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Worldly guilt is filled with condemnation and hopelessness.  It tells us that we are bad, and nothing will make us good enough.  It lies to us about the character of God, insisting that we must try to earn the favor of a God who will never give it.  Worldly sorrow hangs over our heads and colors our attitudes toward God. We must understand the biblical nature of guilt to combat worldly guilt.

Business leaders and entrepreneurs must be cautious when focusing on a quick win.  Although I don’t want to overshadow the fact that a quick win is still a win, there are several common “quick win” traps encountered in business.

Business leaders and entrepreneurs need to see how the Ripeness Theory can be applied to their businesses and workplaces.  In all conflicts, there comes a time when the participants must realize that their best strategy is to negotiate a resolution.

Basically, gossip has two driving factors: judgment and a desire to be first.

Many people attempt to identify what is the best ever.

Several minutes on the internet reveal the best ever meatloaf, jeep, chili recipe, book, movie, banana bread, handgun, gift card, and pinball machine.  This list is possibly infinitely long and never correct – my wife has the best ever chili recipe, and it’s not the one found on the internet.

The problem with best ever is, first, it is subject to opinion, which means it is not factual – and probably not even close to being factual.

If you don’t lead your thoughts, your thoughts will lead you. In order to move forward in your life, you must take control of wrong thinking.  The Bible is all about correcting wrong thinking. And wrong thinking is only corrected by replacing it with right thinking.

Studies now universally show that happy people are better workers.

Those who are engaged with their jobs and colleagues work harder — and smarter.

And yet, an alarmingly high number of people aren’t engaged.

nfluencing up is when you take the time to cultivate a productive working relationship with decision-makers by understanding their strengths and weaknesses and then use that relationship to affect their decision-making process.

It is easy to see how conflicts between personal success and corporate success arise.

Personal success is me-centric, and business success, which is still me-centric, is focused on the goals and performance of others.  The business’s mission may conflict politically, emotionally, or environmentally with personal objectives—corporate management occasionally focuses on issues that contradict personal opinions.

There are flaws in our social and moral practices that we can’t quite see, but knowing this, we can seek out these moral blind spots and throw light on them.

Looking back at such horrors [such as slavery and the Holocaust], it is easy to ask: “What were people thinking?” Yet, the chances are that our descendants will ask the same question, with the same incomprehension, about some of our practices today.