Focus on Impact

Move Fast

Be Bold

Be Open

Build Social Value

These values show us how even the most innovative aspects of technology and communication are working intently to keep changing. As the envelope is pushed, how will leadership role adapt? Here are some questions to consider:

• Who can you spend time with to learn more about social media?
• How is your ministry investing in better communication technology?
• What new team role do you need to stay more innovative?
• How are you giving people permission to make mistakes in the name of positive risk and bold mission?

Read the entire article here...

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

1. MOTIVATE

2. ENCOURAGE .

3. NEVER forsake your own gathering together.

4. TELL them what you sense God wants for their life.

5. ONE-ON-ONES are vital for both you and them.

6. RELEASE them to multiply their lives.

Read the rest of the article...

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Pay close attention to people.
• Invest significant time in people.
• Ask meaningful questions at the right time.
• Learn to read in between the lines.
• Genuinely care for people.

Read the rest of the article...

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

With an estimated 15 million single mothers in the United States and numbers increasing daily, it is imperative that the local church have a thriving single mothers program. It is estimated that 67% of single mothers do not actively attend church.  As the church – the body of Christ – this should pain us. It should keep us up at night. Many single mothers do not feel they belong in the house of God. The fear that they will be judged. They are concerned that others will not understand their journey.

Read the rest of the article...

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

We can not change our selves.

Living... Rom 12:1-2

Fix your focus on God and you will be changed.

Look at where you have come from and you will see how much God has changed you.

Matt 11:28 rest in Jesus.

Setting boundaries creates a healthy lifestyle.

When your outside "yes" doesn't meet your inside "yes" it creates an inner conflict. Learn to say NO.

Worries

Money
Children
Marriage
Health
Job
Reputation
Future
Aging

(think of the worries and what control you have)

Direct Control - responsibility

Indirect Control - influence

No Control - trust

Responsibility leads to authority

Outlaws try to have authority without the proper responsibility.

Skin - boundary

Most others are not visible

The basis of personal identity is, what is me and what is not me?

Illustration hula hoop / personal space.

What is in your space (lies, feelings, opinions) (God, beliefs, abilities, desires and dreams, goals) (sexuality)

Your family, friends, spouse are not in your hula hoop area.

No one can make you sad mad or happy unless you give them that responsibility. DON'T.

BOUNDARIES ARE NOT SELFISH

Boundaries are healthy for you and others.

Illustration - being in each others hoops. Not healthy.

Two personal individual areas inside of God’s hoop.

You know yourself, like your self, you can be yourself.

Learn healthy ways to get your needs met.

Be who you are.

Learn how to say no.

Take responsibility for your choices.

Have realistic expectations of relationships.

Allow others to experience the consequences of their choices.

Don't manipulate / attempt to control others.

Recognize when others are trying to control you

Don't control others and don't allow others to control you.

Make and keep promises to yourself.

Stop pointing finger towards others.

Boundaries are not inherited but built

Two key relationship skills

Bonding / Separating

Bonding 0 - 12

Separating 13 - 21

Interdependence 21 - 100

Bonding is the beginning of boundary building.

You can't develop or set boundaries with out supportive relationships.

Birth - two year olds. Dependent BONDING

If you did not bond it makes it very difficult.

We first need a loving and nurturing home and then comes a time to separate into your own safe and nurturing environment.

You are able to manage your emotional responsibilities.

How are boundaries developed?

One effect of the fall was relational brokenness.

Our ability to have healthy relationships with God, self and others was damaged.

3 life skills to be mastered by 3 year olds

Form emotional attachments
Able to receive NO from appropriate others and respond accordingly.
Able to say no to others without fear or manipulation.

Are your buttons two easy to push
Approval needs
Fear of negative emotions
Fear of abandonment
Lack of assertiveness
The vanishing YOU

problems

People pleasing
Using people
Can't say no
Emotional wreak
Need to rescue everyone
Need to make others happy
Always getting hurt
Selfish
Can't manage own life

Results

Can't see situation as they really are

Warped since of reality

Guilt and intimidation

Book (Boundaries by Cloud & Townsend)

Developing Healthy Boundaries

Start with your circle

You don't have to wait on others

Change yourself / you can't change others
Emotions don't happen to us ... They are in our personal circle

Own your own emotions

You don't have to fix anyone else.

Don't enable others by failing to set healthy boundaries

Boundaries are more like fences with gates than thick cement walls you use to block others out.

