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06/11/2024

Fear is Faith in the WRONG Kingdom (so Let's Focus on the RIGHT Kingdom)

Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

This verse is true because it is the Word of God. The Bible also speaks extensively about the importance of faith for Christians.

We often don't realize how the enemy corrupts what God intended for good and uses it to keep God's children from accessing all that God has for us.

Since the enemy has already lost (as seen in Revelations), he knows he can't defeat God, but his next best strategy is to attempt to steal and kill the favor, blessings, and promises of God for God's children, not just physically, but often times, emotionally and mentally.

He corrupts the blessings and promises and tempts us to believe differently than the intention and purpose of God, just like he did in the Garden with Eve.

So, back to faith.

Faith was created by God so that we could draw closer to God.

It was intended for good.

That is, as long as we have faith in and towards God and what He says about us.

But what happens when we practice this faith in a way that's not what it was intended for, like the corrupt version the enemy uses against us?

That's where fear, doubt, insecurity, worry, and anxiety come from.

It's applying faith,

*THE SUBSTANCE of things HOPED for
* THE EVIDENCE of things UNSEEN...

towards a negative outcome/reality

Fear is faith that a bad outcome will arise. Though the evidence that a bad thing is not seen (or even real), we act as if it is, and thus, fear takes a grip on us because we're putting our faith in that negative outcome.

NOT the promises and faithfulness of God in that specific outcome.

It is the same with worry, doubt, insecurity, and anxiety. We place our faith in the wrong thing, and when we do, we aren't trusting and relying on what we know to be true about God.

So, how do you stop this unhealthy pattern?

🧨 THREE POWERFUL WAYS

→ Get a deeper understanding of WHO God is so you can trust that what He says about you is TRUE!

→ Write down and reflect on ALL the ways He's come through for you in situations similar to what you fear.

→ Lean on His Word for truth that will destroy the enemy's lies. Spend time in His Word. Write down key verses to support what you know to be true.

As you do these, you'll find that your faith in the Kingdom is much stronger, much more rooted, and much more real than any deception of the enemy.

05/02/2024

Your skills can unlock more income & impact 🔐

Have you ever thought about your skills, knowledge, and life experiences and asked yourself, "Would someone pay me to learn this?"

I have many times.

In fact, the first time I acted on the thought was in 2007 when I sold my first digital product (a short ebook) called Credit Scoring Secrets Revealed.

It was only a $47 sale, but it felt like a $million because it showed me what was possible with the knowledge I was already sitting on.

Fast forward 17 years, and I've turned my knowledge into:

✔️ Books

✔️ Audio lessons

✔️ Courses

✔️ Digital Products & Downloads

✔️ Memberships

✔️ High ticket group programs

✔️ Events

✔️ One-on-One Coaching

✔️ High-End Masterminds

The cool thing is, I don't know EVERYTHING, and you don't have to either to make it work 😁

That's why I'm hosting a training today called Monetize Your Message.

During this training, I'm breaking down the fastest path to creating a sellable product from the knowledge you already have that can impact the lives of your audience and can make you sales even when you "clock-out" of business.

>> The reason I'm doing it is simple.

If I help you get your unique gifts, talents, and abilities out of you and into the marketplace, it will impact your life and those you serve, who will then benefit the people in their lives.

It's what I call the Three Levels of Impact, and it's how I've chosen to operate after turning 45 last week.

That's why I decided to host the Monetize Your Message Masterclass.

Are you interested in joining me for this free training?

Let me know, and I'll send you the link.

01/21/2020

Great post from https://www.facebook.com/CrossRoadsProfessionalCoaching -----------------

Do you have areas of your business which make you feel bitter? Situations or people that really expose your nerves and leave you feeling agitated that you have to deal with them?

If you find yourself feeling bitter or agitated with any regularity, it is negatively affecting your business and job performance. Also know that if you experience bitterness ‘on the reg,’ you’re not alone.

I thought to write this post because I’ve encountered a lot of clients wrestling with bitter feelings about everything from employee behaviors to customer demands to compensation to paying taxes…if you can think of it, somebody’s bitter about it.

It’s easy to become lulled into believing that bitterness and frustration are normal and just part of your daily experience, but bitterness is bad for you and your business and should be addressed like any other condition adversely affecting your environment; with vigor.

Try your best to live in peace with everyone. Try to be holy. Without holiness no one will see the Lord… Be sure that no one misses God’s grace. See to it that a bitter plant doesn’t grow up. If it does, it will cause trouble. And it will pollute many people.

Hebrews 12:14-15

Consequences of Bitterness

It’s really difficult to be objective and make good decisions when you’re agitated or bitter.

It’s also very apparent to your employees and customers when you’re bitter over something. There’s a very recognizable and unpleasant air about someone who is bitter.

