Leadership
The Up the Middle Church is Coming Soon!
The release of my new book, The Up the Middle Church, is coming soon! I should have the final proof in my hands within a week! I am so pumped! We are also working on all of the other stuff that goes with it, website, additional resources, promotional materials, etc. Pray for the release of…
Read MoreHow I Give Encouragement – Part 4
4. Give Encouragement Hope-Fully. If there is one thing people lack in their lives, it’s hope. Every not only needs hope, but would love to have more hope. When we encouragement someone else, we deposit hope into their heart. Hope that they can be better than they are today. Hope that someone else in the…
Read MoreFollow me on Twitter
Hey everyone if you haven’t grabbed ahold of this whole Twitter thing, it’s pretty stinkin’ fun! It’s a great way to keep up with people in your life. The best way I can describe it is like, “Insta-blogging!” It happens in real time, so you can literally get text messages to your phone from other…
Read MoreHow I Give Encouragement – Part 3
3. Make Encouragement about Them, not you! Something within us human beings has this natural drift toward selfishness. Often times, encouragement can subconsciously be the same way! Without even knowing it, we can make encouragement about us, not the person we’re trying to encourage. I mentioned a leader in my teenage years who was great…
Read MoreToday is Election Day! Go Vote!
Just a quick reminder to everyone in the blogosphere to go and vote! No excuses. This is OUR country! We have a right that several billion other people on the planet would die to have. Use it! Even if you have to wait in line! (Your poor planning doesn’t make up for not using your…
Read MoreHow I Give Encouragement – Part 2
2. Make Encouragement Personal. When it comes to encouraging those around us, the more personal we can make our encouragement, the better. General encouragement is fine, especially if there really is nothing else positive to say, but whenever possible, we must focus on Specific, Personal Encouragement. The more specific a compliment is, the more power…
Read MoreHow I Give Encouragement
One of the most important things a leader does is give encouragement. Encouragement is to leadership, what Oxygen is to the soul. The people we lead cannot survive without it. Something within every human being makes us desperate for encouragement. Things die when there is no encouragement. When a married couple stops encouraging one another,…
Read MoreThe 4th Dimension of the Entrepreneurial Personality: The Leader
The last dimension according to Michael Gerber in his book, Awakening the Entrepreneur within, is: The Leader By far, leadership is the most important. You can have a great vision or dream, think strategically about that dream, and even tell the story of the dream effectively, but if you don’t have the ability to lead…
Read MoreDimension #3: The Storyteller
This week, we’re looking into what Michael Gerber calls the 4 Dimensions of the Entrepreneurial Personality. The 3rd Dimension could be my favorite because it is: The Storyteller. No vision will ever come to reality unless an Entrepreneur becomes great at telling the story. People cannot and will not connect with a vision without a…
Read MoreDimension #2: The Thinker
The 2nd Dimension of the Entrepreneurial Personality as described in Michael Gerber’s book, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within is: The Thinker. Michael says that the Thinker is the “HOW” behind the “WHAT” of the Dreamer. In my experience, it really is true that every Entrepreneur must have some Thinker in them as well as a healthy…
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