It started through a confrontation between God and Satan the devil regarding Job who is the man of God on earth. Contending that Job’s piety is only for protection of his Prosperity, Satan dares God to put Job in his power. With confidence in Job, God accepts the challenge but defines the limits and one of these is not to kill Job. Satan is released to test Job’s virtue.
Here’s the story of Job of the bible.
There lived in the land of Uz a man named Job – a good man who feared God and stayed away from evil. He had a large family of seven sons and three daughters and was immensely wealthy, for he owned 7,000 sheeps, 3000 camels, 500 teams of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and employed many servants. He was, in fact, the richest cattleman in that entire area.
Every year when Job’s sons had birthdays, they invited their brothers and sisters to their homes for a celebration. On these occasions they would eat and drink with great merriment. When these birthday parties ended, – and sometimes they lasted several days – Job would summon his children to him and sanctify them, getting up early in the morning and offering a burnt offering for each of them. For Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and turned away from God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
One day as the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan, the Accuser, came with them. “Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan. And Satan replied, “From earth, where I’ve been watching everything that’s going on.”
THE TEST OF FAITH
Time came when Job’s faith was tested. God persuaded Satan to test Job – to harm him without any cause. He said to Satan, “You may do anything you like with his wealth, but don’t harm him physically.“
TRAGEDY STRUCK JOB
1. He loses fortune and family.
2. He loses health and home.
3. And, loses fame and friends.
Job’s three friends came to console him. But they insisted the man’s plight can only be a punishment for personal wrongdoing and invitation from God to repent. But their opinions were all wrong. They had not been right in what they had said.
RESTORATION
When Job appealed to God, God told him to offer prayers for his friends. When Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his WEALTH and HAPPINESS! In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before!
Then all of his brothers, sisters, and former friends arrived and feasted with him in his home, consoling him because of all the trials the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring.
So the Lord blessed Job at the end of his life more than at the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheeps, 6000 camels, 1000 teams of oxen, and 1000 female donkeys.
God also gave him seven more sons and three more daughters. And in all the land there were no other girls as lovely as the daughters of Job.
Job lived 140 years after that, living to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren too. Then at last he died, an old man, after living a long, good life.
” A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability witbin you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out if you. “
Bob Proctor
Management mentor or guru is a person whose ideas and opinions have had influence on business managers and who has become a well-known figure as a result. (Wikipedia)
At that time, a short year after my graduate school days, I got a big executive job as School Administrator & Chief Operating Officer in a prestigious large education system company in the Philippines.
It was a great call to my career that I never thought – to initiate the start up operation of a new international business school, from zero to 1, bounded by time.
In high spirit, the task brought me joy!
Though I had written notes on files and several book references, I’d dreamed of managing big entity using my acquired knowledge from four walls and from street experience.
Looking for some back-ups in executing the mandated plan, I decided to review my old notes. In my study filing cabinet, I saw old papers and letters. They showed its age, soft brittled when you hold on it. I put some interests to browse my old documents and got something that made me engrossed – the biographies of traditional management gurus.
Truly, I was inspired to read business mentor’s backgrounds. It adds to my lore.
Here are some selected overview of authentic gurus that I’m happy to share with you which would interest you to learn. .
Frederick W. Taylor, The Father of Scientific Management
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR , an American inventor and engineer who is known as the Father of Scientific Management. He was motivated to create the ultimate, efficient work environment, he devised a system he termed Scientific Management. He believed in finding the right jobs for workers, and then paying them well for the increased output.
🍏 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT Quotes
“In the past the man has been first, in the future the system must be first.”
“The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum Prosperity for each employee. The word” maximum prosperity” are used, in their broad sense, to mean not only large dividends for the company or owner, but the development of every branch of the business to its highest state of excellence, so that the Prosperity may be permanent.”
“What we are all looking for, however, is the ready-made, competent man; The man whom someone else has trained. It is only when we fully realise that our duty, as well as our opportunity, lies in systematically cooperating to train and to make this competent man, instead of in hunting for a man whom, someone else has trained, that we should be on the road to national efficiency. “
Peter F. Drucker
PETER F. DRUCKER , an Australian – born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philisopbical and practical founda tions of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and he invented the concept known as Management by Objective (MBO). He received a doctoral degree in international and public law at the University of Frankfurt in 1931.
🍏MANAGEMENTQuotes
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”…
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”…
“The best way to create your future is to create it”…
“If you want something new, you have to stop something old.”
Douglas Mcgregor
DOUGLAS MCGREGOR , was an American. management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Indian School of Management in Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices. He developed two contrasting theories, Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X states that employees are basically lazy and need management; Theory Y states that employees strive to do well and should be given every opportunity to use their creativity. He was first to apply behavioural psychology to business.
🍏 MANAGEMENT Quotes
“The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.”
“An objective without a plan is a dream.”
