Why Clergy Fail - What is most lacking Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" this list.
Then study it and evaluate which one or more of these critical causes of failure could become a barrier between you and your success in your parish or chapel life -and anything else you undertake! The Lack of Ambition to Rise above Mediocrity What hope is there for a person who doesn't care whether he improves his lot in life? Such a person is either lazy, or naive, or has fears.
Before success comes to you, there is a requirement that you elevate yourself in life.
Before achieving any kind of success, you must pay the accepted price.
Lack of a Positive and Well-Defined Purpose for Your Idea or Project Success will elude you if you do not have a high primary goal, idea, or purpose at which to aim.
Those of us who are ordained have much of this defined for us, for example in the various Ordination, Induction and Installation Services.
However, when you evaluate exactly what it is you want, you will arrive at a decision knowing exactly what the goal is and what it is not! Over 90% of all failures result from lacking a fixed and evaluated goal.
Lack of a Sufficient Education This is where "in-service training", "ongoing professional development" come in, along with all the other ways of keeping up to date.
When you work from home - as most clergy and ministers do, and even more if you are running a home-based business, you have to over this hindrance to your progress.
Things change in life and society.
We need to be abreast of them with the right skills and knowledge to continue our success.
Attending classes improves all those factors which drive your enterprise forward.
Attend what you feel will aid you.
Learn all the things which give you a better knowledge of your idea, plan, programme, or business.
Most denominations have good in-service facilities, and in-house, or specific, journals such as "The Methodist Recorder" The Baptist Times", "The Church of England Newspaper" "The Universe", "The Catholic Herald" and several other excellent publications.
The primary education begins with learning how to get what you want in life without violating your own values, or the rights of others.
If you can gain this knowledge, then apply it effectively and efficiently, it is an education in itself of great value.
The new "Life Coaching" movement exists almost exclusively for this purpose.
Lacking Self-discipline Be master of your life.
Use it to your own good purpose.
Our belief is that we are issued with only one.
To make the best use of it, we have to learn habits of self-control.
The old Scout Law "A Scout is Clean in Thought Word and Deed" applies to far more than the sexual connotations most of us in that short-trousered, spotty-faced, woggle-collared, often bespectacled brigade, thought it had! It isn't all that bad a rule of life for us all.
This is especially true in the sense that we should accept only positive mental patterns, and actions and desires.
Dispel all negative influences, such as procrastination, lack of persistence, and being afraid of "putting a foot wrong.
" Above all don't be afraid of your superiors.
They are there to help.
If you don't ask for help, you won't get it.
Well, maybe you will...
when things go wrong.
Then study it and evaluate which one or more of these critical causes of failure could become a barrier between you and your success in your parish or chapel life -and anything else you undertake! The Lack of Ambition to Rise above Mediocrity What hope is there for a person who doesn't care whether he improves his lot in life? Such a person is either lazy, or naive, or has fears.
Before success comes to you, there is a requirement that you elevate yourself in life.
Before achieving any kind of success, you must pay the accepted price.
Lack of a Positive and Well-Defined Purpose for Your Idea or Project Success will elude you if you do not have a high primary goal, idea, or purpose at which to aim.
Those of us who are ordained have much of this defined for us, for example in the various Ordination, Induction and Installation Services.
However, when you evaluate exactly what it is you want, you will arrive at a decision knowing exactly what the goal is and what it is not! Over 90% of all failures result from lacking a fixed and evaluated goal.
Lack of a Sufficient Education This is where "in-service training", "ongoing professional development" come in, along with all the other ways of keeping up to date.
When you work from home - as most clergy and ministers do, and even more if you are running a home-based business, you have to over this hindrance to your progress.
Things change in life and society.
We need to be abreast of them with the right skills and knowledge to continue our success.
Attending classes improves all those factors which drive your enterprise forward.
Attend what you feel will aid you.
Learn all the things which give you a better knowledge of your idea, plan, programme, or business.
Most denominations have good in-service facilities, and in-house, or specific, journals such as "The Methodist Recorder" The Baptist Times", "The Church of England Newspaper" "The Universe", "The Catholic Herald" and several other excellent publications.
The primary education begins with learning how to get what you want in life without violating your own values, or the rights of others.
If you can gain this knowledge, then apply it effectively and efficiently, it is an education in itself of great value.
The new "Life Coaching" movement exists almost exclusively for this purpose.
Lacking Self-discipline Be master of your life.
Use it to your own good purpose.
Our belief is that we are issued with only one.
To make the best use of it, we have to learn habits of self-control.
The old Scout Law "A Scout is Clean in Thought Word and Deed" applies to far more than the sexual connotations most of us in that short-trousered, spotty-faced, woggle-collared, often bespectacled brigade, thought it had! It isn't all that bad a rule of life for us all.
This is especially true in the sense that we should accept only positive mental patterns, and actions and desires.
Dispel all negative influences, such as procrastination, lack of persistence, and being afraid of "putting a foot wrong.
" Above all don't be afraid of your superiors.
They are there to help.
If you don't ask for help, you won't get it.
Well, maybe you will...
when things go wrong.
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