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Ten Ways to Inspire Others
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Ten Ways to Inspire Others

We all know people who are inspiring. But just how does one inspire others? Here are ten simple ways you can inspire people to be their best:

1. Be a good example. People watch what you do more than they listen to what you say. Be someone worth emulating.

2. Care about others. People don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care. Ask questions. Take a genuine interest in people.

3. Encouragement. Everyone goes through tough times. When you support people and encourage them through these times, you'll be inspiring them to see the best in themselves and in the situation.

4. Be inspired yourself. Look for people, ideas, environments and knowledge that you find inspiring and motivating.

5. Share from your own experience. You have more to share than you realize. Mine the rich experiences of your life and share your wisdom from your unique point of view. You may be the only one who can touch someone with your inspiring message.

6. Be vulnerable. Be willing to share your failures as well as your successes. Others will relate to you. They'll understand that they're not the only ones with challenges.

7. Tell stories. Facts tell and stories sell. They inspire, too. We learn best from parables and we all need to develop our own inspiring stories.


8. Be a good communicator. Increasing your ability to communicate effectively is a critical element for you to inspire others. Watch how you speak and what you say. Invest in your communication skills.

9. Challenge people. Many of us have had teachers who at times seemed more like tormentors than mentors. They challenged us to do our best, and we were better for it. Practice "carefrontation"--the careful and caring confrontation of others.

10. Read. It may not follow that all readers are leaders, but certainly all leaders are readers. Stay informed. Share what you read with others. Tell people about books that have inspired you. Share the knowledge.

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Don't Lose Heart
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Don't Lose Heart

One of the greatest weapons the Devil has in hindering people from enter the joys of heaven is depression. When one looses hope he looses heart. Once a person looses heart they are destined to fail at whatever endeavors they undertake.

From time to time we witness this in sporting events. One team will get behind and you can sometimes see it coming. They hang their heads and internally give up. The outcome is always the same, THEY LOSE.

In the Christian life the same is true. Satan heaps trials and tribulations on us and sometimes we begin to hang our heads. Once he gets us to doubting ourselves and our Christianity, he is well on his way to getting us to quit. Some members who quit will stop attending services and revert to worldly living. While others go through the outward motions of the faith but inwardly they are dead as a doorknob.

Paul told the church at Ephesus that we are not ignorant of the devices of the devil, nor of his ways. If we are going to succeed in being true to God for the duration of our lives we must not lose heart. Trials are guaranteed. 2 Timothy 3:12 says, "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

We need to look to the biblical accounts of men and women who overcame great disappointments and troubles, and learn from them. Romans 15:4 says, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope."

Men like Job, who suffered more than most of us can even fathom, should inspire us to persevere. If he overcame the lose of ten children and all of his wealth in one day, then we too can endure when life force-feeds us bitter pills. His health was lost and yet he stayed true to God.

When we suffer the lose of family members, even the untimely lose of young family members, we cannot lose heart. We can’t quit. If we quit, Satan wins. If we quit there will be no true peace (Matt. 25:21, 46). If we quit Christ died in vain, the church labors in vain and our life is a tragic waste.

When we grow ill, don’t forget we serve the Great Physician. He offers peace and life (Matt. 11:28,29). Sometimes it doesn’t come until the next life, but it will come if we don’t quit.

Losing heart is a problem with which many struggle on a daily basis. Please try to keep a biblical perspective, life is full of problems, BUT, they are TEMPORARY. God’s love is eternal. Don’t Lose Heart.


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Five Signs of a Great Leader
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1. Desire:
First and foremost is your desire to lead. Leadership takes a great deal of work, so what motivates you? The prime motivator is usually passion. Passion to be the best company, the fastest growing company; the church helping more people than any other, a force in the community, or the happiest, most grounded family unit. Passion to be the biggest, the best is a powerful motivator. Ask yourself what you most want to achieve in your life and the life of others. Then guide your group to creating even more motivation. Keep in mind the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, "Nothing great is ever achieved without passion."
2. Vision:
It can be a vision of what you want your company to achieve, what difference you want to make in your community or the vision you have for your children and their future. Write down your vision, flesh it out and know precisely what that vision entails. Know how you'll get from Point A to Point B. You can't make a plan without a detailed vision of what you hope to achieve.
3. Creativity:
This is where your plan starts. You have the vision of what you want to achieve, now you set it out step by step. You know where you want to end up, but you need the road map to get there, the plan to get you and your workers, family or parishioners to the ultimate goal. This is where you ask your people the challenging questions and get them running with the ideas you've generated and inspire them to be creative as well. John Quincy Adams said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
4. Expertise:
Naturally, the more expert you are concerning your company, or community or family, the better. You must hone your information gathering abilities. Knowledge is power. It's also essential that your people recognize and respect your expertise and trust your abilities to lead them. Let your group see you as the expert, and know they can trust you to guide them to success.
5. Respect:
Respect for others is an essential attribute in a great leader. You should compliment others when they show progress. Always praise in public and condemn in private. This shows respect for your workers, family and parishioners as fellow human beings. As the leader of any group, it's your responsibility to help them sort out their conflicts. Remember, their problems are your problems. Acknowledge their strengths and their weaknesses. On the positive side, you should also help them celebrate their achievements and accomplishments. And you should listen to their ideas and suggestions, and then let them help you implement them. This will fire up their motivation in doing the required tasks.
Remember, "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.


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Friends and Friendship
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Who is friends, What is friendship

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. (Proverbs 17:17)

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

Who is friends and what is meaning of friends

A lot of people go through life with only a few friends. It seems that some have less than that. They have no one on whom they can call in good times or bad. There is no one with whom to bounce ideas around, or to talk about deep and troubling subjects. They have no one to call in times of need or difficulty. They are at the mercy of life, standing alone.

Others seem to have a multiple number of friends like google's PageRank which increases in cumulative. Wherever they go, people know them, and like to be around them. when a trouble strike, their biggest hesitation might be over which friend to call. They know exactly the person with whom to discuss the topics of inquiry and debate. Life is full of entertaining and invigorating relationships because it is full of friends. These friends will be like a Degree course in friendship.. When we study them we get lot of knowledge about friendship. They have a lot of ideas flowing and they discuss any topic which is hard to discuss.

Of course, some people are perfectly happy to operate with fewer friends. They might rather have a few deep and loyal friends, than many superficial ones. Others thrive best when friends are everywhere and numerous. It is not so much the number of friends that is important as is the possession of friends, period. Loyal and deep friendship is good. It doesn't care about the numbers, Even if you have one loyal trustable friend. it is better than to have hundreds of untrustable, superficial friends. With the trusted friends we can discuss our problem areas and get ideas for solving them also. These friends share their time with us to solve problems.