100% Of People in Business Need To Do This

The majority of online entrepreneurs make the mistake of not taking the time and crafting a mission statement. Even online entrepreneurs who are in the business for a while don't do it.

If you don't have a clear and concise idea of what your mission is, how will your business partners, your vendors, your employees, and your customers? They just can't.

Your business should have a mission statement. It tells your customers, business partners, potential clients what you are about and it removes the confusion.

No one will know what you are about and it will be hard to do business and have positive cash flow!
Once you have a mission statement, what you will find is that your customers will understand you better. They know what you are about. Your employees and your business partners will have a clear vision of how to work with you. It will make your life easier and their lives easier.

Your mission statement should be short and to the point of your company's purpose. It should tell people what your business is all about and why it exists.

Peter Drucker in his book, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization says:

"A mission cannot be impersonal; it has to have deep meaning, be something you believe in - something you know is right. A fundamental responsibility of leadership is to make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it."

If you don't have a mission statement yet, I suggest you come up with one right away. It would definitely set your business in the right direction.

If you never done one before, there are 5 points it should address:

1. What is the purpose of your company why does it exist?
2. Who are your customers?
3. What does your company aspire to be?
4. What makes your company unique?
5. What products or services does your company offer?

Your mission statement should be specific and narrow enough so that it doesn't apply to just any company, but it should be flexible enough to allow for growth and change. Make sure to review it on a regular basis to see if you and your company are following your mission statement. If your company is steering away from your mission statement, maybe it's time to change your mission statement.

It should be clear and does not contain "fluff" words and jargon that potential customers, partners, and employees to do not understand. Put it on your website where people can see it.

Writing a mission statement is not enough though, you must live it on a daily basis. Use it as a tool to guide your business decision-making, how you communicate with your customers, partners, and vendors. You will find that you won't be making any more questionable decisions.

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Psalm 85 - When Hope Wins Over Despair

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
~Psalm 85:10 (NRSV)

All the Psalms tell a story within the frame of the emotions; the cognisance of this performing life, the agonies and ecstasies, and all between. We can't help but sow our full selves into this life and we take the things that occur to us personally, accounting them within varying levels of God's blessing or otherwise.

Not always are we happy with what God is taking, or has taken, us through.

This Psalm is enclosed within the communal setting; the community, perhaps in the exilic sense, sits in the in-between place, recalling the grace of God in having saved their ancestors (verses 1-3), but not having yet realised such deliverance themselves (verses 7-9).

THE COMMUNAL LAMENT

Such a genre characterised here, the communal lament, a community sharing collective despair, may seem disjointed from a contemporary viewpoint; unless we have experienced national or international or overwhelming conflict, especially from the receiving end.

But hardship is closer to home for all of us, particularly the tumult of family pain - tragic loss of life, irreconcilable drug addiction, the victims or family of perpetrators of crime, etc. We give way to the temptation to blame externals, including God, because the pain is too much to deal with. Even more do we polarise within the family - as we share the pain we are tempted to deflect it; and that often means the forming of resentment and dysfunctional anger.

The test of the psalmist, as he represents his community, is to keep faith with the saving nature of the LORD - both in terms of history, reflecting on the experience of his ancestors as carried through their oral tradition, and their hopes for the future.

Neither the psalmist, nor their community, nor even us, can afford to give up on such a hope. Such a situation is a knife edge - faith is the only sane choice, however difficult it is to procure.

PREFERRING HOPE OVER DESPAIR

At verse 7, the psalmist commits to hope rather than falling into despair. And a new season is launched.

At the transition, before vision of salvation comes, when the temptation to give up is in full flight, it is difficult to decide for hope. But, once the decision is made a miraculous spiritual relief is experienced immediately - a blessing for showing faith.

What comes as a result is revelation that would not ordinarily be seen in the absence of faith. God gives the psalmist the encouragement of his Presence. The psalmist is shown the nature of God in the blessing - the character of God in steadfast love and faithfulness, righteousness and peace.

Further revelation discloses how God brings faithfulness and righteousness (verse 11) together in the order of deliverance, for the LORD has empowered the psalmist's faithfulness which rises to meet Divine righteousness coming down from heaven. Salvation is a two-way street.

The decision to trust God reveals faith, and that faint confidence translates into burgeoning confidence for the psalmist. From recognition of his own problems, and those also of his community - and capitulation - he is dissuaded, as he refocuses on the transcendent grace of the LORD, his God. Joy fills him, not despondency.

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Trials are a knife's edge: what beckons is hope or despair. Hope fuels our confidence, but despair kills our vision for fear. Choosing faith opens our minds to what God can do. Nothing is impossible for God.

© 2012 S. J. Wickham.

Steve Wickham is a Registered Safety Practitioner (BSc, FSIA, RSP[Australia]) and a qualified, unordained Christian minister (GradDipBib&Min). His blogs are at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com/ and http://inspiringbetterlife.blogspot.com/

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Habits and How to Change Them

"Honey, have you seen my keys?"

"Where are those bills? They were due yesterday!"

"Did you floss at all this week?"

"When was the last time you hit the gym?"

Habits. They can be our worst enemy or our best friend. Dropping things on any flat surface when you come in the door at night is very inviting. The problem is that they often get left there, and you can't find your keys, you miss bills, and you don't know where the things that you need for the next day are when you get ready to go. This type of habit can cause stress and waste time that could be used for something enjoyable.

Brushing your teeth, planning weekly menus and exercising are also habits. This type of habit can reduce stress, save money and improve health.

Smoking, chewing tobacco, overeating, eating when you're not hungry, making poor food choices, and biting your nails are also habits. This type of habit often times has an emotional piece that goes with it.

Habits are like a well-worn path through a meadow. It's very easy to stay on the path, your feet know it well. You really don't have to think about it or even pay attention to where you're going. In fact, getting off that path takes some conscious effort and a bit of work.

Your first step is deciding where you really want to go. Changing one habit or changing interrelated habits is much easier and more effective than trying to change many diverse habits at once. Deciding to eat healthier goes well with menu planning and meal preparation.

It's said that it takes 21 days to put a new habit in place. I find it easiest to do it by the month. A new habit each month, reinforcing a habit that seems to be slipping a bit or refining an already useful habit (moving the furniture once a month when vacuuming instead of just catching the traffic area.)

For those habits that have an emotional piece, new habits that you find yourself resisting, or habits that just don't seem to want to "stick," hypnosis can be very helpful. Hypnosis can help you find out what your subconscious mind thinks about the habit, why it's resisting change and how to move forward. Your lifestyle utilizing this new habit becomes very clear with hypnosis and the change becomes easy. When you're looking for a hypnotist to help you with your habits, make sure that they do more than just use scripts and positive imagery, look for someone that will really dive into the issues.

Joni Brewer, Clinical Hypnotist, Life Coach JoniBrewer@ymail.com BrewerHypnosis.com

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