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Family Life

15Feb By Steve WarrenNo Comments
Family Life, Financial Life, Personal Life, Work Life

7 ways to seize an opportunity …

Ephesians 5:14-21 NLT "AWAKE, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light." 15 So be careful how you live. Don't live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil DAYS. 17 Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. 18 Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, 19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. We will seize opportunities by : 1. Being alert (vs 14) "The secret of success in life is for a man ...
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10Sep By Steve WarrenNo Comments
Family Life, Personal Life, Work Life

Focus

So be careful how you live. (‘focus’) Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. 17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, (‘distracted’) but understand what the Lord wants you to do. (‘focus’) 18 Don’t be drunk with wine, ('distraction') because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit. ('focus')  Ephesians 5:15-18 (Brackets are my words for added focus!) When a Lion Tamer holds a 3 leg stall in the face of the lion the need for multi-focus suspends the lion’s single-mindedness and he becomes calm and ineffective. Distraction, indecision and paralysis comes from a lack of focus. Paul urges us to stay focused, attentive and thoughtful to the purpose of God in our lives, to the priorities of every day.
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11Jun By Steve Warren11 Comments
Family Life, Personal Life, Work Life

Social Mobility

A wise person wins friends.  Proverbs 11:30 Wise words will win you a good meal.   Proverbs 13:2 There is a way of winning people as you go about your normal daily life.  This will help your 'social mobility'.  That is your influence socially, communally and economically.  Here are some basic starters for good social practice: -       Listen more than Talk There is nothing more off putting than someone who talks incessantly and especially about themselves.  Remember conversation by very nature is a 2-way exercise.  I say something then I leave a space for you to say something.  We were born with 2 ears and 1 mouth, suggesting the proportion of use of each body part! Learn to be interested in others more than yourself.  This alone will win you friends, new clients and progress
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2Jan By Steve WarrenNo Comments
Family Life, Personal Life

Reassessing my values to have a valuable 2012 …

Give your attention completely to these matters. 1 Timothy 4:15 What we give our attention to will carry the greatest value and reap the greatest rewards. Without the right attention we can never expect our relationships to do so well. This is what attention gives: TIME – what you do is not always as important as simply the giving of time. Being together says what I could be doing is less important than you. WORDS – talk together in ways that enrich each other’s world. Know when to talk and when to listen. Guys you can talk – try it! ACTIVITY – do together what works together. Eat together, play together, go to Church together. Embrace activity, not as something that adds to your ‘busy’ life but as something that enhances your world together. How could you give your at
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