Pro or Amateur?
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Where do you need to become a pro? In your health? At home? At work? In relationships? Keep working at it. You can do it!
God Doesn't Waste Anything
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Learn while doing your time. You will be amazed at what you apply in the future.
Sweet Friends
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Motivational speaker, Jim Rohn, once said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I have been so blessed to spend time with some amazing people…Kingdom shakers and God seekers. They have spoken life into me that included correction, rebukes and encouragement. One friend can just give me a look across the room and I know that I need to tone it down. Others can cause me to slow down and enjoy life and not strive so hard for the next task. I learned early on that if I don’t like who I am then I need to change who I hang around with.
What about you? Do you have any sweet friendships? If so, treasure them, tell them how much they mean to you and be a friend like them. If not, seek out new friends and be willing to be change. Does it take effort? Absolutely!!! But doesn’t anything of value?
What's the Motivation?
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Character is continuing to stick to a
commitment after the emotion is gone.
Stop Giving Up
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What is the next right thing to do? Go do it.
No Silver Bullet
/My brother retired this week after 30 years of working for the USPS. During that time, he never made a million dollars a year but faithfully he went to work and little by little earned the opportunity to retire at 56 years old. He is financially set for life and can even start another career.
Where do you need to be faithful? Where do you need to just show up every day and do your job? It might not be for an early retirement but maybe it is in losing weight or raising your children or serving at your church. I wish there was a magic bullet that can make all of those things happen without taking so much time. But just like it takes almost 2 years of gestation for an elephant to be born, big things take time. Choose today to do the next right thing.
Who is going to get burned?
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I have heard and I have even said, “Well, this doesn’t hurt anyone but me” but that is not true at all. As the proverb says, if I am messing with fire and it gets too close to me, my clothes are going to get burned. Every decision, every action, every step will set into motion a ripple that will impact those in my path – for good or for bad.
I can make the decision to be nice to the cashier as I am checking out and it will impact those behind, the cashier and even myself. Or I can choose to ignore the cashier, make no attempt to be kind, and the cashier will feel the rejection and I will walk away unchanged (at the minimum.) Or even worse I could be rude to the cashier – even if I am justified because of her lack of skills – and that will burn further than I could imagine. I will be in a bad mood, the people behind me will be impacted and the cashier may go home and take it out on her family. All because of a decision I made. It does hurt others.
May walk in steps and make decisions that will not burn those around us.
Solving Problems is My Gift
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During the past few years, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what skills I possess as well as my passions. Where these two converge is helping others solve administrative/logistical problems. And since when I have done this I add value to those I serve, why not start a virtual assistance business?
Here are a few services I can offer:
Creating and Sending Newsletters or Mass Emails
Creating Powerpoint or Keynote presentations
Creating/updating/maintaining databases and CRMs
Collating business cards into an Excel sheet for uploading to CRMs or address books
Creating Memes with free art
Data entry
Video editing and uploading
Blogpost uploading
Setting up and maintaining Calendly
Social media set up/maintenance/ scheduling
Setting up/managing webinars
Event coordination – venue finding and confirmation, managing registration and attendees
Diary/calendar management – scheduling meetings, syncing with devices, adding upcoming events
Email management and detox
Researching/making travel and accommodation arrangements
Lifestyle coaching and values creation
Gmail set up, importing and creating labels/filters/folders
Developing systems for efficiency of work
Weekly planning of priorities
If you have the least bit of interest in learning more about this, book a 15 minute call with me to discuss it. You can go to this link to do that.
Of course, the first question is always how much? So to get that out of the way...my hourly rate would be $35-95 and the difference will depend on the actual project. All of which is negotiable so why not find 15 minutes and book a time for us to visit on my calendar. We can see if I can help you leverage yourself and determine what is the best and highest use of your time.
Self or God?
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Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His Name, and what is His Son's Name? Surely you know!
This past Sunday at church, my pastor, Landon Dowden, taught through Romans 12:3-8 and the biggest takeaway for me was to have right thinking about myself – not thinking too much about myself and not thinking too highly about myself but just right. One way to do that is to have right thinking about God. This proverb sure does nail it for me. When I realize who He is and all He can and does do AND that He died for my sins and loves me more than I even know, I can have right thinking about myself.
Not self-esteem but God-esteem. Not self-confidence but God-fidence. My prayer is that we can walk in that assurance today.
A Little Umph!
/The difference between try and triumph is just a little "umph." Victory is coming... keep pressing on.
Pursue Excellence
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I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan
Comfort Zone
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Where do you need to step out and become uncomfortable?
Stay in Your Lane
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One of the first Christian principle I learned was the exchanged life based on Galatians 2:20. Bottom line, I have exchanged my dead body for Jesus’ alive body. Because of that, my old self has no rights, but my new self has the riches of heaven. One way my old self will rise up is in the area of justice and making things right. That is not my job.
This proverb tells us that the liar will not go unpunished and his lies will cause him to perish. I need to die to myself and my desire to distribute justice on my timetable and trust that in due season, this proverb will be fulfilled. Many times, I fail but when I do trust in the Holy Spirit and not myself, the truth comes out. May I have the patience and the faith to keep in my lane and trust the Judge to do His work.
Work = Progress
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And if it still doesn't work, keep working.
My #1 Prayer Request
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In 2005, I had the honor of spending a weekend with 50 or so amazing women. One of those women was Vonette Bright, co-founder along with her husband, Bill, of Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ.) At one point in the weekend, I asked her, “How can I pray for you?” Her immediate response was, “Please ask the Lord for continued favor.” Since that time, it has been my #1 prayer request as well. When we have favor, life just seems to go easier. Not all problems are taken away, but the challenges of life are reduced. May we all live lives that prompt the Lord to bestow favor upon us with Him as well as those we encounter along the way.
