Servant Leaders know their Power.

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

Walking in the Anointing
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Thursday, July 10 2008

What David Learned.   “So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came upon David in power….” 1 Samuel 16:13
Has the Spirit of the Lord rested on your life? Can you cite the time when God’s Spirit began demonstrating His power through you?
David knew the day the Spirit of the Lord began a special work in him. That Spirit was different from most leaders. Instead of seeking power and control, he led in response to a need. Instead of being a perfect person, he learned from mistakes and acknowledged them among those he led. Instead of placing confidence in his own abilities, he sought wisdom from the only real Commander in charge. David never lost a battle through his many years of leading Israel. He failed God by sinning with Bathsheba and by numbering the troops, but he learned from those failures, and he had to pay a price for them. However, God’s Spirit never left David. He never left because of David’s willingness to keep a soft heart toward God, even when he failed.
God wants the same for you.  God wants to do the same in you and me, but He will not allow that Spirit to rest on us if we seek to control outcomes and manipulate out of our need for power. Servant leaders know that they are only a tool in the Master’s hand. They do not value themselves more than they ought. David’s heart was fully the Lord’s. Is your heart fully the Lord’s to do with what He wills?

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Are you joyful?

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

You’re late to a meeting….Traffic is backed up for miles…You start to rant and rave, become upset with the situation.  Let me ask you one question, Can you change the current situation by your actions?  Unless you can fly over the cars or pull off and go another way, you can’t.  Stop right there.   Therefore, say out loud five things you are thankful for.  Today I’m alive. Today I have a family who loves me. Today I can change my future by being joyful and thankful in situations that I can’t control……  Begin your day asking God to guide your steps.  Whenever you feel tense, irritated and you want to yell at the world, ask yourself a better question:  What can I do in a positive way to change this situation?  If you can, do it….If not accept things as they are…… and let God fill you with His Joy…… easy to write about, much more difficult to do…. 

For those of us who like to think we control situations, we need to stop…. We neither controled the day we were born or die….. We are only here for a minute period of time….Make life easier on yourself and those around by being joyful for who you are, not what you have…

I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess…… Martin Luther

He who trusts in the lord will prosper.  Proverbs 28:25

As the Lord to bless your plans, and you will be successful in carring them out.  Proverbs 16:3

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Breaking News: Terry Finds Elvis

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

Living proof Terry finds Elvis…….

Terry Finds Elvis

Terry Finds Elvis

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Work Ethics Never Change

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

Do you agree with this statement?  Can a criminal and hero live up to this quote?  If you were to change this quote, how would you change it?….. Enjoy the 4th of July with family and friends…Be the HERO…Go and Do.

“No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006)
Canadian economist

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Carbon Footprint! Is it real… Maybe.

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

How big is your carbon footprint……. Well, you maybe surprised.  LA has and more people than NY….No way…Yes…. Maybe Bakersfield has more carbon emissions from the oil refiner exhaust….. No…..read this read… Can you image the carbon footprint  in Tokyo or Moscow…….The pollution there is beyond by lungs capacity…..

The winner among continental American cities, according to the Brookings Institution, as reported in the May 31st issue of The Economist, is … Los Angeles! Portland, Oregon, posterchild of so-called “smart growth,” takes second place.

Number one in America overall is Honolulu, Hawaii, and New York comes in fourth. What the top placers seem to have in common is nearness to air-cleansing ocean breezes and a year-round comfortable climate that minimize the use of air conditioning and heating. Not so surprising then that a place like Lexington, Kentucky, is dead last.

New York, like Los Angeles, is on a coast and its population density is high. The low-carbon cities tend to be denser than average. As discussed in earlier posts, US Census Bureau data show that metro Los Angeles’s population density is actually higher than New York’s. The Economist article points out that while “just 9% of Manhattanites drive to work alone, compared to 75% of Angelenos … they are let down by their hinterlands, which sprawl more than do the outskirts of Los Angeles.” LA has evolved exurbs and edge cities that people now commute among — instead of between suburbs and downtown — which cuts down on driving distance and thus carbon emissions.

Achieving lower carbon emissions thus has at least as much to do with where you build as with public policy, such as smart growth, which discourages new construction in coastal areas. The article concludes:

These days Los Angeles is trying to improve its environmental image by encouraging developers to build blocks of flats. The Brookings report suggests this approach is wrong, or at least inadequate. The metropolis should build more bungalows rather than force families who want them to live farther inland where temperatures are higher. There is plenty of room for more concrete on the coast. … To save the planet fire up the bulldozers.

You can read more here.

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Important trumps urgent everytime

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

Good Morning…. A dear friend shares his thoughts for the week on Monday. Today’s focus is differentiating between important and urgent….. achieving specific objectives instead of doing busy activities that just come along….. It’s well worth the read…. Remember what and why you do an action…..Ask yourself better questions… Does this activity achieve my goal? Is this the most productivity activity right now? Where am I in my business plan? Stay focused… Too many good people start too many actions and end up with too few results…… Lasers focus energy on one spot creating Quantum results over 1000 light bulbs….BE THE HERO….Go and Do…Terry

Good Morning MOJO,

Is what you are doing today building on what you did yesterday or are you starting from scratch…again? So often we are jumping from one thing to another, to another, to another but never getting any significant results….never getting ahead. Why? Because we are spreading ourselves to thin.

