Linking Purpose To Everyday Behaviors

Written by Pat Wilkund


How do you know what'srepparttar best use of your time right now?

Link your daily behavior to your purpose.

You'll make better choices and seerepparttar 104737 value in seemingly insignificant or trivial tasks. It keeps you focused on doing what needs to be done to get what you say you want.

It's one thing to say what you want, to choose projects that will get you what you want, and set goals that will achieve those projects. But, you still have to dorepparttar 104738 work. You still have to payrepparttar 104739 price by just doing it.

Linking your purpose to your daily behaviors underlinesrepparttar 104740 responsibility andrepparttar 104741 discipline you need to complete your projects.

Having an overall objective and doing what needs to be done gets priority. You can make your choices about what you are doing consciously, knowing that every little bit helps.

For example, one of your projects in support of your purpose of a successful one-person business may be getting a web site to promote your business.

Choosing to bring your lunch rather than spending eight dollars atrepparttar 104742 café every day is obviouslyrepparttar 104743 right choice. By doingrepparttar 104744 math, you quickly see you'll save about $150 a month on lunch. Putting that money aside will get you your new web site that much faster.

It'srepparttar 104745 little things done consistently and persistently that makerepparttar 104746 huge difference in achieving our projects, whatever our projects are.

Even with marketing and sales. New behavioral research has shown smaller tasks done more often are more effective in reaching your goals than larger projects done less frequently. Even if a larger project puts you in front of more people, it still isn't as effective as more frequent, smaller contacts.

Build in momentum sustainers. If you're like most people you start out a new project enthusiastically, and then lose track of it inrepparttar 104747 bustle of all your other obligations.

By building in appointments with people to check in with, and appointments with yourself for review, you force yourself to be accountable. You might want to set up weekly goals for yourself, or make an agreement to accomplish specific tasks by your next check in date.

Just Think ...

Written by Joyce C. Lock


If you're a salesperson (not only because it's a job but, you actually happen to be good at it), just think. How many sales did you make last year? Last month? Last week? A lot? Probably, you would have sold more in a better economy. Though still, you likely sold way more than you can readily remember. Was that 100 customers? 1,000? 100,000? More?

Imagine if you were to use that same great charm to sell Jesus? Wow, what an impact!!! Now, multiply that by a few years and that's really a lot of changed lives!!!

Ok, so maybe you're not a salesperson. How are you at advertising? Isn't it fun to continually have more ideas of ways to reach just one more customer and often thousands!? Just think howrepparttar world would view differently if you were to use all that creativity to say ... advertise God.

Can't you just see it now, a neon light in every public restroom? Oh, we could have so much fun! Soon,repparttar 104736 idea would catch on and God's name would be on every pair of tennis shoes, on every bath robe. There is no place people couldn't go without being reminded of God and, wherever He's included, that's that much less room for Satan.

Too active for you? Ok, let's say you're a writer, an artist, a musician. You have wares to share, so do it. If you haven't been discovered already, odds are that you're not going to winrepparttar 104737 Mr. or Miss America pageants by keeping your gift hidden. Just think ofrepparttar 104738 thousands and hundred thousands your gift could already be ministering to. And, when you give to God, He gives you more! Why not go forrepparttar 104739 world title!?

What's your gift? I'm about certain you have at least one. So, your health isn't cooperating. That's pretty common, these days. In fact, Satan gets his jollies atrepparttar 104740 ways he convinces us that we can't serve. Aren't you about tired of it, too?

You do have a telephone, don't you? How about a computer? And, there's stillrepparttar 104741 old fashioned snail mail. Ask God to show you something you can do. That'll teachrepparttar 104742 old fart a lesson!

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