by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
According to Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, we are moving from a left brain society to right brain initiative. Which means we are tuning into our senses... ability to design, create, relate, care.
In the past, theory had it that we are led by the left side of our brain in our thinking and then move to our right. Recent research has indicated we may have been functionally working backwards... dysfunctionally using our mental system.
The left side is dominated by logic, analytical and rationalizing activity; sequential and literal.
While the right is more imaginative, nonlinear and instinctive; metaphorical and contextual. The brain is actually a right to left process. The right shows direction; the left tells how to get there.
With the advance of computer technology which can process data faster than the best of left brains, and low cost production for technical procurement in India, we need to advance the other side of our brain... the right side. The result is we are moving very quickly into a dominating Hi Concept, Hi Touch society… rediscovering our true human distinction.
The right brain activity of the dreamers, visionaries and emotionally aware people will become the demand of the future. Machines/technology are great at moving mass and running data(left brain processes), but the right brain is great at getting ideas, linking seemingly unrelated information, making meaning of experiences, interpreting emotional engagement, and heightening human interaction potential. As Pink develops his point, he identifies 6 new senses of the Conceptual and Relating age.
1. Not just function, but also Design
"The essence can be defined as the human nature to shape and make our environment in ways without precedent in nature, to serve needs, and give meaning to our lives. " We all were born as artists, to create what has not yet been created.
2. Not just argument but also Story
Story is when Hi concept and Hi touch intersect. Story goes beyond giving facts but shares feelings and emotions of those involved. It educates and inspires.
3. Not just focus but also Symphony
Symphony synergies rather than just analyzes. It corrals diversity and puts it into productive, pleasing process, or mutually acceptable resolve. It can sort out the big picture and point out what really matters.
4. Not just logic but also Empathy
Insensitivity to why a person does something is replaced to insight, understanding to why a person does something. It's getting out of yourself and seeing in the perspective of someone else. It emotionally perceives versus intellectually evaluates.
5. Not just seriousness but also Play
The logical brain limits thinking to known data. The right brain sees unlimited potential for anything. It sees potential in the future. When we are having fun, we expand more possibilities into our lives. Imagination thru play produces personal joy and fulfillment... it truly inspires us.
6. Not just accumulation but also Meaning
Man does not exist just to avoid pain or gain pleasure. Our deepest desire is to find meaning in who we are and why we do what we do. Spirituality becomes the number one desire in life, the integral core for happiness.
Note more on Daniel Pink, and A Whole New Mind at:
http://www.danpink.com/
In Spirit, I see the process as
from Spirit
to Right Brain
to Left Brain.
God made man... male and female. God made male and female to be One, One in Him His Spirit. Spirit is the origin of all things. So the normal flow of things is Spirit to One man. Within man (a person) we have left and right brains... the two intended to be one.
Robert Cooper in Get Out of Your Own Way says we have 4 brains... which include our hearts and gut(i.e., what does your heart think, what does you gut tell you.) The Spirit which is about the heart and provides Spiritual intelligence of origins unexplained in our thinking (we commonly call this intuition).Spirit tells us things we have no way of knowing but only through Supernatural foresight, insight being revealed to us.
The flow of process for insight and thought is
from Spirit (God's inspired direction)
to Right brain(vision, proper emotions, incorruptible values)
to the Left brain(means, methods, structures and actions).
This is a fluid flow of how to do things. It's from "being to doing." To “do” only after "being" has been inspired, sees, values, and motivates "doing" on a right path.
So thoughts of the mind properly going from Right to Left (its natural flow) reflect many of Pink's observations.
To design... absorbing God's created potential
To story... as Jesus used parables to teach, those who manage, guide, lead use Inspired, heart-led stories to be more effective.
To symphonize... bring diverse people, ideas, directions into orchestrated flow with love and harmony intertwined.
To empathize... through Spiritual insight in people's hearts. Jesus knew the heart and motives of men. He responded tenderly to the broken hearted and sternly to the hard hearted.
To play... to interact joyfully, lovingly, caringly for each other. Having fun with each person's own unique person's abilities.
To be meaningful... Jesus was on a mission to restructure a world civilization and invites us to share with Him in the same mission. We are change agents for transformational change; Soul-rebuilders for a great society.
Renew your mind and be transformed by renewing your mind (Romans 12:2)
Geffry Fields has practical steps on how to renew your mind at:
http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2005/07/practical-side-of-living-jesus-spirit.html
Don't be conformed to the corrupt thinking evident around you. Think differently. Use both sides of the brain, but lead with the Spirit to direct all parts of the brain.
Love God in Spirit with ALL your mind. Love your friends, acquaintances within Jesus... as one mind. Make your mind the slave of Spirit, a slave to Love.
In this Love you will have the creative Power of God, the spell-bound communication skills of Jesus with fascination, intrigue, insight beyond what your brain alone can originate.You will move from living in the natural to living in the Supernatural.
You will have Supernatural perception, love and care for man beyond the surface of what you see. You will see their inner souls as Jesus did… empathizing and symphonizing. Inspired joy and happiness create the moment as the mind directs you to meaningful purpose.
With All your mind let love dominate your thoughts, feelings, expressions. With Love, all rules of life fall into place.
Love heals, Love binds, Love creates.
Let Love Rule;
Build a Whole, renewed, Mind.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Getting Inspired Ideas
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
So where do we get ideas?
Recently the Wall Street Journal said that Group Brainstorming was not the best place to get ideas.
John Clark, a former university dean of engineering, says “brainstorming sessions come in handy to distribute blame in the event of failure." But in his experience, most often someone hijacks the topic at hand, tries to prove everyone else wrong, works to impress the superiors who are present or just plain blathers for his own enjoyment.
“Sometimes group sessions can result in one person's bad idea tainting and limiting the range of others' ideas. The best way to get good ideas is to get people to write them down privately and then bring them in. You want group diversity but no more than five to seven people or you risk ending up with 'co-blabberation,' “ warns David Perkins, Harvard School of Education.
"If you stand back and think about [brainstorming], it's plainly inefficient," says Prof. Perkins. But, he says, "sometimes you take the brainstorming approach because you want everyone to feel they have a voice."
(Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2006, "Brainstorming Works Best if People Scramble For Ideas on Their Own." Cubicle Culture By Jared Sandberg)
Note Susan Ohanian’s response to this article:
http://susanohanian.org/show_outrages.html?id=6184
In the E-Myth Mastery, Michael Gerber suggests you ask your staff to each come up with a list of ten ideas, bring them to a group meeting and then cultivate creative experiences by making composites of the ideas, and then organize them into
Medium of communication,
Content that is most essential,
and Process to get the message out.
http://www.emythmastery.com/
In Thinking for a Change, John Maxwell provides this list for creating creativity.
1. Remove creativity killers
(negative attitudes, criticism early on)
2. Think creatively by asking the right questions
(Brian Tracy says when you ask yourself a question it obligates the subconscious to come up with answers… give time and place for subconscious to respond.)
3. Develop a creative environment
(Maxwell says he has a special thinking chair.)
4. Spend time with other creative people
5. Get out of your box... change personal patterns in how you do things.
(Note some of book reviews of Thinking for a Change at Amazon.com)
Business Week has just launched a quarterly magazine called IN Inside Innovation.
One way to innovate is through ethnography.
Ethnography is a process companies are using to build products in flow with how people use them by "living and breathing with the customer." It is an in-depth art of tracing the detail patterns of how people do and use things.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/
The origin of all ideas is in Spirit.
In the Beginning God created....
God is Spirit.
Spirit still creates and re-creates constantly.
Oswald Chambers says,
“The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is this amazing Well, which is a continual Source of original life. The Spirit of God is a Well of water springing up perpetually fresh. A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.”
(My Utmost for His Highest, June 13)
Creativity comes out of having fun with ideas, being around those we love and feed us in Spirit. When Spirit is flowing back and forth in love and acceptance, creativity flows as well.
Getting too serious kills creativity.
Jesus poked fun at what others took too seriously.
Look at the conversations He had with the Pharisees. He made light of a lot of the things they did, said or represented. We could easily picture Jesus as a tongue-in-cheek stand-up-comedian making humorously retorting remarks to the Pharisees.
The disciples must have been snickering in the background as they saw Jesus do what they would only dare someone to do. They probably said, “I can't believe Jesus said that.”
The Pharisees created so many rules;
they absolutely took the fun out of life.
So Jesus said... there is one rule... Love each other.
Love has fun in it, it is creative and doesn't take itself too seriously. We are erroneously prone people and we can make fun of our own inadvertent mistakes.
Some times we take our lives too seriously.
And take things around us too seriously.
Don't take yourself too seriously.
Loosen up.
Enjoy the moment. If you are the first to poke fun at yourself it disarms others who would. You will also get a laugh and create a positive environment. Then joy will be there and everyone will not take themselves so seriously.
When we are all having fun, ideas come. God's Spirit of creativity has a chance to find a door open It can come into us, and come out from us.
Ideas and innovation come out of joy, hilarity, looking at things differently, having fun.
Nothing is sacred... just that we love.
The unique peculiarities in others inspire us versus disturb us... when we lovingly accept uniqueness. Conformity stifles creativity. Non-conformity, freedom of individual expression (acceptance of) opens up channels for creativity. Spirit interacting, love flowing, creates the creative, the innovative.
Dwell in Spirit and interact in Spirit...
love and acceptance.
Be Still... listen to the Spirit's voice.
Connect to Spirit... receive a fresh view of things.
“Now I (Spirit) will tell you new things I have not mentioned before, secrets you have not yet heard. They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say, `We knew that all the time!'” (Isaiah 48:6, 7 NLT)
Creativity and having fun are linked.
When we are having fun we open up creative channels. Jesus said He would make our joy complete!
Allow new thoughts of Spirit to come to mind and create a hilarious moment in your Spiritual mind.
Jesus says... "abide, dwell in me and I will live in you and your joy will be complete. All things you ask for, see in your creative imagination, I am making for you.
So live and love and I will bring new life to you...
that's fun, fresh, alive, creative!"
4spirit@gmail.com
So where do we get ideas?
Recently the Wall Street Journal said that Group Brainstorming was not the best place to get ideas.
John Clark, a former university dean of engineering, says “brainstorming sessions come in handy to distribute blame in the event of failure." But in his experience, most often someone hijacks the topic at hand, tries to prove everyone else wrong, works to impress the superiors who are present or just plain blathers for his own enjoyment.
“Sometimes group sessions can result in one person's bad idea tainting and limiting the range of others' ideas. The best way to get good ideas is to get people to write them down privately and then bring them in. You want group diversity but no more than five to seven people or you risk ending up with 'co-blabberation,' “ warns David Perkins, Harvard School of Education.
