by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
www.spiritsavvy.net
People on a mission, whether it's a great cause or a business venture, live by five power principles. They refine them and execute them well on a regular basis.
In investigating what works for building a vision, I found these underlying principles in all of them. Going back to the best-selling business books of the post depression era, these principles rebuilt America then, and they can rebuild American enterprise again today.
These strategies are also the foundation for how the Spirit Savvy Business goes about building noble business ventures, and worthy causes.
A consistent thread became clear when reviewing Napoleon Hill's findings, commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in the early 1900's to find what creates wealth; W. Clement Stone, who built a magnificent company in the ghettos of America; Og Mandino, the philosopher of riches in life and happiness; Dale Carnegie, the guru of personal relationship power... all of which are post-depression business thought leaders. They led us out of the Great Depression, and they remain the foundation for advanced thinking today. What are the threads that when woven together form invincible strength in a business vision or mission?
1. Faith. They all had faith, believing in something much better than themselves can happen. Their faith was enlarged by their faith in God. Everything was believed to be possible, because they saw God as an active part of the process, since His Spirit creates through those who believe in His Power at work. This bred enthusiasm... (enthusiasm means God is within). So all things are possible outside of them. Vision faith then becomes a powerful force in their lives... a creative vision of new potential.
2. Transformation of the mind. The mind had to be reprogrammed to a new way of thinking, continuous learning and learning from others. It takes deliberate mental rehearsal to accomplish this.
Moving the mind from negative to Positive,
from critical to the Possible,
from what's wrong to "How I can fix it!" way of thinking.
We do this by inundating our mind with Spiritual Thought, continually; by listening, thinking, speaking, reading, interacting... constantly cultivating a frame of mind of positive potential.
3. Form Dreaming Teams. A Dreaming Team includes those who dream with you for positive solutions. Those who collaborate to find ways to carry them out, to create new results. Napoleon Hill called them mastermind groups. Jesus said where two or three agree it will be done. When minds are in harmony great power is released... ideas which engage the powers of God's Spirit.
4. Strategic Action
Hill, Stone, Mandino all had Strategic Action in their plans. The strategic actions included Divine Guidance as part of them. In other words, they relied on God-Inspired ideas and sought God-orchestrated direction. They believed everyone can hear from God and have His High level of intelligence at work with them.
They combined knowledge with Divine Strategy and added collaborating, cooperative action.
5. Making Noble contributions to a society is what motivated them.
They become cause based and labored in a strong sense of mission. All problems that they solved had a Higher purpose. The opportunities which become evident were an important contribution to society and met the needs people were struggling with.
Today's statistics verify how inept business is today.
Two skills are essential.
Having personal skills of business, and mission,
and effectively using Spiritual skills.
Stephen Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, says the one critical intelligence lacking in America is the use of Spiritual Intelligence. We don't understand it or know how to use it. We get hung up on religious themes and over look the fundamentals of its power.
Unity of minds and spirit is where the power is. We must unite.
To develop people in using the skills of business and Spiritual skill enhancement, two hurdles needed to be crossed. Business people are busy and they have little time to attend meetings, or take time from the rush of a day to learn, refine and execute these skills in an accomplished way.The business owner is task based, so taking time for Spiritual preparations is many times rushed by. Many even believe in its value, but the pressures of the day cause him/her to be on the go without getting that in focus during the day.
To solve this problem, to efficiently develop these skills and help business create the foundations essential pointed out by our great business thinkers, I streamlined a development service, and use technology to assist in delivering information.
I email links on the internet of the best info from the best business minds in America to business/mission based people. From their best-selling business books I summarize their key business principles and post them on my blog. I add a study of Spiritual principles vital to business vitality at the end of each. Using the teachings the Bible (with an emphasis on the New Testament community), I share the powerful principles of Scripture showing how to use these in the every day goals, objectives, tasks of a business/mission effort.
Over a year, principles from 30 great best-selling business books are revealed. It's a year long "in the trenches" development program. I have used insights from the late J. Robert Ashcroft, visionary founder of Evangel University, on how Biblical power is available for us in the marketplace and how to be Spiritually empowered within your business skills each month. (Contact me and I would be glad send you the titles of business books featured.)
The power of dream teaming is added to the formula. Small cells of mind and Spirit power groups are formed to bring creative thinking, idea sharing, problem solving fulfillment into the mix. The group size is deliberately kept small from three to ten, of like-minded, compatible people. Meeting once or twice a month as needed, (in person, phone, email, video). The Special Forces in the military find that small, tightly-knit, well-trained groups, of 6 to 8 people, are quite powerful in executing important assignments.
The nucleus is Spiritual development from prayer and the Power of the Scriptures, integrated as part of the business operating philosophy. Prayer is learning the skill to tap into God's Great Power of Spirit, who empowers great things to happen.
The business transformation process is then in place.
Faith, belief in God's power in Spirit;
mental renewal, disciplined thinking and focus;
dreaming teams, of diversity but like-minded in heart and Spirit;
strategic action, from ideas which come from this Master mind of power;a cause/mission emerges that transform society for a greater good of humanity.
(Dale Shumaker, founder of the Spirit Savvy Business, M.S.,Educational Communications and Technology, researcher of entrepreneur skills, and student of the Bible and Spiritual applications in lifestyle. 417-224-3517, and I would be elated to show you ways to become one in business and Spirit and fulfill God's mission in your life through your mission and within commerce.)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Social Boom! ...the power of small communicating
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Social Boom! by Jeffrey Gitomer is about how to attract, engage, and connect on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Gitomer simply outlines what to use each for(the unwritten internet protocol), and how to go about it. It's one of those books that really needs to be on your business bookshelf as a reference guide to follow. Here are a few areas that are emphasized in the book.
The social media mentioned above are growing quickly. Social media is instant and you have to be ready to participate consistently, if you want to win. They need to be used interchangeably, and a business strategy for you is necessary. It's not like the old mass media that is constantly pushing their product on us. Value must be created, so people want to visit you, listen to what you have to say. From that the relationships formed produce business relationships that are solid and enduring. What you build in social media will last longer n business because you formed a relationship of value first that creates a connection. It's giving people a clear picture of who you are and who you aren't. So before they ever meet you, they know you.
What you should do?
Observe what your competition is doing on line.
Talk to your customers and ask what they want.
Communicate value messages, not product offerings.
To build influential messages...
be the one most fascinating on line; message first, media second, identify what makes you fascinating, start with information and then add insight, think in verbs, hit hot buttons, don't moan, stand out and don't be a bother... be fascinating. Social media is your personal brand, it's like a river, and you are in a fish bowl.
Eight steps for using social media are:
Find your prospects, follow them, read their posts, collect information, listen, connect (or share their ideas with others), reach out to them, align yourself with people that you know they follow and pay attention to.
Facebook
Create value. The more you give, the more attractive you become. Become a community. As you build a Facebook, keep in mind...
All social media is interconnected. You have to do ALL of them consistently to gain effective results. And you have to do them well if you expect to monetize your efforts.(Gitomer)
When starting your own business Facebook page, the five step formula is:
Gather the email addresses of each of your customers.
Begin gathering valuable content that your customers would perceive as usable and profitable. Have your business page designed graphically and strategically. Your Facebook page has to be a door that swings both ways. Use Gitomer's page as an example. (Search Jeffrey Gitomer on Facebook.)
Invite your customers to your page, and ask them to press "like".
Promise to be sending them information of value to them.
LinkedIn
Go to your LinkedIn page and look at three things.
How many connections do you have?
How many recommendations do you have?
What is your summary statement?
The imperatives of LinkedIn are: Complete your profile. Update and engage frequently with your connections. Recommend others. Solve other people's problems. Join and participate in groups. Start your own group. Search companies and harvest new leads. Respond to everyone who communicates with you. Set up the SlideShare application and add value. Change your status regularly. Put a video on your profile. Promote your blog. Add a portfolio. Integrate Twitter. Leverage LinkedIn's search power and be found.
To build rank on your LinkedIn:
Make the most of your headline. Make your current and past work experience keyword rich.
Make the most of the summary section. Specialties should equal keywords. Add key-word rich website links.
Create, promote, moderate, and leverage your own LinkedIn group. Be a group owner. This is a power feature of LinkedIn. Go to the Group tab and begin. Invite others to your group. Control undesirable comments. (Block out chronic toxic contributors, or make it by invitation only.)
Personalize your invitations to your LinkedIn and let them know why you would like to connect.
Twitter
Twitter is not about meaningless chit chat. It's about sharing of meaningful information, ideas, events, that others will want to retweet... something of great interest or value. The goal is tweeting something others will retweet as a result of a compelling interest. Include original thoughts or ideas and add your name at the end. This re-enforces your personal brand.
The power of Twitter is staying in touch every day with your network with information that is interesting, of value. It's simply about informing and sharing. A tweet of value is something new, let's your personality shine, asks questions, original in thought or observation, and shows you listen. You don't need 10,000 tweets to get 20,000 followers. You need 200 quality, relevant, valuable messages that are retweetable. (Gitomer)
People are sick and tired of being sold to. They are sick of being marketed to. They come to social networks for fun, information, connection, and entertainment.
A tweet of value a day will keep your business in the main stay. (dale)
Target connections with meaningful content is the goal. Content can come in many forms... link to your blog, a retweet, comments on your LinkedIn, anecdote of the day, a special event, content of value from your business or industry.
