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CEO of The Entrepreneur’s Source, Terry Powell is an Entrepreneur, Certified Franchise Executive & Author. He helps people achieve goals of business ownership.
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In a moment of despair, I was surprised by joy
On the way to the gym recently, I decided it was time for a divine complaint session. I laid out my grievances before the Lord. Out loud. My whining can basically be summarized in one sentence: “Where is the joy you’ve promised me?” Have you ever been desperate for joy after an extended time of waiting, suffering or grief? Without this simple little emotion, life can become drudgery. Waiting becomes harder; things like bitterness can take root.
Hudson Taylor’s secret to getting the fullness of Christ into your life
In 1869, the brave Hudson Taylor had a problem with his faith. “I felt assured that there was in Christ all I needed,” he wrote, “but the practical question was—how to get it out. He was rich truly, but I was poor; He was strong, but I weak. I knew full well that there was in the root, the stem, abundant fatness, but how to get it into my puny little branch was the question” (Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, p. 162).
Hudson Taylor’s way of making God “real” in your life
Before 21-year-old Hudson Taylor left for China, he practiced relying on God for his needs, deliberately cutting himself off from sources of support, including his own father. God provided through other means, as he did throughout the rest of Hudson’s life. In a letter to his mother, Hudson wrote, “I am indeed proving the truth of that word, ‘Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.
4 ideas for enhancing your church’s prayer ministry
Adobe Summarize with ChatGPT "What's the secret to your success?" A visitor to the London church where Charles Spurgeon pastored asked him that question as they talked prior to a worship service. Reportedly, Spurgeon took the visitor to a room where a small group of people were on their knees, interceding for the upcoming service. "That's the secret," admitted Spurgeon. How can leaders of a church expedite a resurgence of prayer?
Training church members for effective ministry
Adobe Summarize with ChatGPT Mason Roberts said, "When you get 100 individuals to do 1% more than they would have done without you, you've created a new life." When it comes to ministry endeavors of church members, that's an exciting concept! Equipping for service As a pastor or associate staff member, an enviable part of your calling consists of "equipping the saints for the work of service" (Eph. 4:11-12).
What I've learned about handling a compliment for my teaching
adobe Summarize with ChatGPT A cartoon depicted people leaving the sanctuary, each greeting the pastor on the way out. One beaming fellow enthusiastically said, "Great sermon, pastor. Everything you said applies to somebody I know!" Responding to compliments We can usually tell when someone's compliment is a genuine remark, indicating that the Lord either comforted or challenged the person with His Word.
Ministry is my putting out what God is putting into me
Adobe Stock Summarize with ChatGPT As I reflect on over 50 years of vocational ministry, a regret surfaces. Occasionally, during periods of heavier-than-normal ministry loads, my service for the Lord sabotaged my seeking of Him. Looking back as a more objective observer, at times I seemed to be more in love with the Lord's work than I was in love with my Savior. Oh, I'm aware it's never an either/or proposition.
8 tips for giving criticism
Adobe Stock Summarize with ChatGPT When you need to confront, especially as a leader to someone you supervise, here are tips I've learned from 50-plus years in vocational ministry. 1. Know the conditions for giving criticism. When is it necessary? Thefollowing questions may help answer the question. * Is the person's attitude or behavior dishonoring God or in direct defiance of biblical commands/principles? * It is damaging my relationship with this person? * Is it hurting the offender?
What I've learned about responding to criticism
Adobe Stock Summarize with ChatGPT As I reflect on over five deacdes of vocational ministry, including 12 years in two church staff positions and 38 years as a Christian university professor, here's a distillation of what I've learned the hard way. I wish I had known and applied these suggestions from the start. 1. Not every critic or criticism merits a response. If I defend myself from every salvo, the effort siphons off time and energy needed elsewhere.
Council Post: Giving The Gift Of Entrepreneurship
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. Coming of age during a time of economic growth and prosperity enabled the Baby Boomer generation to accumulate wealth and career accolades. As Baby Boomers hit retirement age and start contemplating their mortality, members of this savvy demographic are finding a creative solution to transfer generational wealth to their children.
The power is on: The key to effective ministry
Adobe Stock Summarize with ChatGPT The basis for confidence in our ministries and the key that unlocks fruitfulness is the power inherent in God's Word. No other asset compares to the Holy Spirit's shuttling of Scripture from the ears of listeners to their mind and hearts.
Council Post: The ‘Silent Recession’ Generation
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. Every generation has its own unique set of global economic challenges and opportunities. After World War II the global finance communities established the Bretton Woods Agreement which defined international currency exchanges. Then in the 1970s, there was the relaxation of the gold standard, so currencies around the globe were no longer affixed to a specific amount of gold.
