Category: Helpful Resources

Equipping 101

By John Maxwell

 

– Lone heroes are usually a myth. It almost always takes others.

– Individuals win games, but teams win championships.

– Equip the right people because those closest to the leader will determine the success of the leader.

– Do you have a plan for those working closest to you – do they know the goals, do they see the plan, are they growing?

– Most leaders do not develop other leaders because either they lack the training or they have the wrong attitude.

– Equipping people expands and enhances the strength of an organization.

– The more people you lead, the more people you will need.

– Great leaders are on the lookout for normal people that they can teach and help become better people.

– Great leaders can identify perspective leaders.

– As in any sport, you have to scout out effective players.

– Qualities to look for in a perspective leader:

1. Character – we all have weaknesses but character will overcome those by his honesty, responsibility, etc.

2. Influence

3. Positive Attitude – someone who doesn’t just accept things how they are but sees the potential in every situation.

4. People Skills – understand people and have a genuine concern for them.

5. Evident Gifts – every person has gifts and a leader can help find and develop those.

6. Proven track records – a proven leader has a proven track record.

7. Confidence – people are attracted to those who have confidence, starting with confidence in themselves. The greatest leaders remain confident no matter the circumstances.

8. Self-discipline – to do what is needed for as long as needed. We live in a instant gratification world where everyone wants everything now. Discipline with their own emotions as well as with the time that they have been allotted.

9. Effective Communication Skills – without these skills a leader cannot communicate effectively to others what needs to be done and hence the organization and everyone will be affected. A poor communicator focuses on themselves but good communicators focus on others. Good communicators can read body language.

10. Discontentment with the Status Quo – a leader does not accept what everyone says or what is going on, they constantly move forward for better performance. Taking the safe road will not get you fired, but it will not help you advance very far either. We need risk takers willing to make changes where necessary.

– Equipping is not done by video and it’s not the same for every person, it is tailored for each individual.

– Equipping is showing the vision, giving the tools and helping them see it through.

– The equipper is someone from whom you can help draw experience. The equipper is a mentor. The equipper is an empower-er.

– Set goals for your people, they will become like a roadmap to help them on their journey.

– Equipping someone:

• Model it.

• Mentor

• Monitor

• Motivate – step out of the way encourage them.

• Multiply – step back and let the leaders find it help of the leaders.

– Look for gifts, talents and abilities of other people and then help them use those to their full potential.

– If you want to be a leader that will help others grow, do the following:

1. Believe in them before they believe in themselves.

2. Serve others before they serve you. One the best things that you can do for others is help them reach their full potential.

3. Add value to others before they add value to you.

Do More Better

by Tim Challies

 

Productivity is using your gifts, time, enthusiasm and energy for the good of others and God’s glory. There are productivity thieves:

1. Laziness – Pr 26:13–14; 22:13

– Laziness surrounds us all over. Checking out Facebook instead of working, texting, watching the latest TV show, etc.

– We are naturally lazy. The bill does not need to be paid today, that essay/ assignment can wait a little while longer, that cleaning up is not needed at the moment, etc.

2. Busyness – It’s the opposite of laziness, it is doing too much instead of two little.

– Our society ranks us according to our busyness, so many times we stay busy so that we look good… even though we complain about it.

– Busyness should not represent value. Busyness does not mean that you are faithful or fruitful.

– Busyness might make you feel better, but it does not mean that you are being more productive. Dizziness many times just means you are doing too many things.

3. Thorns and thistles –

– Originally things were easier but sin, our disobedience, made the ground hard and thorns to grow. They represent things that threaten productivity. God rewards those who faithfully steward what He has entrusted to them. Categorize your areas of responsibility: personal, family, church, social, and business. Define the mission that God has given you. Breakdown your responsibilities that God has entrusted you with. If your goal is to glorify God, then you are most productive with what God has given you when you are right with God.

Write down a mission statement of your roles and responsibilities. Write down what you are currently doing and see if those things lined up with what you are supposed to be doing. If you will use the adequate tools like to-do lists and reminders, you will not have to worry about laying in bed stressing that you forgot to do something. When you receive a message or task, act on it right away. Delete it, store it, do it or delegate it, but act on it immediately. Do the hardest tasks first. Know yourself well enough to know when you work best – are you a morning person, night owl or afternoon person?