Twelve things to know about Twitter.
You have to be on Twitter regularly. A great source to traffic people to your website. Sharing information. Respond to people who contact you. Get your message across in few words. All tweets should be 20 characters short of the 140 limit to make it retweetable. Use hashtags to categorize. Tweets have a short lifespan. Great for finding new information or look for opportunities. Use Hootesuite to schedule tweets. Best tweet times are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m Eastern Standard Time. Twitter followers are great people.
The world is not just small, it's instant. (Gitomer)
YouTube
YouTube provides the biggest opportunity to promote your name, brand, anyone in the world can watch and its free.
YouTube opportunities include a place to share client testimonials, share your business philosophy and best ideas, record your favorite customer, and anything else your imagination can conjure up. It's an entertainment, informational marketplace so others see your heart, spirit, with your ideas. Start with what you have, don't create videos, create a series of videos(brief and to the point), use videos of you speaking to others, build yourself an audience(invite, invite, constantly invite others to watch), change your business model to include YouTube and work from a strategic plan. Instead of taking 20 minutes to get your 4 points across, create a series of 4 videos, five minutes for each point.
Use a blog to glue everything together... Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Your blog should have current photos and updated biography, value in why you're blogging, news, fun, insight, information, humor, and pass-it-on information.
The glue process is your personal website, your weekly e-zine, and your blog. Ask for email addresses, and email your email magazine. This is a weekly value message that reaches your customers and prospects. Ask first, send value, and they will stay connected and pass it on.
Messages of value have to be genuine, authentic, without an offer to buy. It must be transparent without expectation of return or response.
Since everything is interconnect, a person has all the options to find more of you and see all you have to offer. You stimulate word-of-mouth marketing by being interesting, making it easy, make people happy, and earn their trust and respect.
To capsulize... The formula for business social media success: Attract people, engage people, connect people. The best way to accomplish all three is with value. (Gitomer)
Read Gitomer, brainstorm with friends and create your business social media game plan. For a taste of Jeffrey Gitomer
http://www.facebook.com/JeffreyGitomer
The Strength of Spiritual relationship is in communication. When we pray we communicate. When we pray for others we communicate. When we speak to others we empower them. Our words empower others.
The Scriptures say by the word of your testimony, it is done. God spoke and the world formed. His words shake the universal violently.
We speak and people respond. When in a position of authority people do as we say, become as we say. Communication is powerful. The Holy Spirit puts us in a position of authority. When it is spoken by the unction of the Holy Spirit there's transformational, convicting, responsive power. The Words from Spirit are invincibly, persuasively powerful.
Power is manifested and Supernatural results come about when people are in unity. Unity requires communication. When there is agreement, one-in-thought and Spirit, all Heaven comes to earth. All of Heaven surrounds our purposes.
The teachings on the Body of Christ, by Dr. J. Robert Ashcroft surmised this well.
They were no longer just a group meeting together, but an intimacy among them became obviously apparent. It was an intimate sharing fellowship as all things were considered to be in common and shared by all. This was done to such an extent, no one person in the group was without. All needs were met. Individuals seemed to lose individual identities in the group. There was a vicarious unselfishness to share all blessings with each other.
Unity in all things was the word of the day. (All of this involves communication.)
1. They were in unity as One with God.
2. They were one in themselves, one with the Holy Spirit now working vigorously through them. They turned over selfish ambitions for God's directives speaking unceasingly through them.
3. They were one with each other. As Peter spoke to the crowd afterward... He was speaking as the whole group of 11 disciples. A unique occurrence.
4. They were in unity with all Believers. Togetherness was the characteristic of the group, as well as the condition behind why they all had so much power now.
5. They were in communication. Now, the Spirit was communicating through them from the Spirit within them. They had God's voice in them speaking to them.
6. They were in unity in material things. They shared things of value with each other... food, clothing, shelter, houses, transportation. Even though most were in poverty, in their sharing they all become a group without any lack among them. Prosperity seems to promote individualism... individualism weakens Spiritual power. Their power came from their sharing... a new concept of power's origins.
7. They were in unity in witnessing. They had favor with all people and people listened to them. They were amazed that they seemed to know so much, and were bold as an authority in their field even though not educated. The warmth and love they had among each other, attracted many to them.
All this centered around the unity of Spirit as One Group they had. When there is disunity, the power is zapped. We should avoid disunity at all costs. Satan's premiere tool to make the Church powerless is to create disunity. When that happens, Power is diluted, exponentially, from the group. To the same degree, when their is unity, power is added exponentially to the group.
The Unity of Believers Brought the manifestation of God's Presence.
Today with all the social media, with a strategic use of resources, we can cause great things to emerge from the Power Principles of the Scriptures.
Facebook can be used to cultivate friendships, testimonies of life, share needs.
Twitter to keep in touch in sound bites, as well as texting, for instant updating.
LinkedIn to build a marketplace connection of Kingdom objectives with strategies to inject the potency of Spirit in the marketplace.
YouTube to be our pulpit for sharing revelations as they come.
Blog to allow gifts of thought to flow.
We have tools to do great things in the Kingdom of God for the Kingdom of God and mobilize an army for the Kingdom of God. We can be the army.
It's in sharing where the power is. Communicate and speak power into people. Use all the tools available. And then our coming together will be more powerful. So Powerful that we will see supernatural expressions of God's Spirit in all things around us.
4spirit@gmail.com
Social Boom! by Jeffrey Gitomer is about how to attract, engage, and connect on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Gitomer simply outlines what to use each for(the unwritten internet protocol), and how to go about it. It's one of those books that really needs to be on your business bookshelf as a reference guide to follow. Here are a few areas that are emphasized in the book.
The social media mentioned above are growing quickly. Social media is instant and you have to be ready to participate consistently, if you want to win. They need to be used interchangeably, and a business strategy for you is necessary. It's not like the old mass media that is constantly pushing their product on us. Value must be created, so people want to visit you, listen to what you have to say. From that the relationships formed produce business relationships that are solid and enduring. What you build in social media will last longer n business because you formed a relationship of value first that creates a connection. It's giving people a clear picture of who you are and who you aren't. So before they ever meet you, they know you.
What you should do?
Observe what your competition is doing on line.
Talk to your customers and ask what they want.
Communicate value messages, not product offerings.
To build influential messages...
be the one most fascinating on line; message first, media second, identify what makes you fascinating, start with information and then add insight, think in verbs, hit hot buttons, don't moan, stand out and don't be a bother... be fascinating. Social media is your personal brand, it's like a river, and you are in a fish bowl.
Eight steps for using social media are:
Find your prospects, follow them, read their posts, collect information, listen, connect (or share their ideas with others), reach out to them, align yourself with people that you know they follow and pay attention to.
Create value. The more you give, the more attractive you become. Become a community. As you build a Facebook, keep in mind...
All social media is interconnected. You have to do ALL of them consistently to gain effective results. And you have to do them well if you expect to monetize your efforts.(Gitomer)
When starting your own business Facebook page, the five step formula is:
Gather the email addresses of each of your customers.
Begin gathering valuable content that your customers would perceive as usable and profitable. Have your business page designed graphically and strategically. Your Facebook page has to be a door that swings both ways. Use Gitomer's page as an example. (Search Jeffrey Gitomer on Facebook.)
Invite your customers to your page, and ask them to press "like".
Promise to be sending them information of value to them.
Go to your LinkedIn page and look at three things.
How many connections do you have?
How many recommendations do you have?
What is your summary statement?
The imperatives of LinkedIn are: Complete your profile. Update and engage frequently with your connections. Recommend others. Solve other people's problems. Join and participate in groups. Start your own group. Search companies and harvest new leads. Respond to everyone who communicates with you. Set up the SlideShare application and add value. Change your status regularly. Put a video on your profile. Promote your blog. Add a portfolio. Integrate Twitter. Leverage LinkedIn's search power and be found.
To build rank on your LinkedIn:
Make the most of your headline. Make your current and past work experience keyword rich.
Make the most of the summary section. Specialties should equal keywords. Add key-word rich website links.
Create, promote, moderate, and leverage your own LinkedIn group. Be a group owner. This is a power feature of LinkedIn. Go to the Group tab and begin. Invite others to your group. Control undesirable comments. (Block out chronic toxic contributors, or make it by invitation only.)
Personalize your invitations to your LinkedIn and let them know why you would like to connect.
Twitter is not about meaningless chit chat. It's about sharing of meaningful information, ideas, events, that others will want to retweet... something of great interest or value. The goal is tweeting something others will retweet as a result of a compelling interest. Include original thoughts or ideas and add your name at the end. This re-enforces your personal brand.
The power of Twitter is staying in touch every day with your network with information that is interesting, of value. It's simply about informing and sharing. A tweet of value is something new, let's your personality shine, asks questions, original in thought or observation, and shows you listen. You don't need 10,000 tweets to get 20,000 followers. You need 200 quality, relevant, valuable messages that are retweetable. (Gitomer)
People are sick and tired of being sold to. They are sick of being marketed to. They come to social networks for fun, information, connection, and entertainment.
A tweet of value a day will keep your business in the main stay. (dale)
Target connections with meaningful content is the goal. Content can come in many forms... link to your blog, a retweet, comments on your LinkedIn, anecdote of the day, a special event, content of value from your business or industry.
