Production Capacity
Achieving your best for the Lord requires balancing production with production capacity. If a factory runs a machine 24/7, never stopping for maintenance, it produces a lot in the short …
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Steven Douglas, of Campus Crusade for Christ, challenges those who are facing a big task to ask a simple question: “What are three things I could do in the next …
Read More Reading for Application
It’s been said that everyone has a photographic memory. The problem is some people just forget to put film in the camera. One area where that may be true is …
Read More All Things Created Twice
All things are created twice. If you are sitting in a car right now, that car was first created by an automotive engineer, then later by a factory worker. If …
Read More Action Points
It’s not what you know that matters. What counts is what you do with what you know. Often a boss sends an employee on a training mission where he receives …
Read More Nose Ahead
There are situations where being just a tiny bit better than you are now can bring great rewards. In a horserace, for example, the first place horse may earn a …
Read More Simple Language
I saw a report on the internet recently that claimed the US Department of Health Education and Welfare once spent $230,000 to study ways children fall off bicycles. They titled …
Read More Activity vs. Accomplishment
Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar illustrates the difference between activity and accomplishment through the processionary caterpillar. These caterpillars get their name from their habit of always following the caterpillar in front …
Read More Frozen Ground
An Alaskan farmer needed to build a fence and wanted the job done quickly. Each day, as the thawing of the ground permitted, he choped away at the frozen land …
Read More Efficiency Expert
An efficiency expert concluded his lecture to a group of businessmen with a note of caution. “You don’t want to try these techniques at home.” “Why not?” asked somebody from …
Read More Leave Well Enough Alone
Two men were remodeling an old office building when they opened a closet to remove a filing cabinet. To their shock they discovered a skeleton hidden behind the cabinet. Suspecting …
Read More Mental Reset Button
Just after communism fell, my wife and I served as missionaries to Czechoslovakia. Lots of things there took some getting used to. One was our communist designed refrigerator. On the …
Read More Road Less Traveled…
Someone said, “The road less traveled might be that way for a reason.” While it is a good time management principle to continually search for new and better ways to …
Read More Responding to Failure
What makes the difference between average achievers and high producers? What separates those who do great things for God from those who live lives of quiet desperation? It is the …
Read More Deliver the Goods
A sign posted in a small business read: The 57 Rules of Success #1. Deliver the goods. #2. The other 56 don’t matter. I’m not sure I would agree 100% …
Read More Dead Birds Don’t Fly
Two men were walking down the street when one of them said, “Look. There’s a dead bird.” The other one looked up in the sky and said, “Where, I don’t …
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