When you are looking to work from home, one of the most important things you can do is to find a mentor. This can be a formal kind of relationship, where you actually approach the person in mind and ask them if they would help to mentor/teach you--or it can be as informal as asking a friend if you can pick their brain every now and then. By getting to know someone who is already successful in the field you're thinking about pursuing you can get a good idea of if you could succeed as well. Oftentimes there are things about career paths and options that you probably would never think about--like the fact that in a direct sales company it's important that they offer excellent customer service to you as a representative so that you can find out information on messed up orders quickly and without headaches. Or maybe the glamor of being a wedding photographer will fade in your mind when you realize that a great deal of success goes into figuring out f-stops and the proper lighting … [Read more...]
The Daily – Drifting?
Living a life obedient and submitted to the King can be very hard. Especially when living in a corrupt world filled with self centered sin and lusts. It is what it is. We can find ourselves drifting if we are not careful. Sin is in this world and we cannot escape this world until we are with Jesus. So, what do we do? If you find yourself drifting from your walk with God, do a self check. Better yet, do one on a regular basis...just in case you pridefully think you are all that! Therefore beware brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened into settled rebellion by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him]. - Hebrews … [Read more...]
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