Twelve things to know about Twitter.
You have to be on Twitter regularly. A great source to traffic people to your website. Sharing information. Respond to people who contact you. Get your message across in few words. All tweets should be 20 characters short of the 140 limit to make it retweetable. Use hashtags to categorize. Tweets have a short lifespan. Great for finding new information or look for opportunities. Use Hootesuite to schedule tweets. Best tweet times are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m Eastern Standard Time. Twitter followers are great people.
The world is not just small, it's instant. (Gitomer)
YouTube
YouTube provides the biggest opportunity to promote your name, brand, anyone in the world can watch and its free.
YouTube opportunities include a place to share client testimonials, share your business philosophy and best ideas, record your favorite customer, and anything else your imagination can conjure up. It's an entertainment, informational marketplace so others see your heart, spirit, with your ideas. Start with what you have, don't create videos, create a series of videos(brief and to the point), use videos of you speaking to others, build yourself an audience(invite, invite, constantly invite others to watch), change your business model to include YouTube and work from a strategic plan. Instead of taking 20 minutes to get your 4 points across, create a series of 4 videos, five minutes for each point.
Use a blog to glue everything together... Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Your blog should have current photos and updated biography, value in why you're blogging, news, fun, insight, information, humor, and pass-it-on information.
The glue process is your personal website, your weekly e-zine, and your blog. Ask for email addresses, and email your email magazine. This is a weekly value message that reaches your customers and prospects. Ask first, send value, and they will stay connected and pass it on.
Messages of value have to be genuine, authentic, without an offer to buy. It must be transparent without expectation of return or response.
Since everything is interconnect, a person has all the options to find more of you and see all you have to offer. You stimulate word-of-mouth marketing by being interesting, making it easy, make people happy, and earn their trust and respect.
To capsulize... The formula for business social media success: Attract people, engage people, connect people. The best way to accomplish all three is with value. (Gitomer)
Read Gitomer, brainstorm with friends and create your business social media game plan. For a taste of Jeffrey Gitomer
http://www.facebook.com/
The Strength of Spiritual relationship is in communication. When we pray we communicate. When we pray for others we communicate. When we speak to others we empower them. Our words empower others.
The Scriptures say by the word of your testimony, it is done. God spoke and the world formed. His words shake the universal violently.
We speak and people respond. When in a position of authority people do as we say, become as we say. Communication is powerful. The Holy Spirit puts us in a position of authority. When it is spoken by the unction of the Holy Spirit there's transformational, convicting, responsive power. The Words from Spirit are invincibly, persuasively powerful.
Power is manifested and Supernatural results come about when people are in unity. Unity requires communication. When there is agreement, one-in-thought and Spirit, all Heaven comes to earth. All of Heaven surrounds our purposes.
The teachings on the Body of Christ, by Dr. J. Robert Ashcroft surmised this well.
They were no longer just a group meeting together, but an intimacy among them became obviously apparent. It was an intimate sharing fellowship as all things were considered to be in common and shared by all. This was done to such an extent, no one person in the group was without. All needs were met. Individuals seemed to lose individual identities in the group. There was a vicarious unselfishness to share all blessings with each other.
Unity in all things was the word of the day. (All of this involves communication.)
1. They were in unity as One with God.
2. They were one in themselves, one with the Holy Spirit now working vigorously through them. They turned over selfish ambitions for God's directives speaking unceasingly through them.
3. They were one with each other. As Peter spoke to the crowd afterward... He was speaking as the whole group of 11 disciples. A unique occurrence.
4. They were in unity with all Believers. Togetherness was the characteristic of the group, as well as the condition behind why they all had so much power now.
5. They were in communication. Now, the Spirit was communicating through them from the Spirit within them. They had God's voice in them speaking to them.
6. They were in unity in material things. They shared things of value with each other... food, clothing, shelter, houses, transportation. Even though most were in poverty, in their sharing they all become a group without any lack among them. Prosperity seems to promote individualism... individualism weakens Spiritual power. Their power came from their sharing... a new concept of power's origins.
7. They were in unity in witnessing. They had favor with all people and people listened to them. They were amazed that they seemed to know so much, and were bold as an authority in their field even though not educated. The warmth and love they had among each other, attracted many to them.
All this centered around the unity of Spirit as One Group they had. When there is disunity, the power is zapped. We should avoid disunity at all costs. Satan's premiere tool to make the Church powerless is to create disunity. When that happens, Power is diluted, exponentially, from the group. To the same degree, when their is unity, power is added exponentially to the group.
The Unity of Believers Brought the manifestation of God's Presence.
Today with all the social media, with a strategic use of resources, we can cause great things to emerge from the Power Principles of the Scriptures.
Facebook can be used to cultivate friendships, testimonies of life, share needs.
Twitter to keep in touch in sound bites, as well as texting, for instant updating.
LinkedIn to build a marketplace connection of Kingdom objectives with strategies to inject the potency of Spirit in the marketplace.
YouTube to be our pulpit for sharing revelations as they come.
Blog to allow gifts of thought to flow.
We have tools to do great things in the Kingdom of God for the Kingdom of God and mobilize an army for the Kingdom of God. We can be the army.
It's in sharing where the power is. Communicate and speak power into people. Use all the tools available. And then our coming together will be more powerful. So Powerful that we will see supernatural expressions of God's Spirit in all things around us.
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Absolute Surrender... kept by God's Great Power
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray (1828-1917) is a Christian classic on living in the authority of God's Spirit and His Power in our life, visible daily. The section on Kept by the Power of God outlines the ingredients for experiencing this on a daily basis. Murray is a Spiritually anointed inspirational writer. Here are excerpts from this powerful guide to living in Spirit's power... Kept by the Power of God.
We have two wonderful, blessed truths about the keeping by which a believer is kept unto salvation. One truth is, Kept by the power of God; and the other truth is, Kept through faith. We should look at the two sides... at God’s side and His almighty power, offered to us to be our Keeper every moment of the day; and at the human side, we having nothing to do but in faith to let God do His keeping work. We see there is a double keeping... the inheritance kept for me in Heaven, and I on earth kept for the inheritance there.
Keeping Includes All
Think, first of all, that this keeping is all-inclusive.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/surrender.toc.html
Click on the chapter, Kept by the Power of God, for the complete chapter above.
4spirit@gmail.com
Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray (1828-1917) is a Christian classic on living in the authority of God's Spirit and His Power in our life, visible daily. The section on Kept by the Power of God outlines the ingredients for experiencing this on a daily basis. Murray is a Spiritually anointed inspirational writer. Here are excerpts from this powerful guide to living in Spirit's power... Kept by the Power of God.
We have two wonderful, blessed truths about the keeping by which a believer is kept unto salvation. One truth is, Kept by the power of God; and the other truth is, Kept through faith. We should look at the two sides... at God’s side and His almighty power, offered to us to be our Keeper every moment of the day; and at the human side, we having nothing to do but in faith to let God do His keeping work. We see there is a double keeping... the inheritance kept for me in Heaven, and I on earth kept for the inheritance there.
Keeping Includes All
Think, first of all, that this keeping is all-inclusive.
He knows you are not able to keep yourself. But God says: “My child, there is no work you are to do, and no business in which you are engaged, and not a cent which you are to spend, but I, your Father, will take that up into my keeping.”
God not only cares for the spiritual, but for the temporal also. The greater part of the life of many people must be spent, sometimes eight or nine or ten hours a day, amid the temptations and distractions of business; but God will care for you there. The keeping of God includes all. Now, I bring you the message that in prosperity as in adversity, in the sunshine as in the dark, your God is ready to keep you all the time. The meaning is, that if you will entrust yourself entirely and absolutely to the omnipotence of God, He will delight to keep you.
Keeping Requires Power
Second, if you want to understand this keeping, remember that it is not only an all-inclusive keeping, but it is an almighty keeping. Have you ever thought that in every action of grace in your heart you have the whole omnipotence of God engaged to bless you?
What is Almighty God not going to do for the child that trusts Him? The Bible says: “Above all that we can ask or think." It is Omnipotence you must learn to know and trust, and then you will live as a Christian ought to live. How little we have learned to study God, and to understand that a godly life is a life full of God, a life that loves God and waits on Him, and trusts Him, and allows Him to bless it! We cannot do the will of God except by the power of God. God gives us the first experience of His power to prepare us to long for more, and to come and claim all that He can do. God help us to trust Him every day.
Keeping Is Continuous
Another thought. This keeping is not only all-inclusive and omnipotent, but also continuous and unbroken. God comes to us as the Almighty One, and without any condition He offers to be my Keeper, and His keeping means that day by day, moment by moment, God is going to keep us. Our whole spiritual life is to be God’s doing... "It is God that works in us to will and to do of his good pleasure. ” When once we get faith to expect that from God, God will do all for us. Every morning God will meet you as you wake. If you trust your waking to God, God will meet you in the morning as you wake with His divine sunshine and love, and He will give you the consciousness that through the day you have got God to take charge of you continuously with His almighty power. And God will meet you the next day and every day; and never mind if in the practice of fellowship there comes failure sometimes. If you maintain your position and say: “Lord, I am going to expect You to do Your utmost, and I am going to trust You day by day to keep me absolutely,” your faith will grow stronger and stronger, and you will know the keeping power of God in unbrokenness.
