The Thinking Formula

Friday, 26th / Leave a comment

Most people think that they think. However, very few people actually do real, deep, meaningful, and smart thinking that accomplishes great things and results in superior advantages.

So, how do you do real, smart thinking? Here’s how:

Write it down on paper. Don’t worry about getting it perfect, just get it down. Once it’s down, then you can refine it, correct it, alter it, clarify it, and perfect it. Which is exactly the point. An idea or thought in its infant state is too fuzzy. By putting it down on paper, you remove the ambiguity and develop clarity.

Once it’s on paper, then search for as many answers to the following questions as possible:

What patterns are there?
What relationships are there?
What distinctions or differentiations are there?
What are some other ways to organize it?
What other perspectives might there be?
What’s missing or should be added?
What should be removed?

If you think about it, the above process is exactly what book authors do. It’s no wonder our society considers authors to be “experts”.

Granted, it doesn’t make sense to write a book on everything you want to think about, but by applying a scaled down version to important things that merit and warrant smart thinking – it won’t be long and people will start viewing you as “smart” and an “expert”.

Why is this important?

This is important because people who are “smart” and who are “experts” attract greater money and better opportunities than other people do.

People who have more money and better opportunities can do more in the Kingdom of God.

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God’s Formula…

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Are you interested in eliminating lack from your life?

Are you interested in bringing good things into your possession?

Here is God’s formula for eliminating lack and bringing good things into your life.

John 15: 7 – “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

As always, there is the same contingency, we have to be in right-standing with God and our lives surrendered to Christ.

Assuming you are where you need to be in Christ, did you get the full significance of Christ’s words – “ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”?

Consider God’s formula from the James 1:5 angle; “If any of you lack ____, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

Now, I know that the scripture uses the word wisdom but in reality it is a formula that you can instantiate by simply filling in the blank with your need and exercising the formula.

I want you to notice two things especially:

Liberally
This word “liberally” means to give in an unrestrained or unstinting way. Synonyms for this word include bountiful, freehanded, generous, handsome, munificent, and openhanded. This makes it plain to us that God isn’t interested in giving “just enough”. God isn’t a “skimpy” giver. God isn’t a “cheapskate”. God isn’t “tight-fisted”. (See Luke 6:38)

Upbraideth Not
The word “upbraid” means to reprove sharply, to use as grounds for censor, or to express criticism towards. Clearly, God is saying that He will not reprove, censor, or criticize you for asking of Him.

Aren’t you thankful that we have a God who gives to us “liberally” and who “upbraideth not”?

Put God’s formula for eliminating lack in your life and for bringing good things into your possession to work today.

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How Wealthy People Use Their Time…

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To those of you who would like to become a Millionaire For Jesus, consider how I select the use of my business time…

My quality of life is determined by what I give first place to.
I don’t let someone who didn’t do what they were supposed to do, when they were supposed to do it, drop their “fire” in my lap. Otherwise, my whole day will go up in smoke because of some “arsonist”.
When I have long and short-term goals, I know where I want to go and it’s easy to determine whether or not the work, tasks, and projects I’m working on will take me there.
Leveraging my business time isn’t hard. All I have to do is block out time for myself – close the door, turn off the phone, shut down email, remove all distractions – and focus on the one single thing that my intuition (God speaking to my heart) tells me has the highest revenue-generating potential.
It really is as simple as letting my intuition (God speaking to my heart) guide me in what it is that has the highest revenue-generating potential, and then having the discipline and resolve to concentrate and focus single-mindedly on that one thing until it is complete or there is absolutely nothing else I can do towards completing it. Then, I let my intuition (God speaking to my heart) guide me to the next thing that has the highest revenue-generating potential and I repeat the process.
If I don’t set aside time for myself each business day, then I do not value myself or my time.
If I don’t focus on the one thing that my intuition (God speaking to my heart) tells me has the highest revenue-generating potential, then I do not value myself or my time.
The natural tendency for all of us is to “major in minors” and to give in to the temptation to clear up the small things first. After all, small things are easier and they are often more fun than the big, important things that represent the most valuable use of our time. However, “majoring in minors” means that I will have a minor income and minor results in life! But, by focusing single-mindedly on the one thing that has the highest revenue-generating potential, I will have major income and major results in life!
In business, there are certain things that I must constantly do:

