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...
I don't know how many I have. Honestly, even for the writing of this post, I resisted the urge to look. I know it's probably a good number because the last time I glanced at the number which was a few months ago if memory serves me correctly I think it was in the neighborhood of 700 something. But I couldn't tell you exact numbers to save my life. And I really don't care.
I do know some people who check their number daily, sometimes more than once. And whether it goes up or down means a lot to them. So much so, that if the number goes down they work through process of elimination to figure out who deleted them.
I not only find the idea of calculating facebook friends to be a very exhausting idea, but the idea of it strikes me as insecure.
Something I've tried to live by and also teach my kids is that when something like that happens to you whether on facebook or real life, look at it as an opportunity for more room being made for others in your life.
Facebook is a great networking tool but not a true representation of my relationships.
Another decision I've come to through experience is that I don't delete anybody I find irritating (just creates needless drama at times that I don't need) and so I "hide" them instead and move on.
What about you?
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I'm a little old-fashioned that way - I like face-to-face quality time vs. social networking [when possible!]; actual books instead of a Kindle; and although I blog, I also keep a written journal, because sometimes writing instead of typing just feels better :o).
Side note: As someone who works with kids, I make it a policy to NOT request them as my friends on FB. Ever. If they friend me, I will add them, but for me, it's an integrity issue - better safe than sorry....