(if the ripples are bigger than the rock it is not the rocks fault)

Manage your emotions don't be controlled by them

Build a healthy system to help you through the process

Find loving people you can trust to speak truth to you

Misconceptions about boundaries

Boundaries will hurt me and others

Boundaries set by others will hurt me

Idol - any thing or any person you expect to meet needs that only God can meet

Don't lie to people when they ask you if they are crossing your boundaries.Don't excuse their behavior

Be loving

Affirm them

Set limits

I love you and you are important to me

I really need to stop allowing you to control me

Let them know what will happen if they do not respect your boundaries

Clean up your language and tone

Not (you made me mad) but (when you said this I felt this way)

Communicate
Explain boundaries
Define the consequences

Steps to breaking a destructive relationship cycle

Identify - what is going on inside me
Detach - step back and examine situation
Decide - choose an action that defines and defends your boundaries without violating the boundaries of others.

Examples :

Stop yelling at me

You can continue to yell but I will not be in you're presence when you do that.

You have to stop drinking

You may choose to continue drinking but I will not allow myself to be exposed to the chaos that is a result of your drinking.

You are a pervert

I will not choose to share you sexually with others in magazines or the Internet. I will only sleep with someone who is only interested in me. (Wife to Husband)

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Wounding occurs when someone in authority fails to demonstrate the love of the father to you.

How have you responded to the ”wounds"... This is most important. Job and Joseph are great examples.

Stronghold is built around a lie to protect that lie.

2 Cor 10:-4-5 taking down strongholds.

When God reveals truth in a situation you will see it the way God sees it.

No one can devalue you with out your permission... Your value never changes

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Intimacy

We get intimacy through nurture.

We as children of God desire His presence. We can begin to worship Him and experience His embrace every day. This will keep us nurtured up!

When we have believed a lie (I am not of value) it usually come from a lie spoken to you in your early development. We must renounce the lie and agree with God about His value and love for you.

There is no perfect Mom and Dad. We all make mistakes.

We must forgive and trust God to be perfect father.

We must give away love and nurture to those in the world.

The Orphan heart is believing that you have no value from your father or mother and you have not been able to enter into the Love of the Father.

Your mother is your first experience with lack of nurture. Lack of value.

The nurturing heart of Father God.

Masculine and feminine differences...

Head knowledge is not enough we must have intimacy with Father God.

Most of the wounds we experience come from Mother.

When you are not nurtured as a child it effects our view of God. We believe that God is now a nurturer.

Psalm 22:9 - nurture

The opposite of trust is fear.

Love completes...

Book : Unbound - Frost

Fig - Fear of intimacy with God. ( Cover Up)

Masculine
Teach
Train
Discipline
Nurture

Feminine
Nurture
Teaches
Train
Discipline

Relating to God creates a desire for more intimacy.

Father God broods over His children.

Love provides a favorable condition for us to develop into the person He has created us to be.

God desires intimacy with you, his child.

Mothers are our first connection to bonding.

The development of the first years or the lack of can bring big wounds.

Every emotion the mother feels the baby experiences in the womb.

If we don't get that need met we will try to get those needs met somewhere.

Storge Love - family love.

Affectionate Touch
13 touches a day for skin to stay healthy
Shows value
Sends message of ownership

Eye contact
Window of the soul Luke 11:34

Tone of voice.

You can send a message of no worth with the tone of your voice.

Allow people to finish your sentences and tell their whole story.

Perfectionist Mother (you represent them so you must be perfect) no tolerance of grace.

Unpredictable Mother (manic or depressed) you never know what you are going to encounter.

Untouchable or unapproachable Mother (always has guard up or walls to protect themselves.)

The Me First Mother (mother comes before children) Child is seen as a intrusion to mothers life. Child can be seen as competition.

Best friend mother (do not set boundaries) (no discipline) children are co-equal to parents.

Authoritarian Mother (my way or the highway) does not allow children to have a voice of her own. Does not allow others to speak into her mothering skills. Struggles with the fact that absent fathers have placed all authority on them.

Fearful Mom (projects her fear to children, can't set boundaries, very controlling, children are expected to meet the need of parent.

Pretty good mother - nurturing and protective in a loving way vs. needy or controlling way.

Eros love can go crazy when Storge is absent.

Healing

Realize that no human can meet this love need. (only the father)

You are not a victim

Let go of counterfeit affections

Encounter the love of Father

Forgive parents

Be willing to trust the nurturing side of Father God (bonding with father God)

God is a loving, nurturing God.

