As was often so with Jesus, He used this word “meek” in a brief, crisp sentence, and not until some time later did He go on to explain it. In the same book of Matthew He tells us more about it and applies it to our lives. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Here we have two things standing in...
2 days ago • 2 min read
We are all broken mirrors reflecting broken images of each other. Spending time looking into the One Whole Mirror, enables you to reflect to those around you the Whole People they had been designed to be. Dear Reader Breaking or Mending? Broken people create broken businesses. Broken businesses break people. Whole people have the potential to create businesses that become a place where people can rediscover their identity, find healing from the brokenness of having lived in this broken world...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Dear Reader Pick your stairs (Kies jou sukkel) Life is hard. Hard can be good. And hard can be bad. Be careful about which hard you choose. Run Upstairs Life is hard. Very few people would argue with this. Run upstairs. I cannot remember who said this, but I heard it on David Senra's “Founders” podcast. It's a pithy saying that means that choosing the harder path is almost always the better path if you want to be successful and outperform your competition. It comes from the idea of a...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
The highest leverage activities in terms of future impact are typically Important, Not Urgent, and Not Obvious. Highest Impact – Important, Not Urgent, Not Obvious Important vs. Urgent The following diagram has been made famous by Stephen Covey … he might even have come up with it in the first place: Unless you fight to make time for that top right quadrant, everything to the left will just keep consuming all your time and energy. However, everything on the left will not change your life. If...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Deciding what is the end and what are the means, is critically important in living a meaningful and fulfilling life, because when things get really tough, we may need to sacrifice some of the means – but we can never sacrifice the end. Relationship as the End, Not the Means Awareness At one stage in my life, there was this individual, whom I'll call Fred, who was about the same age as me, whose company I really enjoyed, but he was streets ahead of me in his career, and super busy. It was...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
The goal of business is indeed to make more money now and into the future, but it has to do that by producing goods and services that make the world a better place, now and into the future. The Goal 2.0 I really like Eli Goldratt's work. His first book, "The Goal,” has changed my life, as it has for countless business leaders around the world. However, one cannot but look around and feel that the world of business seems to have gone awry. "The Goal” of making more money now and into the...
2 months ago • 2 min read
We tend to build lives that are filled with grinding work, and in the process deny ourselves and the world the joy of working in our genius. Here are some practical steps to try and swim a bit against that tide, and build a more enjoyable life that will bring more value to those around you. Dear Reader When you are blind to your own Genius Genius Overlooked and Lost When I was a kid – from about the age of 9 to 13, I played piano. I absolutely loved it. I could sit and play for eight hours...
2 months ago • 8 min read
The entrepreneurial journey comes with pain -- But when lived well, your life can turn that pain into one of the ingredients of deep meaning. Dear Reader When Pain turns to Meaning Memories of a Painful Time The other day I was slowly reading this article by Dr. Madelaine Gomes MsC.D. I read it paragraph by paragraph, closing my eyes, and allowing her thoughts to be a spark to deeper and further thoughts about what this could look like in my life today. In the article she writes this: “…nor...
3 months ago • 3 min read
I love the Faith Driven Entrepreneur tagline: “Entrepreneurship can be a lonely journey, but it doesn't have to be.” We fully agree with this. So we're launching the 5-2-50 Growth Groups. So you don't have to do this alone. You Don't have to do this alone The power of community At 5-2-50 our theory of impact centers around three core ideas: Content Community Capital The power of community in this trio can hardly be overstated. Surrounding yourself with a group of people who share your faith...
3 months ago • 3 min read
When people hear that we are trying to eradicate poverty, they often assume that 5-2-50 works with the poor. But we don't. Here's where we focus, and why. Why aren't we focusing on The Poor Maybe a bit counter-intuitive The core goal of 5-2-50 is to eradicate poverty. But we don't work with poor people. That might seem a little counter-intuitive. One of the reasons we do not focus here is that there is already a lot of focus on these people. Vast amounts of non-profit funding flows into poor...
3 months ago • 3 min read