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What To Do First to Make a Profit

The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat  ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're  not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director.  Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year.  God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started inve
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That takes the cake!


Last night Larry took Savanna to the studio with him to do the show. She did great - was quiet the whole time. He let her pick the songs/videos for the show. When she got tired of watching him do the show she wrote in her book. Finally at 2:30 am she went to sleep on the blanket and pillow she had brought. Here are some photos of her. She had a great time on the set and he took a few pictures of her there.


In addition to grocery shopping and cooking for a meeting we are having this weekend, Savanna and I cleaned the laundry room out and threw half the stuff away that was in there. I don't know why but I am motivated to clean a bunch of stuff out and re-organize. I have a new thought. Every time we have ever moved, and I have thrown half our stuff out and packed up, I have thought, "why didn't I do this a long time ago?" It's such a better way to live. Well, we are not moving. Far from it - I'm real settled here. But I am just tired of stuff we don't need. It's hard to get rid of things b/c Larry is such a pack rat, but I am able to get it done when I persevere, even though I have to sneak sometimes in throwing a few things away! :) Anyway - we are doing a lot of cleaning and re-organizing.


So Savanna had such a good time last night at the studio with her daddy, she went with him again tonight. He does the show this evening and then again Monday evening.


Tonight I had a girls night out. I went with Cathy, Misty and "Grandma" (Misty's) to see Evening. What a great movie! We loved it. Lots of tears. The theater was mostly filled with women but a few men. The funniest thing happened at the end on the way out. When the credits came up and we were leaving, we heard a man say, "I've seen a lot of movies in my time, but that one takes the cake!" He didn't mean it in a good way. He was frustrated. He obviously had NO IDEA what this movie was about. He was clueless. We started laughing and left and just couldn't get over his attitude. We went to Panera afterwards and were still laughing going, "that takes the cake!"

We got to Panera just as they were closing. They had already locked the door but they opened it back up and let us in. We ordered pastries and coffees, and sat for a while and ate and talked, mostly about how we related to the movie. Good stuff...it took the cake!

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