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

If we can't see what He sees... then we should say what he says (confess scripture out loud) until we can see what he sees.

Read the bible with the heart of a son. God’s son.

God often reveals what is in our hearts by giving us what we need in a package that we do not want.

(Jesus was not what we wanted in a savior, we wanted a earthly ruler not a meek lamb led to the cross.)

Psalm 139:17-18 God’s thoughts are precious to us.

1 Cor 13 - love

John 17 - lost sheep, lost coin, lost son.

The heart of the father is the focus of this chapter, not the lost items.

Son one wants father to die and give him what was his. He did not value the relationship.

(Jesus does not like turning the house of prayer into a market place.)

It is not about the "stuff" it's about relationship and intimacy.

The father gives the son what he asked for

Boundaries enhance life not ruin it

Satan never shows you the end he has in mind

Son could not see the pig pin only the party

We must value the love the Father has for us

Just as important as being a father is the son’s responsibility to be (open to)  fathered.

No one is saved by obeying the law but it will point you to the savior.

The law is good... We will be obeying the law if we have God as Father.

If we do not belong to God we will not obey the law and we will not be redeemed.

Our sin has already been paid for.  We focus on our sin much more than God does. He has chosen to cover all of our sin, all of it.

Woman caught in adultery, Moses said stone her what do you say Jesus? Jesus waited on what Father was saying.

Then he spoke with the accusers and the woman as the Father led him to.

The enemy wants to hinder our intimacy with God.

(Good choices will produce good results / Bad choices will produce bad results.)

God will not force us to make choices. But His love for us does not change even if we choose poorly.

The son squanders his resources and finds himself in a bad situation.

We must  surrender, believe and agree to receive all the blessings God has for us as His children.

We can’t meet needs from the outside in but needs are met in Christ from the inside out.

Surrender and allow Jesus to live in and through you with complete freedom.

The shame Game

failure
shame
guilt
fear
hiding

(Now There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus)

This continues as long as we believe the lie…  God will break the cycle.

Their are consequences for every choice. Choose life. Choose Jesus.

Law of the harvest, you reap what you sow.

You reap after you sow.

You reap more than you sow.

You receive then you give it away... You receive and you give it away...

Sin will take you where you don't want to go, cost you what you don't want to pay, keep you longer than you want to stay.

Don't stay with the pigs. Run to the house of your father.

Why should we live in the world when we can live in the fathers house.

Only the love of the father can meet every need in our lives.

Repentance and returning to the father always leads to life and abundance.

Son got up from the pig pin and started toward to fathers house.

He did not have to clean him self up. He just returned as he was.

The father runs to the son and embraced the son and kissed him. (Son was still far off.)

Rom 5:8 God died for us while we were still sinners.

We are justified because of Jesus and in the eyes of God we are completely restored to son-ship.

When father sees his son he is filled with compassion.

Jesus was tempted in every way and was sinless and because of Jesus we are sinless in Father’s sight.

Excepting responsibility for our decisions is the first step to freedom.

Picture of father embracing son with the filth of the pig pin all over him. Father even kisses him.

Son - father I have sinned

Quick bring the robe... The ring... There is no delay in the grace of God.

Question - did the son loose his identity in father when he was in rebellion? NO

Is God’s grace dependent on our actions? Our returning? NO

How are we able to get out of the fathers love? Nothing can separate from the love of God.

Forgiveness / receive forgiveness

My thoughts...

You can't not loose what you didn't work for, you cant be forgiven for what you have already been forgiven.

God's love never changed, our obedience is reflection of our love for God not His love for us.

God demonstrated His love for us on the cross.

Nothing can separate you from the love of God in the physical or the spiritual...

Satan is a created being under the authority of God. He can do nothing God does not allow Him to do.

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Proverbs 3:5-6

Questions

Are you offended easily?
Do you withdraw when you are in a group?
Do you have a deep need to be accepted by others and work hard to keep up that image?

Do not fear the journey... God is on the journey with us every step of the way.

Isaiah 53:5 healing... By Jesus’ stripes we are healed inner and outer.

We are being transformed and that process continues.

security, safety,unconditional love, affirmed by parents, purpose and destiny

hurts
severed relationships
divorce substance
abusive spouse
disappointments at work
financial problems
wounded by the church
rebellious children

Illustration of calling people up to show how a married couple has baggage (calling up couple first then others in crowd that represent past hurt / relationship.)