Other people may misinterpret the reason for your negative disposition in a given moment and respond in ways undesirable to you or your business as a result

Bitterness and the associated anxiety is bad for your physical health

God does not like bitterness

How do you avoid or eliminate bitterness?

The hardest step seems to be recognizing that you are harboring bitter feelings. While I don’t keep tabs on this detail, it seems to me that every time I ask someone why they are bitter or some related synonym the response is almost universal as, “I’m not bitter.”

My favorite personal denial when a trusted advisor asks me about my trouble areas is to explain why my bitterness is justified. “I’m not bitter, I’m simply responding normally to the idiotic and ridiculous actions of the other party.” A popular hit from clients I hear with regularity is “I would never tell my employees this, I’m just telling you.”

So the most challenging step toward growing better over bitter is to search the bitterness out. Pay attention to where bitterness lives in your life or where you feel extraordinary tension.

When you recognize people or things that give rise to bitterness, you can begin to take action that will help you eliminate it.

Actions to Help Remedy Bitterness

Pray – There is no greater remedy than prayer and meditation over causes of bitterness and asking the Lord to purge your bitter feelings. Give it to God.

Reconcile – Where bitterness involves other people and wherever possible you should work toward reconciling differences. Be objective, use trusted and competent counselors to help you and make amends with no expectation or requirement of reciprocation by the other party. Make peace with the issue.

Remedy – With the help of trusted and competent advisors, make action plans to improve the situation. If you are capable of positively affecting the cause of your bitterness, do it.

Acceptance – With a steady discipline of prayer, reconciliation and remedial actions, sometimes we need to let things go. Within the world of reason and void of harmful circumstances, it’s liberating to accept things that cannot be changed. We continue to pray, work toward reconciliation and taking actions where we can, but give people or things that we can’t affect over to God.

Harboring resentment or bitterness contaminates the well of your life. Bitterness is infectious and will spread to others causing harm to yourself and to your business.

Be vigilant in watching for bitter plants that may have sprouted under your feet without your noticing. Take action to not let bitterness grow and enjoy a better business and a better life.

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If you find yourself feeling bitter or agitated with any regularity, it is negatively affecting your business and job performance. Learn how to grow better…

01/16/2020

Great post from https://www.facebook.com/CrossRoadsProfessionalCoaching -----------------

After over 10 years of marketing experience, I have learned to be intentional, thoughtful & strategic in all the work I do. One of the key ways I do that is focusing on the WHY of our client’s customers.

Why should someone buy their product or service?

How will it benefit their customer?

To accomplish this, I filter every piece of content, whether it’s a quick social media post or cohesive campaign, through the question, “does this communicate how our client’s product or service helps solve their customer’s problems?”

This year we gifted Donald Miller’s book Building a Story Brand to our clients for Christmas. In the first chapter, Miller talks about how important it is to define why customers need your products in their lives. Think about how your product or service helps people:

“Survive,
thrive,
be accepted,
achieve an aspirational identity,
&/or bond with a tribe that will defend them physically and socially” (pg. 8)

With this in mind, evaluate whether your marketing articulates the aspects of your products your customers care about — the aspects that solve their problems. Miller says you should aim to do 3 things with your marketing. Identify

“What your customer wants

What problem you are helping them solve

And what life will look like after they engage your products and services” (pg. 11)

These answers come together to form the foundation of your marketing strategy.

For example, say your company cleans cars in a quick, convenient, environmentally friendly way. You’ll think through how this service helps people in their lives. Here are just a few:

Convenience

Ease

Time savings

The gratification of driving in clean surroundings

The reputation boost a clean car gives you

Caring for the environment

Protecting your vehicle investment & maintaining a high resale value

These are perks your customer wants, and problems your service helps them solve. Effective marketing will articulate these points and demonstrate how your service meets the needs and/or solves the problems. From there, it will go on to illustrate what life is like in a clean car.

Once you have this defined, the next step is to communicate these answers in a clear, understandable way. “The key is to make your company’s message about something that helps the customer survive and to do so in such a way that they can understand.” (pg. 9)

I even suggest bringing this exercise into your sales process. Use it to write sales scripts and value propositions. Keep the ways your product or service helps your customers at the top of your staff’s mind. You’ll be amazed at how this perspective improves morale, gives your employees a sense of purpose, and increases sales. Our team at Crossroads would love to work with you to create an effective strategy for your business and employ Storybrand’s Framework to “simplify your message, filter out the noise & create effective marketing.” Give us a call at (225) 341-4147 or email Shannon, our Administrative & Recruiting Coordinator, at [email protected] to get started with an appointment.

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This year we gifted Donald Miller’s book Building a Story Brand to our clients for Christmas. In the first chapter, Miller talks about how important it is…

01/02/2020

Great post from https://www.facebook.com/CrossRoadsProfessionalCoaching -----------------

The older I get the faster time passes. When I had kids, life started moving at the speed of their growth. A physical manifestation of my life passing. Now they are grown.

Will things slow down?

