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What is that in your hand?

December 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The LORD answered, ” What’s that in your hand?” ” A walking stick,” Moses replied Exodus 4:2

Today I really wanted to revamp my business and it’s business plan. So like I always do I went to do some research and find the best practices for what I wanted to do. I came across some individuals doing what I want to do which I think is ministry consulting. I started to look at some documents for strategic planning and I simply began to get overwhelmed.

I don’t know where to start because I want to do things so perfectly. I was just starring blankly at me screen with some document opened. To my surprise the document was about strategic planning. It was telling me that before any strategic plan can begin you need to pray and ask for His God’s leading. This is something simple yet it’s profound. I cut loose my planning and decide to plan to pray.

As I continued with my morning , I went out for a run and something else clicked. Your work is not outside of you but it is inside of you. You need to work on yourself , your prayer life , you relationships, your health. The greatest asset I have to drive my success is what I already have not what I do not have. The message rang in my ear what is in your hand?

Sometimes in search for an answer somewhere else we can neglect that answers which have already been given to us. I believe that as you take time to develop yourself the clarity you develop will be worth it. Take some time out to look at what is in your hands and use it.

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5 Amazing Travel Resources

August 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Hello this is the first for my one page guides on just about anything. I have done a lot of traveling over the years and here are some of the tools I use to get the best deals enjoy. What is the next guide that you want me to do in one page?

PDF Download | 5 Amazing Travel Resources

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Mastery of Fundamentals

May 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Today I read some really great material reminding me of focusing on the fundamentals in business. The article is entitled “Start-up Basics: How to Master the Fundamentals.” The author talks about four things that we should master. 1. Know where you want to go with your company-and why you want to get there 2. Business can’t exist without revenue, so learn how to sell. 3. Sell what people want to buy. 4. Create cash flow, first then profits.

When reading this article I told myself; This article makes sense! I do not know about you, but I often want to run out and read the latest book or article, but really it is all about the basics. Along with this article I read parts of two other books today which come at mastering the fundamentals from another angle. One is Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace and the other is The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It.

Business by the book gives biblical / ethical fundamentals for business. Some of the things the book shares seem to be counterintuitive. For instance; being Christ-like in a business world where people are all about greed and money. Some times doing the right thing is not easy especially when your peers take deception for granted. I have found that clients like me not so much because what I can do, but because they can trust me.

The e-myth is my favorite of the reading I have done today, this book has shifted the way I think about business. This book exposes the myth that, in America, most business are started by Entrepreneurs. The author shares that most people were working for someone else doing technical work. The fatal Assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work. Whoa!!

The author talks about how a business owner mistakenly thinks he is just one person, but he is really tree in one. The Entrepreneur, the manager, and the technician. All three of them wants to be the boss and none them wants to be the boss. The Entrepreneur is the visionary the manager is the pragmatist, and the technician does all the work. Understanding how these three personas are in conflict gives understanding to the internal struggle of the business owner.

I learned that; I must master the the master the fundamentals period. I need to discover what my fundamental strategy is. I need to know the principles of my business, and what I think about my role is. I look forward to mastering the basics and building on a solid foundation for my business.

References :

“Startup Basics: How to Master the Fundamentals | Entrepreneur.com.” http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223288. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Aug. 2012

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Look ma it’s snow!

March 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment

I remember the very first time I saw snow. I was a little kid. My parents my brother and I traveled to the mountains of Yosemite and we saw our long awaited white delight. The thing about the whole trip that puzzled me was that my father refused to get out of the car. What I later found out was that my father grew up in the snow, and for him the snow was not synonymous with fun. The snow was synonymous with shoveling,cold, frezzing did I mention cold and freezing ? Now after many years, after living in the snow I too can feel the pain of my father. Though I too dislike the snow it is a still a necessary evil of life.

Are there things in your life that you once loved , but you know hate. While living in Michigan I spent a winter riding my bicycle in this same snow, and I had a revelation.   I can’t not change the cold of snow, why complain about it. I decided that I would embrace the snow and live with it not against it!

Have you been burnt out by the snow in your life. Are you tired of it’s cold and irritated by it’s chill? Choose to focus on that which you can change and embrace that which you can not. Reunite with your inner child and make the snow fun again! Begin to look at the snows in your life with new eyes. See you later going to make a Snow Man!

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Overworked! And Worn Out!

January 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Have you ever felt like you were just plain over worked? Do you ever feel so tired that you just don’t know what you are going to do with yourself? Our society values those who work long , hard hours even at the expense of their own health.  Work is good but for what? What are we really working for? Are we working to provide for our needs or are we working to provide for our wants? We sometimes work so hard that we forget to live. If we work so hard that we don’t have time to live then is it really worth it? I mean we would all love to be filthy rich , but if by the time you get there you are old, sick and alone what is the point?

As I read the scriptures today I saw a story the parallels our own experience. Moses and Aaron came to  Egypt to  release Israel and Pharaoh got upset. Pharaoh got upset because he was worried about losing workers.  Pharaoh did not want Isreal to rest from thier labor. Pharoah was so adoment about them not resting that he made them get thier own straw to make bricks. Pharoah did not want the children of Israel to rest.

And today we have a Pharaoh. The Devil is constantly pounding down you door saying work work work but don’t rest. There is nothing wrong with working but we must take time to rest!

Rest from trying to work things out your own way and let God work it out. Rest from crying over that relationship that was no good for you anyway. Rest from worries and fears and let God handle it. Whoever you are wherever you are if you are just tired God extends His hands to you and says please wont you please take my rest. Will you?