To have a quantum leap at almost anything in life and really have a significant impact, it is not going to be the result of trying to do everything. It is going to be the compounded result of doing only the most important activities over and over again…we need to do fewer activities more frequently. If we do those few, most important activities consistently over and over again, at some point we reach the tipping point…we will explode into a quantum leap. It’s all about K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Stupid. Getting what we want in life is not complicated, but it is difficult…it involves doing the important activities, not the urgent ones. The difficult part is being disciplined enough to do those important, not the urgent activities consistently…and doing them over and over again until we have a Quantum Leap…a Breakthrough.

Why is it so hard? Because we have to do it over and over and over again for long periods of time with what appears to be little or no results. But if we have the discipline to stick with it, all of a sudden out of no where, one day we will have a radical breakthrough. The hard part is not to quit when we feel like we are running into a brick wall with no results…not quitting when we are having a breakdown. Because when the wall comes down, it won’t come down one brick at a time, but the accumulation affect of hitting it over and over again will bring it tumbling down all at once. It will happen when we are exhausted and beyond wanting to quit. We will hit it again and BANG!!!!

Think about this: All the individual activities we do in our life to accomplish our goals represent one piece of paper. What most of us do is have a bunch of different activities going on trying to stack each of them (piece of paper) on top of each other to create a quantum leap. Unfortunately, the Quantum leap never happens…why? Because there is no accumulation affect…no compounding. Lets say we are working your 10, 12, 15 hours a day, 7 days a week…doing all of those different activities. In the end, even if we are doing 50 different activities (50 pieces of paper), that stack of paper is only going to end up ¼ of an inch high. Consider this….figure out which activities are the most important and stop doing the rest. Spend all of our time doing just those few important activities. When we do this, we are compounding our activities…folding the piece of paper instead of stacking individual pieces. Check this out…as I said 50 individual pieces of paper (individual activities) is ¼ of an inch high. Instead, take 1 piece of paper (one activity) and do it over and over again 50 times (folding it 50 times). How thick do you think your stack will be? 5 inches…a foot…20 feet…1000 feet…a mile…100 miles…1000 miles…100,000 miles…1,000,000 miles? It will actually be tall enough to touch the sun…89,000,000 miles. Now that is a Quantum Leap.

Do the important, not the urgent activities and make it a great week!!!!!

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Your tongue creates or destroys

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

I remember my mom telling me to watch what I say….. She was so right. Looking back over 58 yrs, I realize I should have listen and followed her advise better…… Os Hillman does an excellent job of sharing his thoughts on the power of the Tongue…. Enjoy….

Power of the Tongue
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Monday, June 09 2008

“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” – Proverbs 18:21Words have the power to motivate or destroy, energize or deflate, inspire or create despair. Many successful executives can remember the time their father failed to give affirmation to them as a child. The result was either overachievement to prove their worth, or underachievement to prove he was right.

Many a wife has lost her ability to love because of a critical husband. Many a husband has left a marriage because of words of disrespect and ungratefulness. Stories abound regarding the power of words. There are just as many stories of those who have been encouraged, challenged, and comforted with words that made a difference in their lives.

Jesus knew the power of words. He used parables to convey His principles of the Kingdom of God. He used words of forgiveness and mercy. He used words to challenge. He used words to inspire His disciples to miraculous faith.

Do your words give life? Do they inspire and challenge others to greatness? Who does God want you to encourage through your words today? Affirm someone close to you today.

If you would like to subscribe to his daily thoughts, click on Os Hillman… Have a great day….BE THE HERO….GO and Do….Terry

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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

Pass it On….

Focus…Consistent Action…Less than 100% will fail… Do what others won’t… be a mentor… Take action… Passion.. Manifest from your heart…When you change, your environment changes…. Pass it on….Terry

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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

Motivational…Period!

When you think you have nothing more to give…. give just a little more….BE THE HERO….

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You either build on or live in the Past

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Terry McDaniel

The Past.  Some of us would like to forget the past and others dwell way too much…. the cheerleader who never grew up, Senior  Class president siting on the sidelines of life……Too bad… someone needs to tell them the past is over…. All you have is the now… The future is a dream at best.

Get up and get going…. Stop whinnying.  its over. You can’t get the money back, the relationship is over and you can’t and won’t get it back… Bad feeling isn’t it. Yes!…….

Smile….. this too will pass…. HOPE… Yes, hope is alive… It says… Tomorrow will be better than today… Without hope, we die in self destruction and pity….

Money will not save you… I know…. Things will not save you…. I know….. The hanger-oners will not save you…. I know…..The only thing that will save you is to let it go…………. Let it go… Love is always thinking what is best for the other person… Not what is best for you… Wow…. What’s best for the other……

Today. I choose to have a loose hand to all stuff…..  Holding too hard only makes it more difficult…..let go of the stuff……..when you do, you have freedom…… The stuff no longer owns you……A little or too much stuff is irrelevant.  All stuff is nothing, except  the value we place on it…..

Think people.  People like you.  People who who hurt and cry…..I have never heard stuff cry out your name…. Hey, will you play with me…………..Get real.

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