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've been concentrating on these the past five months or so:
1) Limiting "work on me" to one big thing at a time.
I used to try to work on everything about myself at once that needed an overhaul, and it didn't go so well.
I'm learning the value of one-thing-at-a-time.
There are issues in my life that need major work that I haven't even started on yet. The past five months have been an invaluable lesson I will never forget, most of it focused on one area. When mastered it will hopefully be something retained for life.
I get to choose who I'm going to be. How great is that?
2) Being kind to me as work on me.
Every day I notice the parts of me that still need work. I don't like those things about myself. But I know they didn't get that way overnight and they aren't going to change overnight.
I could hate myself.
Talk trash to myself.
But what good does it do?
It just makes it worse.
I'm a human being, with faults and frailties and now choose to extend the grace to myself that I've often given others but lacked giving myself.
3) Being kind to others as I work on me.
Allowing God to do a deep work in your heart is like being on the operating table. It's not fun at times. On some occasions, I get frustrated in the midst of that and fail to treat others with grace. With God's help, I'm trying to also be kind to other people in the midst of it.
Here's to another year, and changes made for the better.
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