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What's
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In This
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Issue 386 -- December 11,
2007
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3. Must
see Movie – August Rush
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1. What's
that in your hand?
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4. Humor
-- Life is Good!
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Dear Coach,
The days are ticking by quickly now – Christmas will be here in the
blink of an eye. I trust you are enjoying the process of finding
special gifts for the people who mean the most to you. Recognize
the power of gifts that don’t require money. You may be able to
promise babysitting to a single mom or lawn mowing for an elderly
neighbor. I often talk about creativity in this newsletter. Use
this opportunity to experiment with gifts that will surprise and
amaze.
Christmas Specials
If you’re looking for a special gift this Christmas, how about the
gift of Hope? Does someone you know need a dose of hope and
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He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find
Christmas under a tree. Author Unknown
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Remember when God spoke
to Moses at the burning bush? God told Moses he wanted him to go
back to Egypt and lead the people out to the promised land. Moses
looked and said – “You’ve got to be kidding – I’m not the person
for a job like that.” God assured Moses he would prepare the way
and he would provide some pretty convincing miracles. Still Moses
had a hard time believing he was up to the task. He pleaded – “I
can’t speak well, I don’t have a college degree, I’m a convicted felon
– please, send anyone else!”
Now here we have someone with an obvious opportunity. Wouldn’t you
like for God to lay out such a clear plan for you; and to promise
success in advance. That wasn’t good enough for Moses. He kept
trying to convince God he didn’t have any of the necessary
requirements for accomplishing this big job. Moses said “they won’t
believe me. I don’t have anything to qualify me for doing something
great.” God said, “What is that in your hand?” If you
don’t remember, it was his shepherd’s staff, which turned out to be
a pretty significant part of his leadership. He turned it into a
snake, parted the Red Sea with it and did some other pretty cool
stuff.
If you think you’re stuck, don’t have any unusual talents, don’t
have the right degrees, and don’t have the credibility to have
people take you seriously – let me ask you a question: “What
do you have in your hand?” What natural talents do you
have? What is it that you do with excellence? Do you make beautiful
candles? Delicious bread? Encourage the elderly? Grow stunning
flowers? Handle your children with grace? You get the idea – just
look at what you have right in front of you.
With God’s help you may already have everything you need for
greatness. Don’t balk when you hear your call.
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48
Days Online Radio Show
Thanks for the variety of interesting questions you are submitting
each week. As you know, I then scan through and answer as many as
possible in each week’s 48-Minute podcast
Just click on this 48
Days Online Radio link and you can ask about resumes,
interviewing, at-home business or finding your purpose in life.
That’s the same place you can listen to this week’s broadcast
immediately – no downloading – no wait. 48 Days Online Radio
Here are a few of the questions I addressed this week:
- I'm an educator and
love my job. However, I'm interested in creating more income
for myself and my family for vacations and other expenses. I'm
looking at starting an internet bookstore what will cater to
teachers and leaders. I'm wondering if this market is
saturated with larger bookstores? Any suggestions would be
welcomed.
- Can you recommend
any resources to get some inventions I have patented or
secured? I just saw an idea I thought of several years ago on
the news last night and it made me sick that I didn't pursue
the idea when it came to me. I have many more ideas that come
to me often and I need to follow through with these ideas that
God has blessed me with.
- I recently
interviewed for and was accepted for an outside sales
position. I have been in outside sales for over 20 years.
However, once I was on board, I decided quite quickly I did
not like the assignment. In August, I interviewed for and
accepted another assignment and am not happy with it either.
The pay is awesome, but the product is only marketable to a
very few people. How do I break this pattern of not liking an
assignment once I am in it. I love outside sales, but have
been unable to find an assignment where I can stay interested
for more than 4 years.
- As we get closer to
2008 I am in the process of assessing goals. While I enjoy
what I do, my ultimate goal is to be free from the grind of
the 9-5 job & use my day as I want. Would you recommend I
start a freelance business or simply do part time work in
sales to make extra money? Is there another way to make money
you'd recommend? My concern is that my regular job is my #1
priority so the hours when I could contact clients is severely
limited until after.
- With so many
application processes being automated many are having to fill
in the information about past salary or salary history.
Sometimes these fields can not be left blank. As is taught in
48 Days we do not want to discuss salary in the early stages.
What is one to do?
- At my job we are
doing end of the year self evaluations. This is my first year
in the job and I feel that I have learned a lot in that time.
