Personal Evangelism: Your Unique and Shared Missions

Personal Evangelism: Your Unique and Shared Missions

Do you practice personal evangelism? Are you fulfilling the Great Commission? As a Christian, personal evangelism is your service to unbelievers. This service comprises your unique mission and your shared mission with other believers. Pastor Rick Warren outlines four parts of your unique life message that you’re called to share. He also identifies four mental blocks that can hold you back from your shared mission. Keep reading to learn how you can help the Church fulfill the Great Commission by engaging in personal evangelism.

Need Direction in Life? Try the Ancient Art of Wayfinding

Need Direction in Life? Try the Ancient Art of Wayfinding

What is wayfinding? How can it help you find direction in life? Wayfinding is an ancient art that prompts you to follow clues. To find direction in life, the clues are involvement, energy, and joy. A Wayfinding Journal can help you plan your daily life by keeping an activity log and reflecting on what you learn from it. Keep reading to learn how to use wayfinding to get direction in life.

Create Your Life Compass and Find Your True North

Create Your Life Compass and Find Your True North

Do you have a life compass? How can it help you live a more coherent life? A life compass is made up of your life philosophy and your work philosophy. It helps you gauge your life’s coherence—agreement among your identity, your beliefs, and your actions. Ultimately, it helps you go in the right direction while staying grounded. Continue reading to learn how to use a life compass to find your true north.

How to Develop the Heart of a Servant

How to Develop the Heart of a Servant

What is the heart of a servant like? Do you have one? When you serve the church, you want to make sure that you’re doing it for the right reasons—in a way that honors God and serves as an example to others. You need to have the heart of a servant. Pastor Rick Warren outlines five characteristics and five attitudes of a servant’s heart. Keep reading to learn how you can develop the heart of a servant.

Tame Your Need for Approval: Stop People-Pleasing

Tame Your Need for Approval: Stop People-Pleasing

Is your need for approval in overdrive? Are you a people-pleaser? If your need for approval gets in the way of healthy relationships and being your true self, it’s time to break free from that trap. Pastor Rick Warren explains how people-pleasing causes harm, and he shares three truths you should keep in mind. Read more to learn how the need for approval does damage—and how to stop people-pleasing.

Managing Your Portfolio: Do You Need an Advisor?

Managing Your Portfolio: Do You Need an Advisor?

Thinking of hiring a financial advisor to help manage your investment portfolio? Does one really need professional expertise to manage their investments? If you’re not a personal finance expert, managing your portfolio might seem intimidating, and you may even be tempted to hire a professional financial advisor. However, unless your financial situation is especially complicated, you don’t need a financial advisor—you can get the same (or even better) results by managing your own investments, even without any special expertise.  In this article, we’ll see how financial “experts” are typically no better than amateurs when it comes to predicting the market

Creative Selling: Creativity as a Sales Tool

Creative Selling: Creativity as a Sales Tool

Do you want to spice up your sales game? How can adding a little bit of creativity to your product pitch increase your chances of closing? Most people think of creativity as something that applies to arts or literature. However, creativity is simply the process of creating something—and when you’re selling, you’re creating a business where there was none before. When you can increase your creativity, you can increase your success rate in closing sales and therefore increase your earnings. Keep reading to learn how creative selling can enable you to find more customers and opportunities.

How to Know What Business to Start

How to Know What Business to Start

How do you know what business to start? Should you wait for the perfect opportunity to start your business? You know what business to start when you discover what you have a talent for and enjoy doing. Don’t wait for the perfect opportunity to get started, take every opportunity that takes you one step further towards doing what you want to do. Read more to discover how to know what business to start.

Do You Need a Financial Advisor? No, Do It Yourself

Do you need a financial advisor to manage your investments? How do financial advisors make their money? According to financial blogger J. L. Collins, most people don’t need a financial advisor to manage their personal finances. Further, he argues that financial advisors are costly at best and rip-offs at worst. They profit from people’s insecurities by making investing seem complicated and intimidating. Here is why you’ll be better off managing your investments yourself, without the help of a financial advisor.