outcome."
p243 "What we offer today, we may need tomorrow."
p248 "The virus underscored what we already knew: service providers are human like everybody else, and we are at risk by the very nature of our work."
p249 "Society's pandemic-provoked celebration of service providers as heroes put us in a precarious position. How could we admit we were struggling when everybody was banging pots and pans for us at shift changes? What could we complain about now that we were finally being recognized as essential?"
p253 "When we took quickly tell others in pain some version of 'You're going to be okay' or 'This is going to make you stronger' or "others have suffered worse and turned out fine', we run the risk of denying the weight of their present experience, even while we believe we're offering comfort or encouragement."
p301 "Becoming present allows us to focus our energy and ground our giving in gratitude rather than fear."
p6 "It recognizes that compassion does not make us tired; overextension of self and lack of self-compassion are what exhaust us."
p15 "Purpose, as I'm using the word here, is less to suggest that there's one narrow and specific use for you in the world, and more a way of describing how actions taken on purpose are completely different from events that happen by accident."
p23 "This running assumption about scarcity, combined with an unwillingness to value the work of schoolteachers and home health aides as highly as the work of bankers or advertising executives, perpetuates the myth that service requires sacrifice. A system that's based on this foundation both encourages and expects service providers to burn out."
p41 "You don't need to have all your shit together before you can be of service in the world. You do have to be willing to admit, at least to yourself, that you don't. You do have to become aware that parts of you are healing and growing. You do have to become willing to venture into the dark corners of your own soul and accept the weirdness of your own mind."
p47 Ways to reconnect with your physical channel and establish presence within your body: step outdoors, get moving, eat with intention, check in
p51 Stomachs are second brains: clear link between gut health and emotional/behavioral health
p58 "Like critical thought, creativity also requires the ability to suspend judgment; to get outside your comfort zone; to consider alternative perspectives; to take risks; and to be willing to consider options and possibilities that don't yet exist."
p60 "Acknowledging our thoughts can often be enough to satisfy their desire to be heard."
p67 "Just hoping a situation will be different, without intentionally showing up in it in a new way, is a recipe for disappointment."
p75 "The basic premise is that whenever I observe behavior in another that bothers (infuriates) or attracts me, I'm learning more about myself than I am about the other person."
p89 "Believing that your responsibility extends to changing others, making them grow, or creating specific outcomes is a setup for disillusionment."
p93 "False responsibility is the lie that tells you that you need to control something beyond yourself."
p99 "What you focus on grows. Be sure you are directing your energy toward what you want to create rather than what you want to avoid."
p145 "Even when we are not in a state of self-love, we still attempt to love others."
p152 "Spending a few quiet moments to clarify your intention prior to any communication with others can make an enormous difference to both the process of the interaction and its outcomes."
p 159 "Denying ourselves the joy of thinking big, following our passions, and expanding our lives really doesn't protect us from the possibility of disappointment. In fact, disappointment is exactly what awaits us if we deny our heart's desires over the course of our lives."
p163 "You may suspect by now that the primary human experience that blocks enlightened communication is fear."
p204 "Even if we intend our remark as a way to make connection or establish rapport, this kind of us-centered interruption undercuts that desire."
p221 "Everyone is contributing - either to maintaining a situation or to changing it. There is no such thing as neutral. We almost have a preference, even when we might feel detached from the outcome."
p243 "What we offer today, we may need tomorrow."
p248 "The virus underscored what we already knew: service providers are human like everybody else, and we are at risk by the very nature of our work."
p249 "Society's pandemic-provoked celebration of service providers as heroes put us in a precarious position. How could we admit we were struggling when everybody was banging pots and pans for us at shift changes? What could we complain about now that we were finally being recognized as essential?"
p253 "When we took quickly tell others in pain some version of 'You're going to be okay' or 'This is going to make you stronger' or "others have suffered worse and turned out fine', we run the risk of denying the weight of their present experience, even while we believe we're offering comfort or encouragement."
p301 "Becoming present allows us to focus our energy and ground our giving in gratitude rather than fear."
August 31, 2022
Recently i've been very busy but once i jumped on this book it just took away my all of the tensions & fatigue. It's not any kind of book which offers thrill, adventure or entertainment but the book which offers alot of learning for everyone. This book is a must read book especially for the ones who are doing jobs. This book is a helpful book for understanding what conscious service truly is and how anyone can achieve it. The author has written this book with so much effort and knowledge. Author's words feel like an beautiful conversation with one of the your close friends. Storytelling is just marvellous from author, it's nothing but her amazing talent. Language of this book is also lucid, which makes it compatible for reading and understanding easily.
This book is based on the learning or acknowledgement to understand and access the full energy of driving you in helping others. This book starts with the assumption that a service is nothing but a form of love and that our ability to love others had to begin with the dimensions of our respect and care for ourselves. This book has series of ten invitations. With every invitation offers a way to the experience of more conscious service. There are invitations like discovery, leadership, purpose, freedom, and many others. With single goal for all of these invitations which is to offer a deeper understanding of what conscious service in truly means and how one can get it.
Using just images, storytelling, and practical application exercises author invites us to the journey where we can reimagine and can understand what we should think and train to embody services. So, it's my heartiest wish to all of you to get this book in your reading list now and jump on the ocean of knowledge of this book.
This book is based on the learning or acknowledgement to understand and access the full energy of driving you in helping others. This book starts with the assumption that a service is nothing but a form of love and that our ability to love others had to begin with the dimensions of our respect and care for ourselves. This book has series of ten invitations. With every invitation offers a way to the experience of more conscious service. There are invitations like discovery, leadership, purpose, freedom, and many others. With single goal for all of these invitations which is to offer a deeper understanding of what conscious service in truly means and how one can get it.
Using just images, storytelling, and practical application exercises author invites us to the journey where we can reimagine and can understand what we should think and train to embody services. So, it's my heartiest wish to all of you to get this book in your reading list now and jump on the ocean of knowledge of this book.
June 17, 2022
A must-read for all educators, healthcare workers, nonprofit executives, entrepreneurs, or anyone with a call to serve in their personal and professional life.
“Opportunities to serve are ever-present. Sometimes they arise out of the blue. These days they can seem more urgent and apparent than ever.”
In this book, Elizabeth Bishop offers valuable advice on burnout and how to move beyond it in order to feel inspired again.
“Follow the power, the energy, the curiosity, and the whispers of your heart. These things exist to guide you.”
I particularly liked the author’s friendly tone, clear writing and the way she chose to structure the book. Each chapter is an invitation, from purpose to wholeness, freedom, discovery, enlightenment, vision, leadership, compassion, openness and presence. And each section ends with questions to apply the concepts, making it an active process.
Conscious Service is full of helpful tips and research-based methods. It will guide you through the journey to a more serene path to making a difference.
“Opportunities to serve are ever-present. Sometimes they arise out of the blue. These days they can seem more urgent and apparent than ever.”
In this book, Elizabeth Bishop offers valuable advice on burnout and how to move beyond it in order to feel inspired again.
“Follow the power, the energy, the curiosity, and the whispers of your heart. These things exist to guide you.”
I particularly liked the author’s friendly tone, clear writing and the way she chose to structure the book. Each chapter is an invitation, from purpose to wholeness, freedom, discovery, enlightenment, vision, leadership, compassion, openness and presence. And each section ends with questions to apply the concepts, making it an active process.
Conscious Service is full of helpful tips and research-based methods. It will guide you through the journey to a more serene path to making a difference.
December 22, 2022
This book has some useful information, but could have been condensed into an article.
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