Overcome!

The devil loves to make a playground out of people's minds and imaginations. He delights in filling their perceptions and senses with illusions that captivate them, paralyze them, and ultimately destroy them. How can believers avoid falling victim to the devil's attacks? They must make a spiritual and mental decision to take charge of every thought that enters their minds!

"It's been said that the only constant is change. I don't agree with that. There's another constant, and that's the desire for change."

— Dr. Robert Maurer: Kaizen expert, psychologist.

Business Plan Outline

Business Plan Outline
1. Summary Business/ministry concept, current situation, key success factors, financial situation/needs. Write this last. Assume some people will only read one page. So, on one page summarize the following sections.
2. Vision :What's the purpose and product of your endeavor. Why is it unique, compelling, valuable, and needed? Who will be attracted to it?
3. Marketing Plan :Who will be interested in your product or service? How will you let them know what you have? What is the value or price you will ask? What's the total demand? Who are your competitors? Why will you prevail in an open market? How is the industry changing? Will your competitive advantages remain in the future? What are the threats to and risks of this venture? How will you respond to them?
5. Marketing and sales :How will you promote or market your product. What is your sales strategy or advertising scheme?
6. Operations: Who will manage the work and make the decisions? What are their qualifications? Who are the key personnel? What work will they do? How will you motivate them to share your dream and work with you? How will you train and compensate them? What facilities, services, and infrastructure will be required?
7. Financial Plan :What is your current financial condition? How will your family and business be supported? Will you need a loan? How will you transition from your current job or circumstance through the start-up phase?
Include two items:
-Personal financial statement- simply a one-page summary of all your assets and liabilities, summarizing your financial net worth at the bottom.
-Cash flow statement- estimate all the monthly income and expenses related to your business or personal expenses for at least 12 months (or through your start-up phase, if longer).
Note: Consider making a financial plan from your personal budget and spending a few hundred dollars to get the accountant who does your taxes to formalize them for you. Treat your life and finances as a business, it really is the talent that God gave you and expects you to multiply.

Creativity & Leadership

"We must address creativity and leadership together because they are linked. The greatest leaders have almost always been those who were the most creative and who could think outside the box to see what others could not see. They would likewise have the confidence and boldness or faith to be different and innovative. The church is called to be the head and not the tail, which means the world should be following us, not us following the world. The Lord's basic nature is obviously both creativity and leadership, and those who follow Him closely will be these things. The greatest example of this is the transformation that we see in His disciples who went from being anything from simple to misfits, and impacted the world like no other group of people ever have."Rick Joyner

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Paris Sorbonne,1910)

The Big Picture

"Know precisely where you are going and passionately pursue your dream"

• The first step to developing a meaningful strategy for your success (personal,department,or company) is to create your ideal future in such detail that all of your senses can experience it, right now.
• The passion is important, so until you have the answers to these questions you have no foundation for your strategy and, without a foundation, you will never have a strategy worth pursuing or the energy to make it a reality.
• Unless you have what it takes to make your dream a reality, you have nothing, and if you are incapable of developing a dream worth the effort, you might just as well drift and let the world give you as much or as little as chance dictates.

Consecration

"Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord...that he may bestow upon you a blessing."
Exodus 32:29
Presenting myself to God implies a recognition that from now on I am altogether His. This giving of myself is a definite act, just as definite as believing in Jesus Christ. There must be a day in my life when I pass out of my own hands into His, and from that day forward I belong to Him and no longer to myself. That does not mean that I consecrate myself to be a preacher or a missionary. Many people are missionaries merely because they they have consecrated their own natural gifts to His work. But that is not true consecration. Then to what are we to be consecrated? Not to "Christian work", but to the will of God, to be and do whatever He requires. (W.N)
Blessings Shaun