"If you stand back and think about [brainstorming], it's plainly inefficient," says Prof. Perkins. But, he says, "sometimes you take the brainstorming approach because you want everyone to feel they have a voice."
(Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2006, "Brainstorming Works Best if People Scramble For Ideas on Their Own." Cubicle Culture By Jared Sandberg)
Note Susan Ohanian’s response to this article:
http://susanohanian.org/show_outrages.html?id=6184
In the E-Myth Mastery, Michael Gerber suggests you ask your staff to each come up with a list of ten ideas, bring them to a group meeting and then cultivate creative experiences by making composites of the ideas, and then organize them into
Medium of communication,
Content that is most essential,
and Process to get the message out.
http://www.emythmastery.com/
In Thinking for a Change, John Maxwell provides this list for creating creativity.
1. Remove creativity killers
(negative attitudes, criticism early on)
2. Think creatively by asking the right questions
(Brian Tracy says when you ask yourself a question it obligates the subconscious to come up with answers… give time and place for subconscious to respond.)
3. Develop a creative environment
(Maxwell says he has a special thinking chair.)
4. Spend time with other creative people
5. Get out of your box... change personal patterns in how you do things.
(Note some of book reviews of Thinking for a Change at Amazon.com)
Business Week has just launched a quarterly magazine called IN Inside Innovation.
One way to innovate is through ethnography.
Ethnography is a process companies are using to build products in flow with how people use them by "living and breathing with the customer." It is an in-depth art of tracing the detail patterns of how people do and use things.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/
The origin of all ideas is in Spirit.
In the Beginning God created....
God is Spirit.
Spirit still creates and re-creates constantly.
Oswald Chambers says,
“The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is this amazing Well, which is a continual Source of original life. The Spirit of God is a Well of water springing up perpetually fresh. A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.”
(My Utmost for His Highest, June 13)
Creativity comes out of having fun with ideas, being around those we love and feed us in Spirit. When Spirit is flowing back and forth in love and acceptance, creativity flows as well.
Getting too serious kills creativity.
Jesus poked fun at what others took too seriously.
Look at the conversations He had with the Pharisees. He made light of a lot of the things they did, said or represented. We could easily picture Jesus as a tongue-in-cheek stand-up-comedian making humorously retorting remarks to the Pharisees.
The disciples must have been snickering in the background as they saw Jesus do what they would only dare someone to do. They probably said, “I can't believe Jesus said that.”
The Pharisees created so many rules;
they absolutely took the fun out of life.
So Jesus said... there is one rule... Love each other.
Love has fun in it, it is creative and doesn't take itself too seriously. We are erroneously prone people and we can make fun of our own inadvertent mistakes.
Some times we take our lives too seriously.
And take things around us too seriously.
Don't take yourself too seriously.
Loosen up.
Enjoy the moment. If you are the first to poke fun at yourself it disarms others who would. You will also get a laugh and create a positive environment. Then joy will be there and everyone will not take themselves so seriously.
When we are all having fun, ideas come. God's Spirit of creativity has a chance to find a door open It can come into us, and come out from us.
Ideas and innovation come out of joy, hilarity, looking at things differently, having fun.
Nothing is sacred... just that we love.
The unique peculiarities in others inspire us versus disturb us... when we lovingly accept uniqueness. Conformity stifles creativity. Non-conformity, freedom of individual expression (acceptance of) opens up channels for creativity. Spirit interacting, love flowing, creates the creative, the innovative.
Dwell in Spirit and interact in Spirit...
love and acceptance.
Be Still... listen to the Spirit's voice.
Connect to Spirit... receive a fresh view of things.
“Now I (Spirit) will tell you new things I have not mentioned before, secrets you have not yet heard. They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say, `We knew that all the time!'” (Isaiah 48:6, 7 NLT)
Creativity and having fun are linked.
When we are having fun we open up creative channels. Jesus said He would make our joy complete!
Allow new thoughts of Spirit to come to mind and create a hilarious moment in your Spiritual mind.
Jesus says... "abide, dwell in me and I will live in you and your joy will be complete. All things you ask for, see in your creative imagination, I am making for you.
So live and love and I will bring new life to you...
that's fun, fresh, alive, creative!"
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Never Eat Alone... the power of connection
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Never Eat Alone :
And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
is about the importance of constantly networking in all we do.
The new economy is becoming more and more relationship based and
to build anything people need a variety of interactive relationships.
Keith Ferrazzi does a great job in bringing in this point.
We should be continually taking names. It is remarkable how powerful it is to just meet someone and what they will do. Especially when you get back in touch with them in areas where they could possible help or "connect" you to an important network link.
But to be effective it is imperative to know your mission and where you want to go.
The way you do everything is based on this.
Recently, I was working on what is called my "elevator speech." Which is... if you were on an elevator with someone and in just a minute conversation could you make a connection. I read many business books in a year and can pull out essential information quickly and then through "teaching the book" help entrepreneurs put the information to work. This is a tremendous asset for a business owner to get current cutting edge info and have a biz savvy person help them implement it quickly.
It is like "how would you like to have a great book you have been wanting to read, walking around with you and constantly talking to you. And then the book even talks back and answers your questions." That is what I, in essence, do for business people. Without your mission and direction simply and clearly defined, it is hard to explain to others what you do, let alone have them be able to tell someone else why what you do is so significant.
So make a list of everyone you know in some way, even the most insignificant way, and they can become excited about telling others about you and helping you meet others. Keith Ferrazzi gives some great guidelines for meeting those you don't know at all but want to.
He has a four steps to follow:
Draft off a reference. Someone you know probably knows a person you need to meet. Get them to help you.
State your value. People will talk to you if they see value for them to talk to you.
Talk little, say a lot. That's why drafting "elevator speeches" are important. I revised mine numerous times after trying it out on all kinds of people. Work to get this down.
Offer a compromise. Start off big, try for a lot and leave room to settle for less.
Never Eat Alone.... always be creating, nurturing and networking relationships. Lunches, coffees, snacks are great times to keep propelling the process. Add the new, develop the potential, and build on the established ones.
The people who love you the most will be there for you, and always be grateful and never neglect the privileges good relationships bring you.
Ferrazzi goes on to say "the more connections you establish, the more opportunities you'll have to make even more connections.
"The art of small talk, being open and risking vulnerability, opens a door for sincere, connecting communications." Our world or self esteem teaches us to be guarded. But genuineness speeds up the potential for trustworthiness.
Honesty, trusting create connection. First though adjust to the other person’s style. If you are with a “closed” person, don’t start out too “open.” If you are with an “open” person, watch being too “closed.”
Note Ferrazzi's website;
http://www.ferrazzigreenlight.com/nevereatalone/
The Bible says to confess your sins one to another. It may also be saying to be willing to honest with where you are right now. When with trusted people, this opens the door for healing and improvement.
“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.”
James 5:16
Why do this? So others may pray for you and, when they do, you will have more power to overcome what you are dealing with.
We are all connected and the power of that connection is manifested when we are open with each other and ask for each other's help.
When we pray for those we meet. When we are open and honest(accepting and forgiving), we open up the Channels of Spirit drenched with power.
So our prayers unite us into Spirit Power cells that becomes transformational power.
Geffry Fields writes:
(from Connecting Circuits... they all must flow)
http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2005/06/connecting-circuits-they-all-must-flow.html
We are designed as a community of power points where Spirit is in constant flow. When this flow breaks down, the whole thing doesn't work.This is critical to Supernatural functional power in our lives. Jesus Spirit engineered it that way.
In physics, technology everything is interconnected... our bodies are interconnected. When one part does not connect with the other part the whole configuration is bogged down. In cars, computers are designed so when one part malfunctions, the others pick up the slack. It still runs, but not as well.
For us to see the best of what is possible for us we must have our relationships fine tuned and connecting with great precision.This is so critical as the best of everything depends our relationships to others.
Where harmony prevails, power increases.
Great power is demonstrated when great harmony is functioning. This holds true for our Spiritual lives. When we combine in belief, hope and faith alongside others... share, pray, believe as a unit... great Spiritual Power ignites!...
"whatever you (two or three)bind on earth is bound in heaven."
Heaven and earth are linked. All the power of Heaven is prepared to launch. All circuits are opened and all the power of the universe flows freely.
(Note: when “bind” is used above it is a very strong word…it’s a cemented, emotional, mental, spiritual agreement of Heavenly authority.)
This cannot be emphasized too much. These kinds of team efforts, when talents and skills are combined in complementary ways, create supernatural power potential.
"Our relationships to others ON EARTH release Jesus Spirit Power in Us from Heaven."
Small mission teams networking with other small mission teams(with each team strong in their relationships among themselves and strong relationships connecting the teams) they can saturate the cracks and crevices of any social mass. It will be a well connected Power Circuit.
It will form a massive “mother” board, an invincible Spiritually-based platform.
Jesus is among us... literally… in Spirit,
connecting with THE Super Power.
4spirit@gmail.com
Never Eat Alone :
And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
is about the importance of constantly networking in all we do.
The new economy is becoming more and more relationship based and
to build anything people need a variety of interactive relationships.
Keith Ferrazzi does a great job in bringing in this point.
We should be continually taking names. It is remarkable how powerful it is to just meet someone and what they will do. Especially when you get back in touch with them in areas where they could possible help or "connect" you to an important network link.
But to be effective it is imperative to know your mission and where you want to go.
The way you do everything is based on this.
Recently, I was working on what is called my "elevator speech." Which is... if you were on an elevator with someone and in just a minute conversation could you make a connection. I read many business books in a year and can pull out essential information quickly and then through "teaching the book" help entrepreneurs put the information to work. This is a tremendous asset for a business owner to get current cutting edge info and have a biz savvy person help them implement it quickly.
It is like "how would you like to have a great book you have been wanting to read, walking around with you and constantly talking to you. And then the book even talks back and answers your questions." That is what I, in essence, do for business people. Without your mission and direction simply and clearly defined, it is hard to explain to others what you do, let alone have them be able to tell someone else why what you do is so significant.
So make a list of everyone you know in some way, even the most insignificant way, and they can become excited about telling others about you and helping you meet others. Keith Ferrazzi gives some great guidelines for meeting those you don't know at all but want to.
He has a four steps to follow:
Draft off a reference. Someone you know probably knows a person you need to meet. Get them to help you.
State your value. People will talk to you if they see value for them to talk to you.
Talk little, say a lot. That's why drafting "elevator speeches" are important. I revised mine numerous times after trying it out on all kinds of people. Work to get this down.
Offer a compromise. Start off big, try for a lot and leave room to settle for less.