Prospecting: Look for new people who need my products and services.
Networking: Get out of my office and give myself the opportunity to meet new people.
Contact People: Pick up the phone. Mail the sales letters. Send the emails. Do something to make something happen.
Talk To People: Ask good questions. Search for problems. Discover new trends, ideas, or opportunities. Learn.
Make An Offer: Tell people what I have to offer and ask them to buy.
Product Development: Develop or find new products or services that will make my customers lives better and easier.
Learn: Learn how to do all of the above better, faster, easier, more creatively

How much business time you spend on your business – whether 1 hour per day, 1 day per week, 3 days a week, or 5 days a week, matters only in the sense of how fast you will achieve what it is that you want to achieve. What’s most important is that you consistently set aside this business time for yourself with no exceptions.

Here are the two really important reasons why I am so careful and strict about how I spend my business time:

Family Time: The important people in my life equate how much I love them and care about them to how much quality, uninterrupted, time I spend with them. If I get too busy to spend time with my spouse, children, family, and friends, I will eventually lose them as they go off into their own personal world of other people and other activities. By being very careful with and strict about my business time, I put myself in a position both time-wise and money-wise where I can enjoy my family time to the fullest.
God Time: I must make sure that I devote time to God every day. If I don’t keep my relationship with Christ up-to-date, then I will soon lose the connection and the source to everything I want and need. By being very careful with and strict about my business time, I put myself in a position both time-wise and money-wise where I can be of maximum service and value to the Kingdom of God.

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Elephant Watching…

Friday, 26th / Leave a comment

Who do you give money to?

When you sit down and start writing checks…

When you pull out your debit card or credit card…

Who is it going to?

What is it that they doing?

What is it that they are providing you with that is causing you to give them money?

What is their strategy?

What tactics and techniques did they use on you that worked?

What words or numbers did they use that caused you to give them money?

How did they get you to choose them as opposed to someone else or something else?

What was the “thing” that triggered you to move from a “don’t touch my money” position to “let me give you some of my money” position? What was that “deciding” moment?

Really think about these questions. Start watching and looking for the answers.

As the old phrase goes, “Elephants leave big tracks.” Anyone can see what the people who are making money are doing if they will just start looking and watching how wealth is created.

Pay attention to how value is created and presented and marketed and sold. Look for patterns. Look for the big picture. Look for the key components that make up the big picture.

Once you start seeing “it” (how wealth is created), take your knowledge, experience, and abilities, add in your trust in God and God’s desire to do something great through you to determine how you can do the same things or similar things as those who have already figured out how to create wealth and take action to start implementing it.

Problem is, most people are so focused on spending to make themselves feel good or look good that they never think about or pay attention to how money is really made.

Little rudders turn big ships… a little shift in your thinking can have a big effect on your financial resources and what you are capable of accomplishing in God’s Kingdom…

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3 Must-Use Tools

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Tool #1:
Have faith in God (Mark 10:27 – “For with God all things are possible”) and combine that faith in God with belief in yourself (Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me”).

Tool #2:
Look at things from a simple numbers perspective. I don’t mean an advanced calculus perspective, I mean from a basic numbers perspective. In other words, if you want $1,000,000 this year, how could you break that down into numbers that are specific and meaningful?

Well, if you had a $50 product that would mean that you need to make 20,000 sales which means that you need to make 1,667 sales each month.

If you had a $250 product, then you need to make 4,000 sales which is 333 sales per month.

Start breaking every problem you face and every opportunity or idea that comes to you down into simple and specific numbers like this.

Now, using the latter example, if you need 333 sales per month, and there are on average 22 working days per month, that means you need 15 sales per business day.

How are you going to make 15 sales per day? By using the third tool…

Tool #3:
You use words. What words can you use to make 15 sales per day? If you don’t know, put some words out into your market place and see what happens.

If you didn’t make your 15 sales, then you weren’t using the right words. Change them. Come up with better, more persuasive, more helpful words and put them back out into your marketplace and see if you get better results.