Management's question is open ended, it's simply "look at
your objectives for the year and assess how well you met
them". How do I do this without sounding cocky, or
without sounding like I'm coming down on some of my less
ambitious co-workers.
You can submit your
question right now – I’ll work as many in as possible for this
week's broadcast. 48
Days Online Radio
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At the recommendation of
our son Jared, Joanne and I went to see August Rush
last night. Now -- I’m not a movie fan – we go occasionally just
for an evening activity. I never expect anything other than a
two-hour diversion – time with Joanne and some greasy popcorn. And
the movies I recommend you could count on one hand.
August Rush is a must see movie. Let me be quick to
add that it has gotten horrible reviews. The “experts” say it’s
“annoying, absurd, flawed, silly, soppy and even yucky.” But then I
suspect most of these experts are looking for technical perfection,
storyline logic and cinematic excellence. I know nothing about any
of those things.
Joanne and I thought the movie was absolutely delightful. What a
beautiful story of believing you have a calling and a purpose – of
listening carefully, and hearing the music all around you.
The music in this movie is amazing and the story is one we all want
to believe.
I find most of the transcendent experiences in our lives don’t line
up nicely with logic and common sense. That’s why they’re
especially meaningful. How do you “explain” or document love,
beauty, the smile of a baby, or new spiritual insight. You don’t have
to – just enjoy it for the experience and the memories they create.
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A young technician and
his General Manager board a train headed through the mountains on
its way to Wichita. They can find no place to sit except for two
seats right across the aisle from a young woman and her
grandmother.
After a while, it is obvious that the young woman and the young
tech are interested in each other because they are giving each
other "looks."
Soon the train passes into a tunnel and it is pitch black. There is
a sound of the smack of a kiss followed by the sound of the smack
of a slap.
When the train emerges from the tunnel, the four sit there without
saying a word.
The grandmother is thinking to herself: "It was very brash for
that young man to kiss my granddaughter, but I'm glad she slapped
him."
The General manager is sitting there thinking: "I didn't know
the young tech was brave enough to kiss the girl, but I sure wish
she hadn't missed him when she slapped and hit me!"
The young woman was sitting and thinking: "I'm glad the guy
kissed me, but I wish my grandmother had not slapped him!"
The young tech sat there with a satisfied smile on his face. He
thought to himself: "Life is good. How often does a guy have
the chance to kiss a beautiful girl and slap his General Manager
all at the same time!!!!!
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CNN recently listed the “Weirdest work stories of the year” Here
are just a few – as usual, we’ve had a wealth of incidents from
work that no one would be proud of.
"Employee eats 32 vending machine items for charity"
A juvenile probation officer ate one of every item in a county
courthouse vending machine in one day. She consumed more than 7,000
calories and more than 300 grams of fat, eating such items as beef
sticks, candy bars, Pop Tarts and potato chips -- all to win a bet
with co-workers and raise $300 for charity.
"Cola wars get physical as Pepsi worker attacks Coke
employee"
Two employees from the rival companies got into a tiff over shelf
space in the aisle of a Wal-Mart in Indiana. The Pepsi worker
allegedly assaulted the Coca-Cola employee, hitting him in the
face, giving him a black eye and breaking his nose. Police say the
two were also accused of trying to run each other over with pallets
full of soda bottles.
"Alleged robber asks victim out for date"
After two men robbed a Domino's Pizza delivery woman, one of them
called the victim from his cell phone to apologize -- and to ask
her out.
"Salt lands McDonald's employee in jail"
A McDonald's employee was arrested, jailed and is facing criminal
charges because a police officer got sick after a hamburger he ate
was too salty. The employee accidentally spilled salt on some
hamburger meat and told her supervisor and co-worker, who
"tried to thump the salt off." The employee was charged
because she served the burger "without regards to the
well-being of anyone who might consume it."
"Employee accused of faking being cop"
A Taco Bell employee was arrested for impersonating a law
enforcement officer and attempting to arrest his managers and
co-worker. He passed himself off as an undercover narcotics
investigator, going as far as typing fake criminal histories on the
general manager, two shift managers and an employee and telling
them they were going to be arrested.
"Employee took 1 million screws home from factory"
An assembly worker hid screws in a specially designed hiding place
and took up to 7,000 home with him every day. Over a two-year
period, he stole more than 1.1 million screws with an estimated
value of $155,000. He allegedly sold the screws over the Internet
at discount prices.
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