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For The Entrepreneur In You
“While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things are ex- traordinary.”
~Matt Bevin
mpowered Greet-
ings. To all of you reading this column who have an entrepreneurial mindset, this one's for you. It is your time to position your- self to win in business.
I want and fan the flames of fire for your sole propri- etary, LLC, partnership, cor- poration, ministry, non-profit or charitable or- ganization.
I want to tell you that YES YOU CAN start a new ven- ture or grow an existing one. Some may be flourishing while with others, your econ- omy may seem bleak. For most of us, our personal economy has always been weak. So lack is nothing new. We've learned how to impro- vise and make things work. You can use the same level of ingenuity to make your busi- ness work.
Wake up that business in you and release your creative
juices, so that they flow into a stream of perpetual rev- enue.
As a motivator, I must en- courage you to think big. As a teacher, mentor and a life and business coach, I must caution you not to think so big that you think what you have is too small to get started.
If you think too big in the beginning, it can stifle you. It can be disheartening. It could discourage you and cause you to quit before you begin. The misconception of being or having to do things big, can stop you from doing anything at all, just because you think you're not big enough.
Do not despise your small beginnings. Most big compa- nies started small. Small al- lows you to focus on the concept or idea that you are passionate about, the reason you started the business. Small allows you to spend more time on developing your product or service and less time on trying to figure out how to cover your over- head.
Small can keep you out of debt. It will keep you from the fear of worrying about how to manage the debt that comes with trying to start big.
And, starting small gives you the opportunity to gen- erate a greater profit margin. All I'm trying to say is, ini- tially small is good because you are too small to fail.
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Aretha Franklin: All Hail The Queen Of Soul
he firmament of Heaven is overfull with celebri-
ties: Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Bessie Smith, Ray Charles, etc. . .
Now add one more name, perhaps, the proudest name of them all. Add the name of Aretha Franklin who died, recently.
If what is said about the afterlife is true, then the bells are surely ringing in Heaven as golden streets crowded with tens of thousands of angels and prophets shout at the top of their lungs, “Hosanna! Hosanna! The Queen of Soul has come home!”
Meanwhile, here on earth, the impact of Aretha’s absence, though momentarily painful, promises to elude us for ages. How can we miss her when her music is a biography of every moment of our lives?
How deeply can we mourn her when almost every song we sing has the echo and thumb print of her voice and its unerring story line?
For, she who sang for presidents, popes, and foreign dignitaries also sang for subsistence, farmers, house- maids, truck drivers, and soldiers. She was the emis- sary for the soul of anyone who had a heart, who uttered a laugh or cried a tear.
As her close friend, Barack Obama would say, when he thought about her, “I thought about my humanity.” Even during these inhumane days, we who have lived in the light of Aretha Franklin’s songs can say we are proud to have breathed the same air as she whose lyric poetry and life-example made an anthem of the
word “R-E-S-P-E-C-T!”
No doubt, Jesus repeats that word as He welcomes
Her Majesty into His arms. “All hail to one of God’s greatest inventions!”
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