And now the other side—Believing. “Kept by the power of God through faith.” How must we look at this faith?
Faith Implies Helplessness
First of all, this faith means utter impotence and helplessness before God. At the bottom of all faith there is a feeling of helplessness. And so faith always means helplessness. In many cases it means: I can do it with a great deal of trouble, but another can do it better. But in most cases it is utter helplessness; another must do it for me. And that is the secret of the spiritual life. A man must learn to say: “I give up everything; I have tried and longed and thought and prayed, but failure has come. God has blessed me and helped me, but still, in the long run, there has been so much of sin and sadness.” What a change comes when a man is thus broken down into utter helplessness and self-despair, and says: “I can do nothing!” It is possible that you might exalt yourself, and therefore I have sent you this trial to keep you weak and humble.”
It is when we sink down in utter helplessness that the everlasting God will reveal Himself in His power, and that our hearts will learn to trust God alone.
But how am I to get that trust?”
My answer is: “By the death of self. The great hindrance to trust is self-effort. So long as you have got your own wisdom and thoughts and strength, you cannot fully trust God. But when God breaks you down, when everything begins to grow dim before your eyes, and you see that you understand nothing, then God is coming near, and if you will bow down in nothingness and wait upon God, He will become all.”
As long as we are something, God cannot be all, and His omnipotence cannot do its full work. That is the beginning of faith... utter despair of self, a ceasing from man and everything on earth, and finding our hope in God alone.
Faith Is Rest
And then, next, we must understand that faith is rest.
In the beginning of the faith-life, faith is struggling; but as long as faith is struggling, faith has not attained its strength. But when faith in its struggling gets to the end of itself, and just throws itself upon God and rests on Him, then comes joy and victory.
Oh, friends, that is faith! When God comes to me with the promise of His keeping, and I have nothing on earth to trust in, I say to God: “Your word is enough; kept by the power of God.” That is faith, that is rest.
My God, let my life be a proof of what the omnipotent God can do. Let these be the two dispositions of our souls every day... deep helplessness, and simple, childlike rest.
Faith Needs Fellowship
That brings me to just one more thought in regard to faith... faith implies fellowship with God. No goodness or power can be received separate from God, and if you want to get into this life of godliness, you must take time for fellowship with God.
Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you. Look up into the face of your loving Father, and take time every day with Him, and begin a new life with the deep emptiness and poverty of a man who has got nothing, and who wants to get everything from Him... with the deep restfulness of a man who rests on the living God, the omnipotent Jehovah... and try God, and prove Him if He will not open the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing that there shall not be room to receive it.
Shall we not say: “All that that omnipotence can do, I am going to trust my God for”? Are not the two sides of this heavenly life wonderful? God’s omnipotence covers me, and my will in its littleness rests in that omnipotence, and rejoices in it!
This is from Absolute Surrender which is online at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.http://www.ccel.org/ccel/
Click on the chapter, Kept by the Power of God, for the complete chapter above.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Lead with LUV ... one in Spirit
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Lead with LUV by Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett (President Emeritus of Southwest Airlines)
reveal through dialogue her secrets of being a Love Manager. Southwest Airlines, with LUV as its stock market symbol, lived in a love relationship with each other, customers and stock holders. During Barrett's servant leadership as president until 2008, Southwest's culture was all about love.
As Southwest's LUV leader and followers of the Golden Rule, her VP of marketing said this of Colleen. "Colleen teaches us that love is what matters and that you have to lead with your heart and know that the heart will take you in the right directions."
Servant leadership is about love. Although this view is seen in the corporate world as a soft idea. Love is a powerful driving force. Loving your mission, customers, your people, yourself, so others can be magnificent. The true servant leader deals with vision/direction, strategic leadership to see that everything goes in the same direction.
The servant leader has a triple bottom line. Treat your people right as your most valued customer. the employees then treat the passenger (the customer) as their most valued person in warmth, caring, and a fun spirit. The customer tells others and comes back, so then the shareholders benefit from this love cycle. As the employer of choice, the provider of choice, the investment of choice, the triple bottom line yields the financial bottom line.
Make your people your business partners in every way.
Servant leaders run with a compelling vision which includes a significant purpose (what business are you in?), a picture of the future (what it will look like if successful?), clear values (what guides your behavior and decisions daily?). It tells you who you are, where you're going, and what guides you in getting there. People admire your strengths, but they respect your honesty regarding your vulnerability.
Servant leadership is love in action. How are you defining love?
Patient. Patience is helping people down on their luck, rebuilding self-confidence.
Kind. Kindness seeks to be useful, and searches for opportunities to do good.
Generous. Generosity rejoices over others' success, recognizing and rewarding acts of courage, determination, sacrifice, or goodwill.
Courteous. Courtesy is to be love in little things, promoting the happiness of all.
Humble. Humility does not call attention to itself, bloat up with self-conceit, take credit for ideas. People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
Unselfish. Unselfishness never neglects others. Consider others, their welfare, satisfaction and advantage to be above its own. Never advancing, aggrandizing, enriching, gratifying itself at the cost of others.
Good temper. Love restrains passions and is not exasperated, never angry without a cause. Anger cannot rest in a heart where love reigns.
Guileless. Love thinks no evil, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action.
Sincere. Love takes no pleasure in doing injury or hurting others, or broadcasting someone's miscues. It doesn't gossip or bear false witness, taking time to thank people for their worthwhile contributions.
The true test of a servant leader, who maintains a healthy culture, one with everyone involved in feedback, is to have other servant leaders who are wiser, freer, more autonomous, healthier and better able themselves to become servant leaders.
In summary, Colleen loves this company, loves the employees, the customers.
Commonly referred to as a fun-LUVin company, leading with love is a different (and fun) way to create success.
"Every dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
Ken Blanchard's website:
http://www.kenblanchard.com/
Oswald Chambers is a classic prolific inspirational writing. His devotional My Utmost for His Highest reflect his insights to vibrant Spiritual living. Ponder these excerpts from May 22 through May 29. Current daily devotionals appear at
http://utmost.org/
God reveals in John 17 that His purpose is not just to answer our prayers, but that through prayer we might come to discern His mind. Yet there is one prayer which God must answer, and that is the prayer of Jesus. . . that they may be one just as We are one . . ." Are we as close to Jesus Christ as that?
Jesus prayed nothing less for us than absolute oneness with Himself, just as He was one with the Father. Some of us are far from this oneness; yet God will not leave us alone until we are one with Him— because Jesus prayed, “. . . that they all may be one . . . .”
Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as unbelief. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will squeeze right through our lives, as if to ask, “Now where do I come into this relationship, this vacation you have planned, or these new books you want to read?” And He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion. “. . . do not worry about your life . . . .” Don’t take the pressure of your provision upon yourself.
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eyes focused on God. And God says to us, as He did to Abram, “. . . walk before Me. . .”
Our thinking about prayer... The correct concept is to think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts. Our blood flows and our breathing continues “without ceasing”; we are not even conscious of it, but it never stops. And we are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect oneness with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. “Pray without ceasing . . . " maintain the childlike habit of offering up prayer in your heart to God all the time.
The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of a believer. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord.
If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your spirit, your true inner nature, that is where the problem is. Once your inner spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, your understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. “In that day you will ask Me nothing.”
“. . . whatever you ask the Father in My name . . .” “That day” is a day of peace and an untroubled relationship between God and His saint. Just as Jesus stood unblemished and pure in the presence of His Father, we too by the mighty power and effectiveness of the baptism of the Holy Spirit can be lifted into that relationship—”. . . that they may be one just as We are one . . ."
Put trust in God first. Being one with Him, we have all His ever expansive universe as part of our life as we live to be His instrument on earth.
4spirit@gmail.com
Lead with LUV by Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett (President Emeritus of Southwest Airlines)
reveal through dialogue her secrets of being a Love Manager. Southwest Airlines, with LUV as its stock market symbol, lived in a love relationship with each other, customers and stock holders. During Barrett's servant leadership as president until 2008, Southwest's culture was all about love.
As Southwest's LUV leader and followers of the Golden Rule, her VP of marketing said this of Colleen. "Colleen teaches us that love is what matters and that you have to lead with your heart and know that the heart will take you in the right directions."
Servant leadership is about love. Although this view is seen in the corporate world as a soft idea. Love is a powerful driving force. Loving your mission, customers, your people, yourself, so others can be magnificent. The true servant leader deals with vision/direction, strategic leadership to see that everything goes in the same direction.
The servant leader has a triple bottom line. Treat your people right as your most valued customer. the employees then treat the passenger (the customer) as their most valued person in warmth, caring, and a fun spirit. The customer tells others and comes back, so then the shareholders benefit from this love cycle. As the employer of choice, the provider of choice, the investment of choice, the triple bottom line yields the financial bottom line.
Make your people your business partners in every way.
Servant leaders run with a compelling vision which includes a significant purpose (what business are you in?), a picture of the future (what it will look like if successful?), clear values (what guides your behavior and decisions daily?). It tells you who you are, where you're going, and what guides you in getting there. People admire your strengths, but they respect your honesty regarding your vulnerability.
Servant leadership is love in action. How are you defining love?
Patient. Patience is helping people down on their luck, rebuilding self-confidence.
Kind. Kindness seeks to be useful, and searches for opportunities to do good.