Never Eat Alone.... always be creating, nurturing and networking relationships. Lunches, coffees, snacks are great times to keep propelling the process. Add the new, develop the potential, and build on the established ones.
The people who love you the most will be there for you, and always be grateful and never neglect the privileges good relationships bring you.
Ferrazzi goes on to say "the more connections you establish, the more opportunities you'll have to make even more connections.
"The art of small talk, being open and risking vulnerability, opens a door for sincere, connecting communications." Our world or self esteem teaches us to be guarded. But genuineness speeds up the potential for trustworthiness.
Honesty, trusting create connection. First though adjust to the other person’s style. If you are with a “closed” person, don’t start out too “open.” If you are with an “open” person, watch being too “closed.”
Note Ferrazzi's website;
http://www.ferrazzigreenlight.com/nevereatalone/
The Bible says to confess your sins one to another. It may also be saying to be willing to honest with where you are right now. When with trusted people, this opens the door for healing and improvement.
“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.”
James 5:16
Why do this? So others may pray for you and, when they do, you will have more power to overcome what you are dealing with.
We are all connected and the power of that connection is manifested when we are open with each other and ask for each other's help.
When we pray for those we meet. When we are open and honest(accepting and forgiving), we open up the Channels of Spirit drenched with power.
So our prayers unite us into Spirit Power cells that becomes transformational power.
Geffry Fields writes:
(from Connecting Circuits... they all must flow)
http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2005/06/connecting-circuits-they-all-must-flow.html
We are designed as a community of power points where Spirit is in constant flow. When this flow breaks down, the whole thing doesn't work.This is critical to Supernatural functional power in our lives. Jesus Spirit engineered it that way.
In physics, technology everything is interconnected... our bodies are interconnected. When one part does not connect with the other part the whole configuration is bogged down. In cars, computers are designed so when one part malfunctions, the others pick up the slack. It still runs, but not as well.
For us to see the best of what is possible for us we must have our relationships fine tuned and connecting with great precision.This is so critical as the best of everything depends our relationships to others.
Where harmony prevails, power increases.
Great power is demonstrated when great harmony is functioning. This holds true for our Spiritual lives. When we combine in belief, hope and faith alongside others... share, pray, believe as a unit... great Spiritual Power ignites!...
"whatever you (two or three)bind on earth is bound in heaven."
Heaven and earth are linked. All the power of Heaven is prepared to launch. All circuits are opened and all the power of the universe flows freely.
(Note: when “bind” is used above it is a very strong word…it’s a cemented, emotional, mental, spiritual agreement of Heavenly authority.)
This cannot be emphasized too much. These kinds of team efforts, when talents and skills are combined in complementary ways, create supernatural power potential.
"Our relationships to others ON EARTH release Jesus Spirit Power in Us from Heaven."
Small mission teams networking with other small mission teams(with each team strong in their relationships among themselves and strong relationships connecting the teams) they can saturate the cracks and crevices of any social mass. It will be a well connected Power Circuit.
It will form a massive “mother” board, an invincible Spiritually-based platform.
Jesus is among us... literally… in Spirit,
connecting with THE Super Power.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Art of the Start...Right Motives
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
is about.... "cut the crap and tell me what I need to do."
He suggests 5 most important things the entrepreneur must accomplish.
1. Make meaning-- what will make the world better.
2. Make mantra--forget mission statements...too boring...create exciting themes. Take your theme and make a mantra out of it.
3. Get going--start creating and delivering your product or service.
4. Define your business model... how will you make money. Specific, simple, copy someone.
5. Weave a mat (milestones, assumptions, and tasks). Milestones you want to meet, assumptions on your business model and tasks that keep you on track.
Learn how to quickly, clearly, eye-openly pitch your niche.
The reason for a business plan is to get the team working together, considering important issues and finding "holes" before your dollars fall through them.
Get people "infected" like you and find rainmakers who can sell your vision before your product/service can prove itself... who are skilled to find where you will blossom and can sell through "not-proven-yet" resistance.
Provide a safe, easy, first step.
In addition to getting commited partners and finding capital trials, put in place ethics, decency and admiration.
The Art of the Start triggers you to reboot your brain. Thinking for a startup is different than thinking for an existing company. He covers these main start up themes in The Art of the Start. There's a difference for a start up compared to thinking in an existing business.
Positioning: finding a niche and dominating it.
Pitching: ten slides, 20 min. and 30 pt. font.
Writing a Business Plan: 20 pages of wishful thinking.
Bootstrapping: Staying with a college buddy instead of a Motel Six.
Recruiting: Sucking in people who "get it" and are willing to risk their careers for stock options.
Partnering: Piggybacking on others to increase sales.
Branding: Evangelizing in the trenches.
Rainmaking: Sucking up, down, across.
Being a Mensch: Helping people who can't help you.
For starting a business or mission, Kawasaki is interesting and inventive on how to go about it. He's very "real world" insightful. You can tell he's been out there.
http://artofthestart.com/ shares examples, templates and resources you can use.
Start with the right motives, intentions. What you will contribute.
The Prophet Ezekiel talks about the destructive forces of pride, self-centeredness..."I want it all. It's all mine." When this is a person's motives, they are headed for a downfall. ( Note Ezekiel 27-29)
Wealth, money, beauty, possessions, power--are the roots of pride.
History has it when there's pride, self-centeredness a person is building the path to destruction. When you want it all, want it all for yourself, you open the gates to total self-destruction.
This attitude was seen in big business leaders of large corporations that fell. They had it all and wanted more money, beauty, prestige, possessions, power. This led to pride, self-centeredness possessiveness. They admired themselves."I have all this. It is all mine.
"In reality, we do not own anything. It is all God's. We all leave it when we die, our children leave it when they die and it eventually goes back to its original creator.
So why do we exist?
To give what we have to others.
To continually be in a flow of giving and contributing.
It is like rain that comes from the skies, goes into streams, then into lakes, evaporates backup to the sky and it rains again. All we do circulates just like this. If it stays stagnate and is not flowing, it sours and becomes a poison to who drinks it.
Instead of getting and keeping it all, we were designed in the Spiritual system to be giving. It keeps flowing and keeps coming back fresh. Jesus said what you do for the least of these you do to Me.
Your business and possessions are not yours. You own nothing. It is not just for you. It is to be shared with all you know... your associates, employees, vendors, friends, relatives and especially the least of all who have no way of helping you in return.
Make your business this conduit of transition. From you to others in need. Make your business a conduit of transfer. Collect the produce of wealth that is ever expanding...don't hurt your self by trying to keep it all to yourself. Instead, be a Divine Delivery Boy for purposes of Spirit, Love of God to re-supply His Creation.
We all exist as care givers, care sharers with humanity. When we slip into the "this is all mine" syndrome, self destruction can be heard coming around the corner. Don't harden your heart, give, share, build up others.
If you give what you have, share with many and be the Divine Delivery Boy of God's purposes, you build up true riches. Your heart will be filled with love, joy, happiness. You will have many friends and happiness will surround you.
Jesus said to use money to make friends.
“I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves.”
(Luke 16:9)
When we share, we make friends. The more friends we have the more wealth of rich relationships become an ever growing part of our lives.
4spirit@gmail.com
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
is about.... "cut the crap and tell me what I need to do."
He suggests 5 most important things the entrepreneur must accomplish.
1. Make meaning-- what will make the world better.
2. Make mantra--forget mission statements...too boring...create exciting themes. Take your theme and make a mantra out of it.
3. Get going--start creating and delivering your product or service.
4. Define your business model... how will you make money. Specific, simple, copy someone.
5. Weave a mat (milestones, assumptions, and tasks). Milestones you want to meet, assumptions on your business model and tasks that keep you on track.
Learn how to quickly, clearly, eye-openly pitch your niche.
The reason for a business plan is to get the team working together, considering important issues and finding "holes" before your dollars fall through them.
Get people "infected" like you and find rainmakers who can sell your vision before your product/service can prove itself... who are skilled to find where you will blossom and can sell through "not-proven-yet" resistance.
Provide a safe, easy, first step.
In addition to getting commited partners and finding capital trials, put in place ethics, decency and admiration.
The Art of the Start triggers you to reboot your brain. Thinking for a startup is different than thinking for an existing company. He covers these main start up themes in The Art of the Start. There's a difference for a start up compared to thinking in an existing business.
Positioning: finding a niche and dominating it.
Pitching: ten slides, 20 min. and 30 pt. font.
Writing a Business Plan: 20 pages of wishful thinking.
Bootstrapping: Staying with a college buddy instead of a Motel Six.
Recruiting: Sucking in people who "get it" and are willing to risk their careers for stock options.
Partnering: Piggybacking on others to increase sales.
Branding: Evangelizing in the trenches.
Rainmaking: Sucking up, down, across.
Being a Mensch: Helping people who can't help you.
For starting a business or mission, Kawasaki is interesting and inventive on how to go about it. He's very "real world" insightful. You can tell he's been out there.
http://artofthestart.com/ shares examples, templates and resources you can use.
Start with the right motives, intentions. What you will contribute.
The Prophet Ezekiel talks about the destructive forces of pride, self-centeredness..."I want it all. It's all mine." When this is a person's motives, they are headed for a downfall. ( Note Ezekiel 27-29)
Wealth, money, beauty, possessions, power--are the roots of pride.
History has it when there's pride, self-centeredness a person is building the path to destruction. When you want it all, want it all for yourself, you open the gates to total self-destruction.
This attitude was seen in big business leaders of large corporations that fell. They had it all and wanted more money, beauty, prestige, possessions, power. This led to pride, self-centeredness possessiveness. They admired themselves."I have all this. It is all mine.
"In reality, we do not own anything. It is all God's. We all leave it when we die, our children leave it when they die and it eventually goes back to its original creator.
So why do we exist?
To give what we have to others.
To continually be in a flow of giving and contributing.
It is like rain that comes from the skies, goes into streams, then into lakes, evaporates backup to the sky and it rains again. All we do circulates just like this. If it stays stagnate and is not flowing, it sours and becomes a poison to who drinks it.
Instead of getting and keeping it all, we were designed in the Spiritual system to be giving. It keeps flowing and keeps coming back fresh. Jesus said what you do for the least of these you do to Me.
Your business and possessions are not yours. You own nothing. It is not just for you. It is to be shared with all you know... your associates, employees, vendors, friends, relatives and especially the least of all who have no way of helping you in return.
Make your business this conduit of transition. From you to others in need. Make your business a conduit of transfer. Collect the produce of wealth that is ever expanding...don't hurt your self by trying to keep it all to yourself. Instead, be a Divine Delivery Boy for purposes of Spirit, Love of God to re-supply His Creation.
