This is a guest post by Rachel Eubanks. She is a beginner, a struggler, a wannabe, a hard worker, but most of all a truth teller. She writes about the beauty and the ugliness of starting your own business as she experiences it each week. With a teaching background, she has no formal training in…
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When I started 48 Days I was teaching a Sunday School class on finding your purpose and calling. My Why was that I knew then as now that over 80% of Americans say they do not have their dream job. I wanted to inspire that 80% to find or create work that was meaningful, aligned…
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Be careful who you allow to influence your thinking and actions! In the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki tells the story of the Hawaiian Black Crabs. If you go down to the beach early in the morning you can easily find black crabs. You just toss them in your bucket and continue walking on…
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This is a tough issue. We are in a culture that has taught us to expect wages for our time. The person who makes $10/hr wants $12 and so on. The attorney who makes $100/hr wants to work his/her way up to $200. Whatever the level, we’re talking about wages, or linear income. Is your income…
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When Jorg Sprave was 9, his dad took him into the woods for the occasion that should be part of every boy’s growing up experience – making a slingshot. “We searched and found a perfectly forked hazelwook stick,” Sprave says. “Then we cut the rubber from a car’s inner tube and made the pouch from…
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Recently I spoke to a group of church leaders who are going through a tough transition time in the life of their church. Change is a challenging issue for many of us – in our work, our technology, our cars, our children and our churches. The worst thing I see is churches trying to defend things simply…
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“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” — Frederick Douglass Okay – I’ve referenced this quotation over the years and it continues to prompt a whole lot of questions from you, our readers. People want to know what that means, and furthermore, can I find scripture to support…
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I am seeing an interesting phenomenon as unemployment is very low (4.4%) and companies are scrambling to find great employees. Many companies are looking at tried and true employees. They are re-hiring old employees that were let go in leaner times. Hiring experts call these people “boomerang workers.” “It’s a very smart, enlightened policy,” said…
DetailsIn live seminars I often ask, “How many of you are self-employed?” Typically, about 30% of the audience will raise their hands. Then I ask, “How many of you are working for yourselves?” A few more hands go up. Then I may ask, “How many of you currently have only one customer for the services…
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There’s an old Texas saying that goes: “It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill as long as you don’t lose your cow.” In other words, what we see as “failure” may not really have diminished our ability to contribute, produce or earn an income. Is losing your job the milk or the cow? If…
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