Faith and Business Friday 05/26/23

Personal Development - The hurdles you may be facing to achieve personal direction are:

• Lack of clarity: You may have a general idea of what you want to achieve, but lack clarity on specific goals and how to start.
• Procrastination: It can be easy to put off taking action toward achieving your goals especially if it requires stepping outside of one's comfort zone, facing fears or even temporary discomfort.
• Negative self-talk: Negative self-talk is a major obstacle to personal growth, as it can lead to a lack of confidence and decrease motivation.
• Limited beliefs about oneself: This creates a mental barrier to trying new things or taking risks - getting out of your comfort zone.
• Lack of accountability: Without someone to hold you accountable, it is difficult to stay on track and make consistent progress toward personal development goals. You can always push your deadlines and go easy on yourself.
• External factors: External factors such as a lack of time, resources, training, and support can also make it very hard to achieve personal development.

Professional Mastery - Almost every business book identifies similar components of business that need to be worked on in order to achieve success.

The book Traction identifies them as:

• Vision / Mission.
• People
• Process
• Data
• Issues

The book E-Myth Revisited identifies them as:

• Aim
• Strategic objective
• Organizational strategy
• Management strategy
• People strategy
• Marketing Stregaty
• Systems Strategy

The book Business Made Simple identifies them as:

• Leadership (made simple....)
• Productivity
• Business
• Messaging
• Marketing
• Communication
• Sales
• Negotiation
• Management
• Execution

The book Scaling Up identifies them as:

• People (leaders, team, managers)
• Strategy (aim, values. purpose, competencies)
• Execution (priorities, data, meetings/communication)
• Cash (cash flow, accounting, financial levers)

Each book covers the general areas of the others. Rather than jump from one to another or the "latest" it's more efficacious to find one that works with your style and stick with it!

Spiritual Maturity - God calls us, but He does not constrain us, He grants man full liberty to accept or to refuse His divine invitation. Matthew 19: 21. If you would be perfect, …..come, follow me.”?

Catholic Meme - We have to laugh!