During the times that you are not at your peak, plan to do minimal things. If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.

Pray – it acknowledges that God is over all of our plans and reminds us that we need His help to make wise decisions.

Prioritize – there are always interruptions You need times when you can get current by emptying your inbox folder. You need times to look over your calendar for the month. You need time to pray over the activities for the week ahead of time and plan on what needs to be done. Break the giant tasks into smaller tasks. For example, if you put “write a novel”, you will not likely get it done nor be able to track it, so break it down into several smaller tasks.

Stop multitasking – multitasking almost never works. Begin to do something and continue until it is completed. Learn to delegate – spend time on what is most important. What you do poorly, someone else may do well.

Change up the scenery. Sometimes you need to get up and move or go somewhere else to start again in a fresh way.

Track your time – give yourself an allotted time to do something and then move on. Do not leave your email open – check it at certain times, do not just leave it open and continue going back to it. It will distract you. Plan to rest.

Turn off notifications – You do not need to look every time someone sends an email, updates their Facebook page, etc.

Write it down – If you don’t write it down, you will probably forget it.

Schedule breaks – do you need time to get up and exercise, go to the bathroom, walk around or clear your mind. This will help you to return and start fresh again.

Exercise – sometimes the best thing you can do for productivity is to stop and not focus so much on being productive. Exercise and then finish what you need to finish. Productivity is about all of life. It takes all of your body and your mind, so take care of both.

Disciplines of a Godly Man

by R. Kent Hughes

– We will never get anywhere in life without discipline.

– If we are going to excel, we must strip ourselves of so many things that hold us back. – I Cor 9:25-27

 

– Disciplines of purity – as men of God we are to discipline ourselves from the sensual call of this world.

• I Thes 4:3-8 (Lev 19:2) – Disciplines of accountability, we need someone of the same gender who will keep us accountable when it comes to sensuality.

• Eyes – it is impossible for us to get away from sensuality or keep pure if we let our eyes run free.

• It takes a strong man to die.

• Purity in marriage – pray for your wife. She needs you to be a man of God.

• Is my wife a better person because she is married to me?

• We must be disciplined to commitment to our wives. The feelings of love will pass but our wives should know that our eyes, passion, communication and fidelity is all for her.

• Calendar reveals what is important to you, so make time for your wife in your calendar.

 

– Disciplines of fatherhood  – our children need us. Do not be too harsh, do not be too strict, express your love, be there for them and do not have favorites.

 

– Disciplines of Friendships – we need others, we are relational beings.

• Your wife should be your best friend but you also need others of the same gender to help, challenge and keep you accountable.

• Friendship does not exist unless there is loyalty, commitment and trust.

• Friendship is what’s the best for the other person.

 

– Discipline of prayer – we talk a lot about prayer but many times do not pray.

• Prayer could be compared to a man who arrives to the shore in a boat – does he pull the shore to himself or himself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling our desires to God but pulling ourselves to God and submitting our desires to Him.

• We will never have a prayer life unless we plan it. We must be disciplined enough to pray and make time for it.

– There’s no spiritual leadership without passion of discipline.

– Spiritual leaders are made of strong faith. –

There’s no spiritual leadership apart from the fullness of the Spirit.

– Leaders must not just have a vision or dream (given from God), they must also know how to communicate it.

– Good leaders lead by demonstration.

 

– Disciplines of giving – some of the richest people in the world have died in misery, suicide, family disasters or bankruptcy. Yet people still do not take heed and chase after money as if it will give happiness.

• Giving is a matter of Grace from beginning to end.

• Giving should be viewed as a privilege, not drudgery.

• Grace giving has nothing to do with the ability, it has to do with willingness.

• You can give your money and not have your heart right towards God but you cannot have your heart right towards God and not give your money. Matthew 6:21

• You’re giving should be between you and God.

• You’re giving should be taken serious.

• You’re giving should be regular. I Cor. 16:2

• Giving does not make you a better Christian, but it does bring blessings. Luke 6:38

• You should give now. The tendency is to wait until we have a certain amount, but we should start giving right now.

• You’re giving should be joyous – 2 Corinthians 9:7

 

– Discipline of testifying witnessing – Andrew, the apostle, was not prominent in the Scriptures. He was not one of the three in the inner circle and did not preach a message worth noting in the Bible. But he did excel in one very important area, Andrew brought others to Christ.