We all exist as care givers, care sharers with humanity. When we slip into the "this is all mine" syndrome, self destruction can be heard coming around the corner. Don't harden your heart, give, share, build up others.
If you give what you have, share with many and be the Divine Delivery Boy of God's purposes, you build up true riches. Your heart will be filled with love, joy, happiness. You will have many friends and happiness will surround you.
Jesus said to use money to make friends.
“I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves.”
(Luke 16:9)
When we share, we make friends. The more friends we have the more wealth of rich relationships become an ever growing part of our lives.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Likeability to Love-ability
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Why do people like you?
Why is being liked so important?
Tim Sanders, author of The Likeability Factor, extensively researched being liked.
He found it is very important to have qualities of being liked as the nature of our society is changing.
We are moving from short-term to long-term in focus, functioning more interdependently and becoming less individualistic. It is essential to cultivate quality relationships, and be versed in dealing with a variety of relationships. In making it for the long haul, we need many believers from various influences around us in the process.
To be likable is the key ingredient to meet the new definitions of success... we want freedom to chart our course in life as we desire. If your life has inconsistencies, people will see or find out and your likeability will go down the tubes.
People tend to believe what they want to believe and they believe you more if they like you. Life changes, many variables now come into play that affect our lives. Just being the best or knowing the right people does not cut it.
The deciding factor on whether we leap the moon or live in gloom is our likeability.
What builds likeability?
Sanders outlines four aspects to likeability. When you have all four, people like you a lot and become invaluable partners with you in anything... friends, marriage, business pursuits, organizations, socially.... wherever interactions and relationships with people are essentially important. And with today's society which is intertwined, it is everywhere in everything.
Today into tomorrow-relationships with people is the essential factor... the Likeability Factor.
The four ingredients of likeability…
1. Friendliness. When we show "happy expressions" as we run into, pass or meet people. People like those who they feel like them. When you welcome people into your emotional space, receive them positively, they see this as friendly.
2. Relevance. Then when you connect, find common ground, the likeability factor continues its advance. Relevance "is the extent to which the other person connects to your life's interests, wants, and needs." Relevance has three levels, or degree's... contact, mutual interest and value. Sanders found a study that students who sat close to each other in school classes liked each other more.
3. Empathy. "When you see a person as friendly and relevant, then you wonder, consciously or unconsciously, if the person understands you." Empathy, goes beyond knowing or sympathy. It wants to know why and relates "why" he feels that way. By sharing a common experience, it creates a feeling of understanding.
4. Realness. If a person is friendly, relevant, expresses empathy toward you, the last component to be likeable is realness. Is the person genuine, truthful, accurate, authentic. When we see inconsistencies in realness, likeability takes a nose dive. The other factors lose significance and our connection to that person fades. Being friendly, saying I like you with a smile voice, connecting with a person in some way, pursuing understanding the person and being honest to who you are... result in people really liking you.
If a person starts out likable and then just one of the four factors begin to change... not as friendly acting, change of interests, not as understanding, or not honest or real... likeability begins to dissolve.
Sanders goes on in The Likeability Factor to lead you through processes that will increase your likeability factor. A self-assessment test is also included in the back of the book. Sanders is a contemporary expression of Dale Carnegie's classic How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Sanders website is... http://timsanders.com/
Love takes us a step up from likeability.
“…continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God—for God is love.(1 John 4:7-8)
And the Spirit of God lives in you. (1 John 2:27)
In What Happens When We Die, they pointed out that those with near death experiences come back to life with a strong sense of kindness and service in their lives after the experience. Most said they had met Spiritual beings and that love was the prominent characteristic of the experience. The sense of love overwhelmed them.
When Spirit (Love) dominates our existence, especially when not manufactured by us, we love as the flow of Spirit continues constantly through us. We live and respond with rekindled kindness in all things. We are innately driven in a Spirit of Service... to serve others in need with love that is a natural part of our being.
When Spirit controls,
as the presence of us,
love is the flow that comes through us.
The Apostle John said that if we do not love our neighbors, we do not know God. (1 John 4)
God is love. God is Spirit.
When we allow Spirit to reside in us we love because that is the character of Spirit. Love dominates our existence. To love is more than a mandate, it is a characteristic of existence. It is who we are, we are naturally love... when in Spirit.
When Spirit is allowed to exist in us, even when a person is not friendly, we love them;
when person's life is not relevant to ours, we love them;
when someone even shows little interest or cares for us, we even love them,
when someone deliberately tries to deceive us, we still love them.
Love goes beyond likeability... love passes through all obstacles of relationship, acquainting, and getting along with others. Love continues to be kind, and serves regardless of how it is treated.
In any business, those who love are the best at customer service.They remain kind, patient, understanding even when they deal with someone who is not kind, patient or agreeable. Love is a fire that melts hostility and makes the way for forging relationships even when circumstances do not promote likeability.
Rest, flow and maintain a center of love in Spirit. You will always be likable and begin nurturing likeability to others who are not likable.
Love is an active Power Force that heals, builds and creates a platform for miracles to happen in life and in business.
4spirit@gmail.com
Why do people like you?
Why is being liked so important?
Tim Sanders, author of The Likeability Factor, extensively researched being liked.
He found it is very important to have qualities of being liked as the nature of our society is changing.
We are moving from short-term to long-term in focus, functioning more interdependently and becoming less individualistic. It is essential to cultivate quality relationships, and be versed in dealing with a variety of relationships. In making it for the long haul, we need many believers from various influences around us in the process.
To be likable is the key ingredient to meet the new definitions of success... we want freedom to chart our course in life as we desire. If your life has inconsistencies, people will see or find out and your likeability will go down the tubes.
People tend to believe what they want to believe and they believe you more if they like you. Life changes, many variables now come into play that affect our lives. Just being the best or knowing the right people does not cut it.
The deciding factor on whether we leap the moon or live in gloom is our likeability.
What builds likeability?
Sanders outlines four aspects to likeability. When you have all four, people like you a lot and become invaluable partners with you in anything... friends, marriage, business pursuits, organizations, socially.... wherever interactions and relationships with people are essentially important. And with today's society which is intertwined, it is everywhere in everything.
Today into tomorrow-relationships with people is the essential factor... the Likeability Factor.
The four ingredients of likeability…
1. Friendliness. When we show "happy expressions" as we run into, pass or meet people. People like those who they feel like them. When you welcome people into your emotional space, receive them positively, they see this as friendly.
2. Relevance. Then when you connect, find common ground, the likeability factor continues its advance. Relevance "is the extent to which the other person connects to your life's interests, wants, and needs." Relevance has three levels, or degree's... contact, mutual interest and value. Sanders found a study that students who sat close to each other in school classes liked each other more.
3. Empathy. "When you see a person as friendly and relevant, then you wonder, consciously or unconsciously, if the person understands you." Empathy, goes beyond knowing or sympathy. It wants to know why and relates "why" he feels that way. By sharing a common experience, it creates a feeling of understanding.
4. Realness. If a person is friendly, relevant, expresses empathy toward you, the last component to be likeable is realness. Is the person genuine, truthful, accurate, authentic. When we see inconsistencies in realness, likeability takes a nose dive. The other factors lose significance and our connection to that person fades. Being friendly, saying I like you with a smile voice, connecting with a person in some way, pursuing understanding the person and being honest to who you are... result in people really liking you.
If a person starts out likable and then just one of the four factors begin to change... not as friendly acting, change of interests, not as understanding, or not honest or real... likeability begins to dissolve.
Sanders goes on in The Likeability Factor to lead you through processes that will increase your likeability factor. A self-assessment test is also included in the back of the book. Sanders is a contemporary expression of Dale Carnegie's classic How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Sanders website is... http://timsanders.com/
Love takes us a step up from likeability.
“…continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God—for God is love.(1 John 4:7-8)
And the Spirit of God lives in you. (1 John 2:27)
In What Happens When We Die, they pointed out that those with near death experiences come back to life with a strong sense of kindness and service in their lives after the experience. Most said they had met Spiritual beings and that love was the prominent characteristic of the experience. The sense of love overwhelmed them.
When Spirit (Love) dominates our existence, especially when not manufactured by us, we love as the flow of Spirit continues constantly through us. We live and respond with rekindled kindness in all things. We are innately driven in a Spirit of Service... to serve others in need with love that is a natural part of our being.
When Spirit controls,
as the presence of us,
love is the flow that comes through us.
The Apostle John said that if we do not love our neighbors, we do not know God. (1 John 4)
God is love. God is Spirit.
When we allow Spirit to reside in us we love because that is the character of Spirit. Love dominates our existence. To love is more than a mandate, it is a characteristic of existence. It is who we are, we are naturally love... when in Spirit.
When Spirit is allowed to exist in us, even when a person is not friendly, we love them;
when person's life is not relevant to ours, we love them;
when someone even shows little interest or cares for us, we even love them,
when someone deliberately tries to deceive us, we still love them.
Love goes beyond likeability... love passes through all obstacles of relationship, acquainting, and getting along with others. Love continues to be kind, and serves regardless of how it is treated.
In any business, those who love are the best at customer service.They remain kind, patient, understanding even when they deal with someone who is not kind, patient or agreeable. Love is a fire that melts hostility and makes the way for forging relationships even when circumstances do not promote likeability.
Rest, flow and maintain a center of love in Spirit. You will always be likable and begin nurturing likeability to others who are not likable.
Love is an active Power Force that heals, builds and creates a platform for miracles to happen in life and in business.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
360 Degree Leader... whole life power
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
According to John Maxwell, we all can lead where we are.
In the 360° Leader, Maxwell emphasizes that leading is a personal decision and has little to do with formal positions and titles. It is a personal quality we all learn, develop and become. The first step is to learn how to lead yourself. You can start at any age (younger or older); and you can maximize it to its fullest potential in any circumstances.
So a person can Lead Up, Lead Across, or Lead Down. Most books are written on how to lead those below us. What stuck my interest was how to lead across, or how to influence peers. Here’s Maxwell’s advice on leading across.
Principle #1: Leading is not a one time event but an ongoing process that takes time. Take time to learn, understand, prioritize and complete the “Leadership Loop” as Maxwell calls it. The leadership loop includes a progression from caring to learning to appreciating to contributing to verbalizing to succeeding.
This translates as taking an interest in people, respecting people, adding value to people, affirming people, influencing people, winning with people.
Principle #2: Put fellow leaders ahead of competing with them. Learn to complement them and contribute by putting your strengths along side someone’s weakness.
Principle #3: Be a friend. Listen, be open and honest.
Principle #4: Avoid office politics. Look at all sides of an issue and avoid taking sides. Help each other understand another point of view, rather than staunchly defending a point of view.