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Broken Walls: The passion of Nehemiah

January 18, 2011 by 6 Comments

Walls are meant to keep people out and they are meant to keep people in. Find out about the passion of Nehemiah and the broken walls of Jerusalem. Just as God worked with Nehemiah to restore Jerusalem’s broken walls he wants to also restore our broken walls. I pray you are blessed.

Sermon: Broken Walls – The Passion of Nehemiah
Nehemiah 1:1-4

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Writers Block

January 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

As he stands in the corridor of the dark silent room,
The air has a taste of expectancy.
Expectancy but an expectancy drizzled with a hint of fear.

His imagination for so long has wanted what his surroundings
Have tried to hinder,
But his dreams never die.

He inches towards the door of this corridor and pauses.
Simultaneously he exits in silence and noise.
The stale silence without ,and the hidden symphony within.

These sounds from within are screaming, screaming for freedom.
Freedom of expression, freedom of flight, freedom to exist.

His thoughts resound in a creative chorus, his foot taps and his head bobs
As the bass line punches the beat and thrusts him forward.
They begin to chant, yes they will, yes they can, yes they will, Yes they…

Though through successive years of suppression
They have been burdened down by dissenters, misfits, and other unbelievers
Who tried to defy the dream, yet he never stopped dreaming.

He reaches his hand for the knob of the door.
When his hand forms and his fingers grasp
The cold steel it sends shivers down his spine.

He closes his eyes and takes in a deep breath.
His mind flashes he sees his dream, he tastes the moment, he chews,
He swallows, he breaths, he opens his eyes and he slowly grins.

There in the darkness his hand is grasping the knob
As his hand is clasped around its lifeless steel he turns and pushes.
The heavy door resists, yet the force of the chorus presses forward.
Yes they will, yes they can, yes they will, Yes they…
The repetition of the beat breaks the rusty barrier.

The door breaks loose its prison, and the chorus escapes,
Flying into the vast surrounding expanse of space.
Light breaks forth into the corridors and the darkness disappears.
There he is in the expanse, he is free.
Free to think, free to write, free to be…free … free..free…

~TKB

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Capitalism

December 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment

I just finished watching Michael Moore’s documentary “Capitalism : A love story.” The scenes that passed before my eyes in this movie made me angry. From companies who took out insurance policies to benefit on their workers untimely deaths to the elite rich who try to undermine the democratic process.

I always thought that Capitalism was a good thing because it has made America the Country that it is. I have never really looked at it in depth but I figured it must be doing something good for the people. When I saw this movie it made me rethink my views on capitalism and even how I should I approach the subject as a Christian.

I am a hopeless idealist and I believe that anyone can be successful if they work hard enough. This movie did not change my opinion of that but it showed how striving for this American dream brings out the worst in people. In striving for this dream some are willing to exploit others so that they can profit from their misfortune. To me all this dirty business and dishonesty is just not right. Someday we will all will have to give an account for our deeds on this earth including Wall Street.

This movie left me thinking what can I do? What can one person do to make a difference? Honestly I do not have an answer for that now. I do believe that education and awareness is the first step. I believe that documentaries like this helps to open our eyes to the truths around us. It is so easy to get encapsulated in our own world and disconnect from the larger world all around us.

After watching this movie it made me angry , I wanted to know how can people get away with blatantly robbing the american people.The part of the movie that really got to me was when the people decided to fight back when they got evicted from their homes. Also I was touched when the workers of one factory fought back and demanded what was rightfully theirs from Bank of America.

These moments of victory in the movie made me realize that there is hope for the little guy and there is something that we can do. I believe that as we set down insignificant differences and unite for a greater cause we can make a change. I am not sure where I stand on capitalism just yet ,but I truly believe that someday things will get better for everyone.

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The Gift Im Recommending

October 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment

The best gift to give is that which keeps on giving.
That bypasses death so that we keep on living.
Moves us from time to eternity to the place with no ending

Will you behold, pause, take notice grab hold.
Open your mind open your soul.
Accept the gift and let Him have control.

Transformative power
Available this hour,
Captivating your thoughts,
Granting victory, turning demons to cowards.

The Gift incarnate existing dwelling among humanity
Tragically they denied him divine travesty
In learning they excelled scholastically
Yet they failed the test tragically.

Again the gift is extended
Stretched out, seeking,reaching,
speaking and teaching

Will you be found waiting, and ready, heart willing, mind ready , life ready
Are you ready?

Worldly allurement entice extensively, to seek to over extend
They bend ,but step back, retract, and extract,and get back with
Jesus The gift the only one that pleases.

Jesus the everlasting , blasting past the fast pace , placing you
solidly on a stability that’s unshakable , the rock Jesus is most
capable, He’s able, y’all I said He’s able

The gift, he’s the gift that keeps giving
The gift, he wants to remove death so you keep living
The gift, to take you to the place with no ending

This is the gift I am a recommending.

~TKB

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Facebook

October 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Lets face it, when you keep your face in facebook, and put your faces on facebook it displaces the space where my face looking into your face once took – TKB

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Stuff

October 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment

When you have to buy more stuff to manage stuff its not time to organize stuff , its time to get rid of it. – TKB

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Adversitize Me

October 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Sometimes adversity pushes you to where you should have gone during times of peaceful tranquility. Nonetheless if adversity is the sufficient motivator for my success , adversitize me! – TKB

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