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What To Do First to Make a Profit

The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat  ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're  not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director.  Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year.  God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started i...
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Weekend Potpourri:
Trusting Through the Storm...

Right now we're waiting on hurricane Isaac to get to Tampa. Reports keep conflicting one another and I'm not sure whether he's going to arrive tonight or tomorrow. Either way, I'm not worried. I've been through this before, and I have trust in the Lord. Even if the worst would happen, I still have trust in the Lord.

We have enough food to make it through the storm, and we've got the sandbags laid out, and we're prepared to be shut in for a while. Ultimately even with all that ~ I trust. 

I've been through so many storms in life.

Bad storms.

I've been through way worse emotional storms than tropical ones.

I am thinking compared to everything else I've weathered, Isaac should be a piece of cake.

And, we do appreciate your prayers.

By the way, JUGGLE is at #11 today in it's category on Amazon! This weekend it's fluctuated between 8 to 14. Thanks to my friends who are spreading the word and keeping it up there. I am still pinching myself that I have a book on the Amazon Business/Time Management BestSellers List!  Mercy!

I've been busy writing most of the weekend, working on our Celebration Church Christmas play. Yes, I'm writing it this year with the help of our team. (What was I thinking?!) We rehearse each week whatever number of pages I've written. I just show up with the latest copy of the script and we start practicing, tweaking it as we go along. It's working quite well. We're having a lot of fun if nothing else! The show is going to be December 14, 15 and 16. We started rehearsals in July. The show begins with that song, "I Love Those J-I-N-G-L-E Bells" and after rehearsing on Sundays I pretty much hum that song all week long. Yes, in August. Ha ha!!! In case you don't know what song I'm talking about, it's this one and it's contagious!!




In other news...Jordan got his scuba diving certification today! Here he is on his dive today...


And finally, if you haven't heard, I'm giving away a coaching package! If you want to enter, here's how. 

 
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