It’s enough to get you in a funk, or at least a mini-panic when a week flies by, a year closes, and then suddenly a decade comes to an end.

We are ending another decade as ’19 flows into ’20. Is it possible? What have I done with a full decade?

Do you wonder this?

A practice I adopted many years ago has helped me to find peace in the past and purpose in my future. Usually I do this quarterly and annually. This is my first decade end.

I have developed a practice that includes the following steps:

1. Review
2. Contemplate
3. Pray
4. Plan
5. Pray again

In sharing this, I offer an invitation to you to participate and see if you find a bit of peace in your past and a bucket of purpose awaiting your future.

Review the Past

In this case, we are talking about a serious decade in review. The process I use to review is:

Create a timeline or list of all of the major events, accomplishments, and/or failures that have occurred in the past 10 years. I went back and looked at my picture library to jog my memories for the earlier part of the decade. I literally put each year down the left side and beside each year started listing these events.


Obvious things to include are graduations, weddings, births, deaths, new jobs and other life events. Include things like health and finances in there too. It is interesting to see the health of your physical and mental self over the years and how your financial situation may or may not have changed.

In my decade my 3 kids all graduated high school, started driving (the year of stress), graduated college, and all got married. I have a grandchild, I grew a business, I changed my health, I lost my father and father-in-law…to name a few…

Go ahead and try yours now.

Contemplate

Now look back on the decade. Those years that flew by; a lot happened. For most of us it is a mixture of good and bad. For some, the good and bad both had purpose.

What do you see in your timeline?

Circle the accomplishments.

Take some time to give yourself credit for them. I hope you didn’t skip over them in your list. Again, accomplishment doesn’t necessarily signify good or bad. It is an accomplishment to survive cancer with your physical life and mental health intact. It is a win to pay off debt even if you accumulated it to begin with.

Check or highlight the ones you are most proud of.

Look at the hurts and failures.

Did you face them or compartmentalize? Did you give yourself time to grieve? What learning is there in past failures?

Take some time and in a notebook, journal about these events and what you have learned and what you may or may not be able to do differently in the future. This may take several days to truly reflect and work through.

Contemplation is a critical part of this process. This is where the wisdom is developed. The wisdom that may impact your future.

Pray

Take your list and your reflection and turn to God. The Holy Spirit can show us what we need to learn from our past decade and He wants to lead us in the next one. This is also the opportunity to thank the Lord for the blessings and for helping us to survive the difficulties.

In my decade, I had the difficulty of my younger daughter getting pregnant her senior year of high school. I prayed and prayed that the Lord would help me to not make things worse. Obviously, I prayed and prayed for Him to help my daughter. She amazingly has graduated high school, college, gotten married to our grand daughter’s father and is in her 2nd year of vet school, all in the past 6 years. For the last 5 years I have prayed many, many thanks for my grand daughter and the immeasurable blessing she has been to all of our lives. God can turn all things into good for those who believe. We turned to Him and He has been ever faithful.

I pray through my list giving thanks, asking forgiveness, asking for guidance and wisdom, and trying to listen for God’s will and plan for the future.

Plan

And then I put pen to paper outlining goals and commitments for the coming year. This will be the first time I do a decade. At my age of 55, this next decade will probably be the last significantly meaningful career decade, although I don’t believe in traditional retirement for myself. It is a new decade of having all independent adult children. This will significantly change our finances in the next decade. After 3 weddings in one year, thank the Lord!

In planning a decade,

Start with the end in mind per Stephen Covey. Create a vision of how life will be at the end of the next decade.

Then work backwards. Think about the bigger milestones of what needs to occur to get to the vision.

And finally, look at the coming year and focus on goals for 2020.

The difference in creating plans and goals for the coming year is the content. To create the best decade and a life that is purposeful for you, may include habits to change, skills to learn, relationships to build, as well as health and career goals.

What gives you passion and purpose? Is it reflected in your vision, milestones, and 2020 plan?

Pray Again

You can see that I take the “pray without ceasing” thing seriously. I have to give the plans to God to make sure I really was listening and not just putting my vision for my life down. I have learned that His vision for me is what my heart desires and also what is best for me. So, we still have 4 weeks left in the year. More than enough time to give our plans to Him and listen for His input.

I recognize that some people are not planners. But, go ahead and give it a try. If you aren’t a planner, yours can be shorter and more bullet points than narrative. I know that until I tried it, I didn’t know how much of a planner I was. I also never realized how much better my future is when I really take the time to look at the past.

No-one likes to repeat mistakes. No-one wants to think a big win was just fate or an anomaly. Unless we continue to learn, are purposeful in our time with God, and then follow the desires He puts on our hearts, we may look back on the next decade with disappointment.

Will you join me in A Decade In Review?

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A practice I adopted many years ago has helped me to find peace in the past and purpose in my future. Usually I do this quarterly and annually. This is my…