“Most teams aren’t teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss.”
Michael Porter
MICHAEL PORTER . He is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy.
🍏 MANAGEMENT Quotes
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. “
“The best CEO’s I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.”
“The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.”
Stephen Covey
STEPHEN COVEY held a Degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, an MBA from Harvard University and a doctorate (Ph. D) from Bingham Young University. He was a professor there before he became successful with his book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.’
🍏MANAGEMENT Quotes
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying out.”
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is Leaning against the right wall.”
Daniel Goleman
DANIEL GOLEMAN . A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and popular psychologist, he is best known for his influential book, Emotional Intelligence , which describes an alternative type of intelligence to that measured by the traditional Intelligence Quotient (IQ) scale.
🍏MANAGEMENT Quotes
“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”
“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.”
Ken Blanchard
KEN BLANCHARD . An American author, business consultant and motivational speaker. His writing career includes 60+ published books, most of which are co-authored books. His most successful book, The One Minute Manager, has sold 15 million copies and been translated into many languages.
🍏MANAGEMENT Quotes
“There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you accept no excuses, only results.”
“My own experience about all the blessings I’ve had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.”
Wayne Dyer
WAYNE DYER . He was an American self- help and spiritual author and a motivational speaker. His first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976),is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies.
🍏MANAGEMENT Quotes
“Successful people make money. It is not that people who make moneybecome successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
Thomas J. Peters
THOMAS J. PETERS is an American writer on business management practices, best known for “In Search of Excellence. He is best known for his career at McKinsey & Company, his contribution of the development of the 7S Framework (McKinsey) and the further development of Chaos Theory in Organizational Development (OD).
His 7S model is based on strategy, systems, style, staff, skills, structure, and shared values. His idea of productivity through people encourages the company to focus on rewarding employees and encouraging them to help increase productivity.
🍏MANAGEMENT Quotes
“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”
“If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.”
“Celebrate want to see more of.”
“Leaders trust their guts.”
“If you are confused, you are not paying attention.”
“There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”
Og Mandino
OG MANDINO was an American author, a guru of industry sales. He wrote the best selling inspirational book “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, and became a millionaire. His books have sold over 50 million copies and have been translated into over twenty-five different languages. He was the president of Success Unlimited Magazine until 1976 and is an inductee of National Speakers Association’s Hall of Fame.
🍏MANAGEMENT Quotes
“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.”
“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your Good Health has vanished.”
“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”
“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
” I willgive you back your health again and heal your wounds.”
The Book of Jeremiah 30:17
DANIEL | ELTON JOHN
AT THAT TIME, somewhere in the east, there lived a wealthy old man.
ONE DAY, one ofThis story was extracted from th book, The Greatest Salesman in the World, authored by Og Mandino. his employees a young man got the opportunity to sit down and talked with him.
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He said, “I want to be like you. My ambition is to become even greater than you, the wealthiest man of this time.”
“And what will you do with all this great wealth and the fearsome power that will surely accompany it?”, the old wealthy man replied.
“I will do as you do. My family will be provided with the finest of worldly goods and the rest I will share with those in need”, the young employee answered.
Now the wealthy man looked at the young man in the eyes and teached, “Worldly wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. TRUE WEALTH IS OF THE HEART, NOT OF THE PURSE.”
He continued to explain, “Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
We are all products of our own thoughts, If our attitude toward the world is good, we will obtain good results; If bad, bad results.
And with an excellent attitude, we achieve our best results. The way the world treats us is often nothing more than a reflection of our own attitude.
It is not always the most intelligent person who enjoys the greatest degree of success.
Quite the contrary! Only one kind of success involves the person with extraordinary ability who can do what other’s can’t. The second kind of success is where a person has ordinary talent and ability, but goes ahead and does what other’s could do, but don’t.
There is no substitute for the right attitude. Our destiny is controlled by our attitude toward people, environment, our jobs and the world in general.
Maintain a positive mental attitude and you can’t help but succeed. For as it says in the Bible: “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” 🏛️
“ I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise nor wealth to the brilliant nor favor to the learned, but time and chance happen to them all.” – Ecclesiastes
SIRCA 1980. No mobile phones. No Internet. So excited to land a job. Ever dreaming of a bright future. Wishing that someday I’m gonna reach the star. Aye the fire kept burning in my heart.
MY FIRST JOB SEARCH journey. I got the chance to submit my job search package to a company that advertised the vacant position in Classified Ads of a leading newspaper. Hiring Sales Agents.
I walked silently to the company’s building and there I went up alone to the third floor. When I showed up in the lobby, I was stunned of what I saw – lots of entrants more or less 200 individuals waiting for turns that day. At first, I thought only a few were interested of the opportunity. Yet, I was wrong.