Generous. Generosity rejoices over others' success, recognizing and rewarding acts of courage, determination, sacrifice, or goodwill.
Courteous. Courtesy is to be love in little things, promoting the happiness of all.
Humble. Humility does not call attention to itself, bloat up with self-conceit, take credit for ideas. People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
Unselfish. Unselfishness never neglects others. Consider others, their welfare, satisfaction and advantage to be above its own. Never advancing, aggrandizing, enriching, gratifying itself at the cost of others.
Good temper. Love restrains passions and is not exasperated, never angry without a cause. Anger cannot rest in a heart where love reigns.
Guileless. Love thinks no evil, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action.
Sincere. Love takes no pleasure in doing injury or hurting others, or broadcasting someone's miscues. It doesn't gossip or bear false witness, taking time to thank people for their worthwhile contributions.
The true test of a servant leader, who maintains a healthy culture, one with everyone involved in feedback, is to have other servant leaders who are wiser, freer, more autonomous, healthier and better able themselves to become servant leaders.
In summary, Colleen loves this company, loves the employees, the customers.
Commonly referred to as a fun-LUVin company, leading with love is a different (and fun) way to create success.
"Every dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
Ken Blanchard's website:
http://www.kenblanchard.com/
Oswald Chambers is a classic prolific inspirational writing. His devotional My Utmost for His Highest reflect his insights to vibrant Spiritual living. Ponder these excerpts from May 22 through May 29. Current daily devotionals appear at
http://utmost.org/
God reveals in John 17 that His purpose is not just to answer our prayers, but that through prayer we might come to discern His mind. Yet there is one prayer which God must answer, and that is the prayer of Jesus. . . that they may be one just as We are one . . ." Are we as close to Jesus Christ as that?
Jesus prayed nothing less for us than absolute oneness with Himself, just as He was one with the Father. Some of us are far from this oneness; yet God will not leave us alone until we are one with Him— because Jesus prayed, “. . . that they all may be one . . . .”
Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as unbelief. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will squeeze right through our lives, as if to ask, “Now where do I come into this relationship, this vacation you have planned, or these new books you want to read?” And He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion. “. . . do not worry about your life . . . .” Don’t take the pressure of your provision upon yourself.
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eyes focused on God. And God says to us, as He did to Abram, “. . . walk before Me. . .”
Our thinking about prayer... The correct concept is to think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts. Our blood flows and our breathing continues “without ceasing”; we are not even conscious of it, but it never stops. And we are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect oneness with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. “Pray without ceasing . . . " maintain the childlike habit of offering up prayer in your heart to God all the time.
The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of a believer. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord.
If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your spirit, your true inner nature, that is where the problem is. Once your inner spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, your understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. “In that day you will ask Me nothing.”
“. . . whatever you ask the Father in My name . . .” “That day” is a day of peace and an untroubled relationship between God and His saint. Just as Jesus stood unblemished and pure in the presence of His Father, we too by the mighty power and effectiveness of the baptism of the Holy Spirit can be lifted into that relationship—”. . . that they may be one just as We are one . . ."
Put trust in God first. Being one with Him, we have all His ever expansive universe as part of our life as we live to be His instrument on earth.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Tell to Win ... the greatest story ever told
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Tell to Win by Peter Guber is about how to connect, persuade, and triumph with the hidden power of story. Everyone is in the emotional transportation business. Purposeful stories, those created with a specific mission in mind, are absolutely essential in persuading others to support a vision, dream or cause. Guber is from the movie industry and he has learned what works in movies, we can learn similar principles that work when we communicate to others with the power of the story. In any environment, place, you to can create a compelling story that connects and persuades.
The components of a good story, whether told in person, on a page or via actors, are challenge, struggle, and resolution.
First, get the listener's attention with an unexpected challenge or question.
Next, then give your listeners an emotional experience by narrating the struggle to overcome the challenge, or find an answer to the opening question.
Finally, galvanize your listeners' response with an eye-opening resolution that calls them to action.
From Guber's movie experience he says you are skunked if the three part story-listening experience is not delivered.
What fuels emotional transportation?
1. True heroes are sympathetic and recognizable characters. Your hero in the story is the conductor. The more sympathetic to this person, the more we feel bound to the story.
2. Drama gets your story moving. Once we have our hero, what keeps us spellbound is wondering what will happen next. Create tension between expectation and uncertainty. Emotional tension makes you think it might go this way, or go that way, so your listener hangs with you to find out. It's that we want something to turn out one way, but with the situation it could have several outcomes. This is emotional tension that keeps us in the story to find out. The "what happens next" is a compelling story telling component that keeps the audience glued to you.
3. Get people from "ah" to "ha." Or moving the emotional to the ahha, "I got it".This is what is going on and how it turned out.
4. Move from the me to the we factor. That the story is shared by the other person too. It now becomes a shared experience between you, another person or a group. The teller and listener feel the benefit of the experience. We align in interests and others know what's in it for them.
The meat of Win to Tell details the art of the "tell" which is ready... set... tell.
Ready... To tell a great story preparation is key. Do your homework and demonstrate authenticity and congruence, the rails which your story rides. Aim for the heart and emotionalize your offering. Be interested in what your listener is interested in. Then they will find your story interesting and compelling. Know your audience and what interests them. Be aware of your listeners' prejudices, pet issues. Overlooking this can hijack your whole story.
Set... your hero represents the point of view of your listener. He/she/it is the one your audience identifies with, the audience experiences the story through the hero. The call to action embraced by the hero will as well be embraced by the audience. Your hero is the person, place, product, or brand that enables your audience to feel the change promised in the story. Metaphors and analogies are great to use. In a single word, in a single image all the emotion and meaning can be delivered. Engaging powerful narratives from books, popular movies, history can emotionalize your call to action.
Tell! Present authentic, contagious energy. Your energy, that's real, is the catalyst for a great story. All audiences expect experiences. Being vulnerable is an asset, not a liability. Persist if you get a "no", and pressing on in spite of their fear ("no" comes from fear expressed in fight, flee, freeze) and change "no" to "on". Be clear on your goal, use inspiring stories, learn, refine and improve your story with each no. Rejection is just a sign to detour to find the better road to success. Your body talks more than your tongue. Be interactive, arouse curiosity, use props that support your story. Listen actively and responsively, be ready to drop your script when the situation calls for it. The audience needs to own it, so surrender control and proprietorship to your audience. The best raw material you have is your firsthand, witnessed experience.
To sustain a never-ending story, identify the essential elements of your story and the audiences who clearly echo the essence of your story. Multiply that by encouraging these audiences to retell your story through their own voice and through their own experience... their networks, relationships, social media of preference. State of the art technology has its benefits, although it's the state of the Heart technology that's the game changer when you can tell your story in the room, face to face.
More on Tell to Win at:
http://www.peterguber.com/telltowin/home
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a movie produced in the 60's. It was an epic portrayal of the life of Christ and why He was on earth... the son of God coming to earth in a human being.
It held all the intrigue of a great story. Jesus came with a challenge... to save mankind. He ran into struggles.... religious leaders conspiring to have Him put to death. Internal betrayal from one of his close associates.
And then the triumph. He was the only person ever to die, come back, and then leave again only to promise us that He would put in us the Same Spirit, that He had, to work in us continually. During the time on earth he deliberately set up a coalition of dedicated followers to spread the message He was sent to share and set up for all mankind.
He gave a bold promise... Jesus said He came to give life to everyone, and give it more abundantly than what we have now. He said that He was the way to this Life, He spoke the truth and showed how this world can work better. He was the light to see a better way. Our minds will be opened to see things like never before and get supernatural insights beyond our human ability. He said to believe in Him and He would give us all of this.
During the whole time while He was explaining how this would work, demonstrating how it worked by healing others and bringing grace into lives, a gang of holier-than-thou folks were out to get Him killed. Ironically, He never committed a real crime and beyond that, not one small sin that God would be opposed to. He was said to be perfect in His human relationships.
The whole time He kept dodging and having to outwit these scoundrels while setting up and training His team of special forces to carry on after He left the earth. He made a unique promise to His followers. That as a group, remaining unified, they would be like Him, with all the wisdom, power, revelation He had.
As the Greatest Story unfolded, He intensified His efforts to set up His Kingdom on earth, a Spiritual Kingdom, while He knew He was running out of time as these unscrupulous folks tried to capture Him and have Him killed. It was a race against the clock.
They finally caught Him and put Him to death after an unfair trial. Everyone thought His mission had been stopped. But He had the biggest surprise coming. After dying He came back and appeared to His followers, His meticulously trained associates, and gave them final instructions and encouragement to wage the battle of building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and to follow His example in how to do it. He told them to wait for a while and the Spirit that was on Him would come on them and all the things He did they would do. Beyond that all who joined in the crusade through the centuries would receive what He left on them. They would do just like Him, be just like Him, and get results like Him.
It was an intriguing strategy that would not ever be outwitted by anyone. He explained further and pointed out that they would mature in this and grow beyond where He was on earth. Leaving His physical body, He sent back a Spiritual body, made up of "many ones" united, to become bigger than He was while in a physical body as just one person. He said that increasing power will be in this united Spiritual body, and through it His Kingdom, a kingdom like Heaven, would grow and mature more than when He was on earth.