Principle #5: Expand your circle of acquaintances. Start with people you know and expand into their circle of friends; expand beyond your area of expertise; meet people different than you; break through prejudices; get to know others you may have not previously liked; break your routine; and do other things around new environments.
Principle #6: Let the best ideas win. Yield to, acknowledge and commend others who have good ideas.
Principle #7: Don’t pretend you are perfect. Admit your own faults; ask for advice; worry less about what others think; be open to learn from others; and put away pride and pretense.
Maxwell also has more on the web on the 360° Leader.
http://maximumimpact.com/
A 360° person completes, complements and compliments others.
Spirit in us Completes us as whole people as God made us to be one. In Spirit we are One with Him.
The Spirit Complements our abilities to enhance them to great levels above normal human potential. We are made in the image of God but remain incomplete without His Spirit residing in us.
When His Spirit resides in us, our abilities take on a Spiritual dimension. We see outstanding results in our life effortlessly.
Then the Spirit Compliments us. It gives us hope and encouragement. It inspires and motivates us. It provides a supernatural vision of results and a never ceasing flow of visual thoughts that see results as His Spirit is prompting us to see.
With Spirit in residence, we then are complete as One.
Spirit Completes us,
Spirit Complements us
and Sprit Compliments us with inspiration to attempt the impossible.
Whereas in the past, we would not even think of some things as remotely possible. With Spirit we get Supernatural encouragement.
Spirit is built-in.
It’s functionally interactive.
It’s constantly in our lives, thoughts, emotions
and creating a never-ending personal energy.
Within us a building begins that raises us up to even greater levels…
when Spirit is One in us;
when Spirit unites as One with others.
We, in Spirit, complete other people. We complement them with our strengths reinforcing their weaknesses. But when our strengths unite with the same strength in another, we catapult as a team to do incredible things. The human function, combined in strength literally flings the two into abilities beyond this world.
When we verbally compliment others, we implant an ability in them. They perform what we tell them they will. When we build up others, they become empowered through what we say. The human spirit wants to fulfill the positive things people tell us we are and can do.
The Scriptures say,
"You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family. 20 We are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We who believe are carefully joined together, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you are also joined together as part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit." (Ephesians 2:19-22,NLT)
With the Spirit intertwined among each other, we are the Holy Temple. The very Spirit of God lives in among us and goes before us.
This intertwining in Spirit is what gives us Supernatural potential
as co-creators with God.
God is Spirit.
God is the Great, Earth and Substance creating Spirit.
Spirit creates the material and directs the flow of the psychological. It transforms ideas to realities and seals connections between people.
So the highest levels of influence are those where
Spirit is One in the person with God's Universally expansive Spirit;
and where the Spirit of One unites with the Spirit of another,
also One in Spirit with God's Universally expansive Spirit.
The 360° person is complete in Spirit,
complements and compliments others.
4spirit@gmail.com
According to John Maxwell, we all can lead where we are.
In the 360° Leader, Maxwell emphasizes that leading is a personal decision and has little to do with formal positions and titles. It is a personal quality we all learn, develop and become. The first step is to learn how to lead yourself. You can start at any age (younger or older); and you can maximize it to its fullest potential in any circumstances.
So a person can Lead Up, Lead Across, or Lead Down. Most books are written on how to lead those below us. What stuck my interest was how to lead across, or how to influence peers. Here’s Maxwell’s advice on leading across.
Principle #1: Leading is not a one time event but an ongoing process that takes time. Take time to learn, understand, prioritize and complete the “Leadership Loop” as Maxwell calls it. The leadership loop includes a progression from caring to learning to appreciating to contributing to verbalizing to succeeding.
This translates as taking an interest in people, respecting people, adding value to people, affirming people, influencing people, winning with people.
Principle #2: Put fellow leaders ahead of competing with them. Learn to complement them and contribute by putting your strengths along side someone’s weakness.
Principle #3: Be a friend. Listen, be open and honest.
Principle #4: Avoid office politics. Look at all sides of an issue and avoid taking sides. Help each other understand another point of view, rather than staunchly defending a point of view.
Principle #5: Expand your circle of acquaintances. Start with people you know and expand into their circle of friends; expand beyond your area of expertise; meet people different than you; break through prejudices; get to know others you may have not previously liked; break your routine; and do other things around new environments.
Principle #6: Let the best ideas win. Yield to, acknowledge and commend others who have good ideas.
Principle #7: Don’t pretend you are perfect. Admit your own faults; ask for advice; worry less about what others think; be open to learn from others; and put away pride and pretense.
Maxwell also has more on the web on the 360° Leader.
http://maximumimpact.com/
A 360° person completes, complements and compliments others.
Spirit in us Completes us as whole people as God made us to be one. In Spirit we are One with Him.
The Spirit Complements our abilities to enhance them to great levels above normal human potential. We are made in the image of God but remain incomplete without His Spirit residing in us.
When His Spirit resides in us, our abilities take on a Spiritual dimension. We see outstanding results in our life effortlessly.
Then the Spirit Compliments us. It gives us hope and encouragement. It inspires and motivates us. It provides a supernatural vision of results and a never ceasing flow of visual thoughts that see results as His Spirit is prompting us to see.
With Spirit in residence, we then are complete as One.
Spirit Completes us,
Spirit Complements us
and Sprit Compliments us with inspiration to attempt the impossible.
Whereas in the past, we would not even think of some things as remotely possible. With Spirit we get Supernatural encouragement.
Spirit is built-in.
It’s functionally interactive.
It’s constantly in our lives, thoughts, emotions
and creating a never-ending personal energy.
Within us a building begins that raises us up to even greater levels…
when Spirit is One in us;
when Spirit unites as One with others.
We, in Spirit, complete other people. We complement them with our strengths reinforcing their weaknesses. But when our strengths unite with the same strength in another, we catapult as a team to do incredible things. The human function, combined in strength literally flings the two into abilities beyond this world.
When we verbally compliment others, we implant an ability in them. They perform what we tell them they will. When we build up others, they become empowered through what we say. The human spirit wants to fulfill the positive things people tell us we are and can do.
The Scriptures say,
"You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family. 20 We are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We who believe are carefully joined together, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you are also joined together as part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit." (Ephesians 2:19-22,NLT)
With the Spirit intertwined among each other, we are the Holy Temple. The very Spirit of God lives in among us and goes before us.
This intertwining in Spirit is what gives us Supernatural potential
as co-creators with God.
God is Spirit.
God is the Great, Earth and Substance creating Spirit.
Spirit creates the material and directs the flow of the psychological. It transforms ideas to realities and seals connections between people.
So the highest levels of influence are those where
Spirit is One in the person with God's Universally expansive Spirit;
and where the Spirit of One unites with the Spirit of another,
also One in Spirit with God's Universally expansive Spirit.
The 360° person is complete in Spirit,
complements and compliments others.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
One Minute Millionaire... One Minute Miracles
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Make every minute count.
What if our thoughts were captivated with productive creativity, hope filled thinking all day… every single minute?
This is the underlying theme behind the One Minute Millionaire… an emerging classic for building any individual or group venture. It is what you do mentally, every minute that fosters results. The authors’, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen, say, “The entire process of becoming a millionaire is broken down into bite-sized, one-minute techniques… you can become a millionaire one minute at a time.”
They researched over 100 millionaires to come up with a book of principles, processes and personal systems for anyone to reach this goal. The secret they say is managing principles, patterns, processes common to millionaires. The four areas, they say, where wealth is built include investments, real estate, business, the Internet.
The book is divided into two main sections: The Aha’s… 24 principles or regular patterns of thinking wealth-builders use. And how to effectively use leverage…a cornerstone component… to accomplish excessively more. Leveraging is the art of getting multiple results with one step, doing it constantly, applying it in everything. It’s about strategically using less time and effort to increase results… leveraging everything.
The five components of leverage include collaborating with other’s resources, experience, ideas, time and work.
Leverage takes on six forms…
Mentors, teams, networks, infinite networks, tools and skills, and systems.
So here is their formula… apply the principles(Aha’s) with leverage as your power-train and you are on the road to building massive results.
The six forms of leverage are:
Mentors: They may be people, books, Internet newsletters… information from those who have done it before and share their wisdom and knowledge with you. Mentors give you perspective, proficiency and patience. You benefit from their learning curve.
Teams: Build teams that are diverse in skills, complement each other, function as one and align with each other, with balance in the unit. Teams create supreme ideas and superior power to get bigger things done.
Visionaries, processors, people developers, detail compilers, analytical thinkers all make strong team partners… when functioning as interactive, harmonious cells.
Networks: Some people have influence with many. These contacts, or networking associations, can then bring you in contact with many more. They can be “weak ties”(just acquaintances) who like you, value what you are doing, and will work in concert with you.
Infinite networks: One accord in thinking produces a spiritual factor that goes to work on our dreams, thoughts, ideas. Those who believe with you like this create an “incalculable” extra dimension of power.
“The Spiritual Internet works when a team has a big, purposeful dream and everyone stays positive about its accomplishment.”
Skills and tools: Personal Thinking systems, persuasive, interpersonal relationship skills, writing, talking along with advancing technology spawn a prevailing force to get action and results.
Systems: Use effective people organization, processes, methods, technology to systematize. The secret is to create self-generating systems in all you do. Include both hi-touch and hi-tech.
They espouse this system acronym:
Save-Your-Self-Time-Energy-Money.
Hansen and Allen also point out the value of selling knowledge. They feel everyone has a book in them and everyone has something of value to share that others are interest in.
Today, the blog and Internet systems make this available to everyone.
For more note their web service which has many links to more information.
www.oneminutemillionaire.com
One Minute Miracles
We literally co-create with God in Spirit and all things are possible with the connections this makes. Note Geffry Fields' blog on "Connecting Circuits... they all must flow."
http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2005/06/connecting-circuits-they-all-must-flow.html
What if minute-by-minute we lived in “Power Thoughts” that could change all things, move matter, and create from nothing. What if we searched out the thousands of “Power Thoughts” in the Bible and integrated them into our thinking one minute at a time. In a single work day that would be around 500 “Power thoughts” with Eternal precedent to change all things, move matter and create from nothing.
Do you think we would start to see Miracles… one minute at a time? There is an Infinite leverage of a Proactive Higher Power... of a Super-Natural kind.
Consider this Spiritual system to mobilize Super-Natural leverage.
Prayer... seek God for His insight and direction.
Revelation... note all inspired ideas that are Divinely communicated.
These are revelations from God's Spirit directly to you.
Obedience... follow through and do what is directed
(even the small stuff is important).
The Cross... be willing to make sacrifices in love to do what you need to do.
Then if we added in a business the prophetically gifted (seers into the future), the spiritual gifted who could tap into Spiritual intelligence, and hear God inspired directives… like Joshua in the Bible.