Talk to your ideal customer and listen to what words they use – and incorporate those words into your sales letters and sales talk.

Keep at it until you reach your 15 sales per day.

Bottom Line:
These are the tools that God gave each of us.

God doesn’t give out junk! I hope you recognize that these are multi-million dollar tools.

Most people aren’t using them. Are you?

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The One Way To Make Your Dreams Come True

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What is it that you catch yourself dreaming about from time to time?

What is it that you see yourself doing or accomplishing in your dream?

Who do you see yourself helping?

Geographically, where do you see yourself at in your dream?

What are the feelings that you feel in your dream?

What is it that makes your dream so wonderful?

If only your dream could come true…

I’ve got good news for you! Your dreams can come true.

We can find the way to make dreams a reality in Ecclesiastes 5:3 – “For a dream cometh through the multitude of business”.

The sooner you turn your KEABA (Knowledge, Experience, Ability, Belief, Action) into a business, the sooner your dreams are going to come true. (See the ‘2005-10-09’ archive for more on KEABA)

When you are working for someone else, you are helping them achieve their dreams.

How can you bring your dreams to a reality if you are busy working on someone else’s?

When you get your own business going, you can bring your own dreams to fruition.

Note: In reference to the word “multitude”, seehttp://www.millionairesforjesus.com/Blog/2005/11/srs-formula.html.

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How To Think

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We find the answer on how we are supposed to think in Proverbs 21:5: “The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.”

“The thoughts” – notice that everything starts with the right thoughts.
“tend only” – This lets us know that our thoughts must be focused and single-minded
“plenteousness” – notice that these are not thoughts of lack or thoughts of what we don’t want.

It is important that you be careful about how you frame your thinking.

For example, setting a goal of “getting out of debt” might sound good on the surface. But, when you dig into it, it really means that your goal is to always have debt so that you can always work at getting out of it. Just about the time you start to get out of debt, you will do something to put yourself right back into debt so that you can continue working on your goal of “getting out of debt”.

Obviously, this isn’t what you want!

A better way to reframe this goal might be, “operate on a cash-only basis and never owe anyone”.

“hasty” – this is the kind of person looking for easy, fast, a shortcut or something for nothing. This is the kind of person who can’t even conceive of “giving” because they are so busy “wanting”. This is the kind of person who wants to do it “their” way instead of God’s way. Ultimately, this kind of person’s life is marked with poverty, lack, and want.

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The SRS Formula…

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In order for you to be a Millionaire For Jesus, you must be able to repeat your success over and over.

You must be able to conduct business transactions over and over where you earn a profit from each transaction. You need income coming in to you that you can repeat over and over – and that you can easily repeat.

To be a Millionaire For Jesus, you must be “worth” a million dollars because of the value that you provide to others through your products and services that you repeatedly sell on a sustainable basis.

This is a very different model from trying to be “worth” a million dollars by providing value as an employee in someone else’s business. Hopefully I made it clear in the last post that trying to get to big money as an “employee” isn’t sustainable or repeatable.

On the other hand, a Millionaire For Jesus is someone whose business and net worth is based on Sustainable and Repeatable Sales (SRS).

So, start thinking about how you are going to sell your KEABA (defined in previous posts) to others in a sustainable and repeatable pattern. Then, put the SRS Formula to work for you so that you can go to work for Jesus.

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Here’s How To Make Sure Your Business Wins…

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Was God competing with some other entity when He created the Heavens and the Earth?

Of course not! If anything, He was “competing with Himself”. We see this because He looked at it and saw that “it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).

In the same vein, if you are to become Millionaires For Jesus, you must move away from “competing with others” (like the world does) and you must start focusing on “competing with yourself”.

What does this mean?

