Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Law of Reaping and Sowing by Dani Johnson


The Daily Fix


What's In A Name? EVERYTHING!


Hey Friend, 

I'm writing to you from somewhere in the North Sea. Something really interesting happened today, and I have to share it with you.

At dinner the first night on the ship, we met the wait staff we will be seeing for the next 11 days. Two hours later, the kids and I were playing cards in the middle of a common area, and we happened to see one of the staff there. He remembered our names right away! We'd had a two-minute conversation two hours earlier, but he remembered and called me by my name.

Friend, how does it make you feel when people remember your name? It makes you feel honored, doesn't it?

Obviously, whoever owns this vessel has made it a point to make sure their staff knows the names of the people on this ship. They know the names of the people who are providing jobs for them. Did you catch that? Without the customer, there is no job!

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I also noticed this a few weeks ago when Hans and I were in Turkey and Greece. We were on that vessel for 2 weeks, and there were several staff members who knew our names within a day. Every single time we passed by any of them, they called us by our first names.

Friend, use that today in your career! Learn people's names! Memorize their names and use them! Even when you are on the phone with a customer service representative or booking a plane ticket, write down the person's name.

That's important on so many levels. It makes the person feel like they're making a new friend over the phone. When you make a friend on the phone, you may get better service. And why? Because you made them feel special and important.

This has happened to so many of my clients who have used the techniques we teach in Unlimited Success. In fact, several of them have actually gotten free services and huge discounts by using the strategies they learned there.

One of those very simple strategies includes remembering people's names. Every time you encounter another human being, memorize their name!

You may be thinking right now, "But Dani, I'm TERRIBLE with names! I'm not good at remembering names."

Friend, it's because you're thinking too much about yourself. You're thinking too much about your interests instead of being genuinely interested in the other person. So whether it's a customer or a stranger at the grocery store, it's important to practice remembering people's names.

To help you remember, have them say their name twice. Ask them to spell it for you, or ask if they were named after someone. If you get them to talk about their name, you will remember it! You'll find something that sticks in your brain to help you remember.

If you deliberately use people's names, you're going to receive elite service from other people. You're going to make people feel special and important, and they are going to remember you — all because you remembered their name.

People LOVE to hear their own names. They feel a special kinship when someone else knows their name. It honors and lifts their spirit. It makes them feel set apart from everyone else. And it causes them to think differently about you. This is the law of reaping and sowing.

It's something we have used in business, as well as our casual, everyday life. I encourage you to use that strategy today!

This is such a powerful, simple tool that can really impact you, your friends, family and co-workers! Share this message with them today via email or social media!

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In great faith,

 

Monday, July 29, 2013

YES it's important

Children of God

What matters to you—matters to God! You probably think that’s true when it comes to the big stuff; the major-league difficulties like disease, death, sin, and disaster—you know that God cares. But what about the smaller things? What about grouchy bosses or flat tires or lost dogs? What about late flights, toothaches, or a crashed computer? Do those matter to God?

God’s got wars to worry about and famines to fix. Who am I, we say, to tell Him about my troubles? I’m glad you asked. The answer is found in I John 3:1. “The Father has loved us so much that we are called children of God. And we really are His children.” I love that last phrase. “We really are His children.”

John added that phrase for you. We really are His children! If something is important to you, it’s important to God!

from He Still Moves Stone


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Story of GOD

What Do You Want?

I like the story about the fellow who went to the pet store for a singing parakeet. The store owner had just the bird and the next day the man came home to a house full of music. When he went to feed the bird he noticed for the first time, the parakeet had only one leg. He called the store and complained. “What do you want,” the store owner responded, “a bird who can sing or a bird who can dance?”

Good question for times of disappointment. What do we want? It’s what Jesus asked the disciples when they complained. And in Luke 24:27, Jesus began to tell them the story of God’s plan for people, “starting with Moses and all the prophets, and everything that had been written about Himself in the Scriptures.” Jesus’ cure for the broken heart is the story of God. So what do you want? If you’re disappointed, turn to the story of God. He’s still in control!

from He Stills Moves Stones


Tuesday, July 23, 2013

HE knows

A Reason to Sit Tight

God knows more about life than we do! And aren’t we glad He does? Be honest. Are we glad He says “no” to what we want and “yes” to what we need? Not always. If we ask for a new marriage, and He says honor the one you’ve got, we aren’t happy. If we ask for healing, and He says learn through the pain, we aren’t happy.

When God doesn’t do what we want, it’s not easy. Never has been. Never will be. But faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it. We need to hear that God is in control. We need to hear it is not over until He says so. We need to hear life’s mishaps and tragedies are not a reason to bail out. They are simply a reason to—sit tight!

from He Still Moves Stones