BREAKING THE SELF-CENTERED LIFE
In the process of maturing and developing, it is helpful for us as Christians to adjust our perspective to see that:
• Although we spend most of our time looking at or working on our bodies, life is basically a soul and spirit issue.
• We can be complete in Christ and struggle for years with emotional and self-worth issues.
• Painful experiences can be effective in bringing positive changes to our lives.
• Even the sins in our lives will be used by God to show us new things about His love, forgiveness and grace.
• Our loving Father is far more interested in doing something "in" us than He is in doing something "through" us.
DREAMERS AND DOERS IN BUSINESS
The mortality rate in small and medium sized businesses as well as new business start-ups is staggeringly high. Thousands of great new ideas are hatched each year, but before most ideas get to the marketplace they are doomed to failure. Why? Much of the failure is tied to dreamers who aren't doers and doers who aren't dreamers. The result stems from an innate inability for either group to accept their own limitations and share the responsibilities and rewards with others who are fully competent but whose professional talents are expressed in unique and different ways.
Roger Alliman provides some practical insights that pinpoint primary problems in start-up and existing companies that never cross that line from potential to successful--problems that could be addressed long before the company drifts into the pipeline of doom. You'll need to leave your ego in the closet if you want to heed the advice of this author and tackle a road to success that is far more certain, but far less traveled.