by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Why the One Minute Entrepreneur by Ken Blanchard and Don Hutson?...
"The best advice we ever received was given in less than a minute."
Three keys to entrepreneur success:
Finances; knowing how to manage them.
Your people; empower others to become like owners.
Taking care of customers; it's beyond being the best at what you do, but also taking care of the customers.
There are twenty attributes of successful entrepreneurs.
Find them at:www.estrengths.com
Each chapter concludes with the outline of principles the chapter features.The chapter itself is a story, or parable, of potential real world situations which explain the principles. For now, here are the principles, although the story is worth reading for application and insight.
Build the Foundation
Associate with people you admire and can learn from. Keep a notebook of wisdom you read, hear, learn. Build on strong values... integrity, love, honesty. You never need to cheat; what is right is more important than who is right.
Grow in knowledge
...through people you meet and books you read. Help others get what they want to get what you want. Success comes when opportunity and preparation meet.
Learn the Craft
Humility opens you to learn and grow, master the basics. Visualize your outcome.
Gain a Vital team
People come into your life for a reason. Build a great marriage. You and your spouse are a team.
Doors Open
Create a big dream and seize opportunity knocking. Never let expenses outstrip revenue. Collect timely from customers; they pay the bills. Nurture your people.
Launch the Company
Find new sources of revenue. Seek advice when going to new levels. Always be making a profit.
Financial Growing Pains
Generate cash, cash, cash. Good cash management is imperative. Profit comes when there's good customer care; a motivating environment.
Create Legendary Services
Create the experience you want them to have. Listen to your customers. Let your people soar like eagles
.
Help People Soar like Eagles
Work in partnership with your people. Encourage everyone to be leaders. Coach day by day. It's about everyone getting A's.
Ego Issues
It's more than numbers. Work and home relationships need nourished. Keep priorities in order and seek advice from mentors.
Turn Things Around
Patiently implement a good biz plan than recklessly pushing for growth. Wrong leaders will send you wrong places. Right leaders can steer you the right direction.
Putting it All Together
Live happy, fulfilled, be generous. Giving is as rewarding as receiving. Be intentional about leaving legacies. Helping and forgiving reap good returns.
There's more including the top 20 attributes of entrepreneurs at their website. Take their test and find yours.
www.estrengths.com
D. L. Moody may be one Gifted as an entrepreneur of Spirit for building the kingdom of God. This article by R. A. Torrey, a close associate of Moody's, provides insight to why he was so gifted. Here's the link to the complete article, below is a version I abbreviated for you.
http://www.freewebs.com/ratorrey/Why%20God%20Used%20D%20L%20%20Moody%20.htm
Why God Used D. L. Moody
By R. A. Torrey
Close associate and friend of D. L. Moody
But how was it that D. L. Moody had that power of God so wonderfully manifested in his life? Pondering this question, it seemed to me that there were seven things in the life of D. L. Moody that accounted for God's using him so largely as He did.
(1) A Fully Surrendered Man
The first thing that accounts for God's using D. L. Moody so mightily was that he was a fully surrendered man. Every ounce of that two-hundred-and-eighty-pound body of his belonged to God; everything he was and everything he had, belonged wholly to God. Now, I am not saying that Mr. Moody was perfect; he was not.
I presume I knew whatever defects there were in his character as well as anybody. But while I recognized such flaws, nevertheless, I know that he was a man who belonged wholly to God.
But Mr. Moody did not stop short of absolute surrender to God; he was a wholly surrendered man, and if you and I are to be used, you and I must be wholly surrendered men and women.
(2) A Man of Prayer
The second secret of the great power exhibited in Mr. Moody's life was that Mr. Moody was in the deepest and most meaningful sense a man of prayer.Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to surmount and to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that "nothing was too hard for the Lord" and that prayer could do anything that God could do.
Often we were gathered in the lecture room far into the night -- sometimes till one, two, three, four or even five o'clock in the morning, crying to God, just because Mr. Moody urged us to wait upon God until we received His blessing. How many men and women I have known whose lives and characters have been transformed by those nights of prayer and who have wrought mighty things in many lands because of those nights of prayer!
He was a man who met every difficulty that stood in his way -- by prayer. Everything he undertook was backed up by prayer, and in everything, his ultimate dependence was upon God.