And even more so make intercessory prayer as a hub of its functions in all things... And make it the hub of all activity in a business.
As a core part of a business/ mission group these characteristics would manifest.
Apostle-like direction... vision of new territory to move in to.
Prophetic voice... hearing what God is saying to you.
Evangelists… advanced skills in influencing others, getting buy-in and persuasion skills.
Healers... those with gifts to heal emotions and our physical bodies.
Teachers... develop people's gifts to their human and Spiritual potential.
Worship... praise to God with music, prayer and intercession that would stir these Super Spiritual giftings up to Ultra-High levels.
Intercessory prayer... interactive in Spirit with Spiritual Intelligence, saturated with Power and an unexplainable depth of Love for others.
When one with God, these naturally, in Spirit, show up. Think on these things...minute by minute. Think on the power of Spirit, ”Power Thoughts” in your life and all the Infinite connections it has.
Live lives of miracle expecting activity, which may come from, at times, the smallest actions... as devised by Spirit. In a Spirit-saturated workplace you have:
Aha's... outstanding principles of Spirit at work.
Leverage... Spirit of the Universe doing incredibly great things.
Mentors... those who hear from Spirit to teach you Greater insights.
Teams... when united as one in Spirit a core of Spiritual Power is formed, Jesus Himself is manifested. …the One who creates everything.
Systems... New, Revelatory Spiritual process, a constant, reforming, re-newing, re-creating of Dynamic Spirit Systems to accomplish things.
Skills and abilities... of a Super-Naturally Gifted level, above human ability. Gifted trainers/coaches ignite the gifts in others.
And endless Networks... tapping into the connections of the Universe, into the Heavenly realms that control all things on earth.
What if we took each day and re-created in Spirit, minute-by-minute,
a new Spiritual synergy in relationships,
expanded into Spiritually-charged networks
and re-designed more effective,
but especially, Spiritual Systems
...can you imagine what would happen.
This is a Super-Natural system of extraordinaire...
a phenomenal lifestyle...
exquisite inner presence of love and joy in Spirit.
“Power thoughts” from the depth of Spirit
producing an endless flow of one-minute miracles every day.
4spirit@gmail.com
Make every minute count.
What if our thoughts were captivated with productive creativity, hope filled thinking all day… every single minute?
This is the underlying theme behind the One Minute Millionaire… an emerging classic for building any individual or group venture. It is what you do mentally, every minute that fosters results. The authors’, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen, say, “The entire process of becoming a millionaire is broken down into bite-sized, one-minute techniques… you can become a millionaire one minute at a time.”
They researched over 100 millionaires to come up with a book of principles, processes and personal systems for anyone to reach this goal. The secret they say is managing principles, patterns, processes common to millionaires. The four areas, they say, where wealth is built include investments, real estate, business, the Internet.
The book is divided into two main sections: The Aha’s… 24 principles or regular patterns of thinking wealth-builders use. And how to effectively use leverage…a cornerstone component… to accomplish excessively more. Leveraging is the art of getting multiple results with one step, doing it constantly, applying it in everything. It’s about strategically using less time and effort to increase results… leveraging everything.
The five components of leverage include collaborating with other’s resources, experience, ideas, time and work.
Leverage takes on six forms…
Mentors, teams, networks, infinite networks, tools and skills, and systems.
So here is their formula… apply the principles(Aha’s) with leverage as your power-train and you are on the road to building massive results.
The six forms of leverage are:
Mentors: They may be people, books, Internet newsletters… information from those who have done it before and share their wisdom and knowledge with you. Mentors give you perspective, proficiency and patience. You benefit from their learning curve.
Teams: Build teams that are diverse in skills, complement each other, function as one and align with each other, with balance in the unit. Teams create supreme ideas and superior power to get bigger things done.
Visionaries, processors, people developers, detail compilers, analytical thinkers all make strong team partners… when functioning as interactive, harmonious cells.
Networks: Some people have influence with many. These contacts, or networking associations, can then bring you in contact with many more. They can be “weak ties”(just acquaintances) who like you, value what you are doing, and will work in concert with you.
Infinite networks: One accord in thinking produces a spiritual factor that goes to work on our dreams, thoughts, ideas. Those who believe with you like this create an “incalculable” extra dimension of power.
“The Spiritual Internet works when a team has a big, purposeful dream and everyone stays positive about its accomplishment.”
Skills and tools: Personal Thinking systems, persuasive, interpersonal relationship skills, writing, talking along with advancing technology spawn a prevailing force to get action and results.
Systems: Use effective people organization, processes, methods, technology to systematize. The secret is to create self-generating systems in all you do. Include both hi-touch and hi-tech.
They espouse this system acronym:
Save-Your-Self-Time-Energy-Money.
Hansen and Allen also point out the value of selling knowledge. They feel everyone has a book in them and everyone has something of value to share that others are interest in.
Today, the blog and Internet systems make this available to everyone.
For more note their web service which has many links to more information.
www.oneminutemillionaire.com
One Minute Miracles
We literally co-create with God in Spirit and all things are possible with the connections this makes. Note Geffry Fields' blog on "Connecting Circuits... they all must flow."
http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2005/06/connecting-circuits-they-all-must-flow.html
What if minute-by-minute we lived in “Power Thoughts” that could change all things, move matter, and create from nothing. What if we searched out the thousands of “Power Thoughts” in the Bible and integrated them into our thinking one minute at a time. In a single work day that would be around 500 “Power thoughts” with Eternal precedent to change all things, move matter and create from nothing.
Do you think we would start to see Miracles… one minute at a time? There is an Infinite leverage of a Proactive Higher Power... of a Super-Natural kind.
Consider this Spiritual system to mobilize Super-Natural leverage.
Prayer... seek God for His insight and direction.
Revelation... note all inspired ideas that are Divinely communicated.
These are revelations from God's Spirit directly to you.
Obedience... follow through and do what is directed
(even the small stuff is important).
The Cross... be willing to make sacrifices in love to do what you need to do.
Then if we added in a business the prophetically gifted (seers into the future), the spiritual gifted who could tap into Spiritual intelligence, and hear God inspired directives… like Joshua in the Bible.
And even more so make intercessory prayer as a hub of its functions in all things... And make it the hub of all activity in a business.
As a core part of a business/ mission group these characteristics would manifest.
Apostle-like direction... vision of new territory to move in to.
Prophetic voice... hearing what God is saying to you.
Evangelists… advanced skills in influencing others, getting buy-in and persuasion skills.
Healers... those with gifts to heal emotions and our physical bodies.
Teachers... develop people's gifts to their human and Spiritual potential.
Worship... praise to God with music, prayer and intercession that would stir these Super Spiritual giftings up to Ultra-High levels.
Intercessory prayer... interactive in Spirit with Spiritual Intelligence, saturated with Power and an unexplainable depth of Love for others.
When one with God, these naturally, in Spirit, show up. Think on these things...minute by minute. Think on the power of Spirit, ”Power Thoughts” in your life and all the Infinite connections it has.
Live lives of miracle expecting activity, which may come from, at times, the smallest actions... as devised by Spirit. In a Spirit-saturated workplace you have:
Aha's... outstanding principles of Spirit at work.
Leverage... Spirit of the Universe doing incredibly great things.
Mentors... those who hear from Spirit to teach you Greater insights.
Teams... when united as one in Spirit a core of Spiritual Power is formed, Jesus Himself is manifested. …the One who creates everything.
Systems... New, Revelatory Spiritual process, a constant, reforming, re-newing, re-creating of Dynamic Spirit Systems to accomplish things.
Skills and abilities... of a Super-Naturally Gifted level, above human ability. Gifted trainers/coaches ignite the gifts in others.
And endless Networks... tapping into the connections of the Universe, into the Heavenly realms that control all things on earth.
What if we took each day and re-created in Spirit, minute-by-minute,
a new Spiritual synergy in relationships,
expanded into Spiritually-charged networks
and re-designed more effective,
but especially, Spiritual Systems
...can you imagine what would happen.
This is a Super-Natural system of extraordinaire...
a phenomenal lifestyle...
exquisite inner presence of love and joy in Spirit.
“Power thoughts” from the depth of Spirit
producing an endless flow of one-minute miracles every day.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Crazy Busy...Row in Rhythm
By Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
We are so busy;
it is developing into a form of cultural ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) says Edward M. Hallowell author of Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD.
We multi-task. We Blackberry. We email and text message. We click, click, click. We go, go, go; faster, faster, faster...but still everything, everyone’s too slow. The whole world is at our fingertips, ear piece, an eye sight away. Basically, we are going crazy with too much, too fast, and all at the same time. What Hallowell calls the F-state (living in a frenzy).
A problem we all seem to be having is a cultural neurosis developing. And what is scary is that we’re accepting it as acceptable lifestyle. It’s a frenzied fast, faster, fastest in stocks to sports, food to fuel, marketing to management. Getting it done now, hurry, hurry, hurry. Stay late, broadband’s too slow, multi-task... in and out, fast food, move on to the next frenzy... so we can get into more frenzy.
Dr. Hallowell has invented several words to describe this. Here's a few.
Screensucking. The wasting time engaging with many screens...computer, TV, video games, blackberries.
Leeches and Lilies... Leeches are people /projects that that waste your time. Lilies make time fulfilling.
Gigaguilt. Fear of missing something or disappointing someone. Details we may over look that we worry about when missed.
Taildogging. Going faster, pushing harder on yourself, children, employees simply for demanding more from everyone around you.
Morning Burst. The time in the morning when most productive, creative, effective, best problem solving time. Your best time.
Frazzing. Multi-tasking ineffectively. In most cases multi-tasking hurts being effective. We do our best doing one thing at a time.
Gemmelsmerch. The force that distracts or steals attention from what you ought to do.
Move from the F-state to the C-state:
F-state: frenzied, flailing, fearful, forgetful, flustered, furious, frantic.
C-state: calm, cool, collected, consistent, concentrated, careful, courteous, coordinated.
Juggling may be fun to watch at a 3-ring circus, but your life doesn't have to be one. It's not productive, nor creates happiness or enjoyably satisfying. So why do we do it?
So much of our psychological needs today seem to require
needing more excitement(fast paced),
needing to be admired for accomplishing much,
or are we busy because we really are afraid to get to know ourselves...who we really are, and find out what we need to work on in ourselves.
Hallowell's solution: Slow down... Take time, find a place to just Think.
Find out what is most important in your life.
Create a system. Find what fulfills. Do what matters most to you and you don't have to do it all. He provides a matrix for consciously, and systematically assessing your use of time and discovering your top fulfillment buttons in your life.
You can manage modern life.