It means that as you bring your KEABA (see previous posts) to the market place:

You aren’t worrying about the competition
You are really focused on a deep understanding of the What, Why, When, Where, and How of people who are interested in your KEABA
You are focused on how you can provide more and better products and services to those who are interested in your KEABA – the kinds of products and services that makes things better for them in their world
You are focused on how you can make it easier, better, faster, cheaper, etc. for those who are interested in your KEABA to do business with you
You go back to the top of this list and start all over striving to become even better than before

You see, when you are worrying about the competition and you are competing with the competition, you move into a world where everyone is playing “copy-cat”. You move into a world where everyone is playing “leap-frog”. You are in a competitive world.

In the competitive world, this week, month, or year someone else is the best. So, you go copy everything they are doing plus a little more and you “leap-frog” them for this week, month, or year. Then, they copy what you’ve done and add a little more, and they “leap-frog” you.

This week, month, or year, you have more of the customers. Next week, month, or year, they have more of the customers. And, the cycle continues.

Obviously, you can never really win in this kind of a model.

And, there’s another key problem with the competitive model – you are primarily focused on what your “competition” is doing.

But, when you DO the things listed in the bulleted list above, you step out of the world of “competing” and into the world of “creating”. This is important because when you start “creating”, you are able to create your own “game” with your own “rules” – all designed so that you and those who are interested in your KEABA win.

In the “creative” model, your focus is entirely upon those who are interested in your KEABA – and that’s where it should be. In this “creative” model, no one will ever be able to touch you – because this is “your” game and they are in a different game.

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If Your Bank Account Is Empty, Here Is Why…

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Genesis 1:2 tells us, “And the earth was without form, and void”.

So, what does your bank account look like? Is it “void”?

What’s your plan to increase your KEABA? Is it “without form”?

Note: if you don’t know what KEABA is, see the end of this post.

People are attracted to value. People want to give their money in exchange for value.

What is value?

Something with a low value is something that isn’t very useful, isn’t very important, isn’t worth much.

Something with a high value is very useful, very important, and worth a lot.

If your KEABA is well developed, then your value to society is going to be high. If it isn’t, then your value to society is going to be very low.

The level to which your KEABA is developed is entirely up to you. You get to decide what your value is to society.

If you are tired of a bank account that is “void” of money, then you need to decide to put “form” to your KEABA development plan.

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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly…

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I heard Tom Peters (a business author and speaker) make a statement one time that has really stuck with me, “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly“.

What he meant is that if something is worth doing, Then do it. Take action. Move forward. Get going.

Then, if you don’t do it all that well because you don’t know everything, that’s ok because as you start taking action, you will learn what you need to learn.

By moving forward, you will learn how to do it better.

Most people won’t take action until everything is “perfect” – they want to know everything, they must know exactly what is going to happen, they want to be sure everything will turn out ok. And, because it is in fact impossible for everything to be “perfect”, they never take action.

Think of Abram/Abraham in the Bible, he didn’t know anything about where he was going. He had no clue as to what was going to happen. All he knew was that God had commanded him to go.

And that is what you have to do. Go! Start taking action!

By taking action even when you don’t know everything and even though you don’t know how everything will turn out, you cannot help but end up in the Millionaires For Jesus club.

Also, keep in mind that your future success and security is dependent upon what you are learning, applying, and acting upon right now.

Some of your ventures will be successes and some of them will be failures but all of them are a “win” for you.

Why are they all a win for you? Because in each success and failure, you are going to learn invaluable lessons that will be critical to your future success.

In different words, at some point in the future, you will be looking your successes right in the face and you will realize that without the invaluable lessons of your past experiences – no matter how painful some of them may have been – there is no way you could be enjoying your successes without those lessons.

Now, get to work!

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How well is the worlds’ system working for you?

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The worlds’ system is to take our KEABA (See previous articles) and shackle us down to an 8-5 job in exchange for a steady paycheck, in exchange for benefits, in exchange for a 401K plan, etc.

The world tells us that life is safer and it’s more secure if you do it their way.

Here’s a small sampling of what happens when you follow along with their lie:

They tell you how much you are worth.
They will give you just enough to get by. If you are extremely disciplined, you can even get a little bit ahead.
They tell you what benefits you can or cannot have.
They tell you when you will work – including weekends if they so choose.
You spend more time with ungodly people than you do with your own family.
You have no time or energy to do a work for God.
After you’ve given them your life and you are ready to retire, they tell you how you can and cannot spend your retirement money. If you don’t “obey” them, then they will penalize you by taking away some of your money (i.e. fines and penalties).