(3) A Deep and Practical Student of the Bible
The third secret of Mr. Moody's power, or the third reason why God used D. L. Moody, was because he was a deep and practical student of the Word of God. Every day of his life, I have reason for believing, he arose very early in the morning to study the Word of God, way down to the close of his life. Mr. Moody used to rise about four o'clock in the morning to study the Bible. He would say to me: "If I am going to get in any study, I have got to get up before the other folks get up"; and he would shut himself up in a remote room in his house, alone with his God and his Bible.
STUDY the one Book, and preach, preach, PREACH the one Book, and teach, teach, TEACH the one Book, the Bible, the only Book that is God's Word, and the only Book that has power to gather and hold and bless the crowds for any great length of time.
(4) A Humble Man
The fourth reason why God continuously, through so many years, used D. L. Moody was because he was a humble man. I think D. L. Moody was the humblest man I ever knew in all my life. He loved to quote the words of another; "Faith gets the most; love works the most; but humility keeps the most. "
He himself had the humility that keeps everything it gets. As I have already said, he was the most humble man I ever knew, i.e., the most humble man when we bear in mind the great things that he did, and the praise that was lavished upon him. Oh, how he loved to put himself in the background and put other men in the foreground. How often he would stand on a platform with some of us little fellows seated behind him and as he spoke, he would say: "There are better men coming after me." As he said it, he would point back over his shoulder with his thumb to the "little fellows. " I do not know how he could believe it, but he really did believe that the others that were coming after him were really better than he was. He made no pretense to a humility he did not possess.
In his heart of hearts, he constantly underestimated himself, and overestimated others.The entire shore of the history of Christian workers is strewn with the wrecks of gallant vessels that were full of promise a few years ago, but these men became puffed up and were driven on the rocks by the wild winds of their own raging self-esteem.
(5) His Entire Freedom from the Love of Money
The fifth secret of D. L. Moody's continual power and usefulness was his entire freedom from the love of money. Mr. Moody might have been a wealthy man, but money had no charms for him. He loved to gather money for God's work; he refused to accumulate money for himself. He told me during the World's Fair that if he had taken, for himself, the royalties on the hymnbooks which he had published, they would have amounted, at that time, to a million dollars.
But Mr. Moody refused to touch the money. He had a perfect right to take it, for he was responsible for the publication of the books and it was his money that went into the publication of the first of them.
(6) His Consuming Passion for the Salvation of the Lost
The sixth reason why God used D. L. Moody was because of his consuming passion for the salvation of the lost. Mr. Moody made the resolution, shortly after he himself was saved, that he would never let twenty-four hours pass over his head without speaking to at least one person about his soul. His was a very busy life, and sometimes he would forget his resolution until the last hour, and sometimes he would get out of bed, dress, go out and talk to someone about his soul in order that he might not let one day pass without having definitely told at least one of his fellow-mortals about his need and the Savior who could meet it.
D. L. Moody's consuming passion for souls was not for the souls of those who would be helpful to him in building up his work here or elsewhere; his love for souls knew no class limitations. He was no respecter of persons; it might be an earl or a duke or it might be an ignorant colored boy on the street; it was all the same to him; there was a soul to save and he did what lay in his power to save that soul.
Oh, young men and women and all Christian workers, if you and I were on fire for souls like that, how long would it be before we had a revival? Suppose that tonight the fire of God falls and fills our hearts, a burning fire that will send us out all over the country, and across the water to China, Japan, India and Africa, to tell lost souls the way of salvation!
(7) Definitely Endued with Power from on High
The seventh thing that was the secret of why God used D. L. Moody was that he had a very definite enduement with power from on High, a very clear and definite baptism with the Holy Ghost. Moody knew he had "the baptism with the Holy Ghost"; he had no doubt about it. In his early days he was a great hustler; he had a tremendous desire to do something, but he had no real power. He worked very largely in the energy of the flesh.
Time and again, when a call came to me to go off to some church, he would come up to me and say: "Now, Torrey, be sure and preach on the baptism with the Holy Ghost." I do not know how many times he said that to me. Once I asked him: "Mr. Moody, don't you think I have any sermons but those two: 'Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God' and 'The Baptism With the Holy Ghost'?" "Never mind that," he replied, "you give them those two sermons.
"Young men, I can't see any reason why we shouldn't kneel down here right now and ask God that the Holy Ghost may fall upon us just as definitely as He fell upon the apostles on the Day of Pentecost. Let us pray." ...and as we began to pray, our prayers seemed to pierce that cloud and the Holy Ghost fell upon us.
Men and women, that is what we all need:
the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.
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