Focus On Vision To Build Wealth

 There can only be one answer to life, to peace, to hope.  Teach me LORD to bow before Your throne.  You are the WAY, the Truth, the Life, there’s only one way, teach me LORD, to bow before Your throne. (Cynthia's ramblings 11/26/2010)

Focus On Vision: What is Your Goal?

A few months ago I took the business ethics pledge.  I did this for a reason.  I am solely committed to certain principles in my life and want to reflect that in all that I do.  Life has a way of trying to pull us away from the things we hold most precious, and even when we are not meaning to, before we know it we have gone off course in our life and our values have taken a back seat.  It really depends on what is most important to you, however, and truly some decisions or actions don't show their resulting consequence until much further down the road. 

So I'm on this journey of business success and wealth building and want to stay true to my values.  There are so many Scriptures in the Bible that talk about money, in fact money is one of the most talked about subject in the Bible.  Why is this the case, you ask?  "Money answereth all things" Eccl 10:19.  What this means is that it reveals who you are, what you are really about.  Think of it: you must have it, or some form of wealth (be in currency or trade), to survive in this world society. The lack of it or lust for it will control your decisions, whether good or bad, even if you have it in abundance!

I'm not saying that money is bad, in fact it is not money that is evil but the "love of money is the root of all evil" (1 Tim 6:10.  So in this walk to business success and wealth building we must remember what money is and what it is not.  We must keep it in it's place.  For when we keep it in its proper place, it will serve us - we will not serve it

In coming posts we will discuss the proper way to approach building wealth.  For in any business whether brick and mortar or internet, proper steps must be taken to succeed and once success is obtained, proper steps must be taken to maintain that success.  I hope you will join me.

Focus On Core Values To Build Wealth

"There can only be one answer to life, to peace, to hope.  Teach me LORD to bow before Your throne.  You are the WAY, the Truth, the Life, there’s only one way, teach me LORD, to bow before Your throne." (Cynthia S ramblings 11/24/2010)

Core Values: To Know Who You Are

Honesty, Integrity, Family, Ethics, Morality Justice, Compassion, Love, Mercy, Hard Work, Balance, Health & Well-being, Holiness,  Righteousness, Purity, Humility, etc.
What are core values?  They are what makes you, your beliefs, your principles, what you stand for.  Without core values, you will be as one who is tossed about, swayed, easily beguiled, easily lead, basically a lifeless lump with no form or idea or imagination. 

Define your core values.  What is it that you believe or stand for?  Above is a list of core values.  Can you think of any others?  Do those above define you?

It wasn’t until I was old enough to know better that my core values came into play and began to define me.  As a young person, with relatively little discipline and knowledge I had very few values and they were not well defined to my “CORE” because I was in some areas easily swayed.  I consider my lack of values due to my lack of experience.  And thus, with age one grows in wisdom. 

Values differ. Yes this is true, sadly.  Unfortunately, it is a fact that even good criminals have core values.  Their values are vulgar, self serving, greedy, and will ultimately lead to destruction however, without them they would still be the lifeless lump. 

Where do values come from? There is a great and timeless saying “train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart.”   This is so true and although it is from the Bible, and meant to admonish parents to train their children in the ways of God, the principle applies for those who train up their child in the ways of the world as well.  Sadly, a worldly and selfish person learns to be worldly and selfish from their parents.  Even sadder is when a child has no one to raise them with any moral principles what-so-ever.  The life of that child is in grave danger unless he is able to grab onto something good in life. 

So we see that even without realizing it, we have been trained to think and value things a certain way from a very small age.  With age, as stated above, experience comes and wisdom.  You’ve heard the expression, “School of Hard Knocks?”  Experience teaches us life lessons, molding and shaping us.  If we have any good moral training at all, it will bring those things out of us, defining us even further, bringing our CORE VALUES into focus more and more.., if we let it.  

I guess there must be a disclaimer here as not all those who are as old as I have this same experience, the path is the same, but not all are on the path at the same time or is it that people will only learn when they are teachable?  So this is the disclaimer.  If you are seeking after wisdom, you will find it.  If you are not, your experience will do you no good, as you will continue to make the same mistakes over and over and thus fail to succeed at anything you endeavor to undertake.

In the coming sections I will explore these other areas that are important to maintaining FOCUS in business – Our focus being maintaining a right relationship with our Creator-Savior – God while building a successful business; running the RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US, in the eternal, while building wealth.  This is the focus of this article and I hope that you will look forward and learn with me in days to come.

Focus on Core Values: to know who you are

Coming Posts
Need for vision: to create goal
Need for discipline: to obtain goal
Need for structure: to maintain goal
Need for rest & exercise: to maintain balance