• The true evangelist heart is a selfless heart. Andrew was known as Simon Peter’s brother, not vice versa.

• The true evangelist heart is an optimistic heart. Our attitude makes all the difference in bringing others to Christ. Are we optimistic and believing what Christ can do when we talk to others about him?

• Andrew was an ordinary guy. He did not have the personality of Peter or the boldness of Paul, but Andrew brought others to Christ. All over the world there are churches named Saint Andrews. Big organizations have used operation Andrew as a name to tell others about Christ. Andrew was an excellent example of sharing Christ with others.

 

– Disciplines of ministry – ministry is working with people.

Jesus was tired, hungry and traveling, yet He took time for the Samaritan woman.

Demolishing Strongholds

by Johnny Hunt

– Freddie Gage has said, “Sin thrills and then it kills. It fascinates and then it assassinates. If you play, you’re going to pay.”

– Do you realize there’s a difference between forgiveness and consequences? Sometimes people think, You’re just holding this over me. You’re not forgiving. But forgiveness doesn’t always wipe out the consequences.

– We have a simple but critical choice to make. Either we learn how to dismantle the strongholds in our lives, or they will dismantle us.

– The Christian life is not difficult, as you may think. In fact, it’s impossible. That’s why God never called you to live it; He called you to die and let Christ live it through you. The weapons God gives you are mighty through God, not through you.

– A stronghold is any habit that got hold of you. At one time in your life, you were playing around with it because you didn’t see it as a big deal. And then one day, it just kind of closed its grip on you. And now you can’t get loose.

– A war is waging for control of your thought life. When you surrender to temptation, your thoughts become deeds, your deeds can become habits, and your habits can become a stronghold.

– To effectively combat the onslaught of the enemy, you need an arsenal of verses on the tip of your tongue, verses so familiar to you that they come to mind without any conscious effort.

– God wants us to suit up so we will develop a biblical mind.

– When you realize that more than one-third of every download on an American computer is pornography, you come to see what a challenge it is to think purely!

– Be sure of this: You’ll never change the things you’re doing until you change the way you think. When you let God change your mind, He’ll give you a biblical mind. And then God can use you to begin to make a real difference for good in this world. – you can’t coast for even one day. You’ve got to keep running.

– Sin is always progressive. It always wants more of you than it has, and it won’t be satisfied until it has destroyed all of you.

– We’d better wake up! The latest research is nearly unbelievable. Did you know that 79 percent of men ages 18 to 30 view porn at least once a month? Viewing pornography has become socially acceptable. Teens think of it as a huge attraction— and it keeps them from becoming fully devoted followers of Christ.

– Focus on three key things:

1. Renew my faith. Yesterday’s faith doesn’t cut it for today’s challenges.

2. Reclaim God’s promises. All of God’s promises are yes in Christ, but we have to continually draw on them and bank on them to overcome the new hurdles we face.

3. Resolve to correct unhealthy habits and build new ones. Habits grow gradually, so slowly that often we don’t see them developing. When a crisis hits, these habits get revealed for what they are, whether unhealthy or helpful. Then the task is to dismantle the destructive ones and build the useful ones. That requires both getting the wrong out and getting the right in.

– Erwin Lutzer, former pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago, wrote, “No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.”

– I once sat at my desk and wrote down a long list of the consequences of sexual sin. I call it my “detriment list.” The list includes things like bringing reproach to my Lord Jesus Christ, but it also includes hurting the people I love (my amazing wife and my beautiful daughters, for starters), what it would cost me and my ministry, how it would bring me and the church I serve to public disgrace, and a host of other things that I consider vitally important. As I’ve read over that list, I’ve come to a simple conclusion: It’s not worth it.

– If we intend to enjoy victory over temptation, we need to understand that we can’t do it on our own. Apart from the power of Jesus Christ and the enabling of the Holy Spirit, we are no match for temptation or the devil. He’s spent nearly all of human history working to tempt human beings into sinning against God. He knows far too much about us and about our natures for us to imagine that we can stand up to him on our own.

– Do we need money? Sure. Is it wrong to have money? No. But having and chasing are two very different things. Our God, I’m happy to say, has a much better path for us to follow.

