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Gleaning in Today’s Business World

Gleaning is a practice to get what you need, and leave the rest for the less fortunate.  Farmers make one pass through the field, gathering the harvest and are commended not to go back, so that the poor can pick up what’s left on the field, and the edges.  This is part of the joy of work, and also distribution of wealth.

What’s gleaning like for today’s world? Few of my thoughts:

  1. Don’t try to do everything and be everything in the market.  Focus on what you do best, and leave work for other players, and contract out work.
  2. Create systems and create jobs in various levels, so that you are creating productive work, giving people the dignity to work, and stimulate economy at all levels of expertise.
  3. Intern programs, volunteering and donation to help the local communities.

What do you do?

Filed under: Business

Great Resource for Women Leadership

If you are a woman and involved in any way or form with leadership (I am sure you are) and want to increase your influence and effectiveness.  Check this event out.  I know the lead speaker, and I gotta say, YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS THIS!  She is awesome.

Perhaps, you’ve been to a conference in the past where you fell asleep or came away with nothing but a day wasted.  I can assure you that this won’t be one of those.  You’ll come away energized and gain a new perspective to life.  I guarantee!

If you are a man.  Then support the women in your life by recommending this to them.

Site for more detail: http://www.2010leadershipsummit.com

Early-bird special runs out Feb-25!  Register Now: I want to Register

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Leadership Tips

I’ve been listening to Andy Stanley’s podcast on leadership lately, and have been jotting down lots of insightful points.  I will share them here.  The reason these resonated with me so much is because these are something I believe would equip leaders of this generation for the years to come.

  • What man is a man, if he does not make the world better
  • All leaders leave a mark.  The question is whether the mark is good or bad
  • Leaders will never know the legacy they are leaving, until long after they’ve left.  In other words, leaders will not know the mark they are leaving, nor will they know what God is doing through them, long after they’ve left
  • Leaving a mark is never about being famous, attain power nor about accumulate money.  It’s often desires to change, to improve, and to address a particular need or solving a particular problem.
  • It’s not about who is for you and who is against you, but it’s about who you are for
  • It’s not about your mark, but rather, allow God to leave His mark through you
  • It’s not about being in authority, but living and serving as one who is under authority
  • In worldly sense, if I win, I win.  If I lose, I win.  Because my responsibility is to be obedience to God and trust Him with the consequences.

The most important point: If you settle this, once and for all, this will be your defining moment – who are you living this life for?  A daily commitment to surrender to God everything.  Thy will be done.  Thy kingdom come.

God will take full responsibility of those who submits their life wholly to God.

Remember this: Living your life for your mark is too small to give your life to.

Filed under: Business, Christianity, Inspirations, Life , , , ,

Don’t Give Up

Whether the road ahead is easy or difficult should not be used as an indication for if the original decision was right or wrong.

I think many people have the mentality that a right path is always the easy path. When encountered difficulties, they think that the original choice must have been wrong. Or, at least somewhere along the way, there must have been mistakes or else it should be smooth sailing.

One of the biggest lies that people have bought into is that at certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Stop giving up!

I get very worked up when talking to people who with the attitude of giving up. You see their life, and they’ve already checked out. Going on about the days just surviving. Exactly, just surviving to die. Instead of living. Instead of staying in the game, they’ve became a spectator on the bench.

Door won’t open? Keep knocking.

Dream seems so far away? Keep running.

Can’t find the solution? Keep seeking.

Sure there is a difference between pursuing for your ego, vs. pursuing for your passion, and I am talking about passion here. I’ve seen more people giving up pursuing for the passion in exchange for pursuing their ego.

I’ve read in a book before that, walls in our journey to our dream are there to test just how badly we want to realize the dream. Have the faith that moves mountains. Faith that stops the earth from rotating.

Don’t check out just because you are old, you’ve hit a bump or you’ve hit a wall. Don’t throw the towel in just because an interviewer gave you a no. Don’t believe in the lies.

Live until you drop dead. Don’t go down without a fight.

Filed under: Business, Life, Startup

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