The story doesn't have an ending. It continues on and never dies. It's a never-ending story with its plot still unfolding. Those part of it are alive today, and will live together forever, even after a physical death just like Jesus went through. It's a story that's still alive, the greatest story ever told is still in the making.
4spirit@gmail.com
Tell to Win by Peter Guber is about how to connect, persuade, and triumph with the hidden power of story. Everyone is in the emotional transportation business. Purposeful stories, those created with a specific mission in mind, are absolutely essential in persuading others to support a vision, dream or cause. Guber is from the movie industry and he has learned what works in movies, we can learn similar principles that work when we communicate to others with the power of the story. In any environment, place, you to can create a compelling story that connects and persuades.
The components of a good story, whether told in person, on a page or via actors, are challenge, struggle, and resolution.
First, get the listener's attention with an unexpected challenge or question.
Next, then give your listeners an emotional experience by narrating the struggle to overcome the challenge, or find an answer to the opening question.
Finally, galvanize your listeners' response with an eye-opening resolution that calls them to action.
From Guber's movie experience he says you are skunked if the three part story-listening experience is not delivered.
What fuels emotional transportation?
1. True heroes are sympathetic and recognizable characters. Your hero in the story is the conductor. The more sympathetic to this person, the more we feel bound to the story.
2. Drama gets your story moving. Once we have our hero, what keeps us spellbound is wondering what will happen next. Create tension between expectation and uncertainty. Emotional tension makes you think it might go this way, or go that way, so your listener hangs with you to find out. It's that we want something to turn out one way, but with the situation it could have several outcomes. This is emotional tension that keeps us in the story to find out. The "what happens next" is a compelling story telling component that keeps the audience glued to you.
3. Get people from "ah" to "ha." Or moving the emotional to the ahha, "I got it".This is what is going on and how it turned out.
4. Move from the me to the we factor. That the story is shared by the other person too. It now becomes a shared experience between you, another person or a group. The teller and listener feel the benefit of the experience. We align in interests and others know what's in it for them.
The meat of Win to Tell details the art of the "tell" which is ready... set... tell.
Ready... To tell a great story preparation is key. Do your homework and demonstrate authenticity and congruence, the rails which your story rides. Aim for the heart and emotionalize your offering. Be interested in what your listener is interested in. Then they will find your story interesting and compelling. Know your audience and what interests them. Be aware of your listeners' prejudices, pet issues. Overlooking this can hijack your whole story.
Set... your hero represents the point of view of your listener. He/she/it is the one your audience identifies with, the audience experiences the story through the hero. The call to action embraced by the hero will as well be embraced by the audience. Your hero is the person, place, product, or brand that enables your audience to feel the change promised in the story. Metaphors and analogies are great to use. In a single word, in a single image all the emotion and meaning can be delivered. Engaging powerful narratives from books, popular movies, history can emotionalize your call to action.
Tell! Present authentic, contagious energy. Your energy, that's real, is the catalyst for a great story. All audiences expect experiences. Being vulnerable is an asset, not a liability. Persist if you get a "no", and pressing on in spite of their fear ("no" comes from fear expressed in fight, flee, freeze) and change "no" to "on". Be clear on your goal, use inspiring stories, learn, refine and improve your story with each no. Rejection is just a sign to detour to find the better road to success. Your body talks more than your tongue. Be interactive, arouse curiosity, use props that support your story. Listen actively and responsively, be ready to drop your script when the situation calls for it. The audience needs to own it, so surrender control and proprietorship to your audience. The best raw material you have is your firsthand, witnessed experience.
To sustain a never-ending story, identify the essential elements of your story and the audiences who clearly echo the essence of your story. Multiply that by encouraging these audiences to retell your story through their own voice and through their own experience... their networks, relationships, social media of preference. State of the art technology has its benefits, although it's the state of the Heart technology that's the game changer when you can tell your story in the room, face to face.
More on Tell to Win at:
http://www.peterguber.com/
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a movie produced in the 60's. It was an epic portrayal of the life of Christ and why He was on earth... the son of God coming to earth in a human being.
It held all the intrigue of a great story. Jesus came with a challenge... to save mankind. He ran into struggles.... religious leaders conspiring to have Him put to death. Internal betrayal from one of his close associates.
And then the triumph. He was the only person ever to die, come back, and then leave again only to promise us that He would put in us the Same Spirit, that He had, to work in us continually. During the time on earth he deliberately set up a coalition of dedicated followers to spread the message He was sent to share and set up for all mankind.
He gave a bold promise... Jesus said He came to give life to everyone, and give it more abundantly than what we have now. He said that He was the way to this Life, He spoke the truth and showed how this world can work better. He was the light to see a better way. Our minds will be opened to see things like never before and get supernatural insights beyond our human ability. He said to believe in Him and He would give us all of this.
During the whole time while He was explaining how this would work, demonstrating how it worked by healing others and bringing grace into lives, a gang of holier-than-thou folks were out to get Him killed. Ironically, He never committed a real crime and beyond that, not one small sin that God would be opposed to. He was said to be perfect in His human relationships.
The whole time He kept dodging and having to outwit these scoundrels while setting up and training His team of special forces to carry on after He left the earth. He made a unique promise to His followers. That as a group, remaining unified, they would be like Him, with all the wisdom, power, revelation He had.
As the Greatest Story unfolded, He intensified His efforts to set up His Kingdom on earth, a Spiritual Kingdom, while He knew He was running out of time as these unscrupulous folks tried to capture Him and have Him killed. It was a race against the clock.
They finally caught Him and put Him to death after an unfair trial. Everyone thought His mission had been stopped. But He had the biggest surprise coming. After dying He came back and appeared to His followers, His meticulously trained associates, and gave them final instructions and encouragement to wage the battle of building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and to follow His example in how to do it. He told them to wait for a while and the Spirit that was on Him would come on them and all the things He did they would do. Beyond that all who joined in the crusade through the centuries would receive what He left on them. They would do just like Him, be just like Him, and get results like Him.
It was an intriguing strategy that would not ever be outwitted by anyone. He explained further and pointed out that they would mature in this and grow beyond where He was on earth. Leaving His physical body, He sent back a Spiritual body, made up of "many ones" united, to become bigger than He was while in a physical body as just one person. He said that increasing power will be in this united Spiritual body, and through it His Kingdom, a kingdom like Heaven, would grow and mature more than when He was on earth.
The story doesn't have an ending. It continues on and never dies. It's a never-ending story with its plot still unfolding. Those part of it are alive today, and will live together forever, even after a physical death just like Jesus went through. It's a story that's still alive, the greatest story ever told is still in the making.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Dale Shumaker bio ...my story from the back of the pack
by Dale Shumaker
www.spiritsavvy.net
4spirit@gmail.com
Raised on a dairy farm in the hill country of central Pennsylvania, I stuttered and was introverted. Going to school was a traumatizing, fearful experience. In first grade I was in the slow group. All through school I slowly moved up the pack. Getting into college by the skin of my teeth, having to take the remedial English program, I started at the back of the pack and again slowly moved up the ranks. Then I talked my way into graduate school, again at the back of the pack. Ironically, I completed my graduate program as the top student and was nominated to receive a national merit scholarship in my field.
This pattern seems to have followed me throughout my life. Wherever I was deficient I eventually turned it around to be advanced in that area. If you keep playing hard even when all seems bleak, things eventually turn and go your way. I believe in people, because I know anything is possible for those who keep fighting on in spite of adverse circumstances.
This has shaped my attitude in life in a significant way. Although sure of my abilities, I prefer to present myself in a humble way. As a stutterer, I understand embarrassment in groups. I never put someone in a bad light in front of others. With a degree in speech and theater, I have learned how to face fear and press through it.
My educational background includes psychology, broadcast communications, educational communication and educational administration. Several times I had to fight just to be accepted in a program… start dead last then end up at the front of the pack.
Coming into a company as a person of little notoriety, in five years I was voted by a group of 700 employees to represent them to the company leadership in employee wishes and desires. I believe in each individual’s right for pursuit of happiness. Whether in a corporate setting or the free market sector, each person should be availed their right to pursue life wishes as they desire. Consequently, I avoid judging and seek to understand and accept differences in people. I try to adjust to them as compared to having them adjust to me.
Over the decade of the 90's I’ve studied business development and personal dynamics in life. I was fortunate to have one of the leading practitioners in Spiritual living as a personal mentor—the late Dr. J. Robert Ashcroft. I enjoy entrepreneurism, pioneering new ideas, and bringing new ideas into being. I understand the real struggles of business and those involved in them. Within struggles we learn the secrets that propel us to greatness…the skills we need to lead and charge forth leading the pack.
In 2005 I launched the Spirit Savvy Business. Reading bestselling business books, creating summaries, adding Spiritual Principles, has created a distinctively dynamic system to build entrepreneur enterprise with a strong Spiritual punch. It's my belief this will completely revolutionize a society when given a chance to be integrated in the marketplace. A business with Bible studies, prayer meetings will become common. Many will use a business as a vehicle to build the Kingdom of God in the marketplace which will transform our society. It's a potent Spiritual force that will bring us to a time when the Kingdom of Heaven will be brought to earth, and function on earth the way it is in Heaven.