Breaking of soul ties from those you have been bound to in the past that are continuing to bring hurtful issues into your life.

Physical
Sexual
Emotional
Verbal
Captivity
Psychological

Explosion of anger, sorrow, good season, volcano / pressure building (the cycle continues)

Rejection from peers
Rejection from boy friend or girl friend
Pressure to excel from parents
Parents are not home / connected to you
Hurtful words that stick with you

Rejection
Abandonment
Abuses
Parents absent
Doesn't feel safe
Doesn't feel secure
No unconditional love
Not nurtured

Spoken words from parents in anger towards you or other spouse.

Pain could start in the womb if there was pain in your home when you were being carried by your mother. "Secret pain of an unborn child”- Thomas Verney

Whatever the mother is thinking the baby picks that up.

The spirit can pick up on emotions and spoken words even when a child can't cognitively understand.

Cycle of pain

Wounding
Negative thinking
Sin and disobedience
Darkness

Can lead to...
Oppression

We need to deal with the root or first offense to find healing. Keep searching for the first wound and ask God for healing of this offense.

Forgiveness is usually the first step when you know the cause of the wound.

You can release your offender and walk in freedom.

The pain of change which brings life or stay the same which bring more pain to you and others in the future.

You must allow God to break the cycle.

If your identity I is based in rejection and wounds, you are not experiencing freedom and unconditional love.

Characteristics of wounded spirit

Withdrawal isolation
Walls of self protection
Passiveness
Emotional dependence
Codependency
Aggressive or passive control
Difficulty receiving correction
Difficulty receive receiving love
Consistent need of recognition and attention
Expected rejection
Victim mindset
Emotional immaturity
Broken relationships
Find identity in groups
judgmental attitude
Lack of intimacy with God
Abnormal fears and phobias
Self centered
Stress related disease
Argumentative
Quick tempered
Lack of self discipline
Over responsibility
Self rejection

Rest and recreation, relaxation, and renewal will help with physical health. (documented by John Hopkins)

Illustration :: Shame is like a cloak that hangs over you. Woman with black cloak and replaced with white cloak. Break generation curses and put on the cloak of God.

Having a death wish... I wish I would just die and let God take me home. (It is God’s time for us to live or die not our own.) You can open doors for the enemy by wishing for death.

Spirit Soul Body

We are spirit - core of you
We have a soul- emotions
We live in a body - senses

Change requires 3 things

1. Hurt enough
No choice but to change
There is an intervention

2.Learn enough

3.Receive enough unconditional love

Prayer to forgive those who caused pain or wound

Prayer to confess and break the death wish (I wish I was never born, I wish god would just take me home.)

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

You were created for love.

We are created by love, from love, for love.

Jer 31:3 loved with everlasting love.

Everlasting is everlasting!

1 John 4:16 (abide in love. abide in God. God will abide in you.)

Do you feel loved by God.

Many people feel that they don’t need love. This is not true. We were created for love.

God will show you this in many ways. We can not expect others to meet that need but God may love you through others. The source is always God.
To admit and know how needy we really are will set us free to receive God’s love.

Most inward Pain is "lack of love" or no intimacy.

We often choose to numb the pain of the lack of love in our lives with substance or other things that cover the effects of pain.

No one had a perfect family... We must find the love and ability to love in God.
Who does God abide in? (those who are at home with His love)

Keys to discovering genuine intimacy in relationships.

The image we have of ourselves determines the depth of intimacy in which we dwell.

God’s love is meant to be as freely seen through us as it was seen in Jesus.

God wants the same intimacy with you and me as He has with Jesus.

With out love I am nothing.

Being able to express and receive love is the true test of our relationship with God.

The great commandment must come before the great commission.

All of the law and prophets rest on these two - Jesus

Obedience must flow from relationship and love not duty and fear.

We must become aware of our need for intimacy with God and people.

Adam was created first so that he would know the importance of his complete dependence on God and then he could love and receive love from Eve.

Adam and eve before the fall... a great picture of intimacy.

John 17 is also a great picture of intimacy that Father, Son, Holy Spirit ”trinity” experience.

 We must be able to embrace our responsibility for intimacy.

If we are walking in love with everyone (ministry) but neglect or deprive our family by withholding love it is not real. (good self test)

Relationship problems come from unwillingness to be fully known and to fully know those we are in relationship with.

The life and ministry of Jesus shows us true intimacy.

Intimacy requires us to find our value and self worth in being who God created us to be.

