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NOVEMBER 2017


Business Tips:
·         Learn from complaints  - your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning, let them teach you where your holes are
·         Deliver more than expected – it’s a great way to build loyalty and trust in you and your brand at all levels in the company

    Personal Tips:
·        Foster a community atmosphere – I teach a few classes, build a customer’s building, and I make it a point to introduce myself if it’s their first time with a building. I also introduce my clients to one other. Other ideas include having a group dinner or doing an occasional group outing.
·        Be yourself – I wouldn’t want to spend an hour three times a week with a robot. Be yourself. You don’t need to share personal information, but you can give honest opinions, be a little goofy, and so forth. There is a very human element to what you do, so be human.
·        Be professional – Show up on time, be prepared, act like an adult, make ethical decisions, and treat what you do like a career, not a hobby. If it is a hobby, go find a real job.





Life Skills:
Faith, Family, Fitness, Finances, Friends, Fun, Following, Freedom; we call these the 8F’s in life. Many of these categories can tell one where their priorities are in life by measuring the time one would spend in one of the above categories.
FAITH
Faith can be defined 2 ways
1.      Complete trust or confidence in someone or something and 2. Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
In this bulletin, I want to share faith with you based on my belief in God. Do you need to believe it? That will be up to you. We can’t force you to do or think anything. We are a private company and you have the right to know how it is run.
From the time I was speaking from a pulpit with note cards due to my Grandfathers probing (Terri’s Dad, Earl) up until now – I have dedicated my life, my work, and my spirit to the God that I serve.
Whether you knew it or not, I have dedicated all the companies that I lead to the work and mission of Jesus Christ. With that being said, this belief system comes with it many struggles and successes just like everyone else. However, the differences in my mind have far displaced any other worldview that I have encountered.
Why? Jesus has gracefully given me the answers to some of life’s deepest questions.
Origin – Where do we come from?
Morality – What’s right and what’s wrong?
Meaning – Why are we here?
Destiny – Where are we going?
I have found that you can analyze any faith worldview with these questions. Do they correspond with truth by empirical or logical reasoning? Do the answers to each above question cohere – meaning they must not contradict one another?

Notable quotes:
·        Learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you – Dwight Eisenhower
·        To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you
·        Live life less out of habit and more out of intent and destiny
·        Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny – CS Lewis

Something I want you to know:
      I’m not perfect; I only know one who was. I know I will not always do everything right. However, I will do my best to serve this company. I will do so, because God has entrusted it to us to make sure that it becomes a light to the world. You are a part of that. So be a light for good this month and from now on out. Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Our thoughts lead to actions, then to habits, then to character, then destiny, and then finally eternal results. Your life is on purpose so live it that way. LOVE YA

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