Financial Food for Consumption: Let’s shift our focus from PINCHING PENNIES to shifting our focus upon STRETCHING DOLLARS. Some of us invest a tremendous amount of time and energy on TRYING NOT TO SPEND ANYTHING when a better practice calls us to invest our time and energy on how to spend and what to spend the money on. ~ Matthew 25:18
Workplace Relationships and Ethics
Food for thought: Maintaining the cleanliness of the workplace is a reflection of exceptional work. The workplace is a place (mentally and physically) where work is produced. Exceptional work is based upon relationships that are ethical.
How do we determine if our work exceptional?
How do we de relationships are ethical?
Let’s define the word “ETHICS.”
Ethics can be defined as rules of conduct that GUIDE and GOVERN the actions of an organization and those individuals who are in relationship with the organization. Ethics are built upon principles. Principles are the “first things” needed in the building of ANY structure whether we are referring to a physical building or our individual lives.
Wisdom Key: If we are in relationship with someone or something we do not visit their facility (or house) bringing extra garbage nor do we leave someone’s house without picking up after ourselves. This type of act can be considered as unethical.
Our work must be exceptional and our relationships must be ethical.
Whether we anticipate having expected or unexpected company our workplace (mentally and physically) is reflection of who we are and what our lives are built upon (PRINCIPLES). Our workplace should be clean because of the habits that have been formed from the daily exercise of ethical conduct. In retrospect, ethical conduct has become our first nature because we have replaced old habits with new habits. The replacement of the old with the new is revealed through the rules of conduct that guide and govern our actions.
Cleaning is not a chore, cleaning is a way of life. ~ Marcus Cage
Witty Inventions
Witty inventions (ideas,plans,processes,businesses,etc.) sometimes get held up because we attempt to ascertain a divinely inspired concept through a filter of human reasoning.
The flow of ideas, plans, processes and businesses are dependent on a filter that must be pure (free from impurities that can hinder the flow).
Leveraging Your Organization for Promotion
If we aspire to become entrepreneurs we must learn how to effectively leverage our resources within a controlled atmosphere (or company). The company or organization is the controlled atmosphere employees find themselves within.
In essence, this is our NETWORK. When the mentality of building a network is understood within our hearts and within our minds we will be able to positively affect the PRE-DESTINED communities we have been sent to.
- God is an entrepreneur… He is in the business of restoration.
- Our businesses should serve the purpose of restoring our communities.
- It is the Will of God that every need be fulfilled according to His purpose, plan and promise.
- Food for thought: A job can be viewed as being employed within the confines of a controlled atmosphere (or company).Each individual department serves as an individual business unit that is reliant upon the service and products of the other departments within the confines of the controlled atmosphere (or company).This controlled atmosphere is the company we work with.
There is an immediate network within our grasp which enables us to progress, grow and expand on a foundation that has already been built. When we graduate onto running our own businesses, we must take this mentality with us. The time for preparation is NOW!
We are on the cusp of becoming entrepreneurs!
First things first…
We must cultivate the habit of identifying issues that our fellow employees and organizations are encountering. This is an illustration of customer service. Our service should lead to solutions.
WE understand that with we work WITH our respective organizations as PARTNERS in anticipation of achieving the vision and mission that has been set forth by the organization. When we come into the awareness of this TRUTH, we will be well on our way to starting and operating our own businesses within our predestined communities.
We will translate the job experience into our own entrepreneurial reality
Ponder on this…
Our service should lead to a solution. If we are providing services only we cannot detach ourselves from the PHYSICAL LOCATION of the workplace. The goal of separation is not to rid ourselves of the job experience due to the wear and tear of dealing with people, places and things. The goal of separation is to graduate onto a new endeavor (or mindset) which allows us to experience another degree of freedom. Freedom allows us to become more mobile in order to serve more people.
Separation moves us closer to purpose and away from superficial distractions.
Food for thought: Many individuals that own and run companies work in only one dimension of business which is service. Service-oriented businesses serve their customers and consumers by providing hands-on/one-on-one counseling, training and consultation. The end product for some is a transaction involving a physical product. The end product for others is a satisfied customer with no product. With no product CONTINUOUS VALUE cannot be added to the lives of their customers.
If the service-oriented businesses owners who ONLY FOCUSED ON SATISFIED CUSTOMERS are not present to provide service, the business cannot and does not make money because the company only works in one dimension. This is the same recipe that is being partaken of at your workplace.
To be continued….
Brother Marcus Cage
Just On the Brink of Success
Healthy Relationships ~ Growing Pain Pt.2
Personal Growth and Development
A shirt that is too tight is not comfortable nor is a shirt that is too big. We all need help taking off clothing that is too small for us. Our clothing speaks of our identity, and clothing that is too tight represents past experiences that no longer fit us. There are times when we have on clothing that feels comfortable because our past is a place of comfort.
Food for thought: When shopping if we are to get the RIGHT SIZE and have the look that fits who we are becoming, we need to take someone with us when we are looking for clothing (Our Identity).
BECOMING IS GROWING.~ Marcus Cage
The Narrow Path of Super-Vision
All issues, obstacles and problems in our lives are overcome when we have a willing to accept supervision. When these objects come through a narrow path of focus (or supervision), we set our sights on THE positive and not the negatives. This can only occur when we accept SUPER-VISION from our peers and staff.
You need a negative to bring forth positive change into your life. ~ Marcus Cage
One Major Road Block
One of the major road blocks on the road of life is emotion. An emotion is an external manifestation of an internal feeling. This leaves many is a standstill.The remedy for this roadblock is to TURN DOWN our emotions!
When we turn down our emotions we can tune- in (listening and understanding).
This is a tune-up that occurs daily. Unlike a car our tune- ups are not a one time events, our tune-ups occur daily and are life experiences. When we are tuned-up we have the ability to tune-in allowing the circumstances of life to run smoother.
“Be ye fruitful and multiply”
Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
The Kingdom of God is to be fruitful AND MULTIPLY.Not be fruitful and add, not be fruitful and subtract, not be fruitful and divide. We are to be fruitful AND MULTIPLY.
The ANSWER to a multiplication problem is a PRODUCT, and fruit is the end product of being fruitful. This is not the means to the end, but the means that leads to the beginning of multiplication.
There are many lucrative businesses in existence and all of these enterprises provide a SERVICE. Our communities require services, but the Kingdom of God must offer products to our consumers IN ORDER to bring forth abundantly in the earth.
MULTIPLICATION IS ONE OF THE TARGETS…
Anyone and anything birthed must be nurtured
Anyone or anything birthed must be nurtured. If we are truly connected our PRE-DESTINED future then whatever we birth is LEGITIMATE. However, if WE are in a place where CHANGE IS TAKING THE PLACE OF COMPLACENCY THEN ANYTHING OR ANYONE BIRTHED THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE PAST IS ILLEGITIMATE.