I could go on and on but you get the point.

So, my question to you is, “How can you truly say you are a servant of Christ’s when you are bound to the world’s system in order to survive?”

In the world’s system, you become just a “sparrow” among many other “sparrows”.

But God’s Word says we are of more value than many “sparrows” (Matthew 10:31 and Luke 12:7). In other words, you can have the income that is equal to that of “many” people in the world’s system.

But if we are going to have this level of income, if we are to become Millionaires For Jesus, then we are going to have to get out of this world’s system and get into God’s system.

As I said in the previous post, develop and expand your KEABA and start offering your KEABA on the open market.

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Henry Ford’s Incomplete Formula – part 4

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Tying everything together, we have a formula that can catapult us into the Millionaires For Jesus arena…

KEABA: KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, ABILITY, BELIEF, ACTION

Start thinking about your KEABA.

Start developing and expanding your KEABA.

Start offering your KEABA on the open market.

Go do it!

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Henry Ford’s Incomplete Formula – part 3

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Another key element missing from Henry Ford’s formula was –Planned Action

While we continuously work to fix and improve our belief problem, we also have to figure out how to make something happen relative to our knowledge, experience and ability. (God expects us to use the talents that we have and He isn’t concerned about talents that we don’t have.)

How do we make something happen?

Start asking yourself the following kinds of questions:

Note: to save space, I am going to use the acronym KEA to refer to knowledge, experience, and ability.

1. Who could benefit from my KEA?
2. Who wants to have my KEA for themselves?
3. Who wants my KEA but doesn’t want to get it for themselves?
4. Who wants my KEA because they don’t have enough time?
5. Who wants my KEA but doesn’t think they have the money or resources?
6. For those who have an interest in my KEA, how could I help them?
7. Who could benefit the most from my KEA?

Ask yourself these questions and write down as many answers as you can come up with.

Then, think some more and “DOUBLE” the number of answers you have written down. Once you do this, you will have really thought about you and your knowledge, experience, and
ability.

Now, look over your written answers. Which 1-3 answers looks like they hold the most potential? Ok, take these 1-3 items and write down a rough plan of how to pursue these
items or how to take them to the next level.

What questions do you need answered? Whose help do you need? What resources would be necessary?

Now, take action! Move! Pick up that phone! Write that letter! Email that person. Go see the individual that you need to see! Go ask some questions! Put together a
presentation and go present it!

Go do whatever it is that you know you need to do.

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Henry Ford’s Incomplete Formula – part 2

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Part of what was missing from Henry Ford’s formula was – Belief.

Without faith and belief, nothing good is going to happen in our lives. So, the first thing you and I must do is fix our belief problems and have faith in God.

In simple terms, we have to believe that God wants to create beauty and wealth through us and in us.

In the Lord’s Prayer, we hear Jesus praying, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven…”

Now, here are a couple of questions for you:

1. What’s it like in Heaven?
2. What does God want it to be like in our lives here on earth?

First, the picture of Heaven that we see described throughout the Bible is a picture of peace, happiness, completeness, beauty, splendor, and untold wealth.

Second, the Lord’s Prayer plainly tells us that God wants it to be the same way in our lives as it is in Heaven.

How did I get that you ask?

Well, since God’s will IS done in Heaven we can say that Heaven is a picture of God’s will. Further, since we have a pictorial description of Heaven, we have a picture of what
we should be trying to recreate here on earth in our lives — and recreating that picture is God’s will.

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Henry Ford’s Incomplete Formula – part 1

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Henry Ford made the statement, “The only real security that a man can have is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

This is only partially true.

First and foremost, as Christians, we know that our security (both in this world and in the world to come) is of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Second, in reality, there are lots of people with knowledge, experience and ability. In fact, you are one of them!

You have knowledge, experience, and ability — but are you a Millionaire For Jesus?

Mr. Ford obviously didn’t provide the complete formula in his statement.

I’ll complete the formula in the next couple of posts…

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