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Becoming a Star at Work

Infectious Enthusiasm

by Mac Hammond

The world is moved by highly motivated people. By men and women who want something very much, believe very much, and inspire those around them to believe along with them. It’s one thing to keep yourself personally motivated to achieve excellence on the job.

It’s another thing to have the ability to impart that kind of motivation to those around you. Few things cause you to stand out as a leader and make you more valuable to an organization than being the kind of person who inspires your co-workers to go higher and farther.

That kind of infectious enthusiasm is one of my top eight attributes that will make you a stand-out on the job.

Copyright © 2003 Mac Hammond Ministries
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be
moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and
after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly,
painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at
the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn to look out the
window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse
what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such
wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man
was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.”

Epilogue:

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own
situations. Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared,
is doubled. If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have
that money can’t buy.

“Today is a gift, that’s why it is called the present.”

Please share with friends,

Keep Soaring with the Eagles and Nest int eh Highest of Mountains!

Rev Elisha Agaba Eddie

The Mission Message

Focus Your Efforts

by Mac Hammond

What is your business or organization all about? Can you articulate “the message” in a single sentence? Can your staff? When every member of your organization can tell a total stranger what you are all about in a few concise sentences, you’ll have a unified core of workers focusing their efforts on a single long-term goal.

But that can’t happen if you don’t cast the vision. The Bible says, where there is no vision the people are unrestrained. One of God’s keys to organizational growth is making sure you’ve put the vision before the people you’re leading.

So the question is, “Have you?”

Source: Winner’s Way Broadcast produced by Mac Hammond Ministries
(Minneapolis: Mac Hammond Ministries, 2003)
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

By John Fischer

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Why do we all have different passions? So everything that’s supposed to get done will get done.

Sometimes we get overwhelmed because we are constantly exposed to people with various passions for service, and when they represent their cause, they are so committed to that which has captured them that we feel guilty for not sharing their zeal. We seem indifferent in comparison.

When I was in college, we had chapel every day and almost every day we heard a message from someone who had a passion for some particular ministry. They were usually in some ways recruiting us for service, whether it was in missions, or in the church, or in society, or among the poor. It was overwhelming, and often frustrating, because everyone made every concern sound like the only thing any caring person would support.

The same thing happens in our churches. Sometimes we feel guilt because we don’t have the same passion as the last person who talked about missions, or abortion, or the homeless, or marriage, or singleness, or men’s ministry, or AIDS prevention, or prisons, or evangelism, or the military. What we forget is that there are so many needs because there are so many of us to meet them. We aren’t supposed to get our bell rung by every appeal that comes by. We are a body made up of different parts and different hearts; we don’t have to all be moved by the same issues and needs.

THE WONDER OF A CHILD

By Darren Hewer

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Please open your Bible and read Psalm 78:1-4.

Little six-year-old Timothy skipped home at a leisurely pace. His elementary school was only a 5 minute walk from his house, but it took him a lot longer than that to arrive at home. It was the first day of spring. The sun shone brightly. the wind whistled gently through the air, and it seemed as though the entire world was blooming … alive after its winter slumber. At seemingly every turn, the natural world around him aroused his amazement and wonder: a dancing butterfly, a fuzzy caterpiller, a colorful flower, all alive with growth and life and wonder!

Sometimes we’re almost like polar opposites of little Timothy when it comes to God. We get accustomed to God’s grace. Blind to His glory. Oblivious to His love. When there’s work, plus family, plus church, plus everything else, it’s easy if we’re not careful to become distracted.

When was the last time you were in awe of God? While must constantly strive to increase our knowledge and understanding of our Lord, we should never lose the sense of wonder at who He is and all He has done for us.

Jesus called the children around Him, “took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.” (Mark 10:16) Can you approach Jesus as a child, not with a childlike intellect (1 Corinthians 13:11) but with a childlike attitude? A childlike attitude will keep us humble as we continually are reminded of God’s high exaltation, our lowly place, and (despite of our lowly place) how God has lifted us up with Him when we put our trust in Him, so that He may even call us “friend”. (John 15:15)