– The devil doesn’t want us to focus on something so much as he wants to take our focus off of something else. He’ll do whatever he can to make us blind to the life of contentment we enjoy when we focus fully on Jesus Christ.

– I believe that sex, greed, and pride are intertwined. Those really are the Big Three that take down most men. I also believe that pride may be the most dangerous of them all, because if you don’t get right with God in the area of pride, you’ll have a much more difficult time getting right with Him in the other two areas.

– C.S. Lewis rightly called pride “the complete anti-God state of mind.” He wrote, “If you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, “How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronize me, or show off?” The point is that each person’s pride is in competition with everyone else’s pride. It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise.

– Before we look at the restoring power of confession and repentance, I think we should consider why sin is such a big deal in the first place. Why is it so important that we refuse to tolerate failure in our struggles with sin? The primary reason is that sin is offensive to God.

– Until we begin to grasp that our sin offends God—and that this is the real problem— we will never gain victory over sin.

– To confess means that you agree with God, that you call sin what God calls it. When you genuinely repent of your sin, there are three things you won’t do: First, you won’t  minimize your sin. Second, you won’t rationalize your sin. And third, you won’t generalize your sin; in fact, you’ll explicitly and specifically confess exactly what you did. You won’t say something generic like, “Please forgive me for whatever wrong I may have done.”

– Obedience is the absolute keyword for the Christian life, not victory. Some men tell me, “I’m praying for victory over such-and-such a stronghold.” But you don’t have to pray for victory. Pray instead that you will be obedient, because victory is a byproduct of obedience. Victory comes when you obey God. Pray that God will help you to obey.

Cure for the Common Life

By Max Lucado

– God planned and made each individual for a specific purpose. Living by enjoying what God has made us to do will be a joyful and fulfilling life.

– Find your sweet spot and live in it. The oak indwells the acorn.

– God did not make us all to do the same thing.

– The cure for common life lies in the strength of extraction. God made you for a specific purpose by giving you a specific set of gifts and abilities, find that and do it.

– God did not make you to be anyone else, he made you to be you – but he made you to be the best you that you could be. – Knowing your strengths can lead you to your sweet spot. God has given each one of us certain abilities.

– For the love of more, we might lose our purpose.

– Not every worker is made to be a manager. Not every person is made to do the same thing. David was not made to put on Saul’s armor. What fits others does not necessarily fit you.

– Don’t heed to greed, it will only get you into trouble. Prob. 15:16

– Don’t let your itch for things or your ear for applause deter you from God’s design for you.

– Don’t be afraid of risks – God is giving you talents, so get out there and use them to the fullest.

– Worship can cure every day common life. Taking your eyes off of self and placing them on God.

– God gives us an uncommon life as we give Him our common life.

– When you are full of yourself God cannot fill you, but when you are empty of yourself God can fill and use you.

– One third of Americans say that they hate their job. Two thirds of people are probably in the wrong job. Ecclesiastes 2:1

– Most people are miserable and grudge their jobs. But before changing occupations, change your attitude about your occupation.

– We have to work, but we can choose to work gratefully or ungratefully. Understand that all we do is for Jesus.

– We are busy but we must make time to stop and rest. You need to stop and get away, Jesus did it. God rested after six days of work, Jesus went away into the desert, and we would be wise to follow His example. Mark 6:31

– Moses had a staff, David had a sling, Samson had a jaw bone of a donkey, Rahab had a string, Mary had some ointment, Aaron had a rod, Dorcas had a needle

– Don’t be too big to do something small. 1 Peter 4:10 – With God there are no common people or common lives – every person counts and every life is unique.

Culture Shock

by Myron Loss

– As a result of poor cultural adjustment, many missionaries often have a hard time getting along with their fellow workers.

– Next to poor health, difficulty with interpersonal relationships is the reason most commonly given for people leaving the missionary profession.

– The human organism is capable of enduring only so much stress for so long before showing signs of deterioration.

– Excessive stress accounts for a good deal of missionary illness.

– Culture is what makes you a stranger when you are away from home. It’s the beliefs and expectation about how people act and what is accepted as being proper.

– In US, one can be a leader, successful and secure, but suddenly he becomes a learner when he gets to the field. He is corrected and humbled, and if he doesn’t learn to make the role switch, he will feel insecure, self-conscious and threatened. The experience brings out the worst in some students: stubbornness, rudeness, withdrawal, and hyper-criticalness.

