Watching The Citadel play against Western Carolina University in a basketball game last night, I saw a player suffer a painful and possible season and career injury. Following a quick prayer that the player would be okay, the stories of Job, Joseph, and many others who first feared, felt pain, and moved to hope ran through my brain. Like Job and Joseph, the injured basketball player is suffering, not only from the pain of the injury itself, but also the pain of the unknown that follows this time of adversity. The young basketball player must rehab his injury to return to normal activity; review his strengths to carry him forward; and review his new weaknesses, created by the injury in order to adjust his life’s plan for the new realities. What is required for the ballplayer’s journey? Faith, the kind of faith that endures all things seen for his unseen future. Isn’t running a business of any size like the basketball player who was injured? When faced with the challenges of the past four years, business owners felt much like Job and Joseph, wondering what the suffering was all about yet not wondering “why me?” It is by faith in the positive future that the business owner saw when planning what the business would look like and achieve. That plan provides the map to get back on track in three steps. -> With the use of solid business principles, immediately improvise your actions based on the new reality, thus rehabbing the way you operate. -> Adapt your activities to the new reality, focusing on your strengths to carry you through. Remember Covid? -> Reviewing your original principle-based plan and applying what you have learned in the new operating environment, overcome the challenges calmly and methodically. If you are not on a principle-based, faith driven journey in which you will rise in all tides, reach out. Help is always in your future. Want help? Give us a call!
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AuthorBrian Kennedy is an encourager who shepherds small business owners and entrepreneurs along the path of business success to preeminence by embracing time tested principles and executing the associated fundamentals daily. Archives
March 2024
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Brian Kennedy
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