Playing back God's call
Adobe Stock Summarize with ChatGPT A significant factor that instills ministry resiliency is a keen awareness that God called you to your current position. Remembering your call makes you hesitant to leave and keeps you from bailing out when the going gets rough. Perhaps Paul offers the most incisive example of persistence fueled by awareness of God's call. His apostolic career was fraught with obstacles and persecution.
How God gets the glory through our weakness
Adobe Stock Summarize with ChatGPT What constitutes a deep-felt need or sense of helplessness differs among God's servants. Perhaps it's the unrealistic deadline or workload your supervisor gave. The church critic who isn't mature enough to meet with you face-to-face and resorts to backstabbing in conversations with other members. An estranged daughter who once again rebuffs your attempt to reconcile.
5 Truths to Help Lead Pastors Serve Strong
God has given senior pastors a significant, potential-packed ministry, yet the calling comes with a proliferation of challenges to endurance and joy. Whether unrealistic expectations, battle fatigue from spiritual warfare, physical and mental weariness from heavy workloads, feelings of inadequacy, congregational conflicts, discouragement over not meeting church goals or personal or family problems, leaders face a plethora of issues.
Council Post: Senior Leaders: Explore New Possibilities By Reigniting Your Skills
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. Climbing the corporate ladder is an uphill battle, especially in today’s job market. If you’re a senior executive and find yourself at a crossroads in your career, learn how to reignite and maximize your skills to achieve your financial and lifestyle goals. The threat of recession and high inflation are prompting companies across all sectors to cut jobs.
How to Show Your Pastor You Really Love Them Original
Terry Powell penetratingthedarkness.com 2023 12 Oct Lead pastors typically have a strong sense of calling to ministry. Many experience deep satisfaction in seeing lives change and knowing they’re investing in eternal realities. Yet serving as a pastor is more pressure-packed than church members realize.
Council Post: A Wave Of Change Is Approaching: Intergenerational Collaboration
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. As the oldest Baby Boomers turn 80 in the next few years, a new "weather pattern" is approaching and fueling entrepreneurship for the next wave of business owners. By 2050, the proportion of the global population of adults over 60 will double, and in the U.S., one in three young adults still lives at home with their parents.
Council Post: How To Avoid Falling Victim To A 'Goldilocks Career'
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. Are you tired of having a career that’s too hot or too cold? Is achieving career stability simply a pie-in-the-sky dream? Invest in yourself to unlock your potential and create a future that is always “just right.” A Goldilocks economy has the appearance of being “just right.” It represents an economy in a steady state, with robust employment, stock market stability and solid growth.
Council Post: Reduce Layoff Anxiety By Increasing Your Self-Sufficiency
getty As the "everything bubble" threatens to pop, Wall Street players are scrambling to slash staff and save investor confidence in the never-ending cycle of boom and bust. However, the real heartbeat of the American Dream is entrepreneurial in nature and flourishing. So now it’s your turn: Do you plan to cope with layoff anxiety or explore self-sufficiency?
Council Post: The Economic Weather Forecast: How To Dress For Financial Storms
In my nearly four decades of navigating business, I have seen several macroeconomic weather events come and go. One thing is always true: It's less about the forecast and more about how you dress for it. If you get too accustomed to swimming in the labor market or stock market pools with nothing but a swimsuit, you will be shocked when advised to put on your snow boots and prepare for a winter weather advisory. Good news—there is an answer.
Council Post: How To Take A Three-Dimensional Approach To Your Career Future
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. Don’t limit yourself to a one-dimensional career. Embrace the possibility of a rewarding future. The traditional résumé forces people to condense their entire life’s work into a quickly digestible and increasingly keyword-searchable document. Rather than showcase your achievements and skills, a résumé is one-dimensional and feels more like an epitaph on a tombstone.
Council Post: How To Overcome Burnout And Avoid Quiet Quitting
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. After witnessing more than four decades of complex business cycles featuring changing corporate buzzwords, the heart of the conversation remains the same: If you don’t act, someone else will. So don’t settle for the status quo or take the easy way out by joining the “quiet quitting” contingent. Take action and discover your unique path to secure your ideal future. What is quiet quitting?
Council Post: Take A Drive On Main Street To Find Career Stability
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. While politicians and Wall Street capture media attention and suck up all the airtime with doom and gloom predictions, Main Street businesses continue to be the heartbeat of the American economy, and their future is bright.
