In my latest Faith and Business 101 column I talked about my search for balance this year and the things I'm doing to help find it in my life. The thing about seeking balance and straightening out priorities is that it affects all areas of my life-not just the part where I'm a work at home mom. As I was thinking about my various goals for this year it struck me that I had unintentionally mirrored the Proverbs 31 woman. Here are my goals (in no particular order) and the verse that I found goes hand in hand with them! Get up earlier to get more done -- She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. vs 15 Set aside dedicated times for working from home -- She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. vs 16 Make sure that Hubby is my #1 priority outside of God -- The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and … [Read more...]
Faith and Business 101: 20 New Year Business Quotes
Here are 20 quotes to motivate, inspire and help you to reflect on the year's past. I hope these quotes challenge your thinking and help you take action for your business, so you can improve and find bigger successes in the New Year. 1. "It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets." William Thomas 2. "Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you, but your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others." Unknown 3. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford 4. "The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." Benjamin Mays 5. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Roosevelt 6. "I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: try to please everybody." Herbert Bayard … [Read more...]
Carrying Christmas into 2012
By now the stockings have been un-hung, the decorations packed away except for perhaps a stray snowman here and there. Thoughts go from cookies to calories from gifts to goals. It's easy to get into a post holiday slump--especially if Christmas didn't go quite as planned. Perhaps your spouse was grumpy, your children decided that they'd rather play with a plastic straw then their plethora of new toys, or maybe you ended up with everything that you didn't want and nothing that you did. Maybe everyone caught a stomach bug and no one could eat any of the feast you worked so hard over. Maybe this was the first Christmas you celebrated after losing a loved one. Christmas is so hyped up in this day and age that if you ended up with a less than perfect day you might go away feeling a little cheated. It's easy to get into a funk that carries into the New Year. I've found that even on December 26th it's important to keep all the *true* aspects of Christmas in mind--so that you can keep … [Read more...]
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