I proceeded to the front desk and showed my document (a one page resume and a cover letter) to a lady in charged of applicants. Immediately, she browsed my job campaign canvas, and looked at me in the eyes.
“Hi, my name is Mia Rose. Please fill up this form and submit to me when done so I can give you your turn number”, she said softly with a smile. Then she stacked my paperwork on the rack.
I began to drench the Applicant Form together with the other aspirants ahead of me. After completion I handed over the paper to Miss Mia Rose saying, “A million thanks. Have nice day.”
After a while, ten minutes must had passed and my name was called.
“Matthew, please get inside the room for the IQ and psychological examinations.” Other names followed from a roll call. A total of 25 individuals including me who went through the process in a rate of 10 minutes. And new batches followed, and thereafter another group as well who got the accommodations until the last quarter of the day.
Almost five in the afternoon, and the upshot was released. “The following names will report tomorrow for the interview, and it would start at eight sharp in the morning.”
Wow! My name was one of the Top 20. I felt footloose of the outcome. The fire kept burning in my heart.
CAPTAIN OF MY FLAGSHIP
” I am the captain of my flagship. Life is what I make of it. My destination may be reached in a few or longer hours, but all depends on my determination to wield all obstacles for my goal. I should value the hardships on account of a better tomorrow. I should be proud that for once in my life, I had cried and persevered during the mournful nights of my fall. And strove hard to rise up and move on.”
– Anonymous
THE NEXT DAY while on his way, Matthew offered a little prayer, “Oh Lord my God, I know today is a blessing for me. Please walk with me, and grant me the wisdom to excel. Help me, Lord. “
I came all the way to the milieu exactly 7:00 in the morning. My colleagues at the foyer were at hand, all in simple straight-forward business suit. I put myself comfortably and bonded to some personages. The fire kept burning in my heart.
And the office door was half opened and Miss Mia Rose came out. “Hello everybody, please get inside.”
The session started with one on One interview. We were all grilled. Baked with questions. Until our spirits were peeled off, our true personality came out. For sure it was done to find out how qualified we were for the vacancy.
After lunch, a committee interview was staged. Each one faced several members of the company who have a say in whether we are hired. We were asked to demonstrate our problem solving skills. As such, they outlined a situation and asked us to formulate a plan that deals with the problem.
The selection process was concluded that day. And the outturn was made known afterward. Miss Mia Rose officially read, “The following names will come back tomorrow for the training. A 21-Day Lessons with pay and free meals. Time like always kick off at eight sharp in the morning, and wind up eight in the evening. As learning course is progressing there would have eliminations. In short, only the best will survive. “
Ten individuals were preferred and my name was in the list. Now I felt off on the hook. The fire kept burning in my heart.
” Thank you Lord”, Matthew praised God.
THE TRAINING ROOM was cool by the next day. A new challenge awaiting us all in a 21-Day Lessons.
Thr Trainor
A MAN DRESSED in business came in. “Hello everyone, welcome to the world of selling profession. My name is Rudyard Viuz. I’m your trainor. Before we move to the major topics, I encourage all of you to sing with me with passion and feelings”, he narrated.
Rudyard pasted on the wall the lyrics written on a large cartolina in front of us, then he motioned his hand to get ready and played the VCR connected to the TV set. And he said, “Here we gooo?!”
One Moment in Time by Whitney Houston
Lyrics (Source: LyricFind)
Eachday I live, I want to be. A day to give, The best of me. I’m only one, But not alone, My finest day Is yet unknow. / I broke my heart, Fought every gain, To taste the sweet I face the pain, I rise and fall, Yet through it all, This much remains
I want one moment in time, When I’m more than I thought I could be, When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, And the answers are all up to me, Give me one moment in time, When I’m racing with destiny, Then in that one moment of time, I will feel I will feel eternity.
I’ve lived to be, The very best, I want it all, No time for less, I’ve laid the plans, Now lay the chance, Here in my hands.
Give me one moment in time, When I’m more than I thought I could be, When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, And the answers are all up to me, Give me one moment in time, When I’m racing with destiny Then in that one moment of time I will feel I will feel eternity.
You’re a winner for a lifetime, If you seize that one moment in time, Make it shine.
Give me one moment in time, When I’m more than I thought I could be, When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, And the answers are all up to me, Give me one moment in time, When I’m racing with destiny, Then in that one moment of time, I will be, I will be, I will be free. I will be, I will be free.
FURTHERMORE, the training session procedded. Mr Rudyard started the session outlining the topics for learning such as The Company Profile, The Products, The Selling Process, Product Presentation, Role Playing, How to Handle Objections, Closing Techniques and Time Management.
Our classroom performance was appraised through written and oral daily activities. A week before the final validations, some of my peers had lost their path. They’re not around. To be specific, only five survive. The executive panel showed up in the last day of the event to welcome us the new member of the institution. They named our group “The Magic 5”.
