To Ensure Your Business Success

A few days ago I received a message from a business owner asking for my help and advice. This is how her message started:

“Hey i really need to know how to promote my business on line like you do im tired of doing for family and friends im really loosing to much money right now just got gagged by …………….. mom jm done i signed up for cash app i need to know how to sell on pinterest and esty i have to go hard with this time”. This is exactly how her message read.

This was the tone of her messages that were being sent to me. Her messages were being delivered to my phone quicker than I could read them and they went on like this for quite some time Saturday evening. I decided to give her a call the next day to breakdown a few things that I knew she desperately needed to hear that pertained to her business.

Breaking It Down

Two years ago I tried explaining the same thing to this business owner over and over, again and again, but because she had so many obstacles in her life (and she still does) she simply could not hear me.  The message I was trying to convey to her was that she need to have a business plan in place which would in turn help her to setup her system for success. She refused, absolutely downright refused to take the advice and information I had willingly shared and offered to her. She kept telling me that a business plan was a waste of time and she could not see how it could help her. So this time I decided to take a different approach with the Holy Spirit’s guidance and direction. I shared with her a story in the Book of Kings in the Old Testament. It was the story about Naaman the leper.

In 2 Kings 5:1-27 you’ll find the story about Naaman, his leprosy and his plea to Elisha to heal him of this awful disease. When I explained it all to her, I mean I broke it down to the point that I was shouting to the top of my lungs because I got so excited by the end of the phone which was on a Sunday, I told her to think about the words I had just spoken to her and to possibly shut down her business for now, regroup and start fresh in the new year I knew I had her complete attention and not only had she heard me but she actually listened and heeded my advice. I told her that I do not conduct business on Sunday but promised to give her a call on Monday. Monday came I called my client and guess what; she was singing a new song. She’s getting help with her business plan from her uncle who knows all about how to write them to ensure ones success. I’m saying all of this to say if you have a business and you have yet to write a business plan I suggest that you stop what you’re doing and write one asap. It’ll grow your business exponentially and you’ll have money flowing into your life for your highest good and those you love care and provide for.

I talked and tried talking to her using explaining and breaking down some great proven strategies and that how having a business is imperative for any business owner.  I told her to think about what I shared with her for the rest of the day because I don’t work on Sunday.  She agreed. 

Before we ended the call I told her that she would have to change her attitude and her way of thinking.  Once again, she agreed.

I understand it can be hard to switch and shift your mind when you’ve been living in a negative space for what can seem like forever.  I know because I have been there myself.  I’ve sabotaged my businesses by my own negative energy which wasn’t serving me in anyway.  When I made the choice to change my life it took a whole lot of time, but I knew it had to be done because it was affecting my business.  I wasn’t being consistent and I wasn’t accomplishing any of the goals I had put in place for my business.  When I finally made up my mind to do what I needed to do, it made all the difference in the world in a profound way.  My businesses were being impacted with such negativity that I didn’t think I could ever change.  I got tired of laying dormant because the negative forces all around me were pulling me down. 

Without us ever knowing and sometimes we quickly realize it, we sabotage our own businesses. We don’t mean to, but unfortunately it happens.  Obstacles, blocks and all kinds of fears seem to invade our space and can have the power to take over.  If we stand strong and remind ourselves that we are able and capable of doing those things that we are afraid of trying to achieve, those goals we want to attain, we can do it without a shadow of a doubt. Now is the time to release all obstacles in this new season that is upon us.  Now is the time to walk through and accept those things that help to make our businesses a huge success.

Bless your business,

 

Cyndi

 

From The Word of God

Elisha’s healing of Naaman the leper, commander of the army of the king of Syria, is a familiar story to many (2 Kgs 5:1–27). Naaman hears that Elisha, the prophet of Israel, can heal him, so he makes the trip. When the two meet, Elisha tells him rather dismissively that he needs to take a bath in the Jordan River. Naaman doesn’t take this well and prepares to go home. At the behest of some servants, he consents to dip himself in the Jordan. He is miraculously healed by the simple act. The display of power, so transparently without sacrifice or incantation, awakens Naaman to the fact that Yahweh of Israel is the true God.