Here's Hallowell's ten key principles.
1.Do what matters to you.
2.Create positive emotional environments
3.Find your rhythm... we all have a rhythm that fits us. Find yours.
4.Invest your time wisely to get maximum return that fulfills you.
5.Don't waste time screensucking.
6.Control sources of gemmelsmerch...solving computer glitches, reading magazines, mail, email, TV, drop ins, flirtations.
7.Delegate. Do what you like to do and are good at. Get others to do the rest. Learn effective interdependence.
8. Slow down.
9.Don't multi-task ineffectively. Give one important item your full attention. Mix mindless with mindful activity.
10.Play. Imaginatively engage with what you are doing.
.... So prioritize, plan, systematize, and execute in a single focus.
Fast is not better, and slow can have its benefits. More is not necessary and less can reduce stress.
Move on to the C-state.
Connect with people/projects that matter the most to you.
Control technology and don't let it control you.
It is your slave not your master.
Cancel some people and organizational activities.
They probably can make it just fine without you.
Create structures and systems in your life
that help you get organized. Define personal priorities.
Care for what you care for most.
You don't have to do everything.
Cultivate your lilies; discard your leeches.
Figure out what you want;
then do it, let the rest go.
Hallowell has a free "help you through this" email service at:
http://www.crazybusylife.com/
Learn to live in rhythm of Spirit.
"Cease striving... know that I am God!"
(Psalm 46: 10 NASB)
"My purposes will be established.
I will accomplish the goals I set."
(Isaiah 46:10 NASB)
"Only I can tell you what is to happen before it happens.
Everything I plan will come to pass. For I do everything I wish."
(Isaiah 46:10 NLT)
So why do we, in a manic like state, rush around so. It is like life depends solely on us.
We need to only get into His Rhythm,
in His Flow in Spirit.
We then will Float in Spirit.
Enter His Presence. He accomplishes great feats there.
“For the Lord goes before you.”
(Isaiah 52:12)
We wait....
Just wait...
Jesus told His disciples to .... wait... and then "when" the Holy Spirit comes you will have Power, above your earthly abilities. My peace I give to you. I do the hard stuff, you just follow Me... Jesus would say.
Soak in His Presence... His all knowing, all places-at-one-time presence, working the world as He plans with his power that accomplishes what He sets out to.
Take time, first to rest, relax, totally recline in His Spirit before you do anything. Enter Spirit’s Sanctuary. Take this time to think on God's Powerful Greatness. Relish in Thought in Great things He is doing on your behalf. Dream on what He has for you… what your role is in His Presence.
Spirit is putting your inspired thoughts in motion at that time. Your images of mind are being carried out by Spirit at that time. It's in this place the earth is moved and changed.
It's here, you have peace, joy and action on your behalf. Serenity is here... a totally confident deeply relaxed state.
In this serenity is where action is activated. Here all the Heavens of the Universe Realms of Spirit Open up for you.
It is yours.
For you.
At your disposal.
And the Power goes to work as you enjoy, rest, reside and float in His Presence.
Get in this Rhythm of Spirit.
It is Floating in the raft on a deep slow river that lets you smell the lilies as you go by.
Wait...
Just wait...
Be still...
and Know...
Be still in Spirit.
Spirit is your master.
Mind and body are slaves to Spirit.
Make them that.
Spirit rests you,
communicates to you,
works on your behalf.
It communicates to mind and body.
Spirit made mind, and body.
It regulates, systematizes mind and body.
Make mind and body slaves to Spirit...
the creative power of the universe.
In Spirit, your mind is renewed. Order is put around you.
You live in a rhythm of Spirit-directed intelligence.
Our body's must rest to heal and refresh.
In Spirit the renewal builds for you.
Let the mind rest too.
Allow only Spirit life to flow in
and out of your mind.
When Spirit orders your life,
It flows with ease
It fulfills
It walks in joy.
“My demands are easy,
my requirements are light.”
Jesus says.
“I do the work for you.
You enjoy the process
of using the natural gifts
I placed in you.”
“I live in you and help you
solve problems. You don't have
to tackle them alone...
“I give you rest. Rest in Me.
The Sabbath was made for you. Rest in Me.”
“I give you a day to rest, refresh, renew
re-vision, re-hope while you rest, I work for you.”
Jesus says.
“Whatever you choose to obey
becomes your master.”
Romans 6:16 (NLT)
Choose to obey Spirit.
Let Spirit be your Master.
4spirit@gmail.com
We are so busy;
it is developing into a form of cultural ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) says Edward M. Hallowell author of Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD.
We multi-task. We Blackberry. We email and text message. We click, click, click. We go, go, go; faster, faster, faster...but still everything, everyone’s too slow. The whole world is at our fingertips, ear piece, an eye sight away. Basically, we are going crazy with too much, too fast, and all at the same time. What Hallowell calls the F-state (living in a frenzy).
A problem we all seem to be having is a cultural neurosis developing. And what is scary is that we’re accepting it as acceptable lifestyle. It’s a frenzied fast, faster, fastest in stocks to sports, food to fuel, marketing to management. Getting it done now, hurry, hurry, hurry. Stay late, broadband’s too slow, multi-task... in and out, fast food, move on to the next frenzy... so we can get into more frenzy.
Dr. Hallowell has invented several words to describe this. Here's a few.
Screensucking. The wasting time engaging with many screens...computer, TV, video games, blackberries.
Leeches and Lilies... Leeches are people /projects that that waste your time. Lilies make time fulfilling.
Gigaguilt. Fear of missing something or disappointing someone. Details we may over look that we worry about when missed.
Taildogging. Going faster, pushing harder on yourself, children, employees simply for demanding more from everyone around you.
Morning Burst. The time in the morning when most productive, creative, effective, best problem solving time. Your best time.
Frazzing. Multi-tasking ineffectively. In most cases multi-tasking hurts being effective. We do our best doing one thing at a time.
Gemmelsmerch. The force that distracts or steals attention from what you ought to do.
Move from the F-state to the C-state:
F-state: frenzied, flailing, fearful, forgetful, flustered, furious, frantic.
C-state: calm, cool, collected, consistent, concentrated, careful, courteous, coordinated.
Juggling may be fun to watch at a 3-ring circus, but your life doesn't have to be one. It's not productive, nor creates happiness or enjoyably satisfying. So why do we do it?
So much of our psychological needs today seem to require
needing more excitement(fast paced),
needing to be admired for accomplishing much,
or are we busy because we really are afraid to get to know ourselves...who we really are, and find out what we need to work on in ourselves.
Hallowell's solution: Slow down... Take time, find a place to just Think.
Find out what is most important in your life.
Create a system. Find what fulfills. Do what matters most to you and you don't have to do it all. He provides a matrix for consciously, and systematically assessing your use of time and discovering your top fulfillment buttons in your life.
You can manage modern life.
Here's Hallowell's ten key principles.
1.Do what matters to you.
2.Create positive emotional environments
3.Find your rhythm... we all have a rhythm that fits us. Find yours.
4.Invest your time wisely to get maximum return that fulfills you.
5.Don't waste time screensucking.
6.Control sources of gemmelsmerch...solving computer glitches, reading magazines, mail, email, TV, drop ins, flirtations.
7.Delegate. Do what you like to do and are good at. Get others to do the rest. Learn effective interdependence.
8. Slow down.
9.Don't multi-task ineffectively. Give one important item your full attention. Mix mindless with mindful activity.
10.Play. Imaginatively engage with what you are doing.
.... So prioritize, plan, systematize, and execute in a single focus.
Fast is not better, and slow can have its benefits. More is not necessary and less can reduce stress.
Move on to the C-state.
Connect with people/projects that matter the most to you.
Control technology and don't let it control you.
It is your slave not your master.
Cancel some people and organizational activities.
They probably can make it just fine without you.
Create structures and systems in your life
that help you get organized. Define personal priorities.
Care for what you care for most.
You don't have to do everything.
Cultivate your lilies; discard your leeches.
Figure out what you want;
then do it, let the rest go.
Hallowell has a free "help you through this" email service at:
http://www.crazybusylife.com/
Learn to live in rhythm of Spirit.
"Cease striving... know that I am God!"
(Psalm 46: 10 NASB)
"My purposes will be established.
I will accomplish the goals I set."
(Isaiah 46:10 NASB)
"Only I can tell you what is to happen before it happens.
Everything I plan will come to pass. For I do everything I wish."
(Isaiah 46:10 NLT)
So why do we, in a manic like state, rush around so. It is like life depends solely on us.
We need to only get into His Rhythm,
in His Flow in Spirit.
We then will Float in Spirit.
Enter His Presence. He accomplishes great feats there.
“For the Lord goes before you.”
(Isaiah 52:12)
We wait....
Just wait...
Jesus told His disciples to .... wait... and then "when" the Holy Spirit comes you will have Power, above your earthly abilities. My peace I give to you. I do the hard stuff, you just follow Me... Jesus would say.
Soak in His Presence... His all knowing, all places-at-one-time presence, working the world as He plans with his power that accomplishes what He sets out to.
Take time, first to rest, relax, totally recline in His Spirit before you do anything. Enter Spirit’s Sanctuary. Take this time to think on God's Powerful Greatness. Relish in Thought in Great things He is doing on your behalf. Dream on what He has for you… what your role is in His Presence.
Spirit is putting your inspired thoughts in motion at that time. Your images of mind are being carried out by Spirit at that time. It's in this place the earth is moved and changed.
It's here, you have peace, joy and action on your behalf. Serenity is here... a totally confident deeply relaxed state.
In this serenity is where action is activated. Here all the Heavens of the Universe Realms of Spirit Open up for you.
It is yours.
For you.
At your disposal.
And the Power goes to work as you enjoy, rest, reside and float in His Presence.
Get in this Rhythm of Spirit.
It is Floating in the raft on a deep slow river that lets you smell the lilies as you go by.
Wait...
Just wait...
Be still...
and Know...
Be still in Spirit.
Spirit is your master.
Mind and body are slaves to Spirit.
Make them that.
Spirit rests you,
communicates to you,
works on your behalf.
It communicates to mind and body.
Spirit made mind, and body.
It regulates, systematizes mind and body.
Make mind and body slaves to Spirit...
the creative power of the universe.
In Spirit, your mind is renewed. Order is put around you.
You live in a rhythm of Spirit-directed intelligence.
Our body's must rest to heal and refresh.
In Spirit the renewal builds for you.
Let the mind rest too.
Allow only Spirit life to flow in
and out of your mind.
When Spirit orders your life,
It flows with ease
It fulfills
It walks in joy.
“My demands are easy,
my requirements are light.”
Jesus says.
“I do the work for you.
You enjoy the process
of using the natural gifts
I placed in you.”