This vision was birthed decades ago and it was initiated after I went through a severe business failure in mid 2000's. My resources to start it included a library card and a Barnes and Noble coffee shop. The Spirit Savvy Biz blog began publishing biz book summaries each month; the Spirit-based Entrepreneur program was constructed to fire up the marketplace... Spiritual excellence with business excellence. Another in-the-making remarkable move coming from way back. This time bringing renewal to America. And again is happening... wider and deeper than before. Forming as the most remarkable move from the back of the pack in my life.
More on this thrust happening in my contribution years at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/
Life for me has been a repeating scenario of coming from the back of the pack, so I have an unwavering faith in people and their ability to handle what they face regardless of how challenging it may be. It is within all of us to exceed our past accomplishments and keep improving no matter how well we may be doing. We should always focus on getting better and beating our own best record… and view set backs as unique opportunities in disguise.
My value system upholds personal excellence, but not with arrogance;
being persistent but not overbearing;
striving to be the best but not by putting others down;
when successful give the credit to all involved;
be quick to forgive and overlook others faults
and focus more on what I need to be doing to fix a problem.
Criticizing accomplishes very little,
but encouraging, praising and complimenting people on their gifts get greater results.
"Be bold, be strong for the Lord your God is with you." (Joshua 1)
www.spiritsavvy.net
4spirit@gmail.com
Raised on a dairy farm in the hill country of central Pennsylvania, I stuttered and was introverted. Going to school was a traumatizing, fearful experience. In first grade I was in the slow group. All through school I slowly moved up the pack. Getting into college by the skin of my teeth, having to take the remedial English program, I started at the back of the pack and again slowly moved up the ranks. Then I talked my way into graduate school, again at the back of the pack. Ironically, I completed my graduate program as the top student and was nominated to receive a national merit scholarship in my field.
This pattern seems to have followed me throughout my life. Wherever I was deficient I eventually turned it around to be advanced in that area. If you keep playing hard even when all seems bleak, things eventually turn and go your way. I believe in people, because I know anything is possible for those who keep fighting on in spite of adverse circumstances.
This has shaped my attitude in life in a significant way. Although sure of my abilities, I prefer to present myself in a humble way. As a stutterer, I understand embarrassment in groups. I never put someone in a bad light in front of others. With a degree in speech and theater, I have learned how to face fear and press through it.
My educational background includes psychology, broadcast communications, educational communication and educational administration. Several times I had to fight just to be accepted in a program… start dead last then end up at the front of the pack.
Coming into a company as a person of little notoriety, in five years I was voted by a group of 700 employees to represent them to the company leadership in employee wishes and desires. I believe in each individual’s right for pursuit of happiness. Whether in a corporate setting or the free market sector, each person should be availed their right to pursue life wishes as they desire. Consequently, I avoid judging and seek to understand and accept differences in people. I try to adjust to them as compared to having them adjust to me.
Over the decade of the 90's I’ve studied business development and personal dynamics in life. I was fortunate to have one of the leading practitioners in Spiritual living as a personal mentor—the late Dr. J. Robert Ashcroft. I enjoy entrepreneurism, pioneering new ideas, and bringing new ideas into being. I understand the real struggles of business and those involved in them. Within struggles we learn the secrets that propel us to greatness…the skills we need to lead and charge forth leading the pack.
In 2005 I launched the Spirit Savvy Business. Reading bestselling business books, creating summaries, adding Spiritual Principles, has created a distinctively dynamic system to build entrepreneur enterprise with a strong Spiritual punch. It's my belief this will completely revolutionize a society when given a chance to be integrated in the marketplace. A business with Bible studies, prayer meetings will become common. Many will use a business as a vehicle to build the Kingdom of God in the marketplace which will transform our society. It's a potent Spiritual force that will bring us to a time when the Kingdom of Heaven will be brought to earth, and function on earth the way it is in Heaven.
This vision was birthed decades ago and it was initiated after I went through a severe business failure in mid 2000's. My resources to start it included a library card and a Barnes and Noble coffee shop. The Spirit Savvy Biz blog began publishing biz book summaries each month; the Spirit-based Entrepreneur program was constructed to fire up the marketplace... Spiritual excellence with business excellence. Another in-the-making remarkable move coming from way back. This time bringing renewal to America. And again is happening... wider and deeper than before. Forming as the most remarkable move from the back of the pack in my life.
More on this thrust happening in my contribution years at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/
Life for me has been a repeating scenario of coming from the back of the pack, so I have an unwavering faith in people and their ability to handle what they face regardless of how challenging it may be. It is within all of us to exceed our past accomplishments and keep improving no matter how well we may be doing. We should always focus on getting better and beating our own best record… and view set backs as unique opportunities in disguise.
My value system upholds personal excellence, but not with arrogance;
being persistent but not overbearing;
striving to be the best but not by putting others down;
when successful give the credit to all involved;
be quick to forgive and overlook others faults
and focus more on what I need to be doing to fix a problem.
Criticizing accomplishes very little,
but encouraging, praising and complimenting people on their gifts get greater results.
"Be bold, be strong for the Lord your God is with you." (Joshua 1)
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Enchantment... enchanting in Spirit
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki is the process of delighting people with you, your product, service, organization or idea. It is not about getting people's money or getting them to do what you want. It is simply having people being filled with great delight. Enchantment's place is to make the world a better place and is needed when you seek idealistic results, make difficult decisions, overcome entrenched habits, defy a crowd or must proceed despite delayed or nonexistent feedback.
Enchantment is about changing the world and to do that, we need to follow these steps to enchantment.
Step one is achieving likability. Likability involves having a great smile, the way you dress, your handshake, and your vocabulary. When you meet someone give a smile to make your crows feet show, dress in way that shows what you stand for, shake hands firmly with direct eye contact, use words that are simple, active, keeping it short. Accept others and allow yourself to get close with proximity and frequency(presence makes the heart grow fonder). Don't impose your values. Pursue and project your passions, find others who share your passions. Say yes to more people, see options and build rapport. A yes attitude increases likability.
The other half of likability is trustworthiness. To be trusted you must trust others. Be a mensch, which is a person honest, fair and transparent. Focus on goodwill and disclose your interests. Be reciprocal. Give with expecting nothing in return, pay forward, and for the reason just to help others. Gain knowledge and competence. Keep showing up regularly. It takes months to build trust. Be someone's hero. Demonstrate you can come through for someone faced with a challenge.
Do something great... lay the groundwork and preparation to make it successful. A great product is deep, intelligent, complete, empowering, and elegant. Conduct a premortem. If the project failed what would have caused it to fail. Make it easy to do the right thing. Make it short, simple and swallowable. Use tricolons, metaphors, similes, keep it short, positive and show respect. Remove fences and provide default options. Establish goals, create checklists.
Now, after you have developed a great cause, create a great story others can be immersed in the cause. People are drawn to your story when they hear you have great aspirations that forge a better way; when it's a David and Goliath story of the underdog taking on the big guy; when others see a profile in courage of overcoming an injustice or seemingly devastating defeat. A personal experience involving family that is meaningful. Immersing people in your cause includes enabling vicarious experience, getting close to the real situation, anchor your story to something they are familiar with, and show the difference this will make from past experience. Embrace those who are nobodies and are more likely to promote your cause. Then ask people for their support of your cause. Present the big idea, then ask them to make a small choice. Get your first follower. A good first follower will attract other followers.
Enchantment is a process, so reluctance will enter in. People are reluctant due to inertia... a thing not in motion will stay not in motion. Some won't reduce choices, are afraid to make mistakes, lack role models, or your cause may not interest them. Create a perception that it's a growing concern. Familiarity breeds commitment. Make it look scarce, but certain to be. Use one good example of how your cause is important versus non-emotional lists of statistics. Use images that are dramatic and you can't get out of your mind. Find a way to agree. Get on the beach first before taking the mainland. Use data to support your point of view and change people's minds. One who has done you a kindness will more than likely do it again. So don't feel people will resent you for asking for a favor when they did it once.
Make enchantment enduring. Internalize values by helping people to identify with your values and then internalizing by believing in them. Invoke reciprocity by giving with joy, giving early, give often and generously, give unexpectedly. Build a community that complements the cause by being involved in user groups, having blogs, using consultants and developers, resellers and conferences. Identify and recruit evangelists, give people things meaningful to do, publish, foster discourse, publicize the existence of the ecosystem. Build a diverse team including advocates, skeptics, visionaries, adult efficiency (get things done people), evangelists(spread the word), and rainmakers to close deals.
Kawasaki also recommends how to use push and pull technologies. "Push" includes presentations, email, Twitter, etc. New technologies are constantly being introduced. Some enduring principles for now and later are engage fast, engage many and engage often. Use multiple media, provide value, give credit. give people the benefit of the doubt, accept diversity, don't take any crap, limit promotion, disclose your conflicts. In presentations, customize introductions, sell your dream, think screenplay (not speech), dramatize, shorten, practice, warm up the audience, speak a lot. When using email keep these principles in mind, get a real email, get an introduction, personalize the subject line, keep it to six sentences, suck up(do your homework), minimize attachments, ask for something concrete. Engage people manually, promote your cause. make it personal.
Use pull technology to distribute large quantities of information. These include websites, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube pages. Keep this on the forefront. Provide good content, refresh it often, skip the flash and let people right in, make it fast, sprinkle in graphics and pictures, craft an about page, help visitors navigate, introduce the team. optimize visits for various devices, provide multiple methods of access. When using Linked In make a great profile, get visible and reach out. Reach out by searching by name, search by company, find shared interests, check the reputation of people, scope out companies.