– Language learning is one of the big causes of culture shock. One often feels like people are laughing behind their back and judging — and they are. It is tiring, boring, and frustrating. Nothing seems to go logically or smoothly, because logic is identified with familiar ways of talking and thinking. His self-esteem and self-worth is under attack.

– Change in routine. A wife learns that she no longer knows how to cook. Temperature and altitude are different, and there are no frozen foods or instant mixes available. Canned foods are expensive and vegetables and fruits must be washed carefully. Purchasing groceries may be going from store to store or street to street instead of merely changing isles like in the homeland.

– Culture stress affects every foreigner. Missionaries are not immune, even though they go in the Name and with the blessing of Christ. They cannot avoid physical and spiritual stress.

– If absolute cultural adjustment is the goal, then the missionary will feel frustrated: for no matter how much he may desire otherwise, he will always be considered a foreigner by the people.

– For most people, the early experience within the new culture is one of fascination with the sights and sounds. Gradually this fascination gives way to dissatisfaction with the inconvenience cause by the culture, and eventually ends in one of four responses: (1) total rejection of the new culture, (2) total rejection of the old, (3) grudging coexistence, or (4) healthy integration of the new with the old. Only in the latter are behavioral irregularities minimized and wholesome adjustment possible.

– The missionary does not need to worry about whether or not he is adequate for all of the trials that will be set before him. His adequacy is from God (II Cor. 3:5).

– The 1st term involves considerable stress from three different sources:

1. Culture stress and the need to relearn acceptable behavior

2. The stress imposed by the idealistic missionary image and the resultant pressure to achieve

3. The stress of normal life change events taking place with the initiation of a missionary career

– Life changes that cause stress:

1. Occupation — changing of jobs

2. Geographical move — pack, move, unpack, organize, decorate, make new friends, where to eat, etc.

3. Language — cannot make friends, get involved in basic life activities or get around until learn the language. It takes a year of stopping all to get the new language.

4. Living conditions — differences 5. Financial status, childbirth in a new country, marriage

– Too many first term workers resign and go away bitter toward their fellow-workers or mission boards. Resigning seems like the way to escape.

– According to the Missionary Research Library, missionaries who quit after their first term, forty-four percent of the missionaries felt that the board of mission could have done something that would have resulted in their continued service.

– Fifteen Tips for Survival to New Workers — to minimize stress and be able to stay after first term:

1. Set Reasonable Goals — the work will take longer than you think. Some need a kick in the pants, but most need to slow down or not set so high of goals. Less work in ministry and more focus on surviving after arriving. Can’t learn a language as fast as want or expect. Ps. 127:2 teaches that God gives us rest, so slow down a bit.

2. Don’t Take your Job Description too Seriously — your significance is not determined by your performance. You are not the messiah to the country, Christ is.

3. Be Committed to Joy — it’s the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22), but enjoyment in life has become a taboo for too many Christians. See every day as a new possibility and everything as miraculous. Joyful people are rare individuals.

4. Maintain Good Emotional Health — mentally healthy people have consistently have five basic qualities according to Menninger Foundation: (1) They have a wide range of interests and friends from who they draw personal satisfaction. (2) They are able to “roll with the punches”; their broad range of interests help them to see alternative solutions to personal crises. (3) They recognize and accept their limitations and their assets; they enjoy what they are, and don’t try to be something different. (4) They treat other people as persons; they have empathy for the needs and concerns of others. (5) They are active and productive, using their gifts to benefit themselves and others; they are in control of their activities, the activities are not in control of them.

5. Remember that you are Human — you live in a human tent which needs food, rest and exercise. No one is an island, we all need companionship.

6. Don’t be Afraid of Being a Little Bit Eccentric — you might like hang-gliding or thrilling hobbies that other missionaries don’t like, but proceed with care. Don’t feel forced to confirm to what your image of Joe Missionary does.

7. Be Flexible — there are areas in which to be inflexible (Scripture, grace, purpose), but in most areas of life are we should and must learn to be flexible.

8. Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously — good sense of humor is a balm for many wounds.

