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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 i...
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Whew oh me oh my. I'm still re-cooping from wee-hour-of-the-morning talk-fest with Pastor T and Misty the other night. :-) But it was worth it. I just love them to pieces. This was two nights ago but I guess I am just slower to bounce back in the mornings these days. I did get a ton of work done today...it's just that I am slower getting started and it takes me longer to finish.


Sunday night was newcomer's and a late night as forementioned. Then yesterday I worked from home but met the staff for lunch. We were all absolutely exhausted but agreed it had been a great weekend. In the midst of my day Joy called and said she and Keith wanted to do dinner. We quickly made plans for Savanna to go to Morgan's and we met them. We were overdue for a Keith and Joy talk-fest. :-) We would have stayed much later and talked however, Keith had to host America's Prayer Meeting last night on CTN and had to get to the station. So we went over to pick Savanna up and ended up staying a few more hours having a talk-fest with the Harts. (Notice theme here: talk fests. There's nothing I love more than connecting with those dear to me.) We laughed and shared and Jenn and I made plans for a few upcoming outings we're doing together, among them a kayaking trip. Yep, seriously. I'm doing this. And I can't wait. (Don't laugh.) This is after we go on our upcoming hike to Brooker Creek Preserve. Jenn is what's known as a Master Naturalist.

In other late breaking news, I just finished riding my bike at dusk, which you already know if you follow me on Twitter (lol) and I'm doing laundry. Anybody wanna come fold it?

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