“The secret to success can be found in people’s daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don’t, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.” John Maxwell
Business & Faith-life
Working to reach your potential begins with working on YOU from the inside out. It is like a three-tiered fountain from which water bubbles up through the center and fills the first cup, you. As this first cup slowly fills it begins to glide over the edges to the other parts of the fountain, this is you, overflowing to the other parts of your life. You cannot be the person you want to be, the person you are called to be, if you have not filled yourself up first.
Ultimately it is your Faith-life that defines how you are filling up because only by drawing from God can you hope to live in the purpose and potential you were designed to live in.
How’s that going for you? Are you setting apart time for thinking, reflecting, and sharing your heart with God?
Faith-life
There is a super-abundance of power available to you by meeting with God each day. Power to handle the day’s stresses, power to overcome the negative thoughts in your mind, power to rise above the temptations that are presented to you. You can access His Power by learning more about Him and communicating with Him.
I have been studying many Spiritual Disciplines and have come up with these eight.
Prayer & Meditation
Bible Reading, Study, & Memorization
Praise & Worship
Service & Hospitality
Fasting
Journaling
Sabbath
Creative Silence & Solitude
Daily-life
Start today with one of these practices. The first two are internal practices. This is where your first cup on the fountain fills up, YOU. Not only do you ‘pencil in’ an appointment with God into your daily agenda . . . come to this appointment with enthusiasm and excitement about what you are going to learn about God and how your relationship with Him will grow.
Where are you stuck? How are you showing up when you attempt Bible Reading and Prayer? You CAN make time for God. You CAN be filled with His presence. You CAN tap into His super-abundance. You CAN live up to your potential. It is all found in your daily agenda and being intentional.
Business-life
John says-
Good Decisions – Daily Discipline = A plan without a payoff
Daily Discipline – Good Decision = Regimentation without reward
Good Decisions + Daily Discipline = A masterpiece of potential
Apply this in your business life as well. Fill up on good things so you overflow in all parts of your life in a way that is meaningful and in alignment with your calling.
God has called you to the marketplace and He wants you to live up to your potential. He has called you to show His goodness to those in your sphere of influence. He can only work through you if He is IN you.
Are you looking for something MORE to help you connect to God’s super-abundance and tap into His power in your life? Do you want to do MORE for God in your day-to-day activities?
Philippians 1:9 I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding.
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Thanks Deneen for your gentle guidance and sweet reminders to put God first.
Janalee
Janalee, you are so kind. Connecting faith & business does require us to put Him first. When the vertical relationship is growing then the horizontal ones that He calls us to serve work better. 🙂