Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Including Prayer, In Your Business Plan

This article is not about religion. This article is about the action of prayer and how it can lead you when your business plan appears to have fallen apart. Regardless if you have been funded or seeking funding, the first task on hand would be to pray that you make the correct decisions and take the correct actions to experience success.
Business plans and prayer, in reality, are not always in harmony. This article is to help you understand the bigger picture and how the business plan is just a small part of the equation. Often times, people say that they feel that they are cheating on their beliefs when in business.
This is an inner conflict and can, in time, cause illness, depression and ultimately failure. I am not going to lie to you and say there is a magic solution. However, what age and experience has revealed, is that you do what you need to do, within reason, to make the business work. Then you do what one of the world's top billionaires did. You double back around with your check book and make a difference in areas where you can.
After you have experienced the success, that is when your character is really tested. How do you respond to those in need? How do you help the people you passed on the way to success, good people who missed the boat? How do you help them, short of writing a check?
How do you teach people how to fish, rather than giving them one fish, which will be gone, after dinner?
This is where prayer comes in. And as funny as it may seem, this is the prayer you pray, "before" you experience the success. You pray for guidance on how to help those who are not able to help themselves.
Ok, are you confused yet?
It's like this. At some point, you will see, feel, realize and know from within, that you will experience success on a physical level. At that very moment, you start to pray for a plan to help those who are not able to help themselves. And, at the same time, you continue your faith that you already have success.
Sounds strange? It feels even stranger. It's almost like living in two worlds at the same time. One world is developing, changing and evolving and the other is beyond your reach, but totally depends on your actions.
So to understand how this works, lets back door your prayer.
A child is born in the back woods of America. Child is gifted and has been chosen to bring about a cure for a certain illness. How could this be? His father left when he found out his wife was pregnant. The mother didn't finish high school and is raising the child on a limited income.
Eighteen years later, the child takes a test and is labeled as "exceptionally gifted." Child says he want to go to medical school, but doesn't want to be a doctor. He loved science in school and entered every science fair he could find, when there was a scholarship for the registration.

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