Before we were deployed to our respective assignments, Rudyard our trainor gave us this great message,
“If you want to be a star in the selling game, you’ve got to have your fundamentals. Keep practicing your fundamentals, and keep it up, until these various fundamentals become as natural and subconscious as breathing. Keep this firmly in your mind, that they are part of you. Know them so well that no matter at what point a prospect breaks away from the path to closing, you can get him back on the tracking again without either of you consciously realizing what has taken place. You can’t develop that perfection by looking in the mirror and congratulating your company for taking you on. You’ve got to drill and drill and drill!
Rudyard Viuz last bid, “You will be measured with numbers. Do your best. We expect you to walk on the red carpet someday. You’re a winner for a lifetime. If you seize that one moment in time, MAKE IT SHINE.”
This article was inspired by writings in The Book of Song of Songs, God’s Greatest Love Song. The most neglected part in the bible, the sexiest book but it is not about sex.
It touches on one of the most beautiful black women God has ever created not only about physical beauty but total well-being.
The Song of Songs is the origin of the phrase – “Black isBeautiful.”
****What matters is not your outer appearance, the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. (1 Peter)***
As for me black is lovely ❤️
You are beautiful and lovely. The Black Rose of my soul. Every piece of yours is a burst of Beautiful. ✓
The Song of Songs Chapter 1
HOW BEAUTIFUL you are, my love,how beautiful.
YOUR EYES are soft those of doves. Your hair falls across your lovely cheeks. Your teeth are white, newly shorn, and washed. Perfectly matched, without one missing. Your lipsare like a thread of scarlet and how beautiful your mouth. Your cheeks are matched loveliness. Your neck is jeweled.
YOUR BREAST are like twin fawnsof a gazelle, feeding among the lilies. You are so beautiful, my love, in every part of you.
THOUGH THE SUN HAS TANNED YOU, yourcomplexion is so smooth, you are beautiful to me. I will kiss you again and again, my lovely girl, for my love is sweeter than wine.
O MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN ALL THE WORLD, what a lovely filly you are, my love. You have ravished my heart, my lovely one. I am overcome by one glance of your eyes, by a single bead of your necklace. How sweet is your love, my darling. How much better it is than mere wine. The perfume of your love is more fragrant than all the richest spices.
YOUR LIPS, my dear, are made of honey. Yes honey and cream are under your tongue, and the scent of your garments is like the scent of the mountains and cedar.
MY DARLING is like a privategarden, a spring that no one else can have, a fountain of my own. You are like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit. You are a garden fountain, a well of living water, refreshing as the stream.
O MY BELOVED you are so beautiful, and how you capture my heart. I have other women in the list, all lovely in my eyes and unnumbered young girls available to me. But you my love, my perfect one, is the only one among them all, without an equal!
Black is Beautiful! ☀️
The first black Miss Universe – Miss Trinidad and Tobago (Wendy Fitzwilliam)
Many young married couples who are genuinely in love with each other, enter marriage with great hope of success, a deep sense of personal devotion and faith. They both believe that to\n tie a knot is going to last in the formation of a family.Children are the primary concern in a family. Showered with love and counsel by their parents. They are highly essential in the preservation of marriage. In other words, children hold their parents together.What if unfavorable circumstances occur in the family such as marital unhappiness, household friction, uncertainty and distrust? It is good to know that there are some chaotic homes which are not wrecked. These couples are unhappy, but they do not disconnect for some various reasons like religious apprehension, a sense of commitment to children, and in the light of career, profession, and social reputation. When a family is dissolved there will be a change in routine living, affecting long set up in habits of work, recreation, sex, and the like. Children will psychologically feel insecure, jeopardize protection and their livelihood is feigned. On the part of the parents, they will suffer from all forms of torture – mental, physical, emotional, and financial.To cut the knot weakens family solidarity. It contradicts a constitution therein stated that the state shall strengthen the family as basic social institution and parents have responsibilities in the rearing of their children and should develop their moral and spiritual character. Also, to cut the knot is a wrongdoing to a biblical passage which says, “What God has joined together, let no man separate.”Dissolution of a family or a marriage separation will only bring disaster to the nation, darken the morality of the people, possibly bring economic depression and degradation on women’s dignity.Therefore, I shout out in the preservation of family. THE NICEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN IN WEDLOCK.
Long time ago, there was a righteous king named Hezekiah.iq hi
One day, he got a message from the Lord that says, “Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Upon hearing the message, the king turned his face to the wall and prayed. “ Remember O Lord, how I walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.”
And he wept bitterly.
The Lord heard his prayer. He said to the king, “I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. I will add fifteen (15) years to your life. And I will deliver you and your city from the hands of your enemy. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my people. “
Remark: This event showed a prayer of a righteous man is favorably heard. And there is power in prayer.
INSIGHTS INTO THE FUTURE 🌿 
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