Jeff Johnston

Seems these days everything we do MUST be profitable.

• The retirement account isn’t performing well, and it’s time to call the fund manager to make some changes.
• Your efforts at the local church aren’t making a significant difference, and it’s time to shift your time and talents to something more profitable.
• You drive home from work, thinking ‘what in the world did I even do today???’
• You’re talking with someone about deep issues in their life, but they don’t want to do anything different to get out of the situation they want out of.
• The baby sitter is slacking off, which means you better call the next eager teenager willing to make a buck and not poison your kids while doing it.

If you’re anything like me – wasted time, money or focus just simply GRATES away at you.  I love investing time into something worthwhile.  I’m not afraid to spend money on someone or something of value.  I treasure opportunities to sow my focus wholeheartedly into something of worth.

I want to be profitable.  In all things.  My time.  My talks.  My talents.  My relationships.  And when I’m not… you better believe I know it.  I feel it.  I’m tormented by it.

The other day I was reading Proverbs 21:5, which tells us;

“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty”

This really spoke to me in a fresh way.  If I want to be profitable in all these things, then I’ve got to have plans, and I’ve got to be diligent in seeing those plans through until completion.

Sitting on a couch daydreaming of a better life won’t do it.  Even having a journal chock full of exciting dreams, but no plans to see them come to life isn’t enough.

I’ve got to be strategic.  And I’ve got to be diligent when I come up against resistance. Tiredness is my enemy.  Negative voices are my adversaries.  Procrastination is my nemesis.  I must push through my natural resistance factors if I’m going to be profitable.

How excited do we get when the retirement account is kicking butt and taking names?  What if we could translate that passion into the rest of our lives, and let that passion push us to be profitable in all things?

PLANS. DILIGENCE > PROFIT.

Sounds like a good plan to me…

JJ