Love and intimacy are your destiny.

Prayer - God I want to be healed in all areas of love.

Success with out love is not enough. It is empty and void.

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Sarah (Trisha Frost & Jack Frost's daughter) - Speaker

Jack (Dad) had father issues and struggled with drug and porn addiction. Entered into revelation of God’s Father Heart.

Before this transformation Sarah, the daughter was under very religious / perfection expectations. If she did not preform she was not loved.

Mother, Trisha was burdened with husband at sea and son with medical needs so when she got pregnant with Sarah she went into a 3 year depression.

Sarah was forced into performance mode and tried to preform so that she would be accepted and acted out of anger to hurt before she was hurt.

1. Your image of God will reflect your intimacy with God.
2. Religion is fear based.
3. Fear is faith pointed into the wrong kingdom.
4. Fear based religion leads to rebellion.
5. Fear motivated actions will not be fruitful.
6. John 14:6 - Jesus died to allow us to have intimacy with Him.
7. Psalms 139:17 God’s thoughts are precious toward you and me.
8. Your image of the father is going to reflected in how comfortable you are with Love.
9. If you are looking at God through the lens of earthly parents your view will be distorted.
10. We have difficulty finding rest in God if you see Him as angry and not loving.
11. (From slavery to son ship) book that deals with this very important issue.
12. Operating out of an orphan mentality when you are a true child of God is very common in a religious environment.
13. Feeling like a failure because of poor performance is not of God.
14. John 5:19-20 The Father loves the son and includes him in everything He does.
15. Hebrews 1:3 The son perfectly mirrors the father and is stamped with the Father’s nature.
16. This Father is loving and generous. Full of compassion. Forgiveness is in His nature. (reflections from the life of Jesus in scriptures)
17. 1 Cor 13 - God’s Love
18. Our circumstances will distort our view of God.
19. Isaiah 66:2 God is looking for someone who is simple and plain and responsive to what He says.
20. I will not leave you as an orphan. -God

Video - Father running with son who was disabled physically and could do nothing. (can be found on you tube) World’s greatest father, team Hoyt.

21. Prayer -Father I have thought of you as an angry God. Please forgive me. I choose to break that thought process. I choose to see you as the loving father that you are.

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Any healthy church must have some level of inward focus. Those in the church should be discipled. Hurting members need genuine concern and ministry. Healthy fellowship among the members is a good sign for a congregation.

But churches can lose their outward focus and become preoccupied with the perceived needs and desires of the members...

1. Worship wars.
2. Prolonged minutia meetings.
3. Facility focus.
4. Program driven.
5. Inwardly focused budget.
6. Inordinate demands for pastoral care.
7. Attitudes of entitlement.
8. Greater concern about change than the gospel.
9. Anger and hostility.
10. Evangelistic apathy.

Read the full article here :: http://www.thomrainer.com/2012/05/the-inwardly-obsessed-church-10-warning-sig...

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

We learned the following nine lessons along the way as our college ministry grew and flourished in an area that features many prominent universities.

1. Whatever you do, don’t shy away from depth or hard truth.

2. Preach the Gospel.

3. Love on display is often the most effective apologetic.

4. Remember that we live in the Bono generation.

5. Lift their eyes to the nations.

6. Aggressively develop summer projects and overseas opportunities.

7. The “come and get it” approach of many churches and campus ministries has become less effective with today’s students.

8. Providing multi-generational connections for students within the church is essential to discipleship.

9. Cultural adaptation is important, though not essential.

Read the full article here :: http://pastors.com/9-keys-to-reaching-college-students/

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

The_Den_Worship_.mp3 Listen on Posterous

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

ONLINE PRAYER BOARD

https://workflowy.com/

Workflowy is a simple user friendly and clean list application.

Here's what you should do:

1. Go to workflowy.com.
2. Create top-level items called 'Prayers' and 'Answers'.
3. Click the bullet point next to 'Prayers' to zoom in.
4. Zoom out and start on the 'Answers' section.

This should be enough to get you started. WorkFlowy is free-form and you can use it however you like.

For now, check out the 'Help' popup to learn more. And don't hesitate to contact :: help@workflowy.com with questions.