“I live in you and help you
solve problems. You don't have
to tackle them alone...
“I give you rest. Rest in Me.
The Sabbath was made for you. Rest in Me.”
“I give you a day to rest, refresh, renew
re-vision, re-hope while you rest, I work for you.”
Jesus says.
“Whatever you choose to obey
becomes your master.”
Romans 6:16 (NLT)
Choose to obey Spirit.
Let Spirit be your Master.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Small Giants... Big Hearts
By Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Small Giants (by Bo Burlingham, editor-at-large for Inc. magazine) opens a window so we can take a glimpse of a new business culture emerging. Burlingham interviewed several of what he calls "small giants." These companies see higher goals for business than just being the biggest, fastest growing, massive market domineering companies.
A new focus is on quality more than size(some have set limits on size but with unlimited standards for quality), building community more than just building the bottom-line, put employees first and customers second(when employees are well cared for they do very well in caring for the customers).
The new word is "intimacy."
Intimacy with the employee team, intimacy with customers and the creation of intimate community among each other. Zingerman’s Deli, Ann Arbor, Michigan is one example of these small giants.
Zingerman’s is in business for the purpose to contribute to the community although they don't use "good" as a clever avenue to business image building. Relationships with their communities overlap with their relationships with their customers and employees.
A phrase they espouse is "enlightened hospitality." Even when disaster strikes, like a waitress spilling water on a customer’s table, the whole serving team jumps in quickly to lighten the mood. They focus on building an intimate relationship with the customer, finding what their personal preferences are and knowing them when they come in each time to eat. It’s more than being nice and friendly, but knowing what the customer "really" likes and doing it.
They practice five core values:
Caring for each other
Caring for guests
Caring for the community
Caring for suppliers
Caring for investors and profitability
(in that order)
And the whole time making the job intensely and expectantly personal. They go beyond having satisfied customers. They work to have “happy” customers.
How do you build intimacy?
It depends on the relationship with each person in charge and employees.
--direct contact
--know who they are and what they do
--spend time together
--sharing important experiences together
--numerous one-on-one personal encounters.
One company leader shared that he looks out over his parking lot and says,
“I feel responsible for all those people out there.” ... “If you want a company that cares, you need people who care, and they need to be motivated by more than money. It takes well-designed, appropriate and value-driven systems, and processes to support and create the kind of cultures we’re all going after.”
Zingerman's has gained much notoriety on how they do business.
So they formed ZingTrain
(http://zingtrain.com/home.php)
that teaches other businesses its ways of doing business.
They persistently preach these cardinal steps to great service.
1. Figure out what the customer wants.
2. Get it for them accurately, politely and enthusiastically
3. Go the extra mile.
Small Giants’ author goes on to point out that he sees a growing, developing trend in business… "a burgeoning international movement to explore the role of Spirituality in work, and of work in Spirituality."
One company, Reell Precision Manufacturing
(Reell is from the German dictionary meaning honesty, dependability, or having authority) purposely expresses Christian perspectives in all they do. They feel responsible to expand each person to their full potential and have their business as an opportunity for each employee to do that.
Note Small Giants’ website:
http://www.smallgiantsbook.com/
What builds people is Spirit.
Spirit created all matter.
All that has ever started, lives and is transformed is by Spirit.
Spirit works in calculated patterns and has certain characteristics of its character, personality, functional dynamics. Jesus outlined many of these in the famous talk He gave on a hill.
(Matthew 5-7)
What if we used Jesus' principles and the Apostle Paul's as our relationship guidelines for building our business culture.
A checklist of normal behavior for building dynamic business culture would look like this:
--Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them.
--Stand on the side of the good.
--Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other.
--Never be lazy in your work, but serve the Lord enthusiastically.
--Be patient in trouble, and always be prayerful.
--When God's children are in need, be the one to help them out.
--If people aren't nice, don't curse them; pray that God will bless them.
--When others are happy, be happy with them.
--If they are sad, share their sorrow.
--Live in harmony with each other.
--Don't try to act important, but enjoy being around ordinary people.
--And don't think you know it all!
(above from Romans 12: 9-18)
--Clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
--Make allowance for each other's faults.
--Forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you forgive others.
--And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony.
--And let the peace that comes from Jesus rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are all called to live in peace.
--Always be grateful !
(from Colossians 3:12-15)
Be One.
Be one in Love.
Practice love that is "sacrificial Love."
Put others’ interests before yours. Rejoice more in others’ success than yours. Build others up before taking what you think you deserve.
Our behavior in relationships determines the magnitude of Spirit Power we have.
Why did Jesus feel being One, seeing ourselves as One in Spirit, in Community is so important as He prayed in John 17: 21? "My prayer for all of them is that they will be one, just as you and I are one, Father--that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us."
This is where the Power is... We, each other as One, and We as One, being One in Spirit with God and Jesus.
This force creates and re-creates all world systems. We can integrate ourselves with each other into this. We can in reality function in World Transforming Power.
The Small Giants are re-thinking the art of business. A New Spirit of business is morphing Spiritual principles in all their business practices.They are business transformational forerunners re-structuring business systems, priorities and business functions in America.
As One in Spirit, in Jesus Spirit, the enacting claim becomes ours...
"for YOU will DO even greater things."
We literally, as One in community within and outside the business, have this phenomenal power of Spirit working with us. We can thrive sensationally, extraordinarily, notably…Super-Naturally.
Live as One.
Apply Spiritually-charged, personal relationship standards to your daily checklist.
The Power of Spirit merges and collaborates with all you do.
Above all, each and everyone be One in Spirit in God, Jesus and all the Power of the Universe partners with you.
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Small Giants (by Bo Burlingham, editor-at-large for Inc. magazine) opens a window so we can take a glimpse of a new business culture emerging. Burlingham interviewed several of what he calls "small giants." These companies see higher goals for business than just being the biggest, fastest growing, massive market domineering companies.
A new focus is on quality more than size(some have set limits on size but with unlimited standards for quality), building community more than just building the bottom-line, put employees first and customers second(when employees are well cared for they do very well in caring for the customers).
The new word is "intimacy."
Intimacy with the employee team, intimacy with customers and the creation of intimate community among each other. Zingerman’s Deli, Ann Arbor, Michigan is one example of these small giants.
Zingerman’s is in business for the purpose to contribute to the community although they don't use "good" as a clever avenue to business image building. Relationships with their communities overlap with their relationships with their customers and employees.
A phrase they espouse is "enlightened hospitality." Even when disaster strikes, like a waitress spilling water on a customer’s table, the whole serving team jumps in quickly to lighten the mood. They focus on building an intimate relationship with the customer, finding what their personal preferences are and knowing them when they come in each time to eat. It’s more than being nice and friendly, but knowing what the customer "really" likes and doing it.
They practice five core values:
Caring for each other
Caring for guests
Caring for the community
Caring for suppliers
Caring for investors and profitability
(in that order)
And the whole time making the job intensely and expectantly personal. They go beyond having satisfied customers. They work to have “happy” customers.
How do you build intimacy?
It depends on the relationship with each person in charge and employees.
--direct contact
--know who they are and what they do
--spend time together
--sharing important experiences together
--numerous one-on-one personal encounters.
One company leader shared that he looks out over his parking lot and says,
“I feel responsible for all those people out there.” ... “If you want a company that cares, you need people who care, and they need to be motivated by more than money. It takes well-designed, appropriate and value-driven systems, and processes to support and create the kind of cultures we’re all going after.”
Zingerman's has gained much notoriety on how they do business.
So they formed ZingTrain
(http://zingtrain.com/home.php)
that teaches other businesses its ways of doing business.
They persistently preach these cardinal steps to great service.
1. Figure out what the customer wants.
2. Get it for them accurately, politely and enthusiastically
3. Go the extra mile.
Small Giants’ author goes on to point out that he sees a growing, developing trend in business… "a burgeoning international movement to explore the role of Spirituality in work, and of work in Spirituality."
One company, Reell Precision Manufacturing
(Reell is from the German dictionary meaning honesty, dependability, or having authority) purposely expresses Christian perspectives in all they do. They feel responsible to expand each person to their full potential and have their business as an opportunity for each employee to do that.
Note Small Giants’ website:
http://www.smallgiantsbook.com/
What builds people is Spirit.
Spirit created all matter.
All that has ever started, lives and is transformed is by Spirit.
Spirit works in calculated patterns and has certain characteristics of its character, personality, functional dynamics. Jesus outlined many of these in the famous talk He gave on a hill.
(Matthew 5-7)
What if we used Jesus' principles and the Apostle Paul's as our relationship guidelines for building our business culture.
A checklist of normal behavior for building dynamic business culture would look like this:
--Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them.
--Stand on the side of the good.
--Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other.
--Never be lazy in your work, but serve the Lord enthusiastically.
--Be patient in trouble, and always be prayerful.
--When God's children are in need, be the one to help them out.
--If people aren't nice, don't curse them; pray that God will bless them.
--When others are happy, be happy with them.
--If they are sad, share their sorrow.
--Live in harmony with each other.
--Don't try to act important, but enjoy being around ordinary people.
--And don't think you know it all!
(above from Romans 12: 9-18)
--Clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
--Make allowance for each other's faults.
--Forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you forgive others.
--And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony.
--And let the peace that comes from Jesus rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are all called to live in peace.
--Always be grateful !
(from Colossians 3:12-15)
Be One.
Be one in Love.
Practice love that is "sacrificial Love."
Put others’ interests before yours. Rejoice more in others’ success than yours. Build others up before taking what you think you deserve.
Our behavior in relationships determines the magnitude of Spirit Power we have.
Why did Jesus feel being One, seeing ourselves as One in Spirit, in Community is so important as He prayed in John 17: 21? "My prayer for all of them is that they will be one, just as you and I are one, Father--that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us."
This is where the Power is... We, each other as One, and We as One, being One in Spirit with God and Jesus.
This force creates and re-creates all world systems. We can integrate ourselves with each other into this. We can in reality function in World Transforming Power.
The Small Giants are re-thinking the art of business. A New Spirit of business is morphing Spiritual principles in all their business practices.They are business transformational forerunners re-structuring business systems, priorities and business functions in America.
As One in Spirit, in Jesus Spirit, the enacting claim becomes ours...
"for YOU will DO even greater things."
We literally, as One in community within and outside the business, have this phenomenal power of Spirit working with us. We can thrive sensationally, extraordinarily, notably…Super-Naturally.
Live as One.
Apply Spiritually-charged, personal relationship standards to your daily checklist.
The Power of Spirit merges and collaborates with all you do.
Above all, each and everyone be One in Spirit in God, Jesus and all the Power of the Universe partners with you.
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