9. Reduce Your Stress Where Possible — when stress comes too great, take a vacation, get away for a day, play some hard tennis, go out to a quiet restaurant, go hunting, go shopping, get out of town, read a good book or take a long hot bath. Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today. Matthew 6:34

10. Make Your Culture Change Gradual — don’t cut off all the ties to home before you’ve established ties in the new culture.

11. Forgive Yourself: Forgive Others — don’t be too hard on fellow missionaries. Forgive yourself. Don’t turn your artillery on your own ranks; keep it aimed at the devil and hold your grudge against him for getting you into this mess of sin. I Cor. 13:5 12.

12. Establish Some Close Friendships with People From the Host Culture — People the world over have the same basic needs, longings and worth. They are persons, deeply loved by God.

13. Be Thankful — If you find that you are no longer thankful to God nor appreciate the kindness of other people, you are out of the will of God (I Thess 5:18).

14. Be an Encourager — don’t only expect to receive encouragement and support from others, be an encourager yourself. Look for ways to build up other people.

15. Take Courage; Someone Understands — Jesus knows all about crosscross-cultural adjustment, and He shares your struggles with you. – How veteran missionaries can Help new missionaries:

1. Give new workers measurable and attainable goals — don’t just throw them on their own. Frequently let him know how he is doing.

2. Don’t let yourself feel threatened by the coming of a new worker — if you are threatened, then you are fighting your own self-esteem.

3. Don’t underestimate the stress of culture change — remember that memory is biased and unreliable, so you will probably underestimate the struggles you had with culture change. Women tend to have a harder struggle with culture stress but this doesn’t mean they are weaker rather different in makeup.

4. Take a vacation — if you take one, the new worker won’t feel sub-spiritual for taking one. Find a hobby, read some good books or go on a picnic and don’t be afraid of others finding out. In fact, make sure they know.

5. Treat the new worker as an equal person — you may not be equal in rank, but you are equal in worth and being. If you find it difficult to accept younger workers as close friends and brothers, it is an indication that you probably feel threatened because of personal insecurity.

6. Believe in people — when the new missionary comes to you with a problem or seeking advice, don’t just give him an answer. He probably wants support and not just information. Understanding and love are especially valuable to those whose self-esteem is under attack as it usually is during cross-cultural transition. If you are going to help the new worker, you must accept him, believe in him and try as much as possible to understand him

Crush It

by Gary Vaynerchuk

– How passionate are you? Are you passionate enough to think about it at night and all throughout the day?

– The author lives by three basic rules:

1. Love your family.

2. Work hard.

3. Live your passion.

 

You don’t live for vacations or count the amount of hours you work, you love doing what you’re doing.

– Passion is contagious.

– The best communicators win.

– Can you tell a story?

– Tell me what you like and love. Persuade me that I should be interested and use/like what you are offering. If you can convince me, you will have me and then I will bring my friends; where me and my friends go, our money also goes and your business becomes stronger.

– Everyone wants to make $1 million overnight. Building a business, platform, and a name for your brand is not a sprint but a marathon. You can’t do it in 20 minutes, it’s going to take years and hard work.

– The biggest business in almost every business is the customer service, you are serving your customers.

– Use social media to build your brand. In the past, people paid big bucks on what you can do for free right now if you will use social media.

– Word-of-mouth is how you build businesses.

– Be authentic and be professional. Don’t be fake.

– Invest in important stuff, it’s worth the price.

– Hard work is going to have to be a cornerstone of your success. You can be talented, but if you don’t work hard, you will be outworked by someone else.

– You might want more time and flexibility and think that working for yourself is what you want, but if you’re going to go anywhere, you better work hard. If you thought your last boss was rough, your new boss (you) has to be a slave driver!

– No one makes big money or is successful by mediocre work.

– Remember that you have to keep putting in before you can ever take out or you will stop growing.

– Be reactionary and respond to the changes and needs in our society and you will be successful.

– Legacy is more important than currency. Maybe you can make more money, but are you proud and will you want to be remembered by how you did it? If not, don’t do it.

– Successful entrepreneurs are like good chess players, they can see what’s going to happen and they are prepared.

– Every person has their own personal brand.

– What is your personal brand?

– Do you know your passion and can you talk about it as good as or better than almost anyone else?

– Find people who are talking about your topic and connect with them.

– Be creating content constantly. Put out good content about things you love.