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Need an exit strategy from the wrong job?

February 16, 2012 in Finding Passion, Just a Job, Personal Development with 18 Comments

This is a guest post by Farnoosh Brock, an active 48Days.net member.  Farnoosh left a 12-year career at a Fortune 100 company for her pursuits in writing, coaching, podcasting, blogging and building her company. She talks about smart habits for rich living with a focus on helping people create a smart exit strategy out of the wrong job to their true path. She can be found at Prolific Living and if you register quickly you can still get in her next session on How to Create your Smart Exit Blueprint. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

How to create a smart exit strategy out of the wrong job

I often get asked not why I left my lucrative comfortable corporate job after 12 years with the company but how. This immediately tells me two things.  Read more »

Money comes in a package

January 13, 2012 in Just a Job, No More Mondays with 7 Comments

“Work must provide the opportunity for spiritual and personal growth as well as financial success.  The irony is that if it does not provide all three, there will be a natural pressure to keep the financial rewards low.  The search for money alone will always be self-defeating.”    Dan Miller

Check out all our resources for finding – or creating – work you love!

I was a missionary – now what?

December 21, 2011 in Just a Job with 5 Comments

Tim asks:

“With the increase of missionaries returning from the mission field, due to lack of finances, what do we do? We have been out of the country and in ministry jobs for so long, I’m not sure we know a whole lot else. We don’t have any money and need to find jobs? Any ideas?”

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Tim, I empathize with your situation.  Change can be terrifying for any of us – especially when it seems to be pulling us away from work that is sacrificial and Godly.  This is a common question that I’ve written about frequently.  Read more »

Is it ok to make money from a Christian website?

December 13, 2011 in Just a Job with 16 Comments

A member of 48Days.net recently asked this question:

Is it really ok to make money from a ministry or Christian based website?  For some reason I feel I need confirmation that it’s ok to profit from the things of God.

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Shawn – you raise a question that has been an elephant in the room for Christians all through history.  I think the issue is not whether or not you can make money from a Christian website as much as it is:  ”Am I serving people or taking advantage of them?”  If you are truly serving people then the transfer of money is a wonderful spiritual exchange.  Money is created and everyone is better off.  If someone buys a copy of 48 Days to the Work You Love I now have $20 to feed my family.  If that person is simply $20 poorer there is nothing “Christian” about that exchange.  But my hope is that the information will add $50,000 to their income next year and allow them to bless others with that increase.  Read more »

Why are you burying your talent?

December 7, 2011 in Finding Passion, Just a Job with 18 Comments

A miser, to make sure he controlled all his wealth, sold all that he had and converted it into a great lump of gold, which he hid in a hole in the ground.  Then he repeatedly went to visit and inspect it.  This roused the curiosity of one of his workmen, who, suspecting that there was a treasure, when his master’s back was turned, went to the spot, and stole it away.  When the miser returned and found the place empty, he wept and tore his hair.

But a neighbor who saw him in this extravagant grief, and learned the cause of it, said:  “Fret thyself no longer, but take a stone and put it in the same place, and think that it is your lump of gold; for as you never meant to use it, the one will do you as much good as the other.”  Read more »

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