Council Post: Considering Entrepreneurship? Reimagine Your Future By Determining Your Goals
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. How do you picture your future? As we continue through the roaring 2020s and accelerate into what I call the “Great Reimagine Age,” it’s time to stop living in fear of success and invest in yourself. Job security has been on the decline for decades, but the widespread job losses in 2020 were a wake-up call.
Council Post: Navigating Career Uncertainty With Franchise Ownership
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, a Career Ownership Coaching franchise. Today’s world is accelerating with radical new technology and innovation on one side and supply chain and labor shortages on the other. While the bold entrepreneurs explore new worlds, the average American may put their dreams on hold and brace for impact. They hold back from pursuing their own personal journey while they watch from the sidelines.
Three Signs You Are On A Hedonic Career Treadmill
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, North America's leading Career Ownership Coaching franchise. If the corporate rat race is leaving you feeling battered and bruised, the time is right to stop running on the hedonic career treadmill and follow a new path. The psychological phenomenon known as the " hedonic treadmill " is the mind's tendency to return to its baseline level of happiness once the initial thrill or heartbreak of an event fades.
Council Post: How Millennium-Minded Millennials Can Chart A New Career Course
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, North America’s leading Career Ownership Coaching franchise. getty Millennials are abandoning corporate America in droves and charting a new course to find flexible schedules, financial freedom and job security. Business ownership is helping Millennials achieve the American dream. Thirty percent of Millennials have a small business or “side hustle” and entrepreneurship is the goal for 56%, according to a GoDaddy survey.
Council Post: Universal Income Isn't The Only Solution: How To Personally Invest In Your Financial Freedom
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, North America’s leading Career Ownership Coaching franchise. getty As politicians clash over big government, tax breaks for the wealthy and increased protections for low-income citizens, many hard-working Americans are floundering. In the past, a college degree and a corporate job provided a reliable income for the average American family.
Council Post: Three Tips For Making The Leap To Career Ownership
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, North America’s leading Career Ownership Coaching franchise. getty I am amazed at how often history repeats itself. Economic experts speak in terms of the "Everything Bubble." Bloggers make economic analogies to the cycles of spring, summer, fall and winter. Radio talk show hosts debate if inflation is "transitory" or not. The world is abuzz with economic chatter just like it was before every other major economic event.
Council Post: How To Navigate The New Career Economy
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source, North America’s leading Career Ownership Coaching franchise. getty What some are calling the Roaring 2020s may be a time when innovation is adopted rapidly on a global scale, establishing the new career economy, where time and distance no longer matter.
Council Post: How To Overcome The Hourglass Economy
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America’s leading Career Ownership Coaching® franchise. getty Society and macroeconomics have resembled a funhouse mirror in the last year. By some barometers, such as the stock market, 2020 and 2021 could be described as having a strong and robust economy. In other ways, for those affected by layoffs and business shutdowns, it has been devastating.
Council Post: A Return To Normal Or The Roaring 2020s? What You Need To Know About Starting A Business Right Now
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America’s leading Career Ownership Coaching® franchise. getty The global pandemic will eventually become a distant memory as more people get vaccinated and there are fewer Covid-19 cases. However, the buzz about long-term macroeconomic impact is starting to take shape. The history books may call this moment in time a "return to normal" or "the roaring 2020s," depending on what happens next.
Council Post: Women Empowered By Business
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America’s leading Career Ownership Coaching® franchise. getty As we roar further into the 2020s, I’ve been thinking about Women’s History Month and the momentum that’s been made by women empowered by business over the years, and it’s quite impressive. If you are of a certain age, you can probably look back at when you started working your first job and start to realize how far the world has come in just a generation or two.
Council Post: Identifying The Perks Of Our Current Virtual 'Career Ownership' Reality
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America's leading alternative career coaching franchise. getty The next time you become discouraged because you feel like your career is on hold until the pandemic ends, it may help to remember that’s not the case. Careers — and specifically career ownership possibilities — continue to march on. All you need is a little help to find your place in this new virtual "career ownership" reality.
Exploring Running A Home-Based Business
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America's leading alternative career coaching franchise. getty The future of working is changing. When the pandemic hit earlier this year, many people worked from home for a period of time. While many people have since returned to the office, it gave others a different work experience they would like to explore further.
Why Franchising Is A Logical Career Path For Veterans
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America's leading alternative career coaching franchise. getty For those who have served their country and are trying to determine their career path after the military, franchising presents a great option. Veterans make excellent franchise owners, and many franchisors have programs designed to help them purchase their own franchises.
