Stewardship



SUMMARY

  • There is a difference between living righteously and living selfishly when it comes to your finances.
  • Stewardship plays a role in determining which way you live.
  • A good steward recognizes the gifts given as if they were on loan, takes charge of them and makes good come from those gifts.
  • Good stewardship includes helping causes and those who are less fortunate.
  • Stewardship is a tool that brings you into the framework of blessability.
  • Through the stewardship of words,

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How Successful People Make Decisions

SUMMARY

  • There are only about 12 to 15 key decisions in everyone’s life.
  • Examples of key decisions: Getting married, having children, a job change, moving to another area of the country, or buying a house.
  • When making key decisions, take a little extra time but don’t procrastinate too much.
  • ‘NO’ is a decision, never be afraid to say it when necessary. Don’t leave decisions undecided. Then, stick with them.  Follow up and follow through on your decisions.
  • After a decision is made,

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The Secret to Building Confidence

SUMMARY

  • Some people are prone to it; others are not. Everyone can build it.
  • Secrets to building confidence: Talk out loud. Speak words of positivity to yourself to bolster confidence.
  • Focus on the things which you are good at. What are your talents, your skills? Recognize the attributes of positivity in your life and stick in that vein. The longer you associate with confidence, the more confident you will become.
  • The confident person sometimes has so much that it exudes and breeds confidence in others.

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Advice for a Divorced CEO on Rebuilding Relationships

SUMMARY

  • E5 Leader is a relationship-builder and mender. Anguish, grief, and baggage from the past can be dealt with by applying principles of E5, enabling you to approach those you love and may have hurt, seek their forgiveness and build bridges.
  • Involve your (future) spouse in your leadership walk. Help him/her to make the transition into the culture of thought you have developed—‘a culture of life’ culture of thought.
  • Make sure he/she is ALL-IN with this leadership. Encourage and work with him/her.  Emphasize and let him/her know how important it is,

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Equipping Yourself and Others for Life and Success

SUMMARY

  • Equipping is being able to pass on something that you know.
  • We equip our children when we teach them how to walk, talk, or eat.
  • Equipping is also our actions, our role modeling.
  • Using E5 tools, you will be able to apply knowledge, tools, processes and training that equips you to handle situations and establish equilibrium.
  • Take note of your current equipping strategy.   Do you need to start, change or enhance it?
  • Equipping takes courage.
  • Be one of those courageous people to help somebody.

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What Place Have You Visited that Impacted You the Most?

SUMMARY

  • Mark’s favorite places to visit, the cathedrals and basilicas in the cities he visits, impact his spiritual pillar.  What place you’ve visited have affected you spiritually?
  • According to Mark, faith built him more than he built his faith.
  • He had a ‘Saul Moment’: a realization that there is a higher power and a higher authority.
  • Have you ever had such a moment? 

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The Four Temperaments that Determine the Way You Think and Act

SUMMARY

  • Temperaments are the hardwiring and natural ability to process thought.
  • No thought is generated without input.
  • Temperament, our hardwiring, is what processes inputs to formulate opinion, values, ethics, and behavior.
    • Four categories:
    • Choleric – the hard-driven type-A person who’s always going after it.
    • Phlegmatic – cool, casual, laid back, nothing seems to bother them.
    • Melancholic – likes a sense of order and has a sense of idealism.

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The Power of Delayed Gratification

SUMMARY

  • Delayed gratification is the practice of denial, detachment, or removal from something that you want.
  • Waiting to eat cookies until after dinner is a simple example of delayed gratification.
  • ‘Waiting to achieve’ is another form of delayed gratification when other priorities take precedent.
  • Delayed gratification is important because it’s a form of discipline.
  • Accomplishing a dream or a goal requires discipline to achieve. Keep in mind that part of that discipline is delayed gratification.

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What Is Behavior Modeling?

SUMMARY

  • Modeling is what we are doing with our behaviors, our words, our actions, and our thoughts. Those thoughts turn to reality and then to action.
  • Be conscious and careful of what you model. Others do what you do; not what you say.  A person in a position of authority, influence or leadership must be careful of what he/she models because that modeling will come back.  Model to be the best, and you’ll find opportunities open up to you.
  • Modeling can be generational. Sometimes,

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The Power of the Spoken Word

SUMMARY

  • What you speak is what you think; what you think is what you believe, and your belief controls your actions.
  • The association of words delivers a message, delivers instruction, and sends out a call to the world.
  • By speaking aloud, you engage with other senses; giving the want, need and desire to go into action.
  • The spoken word has the power to remain whether it’s positive or negative.
  • Learn to speak positively. Make it a habit for 21 days.

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