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...
Yesterday I read a great blog post by career coach Penelope Trunk about stability. She spoke of staying put, making the decision to stop running away from our problems and refraining from blaming others. She says we can make any location work for us if we just determine to take personal responsibility. It's much more convenient to blame everyone else for our problems rather than look within at what we need to change. To change our environment, all we have to do is change ourselves! We can bring immediate transformation to the atmosphere we're in by changing what we speak, what we hear, what we do. Too many times we wait for someone else to change or another opportunity to come along. Change can take a mighty long time in that case. Changing our attitude alone can produce change in two seconds flat...much preferrable, yes? p.s. I'm on my way this morning to speak at the Experience Conference in Lakeland. Keep all of us who are there ...