Four Ways Businesses Can Go Virtual (Beyond The Usual Video Call)
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America's leading alternative career coaching franchise. getty Sometimes it can seem like our lives are all one big Zoom meeting in 2020. But for the business owner looking to connect with a client or customer safely and from a healthy distance, I can tell you from experience that you do have other options than using a web-based video conferencing platform to host a one-on-one meeting.
There Are Opportunities For Entrepreneurship In The Coming Year
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America's leading alternative career coaching franchise. getty As people have more time to reflect upon their careers while we go through a period of high unemployment numbers, there are growing opportunities in franchise and small business ownership, making it the ideal time to consider entrepreneurship.
Overcoming Battered Investor Syndrome
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America's leading alternative career coaching franchise. Getty The last several months have been a challenging time across the United States due to Covid-19. It has caused changes in public safety, daily schedules and routines and negatively impacted the economy and job market. Those are some very visible effects of the pandemic that have played out on a daily basis since March.
How Franchisors Have Helped Business Owners Through The Pandemic
Terry Powell is the Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur's Source®, North America's leading alternative career coaching franchise. Getty The last couple of months have certainly been challenging for everyone, but if there is a bright spot in the business world, it may be found in the self-sufficiency offered through franchising.
Seven Tricks To Attract Top Talent
Photo: Getty Hiring a new team member is easy. Hiring a great team member is something entirely different. When unemployment was low, people could be selective about where they wanted to work. Even as unemployment skyrockets, especially due to the COVID-19 crisis, it's still not all that simple. Somebody you're considering may be enthusiastic not because they love your business, but because they're eager to find a job.
Tips To Upgrade Your Office Headquarters To Attract Top-Notch Talent
Photo: Getty When working alone or from a home office, the appearance of a workspace may not be as important. But if you have even just one employee, and especially if you want to attract top-flight talent, you really need an office that you can envision the best and brightest working in. If you are thinking that it’s time to upgrade your office, I have some suggestions. My company has been planning a new office space for our move happening later this year.
Letter to the Editor: Reasons Michael Bloomberg sought presidency
There has been considerable finger-pointing at Mike Bloomberg for financing his own campaign. Ask yourself: Is it better to finance yourself or to be beholden to special interests groups (pretty rich themselves) such the Koch brothers, National Rifle Association, Russia, etc.? Then consider Donald Trump, who, though rich, always uses other people’s money. That’s the reason his bankruptcies only cost others and not himself. I have one final point to think about.
Market Research Studies: Three Tips For Doing Them Right
Photo: Getty Market research is a valuable tool in the arsenal of any businessperson. It's an excellent way to learn more about your industry, discover things you hadn't considered about your own business, dive into current trends and get an idea of what the future might hold. Your company might be interested in conducting market research studies for any number of reasons. You might want to be considered a thought leader or influencer in your field.
Top 10 Tips To Throw The Perfect Conference
Many business owners go to industry and trade conferences — but every once in a while, you may end up hosting one. After all, there are a lot of reasons to organize a conference. Maybe you want to be considered one of the big players in your industry or a thought leader. You might be hoping to generate more business. You may be hoping to strengthen and professionalize your industry. It might be a combination of all three.
Is Entrepreneurship A Good Alternative To College?
I have an idea that may sound crazy at first, or even on the second go-around, but it’s a concept that may grow on you. Here it is: Instead of paying for your kid to go to college, you could use the money to help your son or daughter start a business. To some parents, this may sound laughable. Of course, some 18-year-olds aren’t ready for the responsibility of running a business and should be in college, vocational school or the military.
How To Start Working On Your Income, Lifestyle, Wealth And Equity Goals
Have you ever asked yourself whether you’re really doing what you want to be doing with your life during your working hours? After all, we spend a pretty good chunk of our lives earning a living, but apparently, many of us don’t do a very good job of it. Many Americans are working longer in their lives but, according to a report by the Stanford Center on Longevity, they still don’t have the money they need for retirement.
Mentors Matter: How To Identify An Excellent Mentor
Let’s assume that we all agree that mentorship is a good thing. In the workplace (paywall), mentorship is considered extremely valuable, particularly for young adults just starting out, to get ahead. But established CEOs and high-level executives often also have — and benefit from — mentors. Even legendary investor Warren Buffett has talked about the benefits of mentorship and how investor and economist Benjamin Graham was his. So, mentors matter — but obviously you want the right one.
How To Create A Work Environment Defined By Positive Culture
You hear a lot about the importance of culture in the workplace, for good reason. If you have a dysfunctional culture that prizes profits over people, for instance, you might find yourself with headlines like the long-gone Enron or the embattled Wells Fargo. The wrong culture can destroy a company, and the right one can help your business soar. When you’re creating a company’s culture, think beyond the mission statement and values.
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