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

1. I identify teenagers whom seem to gravitate toward either serving and/or seem influential or active.

2. I look for a positive attitude.

3. I’ll typically take a risk and ask them to help me with some project.

4.  I’ll regularly invite them to do more projects, errands, or ministry tasks.

5. I’ll usually ask this teenager to take on an important responsibility for me.

6. Most teenagers are honored to be asked. Ask, invite, repeat.

7. Follow-up, debrief the experience with the teenager.

8. Encourage! Thank them!

9. Resource them. Give them books to read.

10. Ask again!

To Continue Reading :: http://www.dougfields.com/posts/10stepsslc/

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Refuses to listen to advice from others
• Makes excuses for mistakes
• Protects position at any cost
• Takes complete credit for a team’s success
• Fails to see personal shortcomings
• Solicits grandstanding on their behalf
• Removes God out of the supreme position

To Continue Reading :: http://www.ronedmondson.com/2012/04/7-dangers-of-the-proud-leader.html

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

On that day, our precious toddler pulled a little red Playskool chair across his playroom under an open window. He then climbed upon the chair, hoisted himself over the window sill, and pushed out the protective screen.

Just moments later my wife went searching for him, noticed the empty room and the missing screen, looked out the window and witnessed our only child laying lifeless on the asphalt driveway thirteen-feet below.

To continue reading... http://michaelhyatt.com/3-leadership-lessons-i-learned-through-tragedy.html

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

While our webpage is being updated please feel free to contact me at chad@theabidingjourney.com with questions or prayer requests.

Thanks for waiting for us while we make our website more user friendly.

Chad Hambrick

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

In this podcast episode, I talk about what I have learned from the failures I have experienced—and I’ve had some doozies. I share the details of a business failure in the early 1990s, an IRS audit that turned into a nightmare in the early 2000s, and a speaking engagement that went south earlier this month.

Success is not a straight-line journey to the top. It’s full of twists and turns, including moments when you doubt yourself and are tempted to quit. In this episode I share a process I use for turning setbacks and failures to your advantage. This is a major key to success in life.

Click to Listen

Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in browser | Download

Special Announcements

1. I will also be doing all the backstage interviews at the Chick-fil-A Leadercast on May 4th in Atlanta. This is also one of the very best leadership conferences available. It is put on by the same people who do Catalyst, a company called Giant Impact. This year I am looking forward to interviewing Tim Tebow, Marcus Buckingham, John Maxwell, Soledad O’Brien, Patrick Lencioni, Andy Stanley, Coach Urban Meyer and many others. These interviews will be broadcast live and then replayed on my blog in the weeks following the event. In addition to the live event in Atlanta, this event will be simulcast to more than 750–800 locations around the world. You can find out more at Chick-fil-ALeadercast.com.
2. I will be speaking at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo in New York City on June 5–7. I will be leading one of the “Super Sessions” on Thursday, June 7th, at 9:00 a.m. I am not quite sure yet what I will speak about. It will likely be something about Platform (my new book) and what I am currently learning about building a podcast platform. I hope you will join me at the conference. You can register here before May 15 and save $100 off the three-day blogger and podcaster pass.
3. I now have a new Listener Voicemail Hotline. I am very excited about this. I am going to change the format of the show to take more recorded questions. This is your chance to be on the show! You can also call (615) 656-5001 if you prefer and leave a question. (This is a different service but also records your message.) If you have an idea for a podcast you would like to see or a question about an upcoming episode, I’d love to hear from you. You are also welcome to e-mail me if you wish.

Episode Outline

Not all failures end well. Sometimes, people suffer a setback and never recover. It doesn’t have to be this way. It is all in how you process it. If you are going to succeed in work and in life, you must learn to deal powerfully with failure.

There are at least six steps to turning failure to your advantage:

1. Step #1: Acknowledge the failure.
2. Step #2: Take full responsibility.
3. Step #3: Mourn the failure.
4. Step #4: Learn from the experience.
5. Step #5: Change your behavior.
6. Step #6: Enter whole-heartedly into the next project.

Listener Questions

I didn’t take listener questions for this episode. However, this will be the driving force for the show next week. I will be taking about the topic of work-life balance. If you have a question about that topic, please leave me a voice mail. I’d love to hear from you.

Episode Resources

I mentioned the following resources in the show:

• Conference: Chick-fil-A Leadercast
• Conference: BlogWorld & New Media Expo
• Post: ”One Sure Sign You re a Professional” by Jeff Goins
• Website: PodcastAnswerMan.com (Cliff Ravenscraft’s Site)
• Ilene Muething’s Profile at GapInternational.com

Transcript

You can download a transcript of this episode here.

Permalink | Leave a comment  »