Lessons Posted in the Start-Up Process Category
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Saint Paul: The Ultimate Evangelist
If for some reason you aren’t familiar with who Saint Paul is, let me drop it on you. He’s the man who literally went through Hell on earth for Christ. He was whipped, beaten, and thrown in jail numerous times for the message of the Cross. No man in history, besides Jesus himself, has ever [...]
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Developing A Brilliant Idea
Developing a brilliant idea may not be as difficult as some make it out to be. In it’s entirety, knowing if your idea is golden or not can be answered by asking yourself one question: Does my idea cure my own sickness? A good idea will always cure your own sickness. By this I mean, [...]
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Does Your Idea Fit Who You Are?
Approximately 145,000 new businesses start up each year in this country, and about 137,000 businesses declare bankruptcy within 365 days. Staggering, right? How does this make you feel? Every single one of these business owners thought that they had a “great” idea, which is not to say that their businesses failed entirely because their idea [...]
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Prayer: The Ultimate Form of Communication
As a Christian, prayer is an essential asset in our life of faith. Without it, there is no possible way that we could live an abundant spiritual life in harmony with the Father. It is the ultimate method of communication between you and God that ensures that you are staying in line with the Lord’s [...]
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Your Needs Come Before the Inbox
No one likes the feeling that other people are waiting – impatiently – for you to get back to them. At the beginning of the day, faced with an overflowing inbox, a list of messages on your voicemail, and the to-do list from your last meeting, it’s tempting to want to “clear the decks” before [...]
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Stop Searching and Starting Utilizing your Spiritual Gifts
We’ve talked before about self-presentation and the importance of overcoming the stigma of self-marketing in the entrepreneurial world. Unfortunately, nobody will represent you better than you. Brains is not enough. Success in the entrepreneurial world comes down to communicating your strengths. But, you may ask, “what about my true talents?” Shouldn’t one’s sheer skill be [...]
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Make it Happen Series #1 of 30: My Identity
Welcome to my 30 part series called, “Making it Happen” I will be posting sections two times per week for 15 weeks My Identity My identity has always been Dale James Partridge. But do you know how many times I have heard the phrase, “Oh wow you are quite the entrepreneur”? But it hasn’t always [...]
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Biblical Meditation: The Power Behind Creativity
Quiet. Connected. Creative If you depend on your creativity for a living, then your most valuable piece of equipment is not your computer, smartphone, camera, or any other hi-tech gadget. “In a modern company 70 to 80 percent of what people do is now done by way of their intellects. The critical means of production [...]
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10 Ways to Get People to Love You in 5 Minutes
Passionate Conversations As Christian world changers, it is absolutely imperative that we can get others behind our mission. We must influence the influencers, and to do so we must have the “learnable” skills of getting people to meet us, love us, and want to be a part of our mission, all in the matter of [...]
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Do’s & Do Not’s of Workplace Evangelism
The Bermuda Triangle of Evangelism Over the years, I have heard numerous lectures and sermons on how to preach the gospel beyond the pulpit. I’ve even read a book on it, “The 7 Principles of an Evangelistic Life” by Douglas Cecil. As entrepreneurs, missionaries, church planters, or non profit leaders, we seem to draw a [...]