Kawasaki continues on to discuss enchanting employees and your boss, and how to resist enchantment (that's resisting the unethical enchanter). Learn enchanting skills responsibly and in a manner that benefits all involved, if not the world. You can link to Guy Kawasaki's Facebook and blog at his website:
http://www.guykawasaki.com/
Jesus was very high on enchantment. He was very likable... many followed him and crowds pressed to see him everywhere. He was trustworthy and many placed their whole trust in him and gave up everything they owned for him and He did great things. And promised we would do even greater things.
Jesus taught with real authority. And people saw a genuine character unlike others who were just motivated for political or self-ambition reasons. "When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, for he taught with real authority—quite unlike their teachers of religious law." (Matthew 7:28, 29)
And because of this authority, as they saw Him as the true Son of God, the Messiah, the One that God was sending in flesh and blood to actually see the character of God in person. When they saw all of this first hand, they also saw someone they could trust. "Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.”“Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up houses or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.” (Luke 18:28-30)
"They flocked to see him and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had raised from the dead. Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too, for it was because of him that many of the people had deserted them and believed in Jesus." (John 12:9-11)
Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you. But don’t rejoice because evil spirits obey you; rejoice because your names are registered in heaven.” Luke 10:19,20)
And Jesus did great things and healed, walked on water, raised people who died. Beyond this He promised the greatest reward which was we would be raised from the dead like He was and we would live in a world of wonder and bliss. As He said that we should be most grateful because we would share in everything God owns.
Being in Him we would share in this great inheritance, equal partners with Him, in who He is and everything He did... All of His miracles! Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water. "yes, come,” Jesus said. So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus." (Matthew 14: 28, 29)
He was so enchanting that the masses loved Him although those in leadership at that time despised him because he kept upstaging them. Doing things that proved He was the son of God and even more than that was the only person to predict coming back from the dead and then doing it. "Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead.: (Mark 8:31)
And Jesus did. He was killed, raised from the dead, and now has gone to prepare a place for us.
“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.” (John 14:1-4)
But even now, Jesus promised we would do even greater things than He did with His Spirit in us on earth. “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father." (John 14:12)
We will live always, from right now through forever, in a life that is beyond our imagination with joy and happiness we can't even describe in our human terms. It's worth it to be enchanting in the Spirit of Jesus and live as He did.
(Contact info: Dale Shumaker, 4spirit@gmail.com, 417-224-3517)
4spirit@gmail.com
Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki is the process of delighting people with you, your product, service, organization or idea. It is not about getting people's money or getting them to do what you want. It is simply having people being filled with great delight. Enchantment's place is to make the world a better place and is needed when you seek idealistic results, make difficult decisions, overcome entrenched habits, defy a crowd or must proceed despite delayed or nonexistent feedback.
Enchantment is about changing the world and to do that, we need to follow these steps to enchantment.
Step one is achieving likability. Likability involves having a great smile, the way you dress, your handshake, and your vocabulary. When you meet someone give a smile to make your crows feet show, dress in way that shows what you stand for, shake hands firmly with direct eye contact, use words that are simple, active, keeping it short. Accept others and allow yourself to get close with proximity and frequency(presence makes the heart grow fonder). Don't impose your values. Pursue and project your passions, find others who share your passions. Say yes to more people, see options and build rapport. A yes attitude increases likability.
The other half of likability is trustworthiness. To be trusted you must trust others. Be a mensch, which is a person honest, fair and transparent. Focus on goodwill and disclose your interests. Be reciprocal. Give with expecting nothing in return, pay forward, and for the reason just to help others. Gain knowledge and competence. Keep showing up regularly. It takes months to build trust. Be someone's hero. Demonstrate you can come through for someone faced with a challenge.
Do something great... lay the groundwork and preparation to make it successful. A great product is deep, intelligent, complete, empowering, and elegant. Conduct a premortem. If the project failed what would have caused it to fail. Make it easy to do the right thing. Make it short, simple and swallowable. Use tricolons, metaphors, similes, keep it short, positive and show respect. Remove fences and provide default options. Establish goals, create checklists.
Now, after you have developed a great cause, create a great story others can be immersed in the cause. People are drawn to your story when they hear you have great aspirations that forge a better way; when it's a David and Goliath story of the underdog taking on the big guy; when others see a profile in courage of overcoming an injustice or seemingly devastating defeat. A personal experience involving family that is meaningful. Immersing people in your cause includes enabling vicarious experience, getting close to the real situation, anchor your story to something they are familiar with, and show the difference this will make from past experience. Embrace those who are nobodies and are more likely to promote your cause. Then ask people for their support of your cause. Present the big idea, then ask them to make a small choice. Get your first follower. A good first follower will attract other followers.
Enchantment is a process, so reluctance will enter in. People are reluctant due to inertia... a thing not in motion will stay not in motion. Some won't reduce choices, are afraid to make mistakes, lack role models, or your cause may not interest them. Create a perception that it's a growing concern. Familiarity breeds commitment. Make it look scarce, but certain to be. Use one good example of how your cause is important versus non-emotional lists of statistics. Use images that are dramatic and you can't get out of your mind. Find a way to agree. Get on the beach first before taking the mainland. Use data to support your point of view and change people's minds. One who has done you a kindness will more than likely do it again. So don't feel people will resent you for asking for a favor when they did it once.
Make enchantment enduring. Internalize values by helping people to identify with your values and then internalizing by believing in them. Invoke reciprocity by giving with joy, giving early, give often and generously, give unexpectedly. Build a community that complements the cause by being involved in user groups, having blogs, using consultants and developers, resellers and conferences. Identify and recruit evangelists, give people things meaningful to do, publish, foster discourse, publicize the existence of the ecosystem. Build a diverse team including advocates, skeptics, visionaries, adult efficiency (get things done people), evangelists(spread the word), and rainmakers to close deals.
Kawasaki also recommends how to use push and pull technologies. "Push" includes presentations, email, Twitter, etc. New technologies are constantly being introduced. Some enduring principles for now and later are engage fast, engage many and engage often. Use multiple media, provide value, give credit. give people the benefit of the doubt, accept diversity, don't take any crap, limit promotion, disclose your conflicts. In presentations, customize introductions, sell your dream, think screenplay (not speech), dramatize, shorten, practice, warm up the audience, speak a lot. When using email keep these principles in mind, get a real email, get an introduction, personalize the subject line, keep it to six sentences, suck up(do your homework), minimize attachments, ask for something concrete. Engage people manually, promote your cause. make it personal.
Use pull technology to distribute large quantities of information. These include websites, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube pages. Keep this on the forefront. Provide good content, refresh it often, skip the flash and let people right in, make it fast, sprinkle in graphics and pictures, craft an about page, help visitors navigate, introduce the team. optimize visits for various devices, provide multiple methods of access. When using Linked In make a great profile, get visible and reach out. Reach out by searching by name, search by company, find shared interests, check the reputation of people, scope out companies.
Kawasaki continues on to discuss enchanting employees and your boss, and how to resist enchantment (that's resisting the unethical enchanter). Learn enchanting skills responsibly and in a manner that benefits all involved, if not the world. You can link to Guy Kawasaki's Facebook and blog at his website:
http://www.guykawasaki.com/
Jesus was very high on enchantment. He was very likable... many followed him and crowds pressed to see him everywhere. He was trustworthy and many placed their whole trust in him and gave up everything they owned for him and He did great things. And promised we would do even greater things.
Jesus taught with real authority. And people saw a genuine character unlike others who were just motivated for political or self-ambition reasons. "When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, for he taught with real authority—quite unlike their teachers of religious law." (Matthew 7:28, 29)
And because of this authority, as they saw Him as the true Son of God, the Messiah, the One that God was sending in flesh and blood to actually see the character of God in person. When they saw all of this first hand, they also saw someone they could trust. "Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.”“Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up houses or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.” (Luke 18:28-30)
"They flocked to see him and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had raised from the dead. Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too, for it was because of him that many of the people had deserted them and believed in Jesus." (John 12:9-11)
Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you. But don’t rejoice because evil spirits obey you; rejoice because your names are registered in heaven.” Luke 10:19,20)
And Jesus did great things and healed, walked on water, raised people who died. Beyond this He promised the greatest reward which was we would be raised from the dead like He was and we would live in a world of wonder and bliss. As He said that we should be most grateful because we would share in everything God owns.
Being in Him we would share in this great inheritance, equal partners with Him, in who He is and everything He did... All of His miracles! Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water. "yes, come,” Jesus said. So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus." (Matthew 14: 28, 29)
He was so enchanting that the masses loved Him although those in leadership at that time despised him because he kept upstaging them. Doing things that proved He was the son of God and even more than that was the only person to predict coming back from the dead and then doing it. "Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead.: (Mark 8:31)
And Jesus did. He was killed, raised from the dead, and now has gone to prepare a place for us.
“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.” (John 14:1-4)
But even now, Jesus promised we would do even greater things than He did with His Spirit in us on earth. “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father." (John 14:12)
We will live always, from right now through forever, in a life that is beyond our imagination with joy and happiness we can't even describe in our human terms. It's worth it to be enchanting in the Spirit of Jesus and live as He did.
(Contact info: Dale Shumaker, 4spirit@gmail.com, 417-224-3517)
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