$650 Billion Bailout for Small Business Owners - part 2
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December 9, 2008Our country is experiencing an economic hurricane, but God is Lord of the wind too. Eric Beck shares part 2 of his profound insights into something he calls, “authorized work”. Please share these with your friends…
The change in thinking that’s required to get your $650 billion bailout is simply this: Find your “authorized work” and do only that. If you have the right tools, not only can you do this...but so can your team, family, or business too! Without the right tools it’s a pipe dream! Nothing gray here. We are living in very serious times.
Our authorized work is often blurred by simple busyness. We are busy because we believe the lie that we have more to do than time to do it. That lie is at the heart of the worship of money and the fear of lack. That worship and that fear are what drive a “debt – wage” slavery system of economics that we are daily watching fall from its pedestal. Hope you’re not counting on it!
The only way to win the rat race is to stop being a rat. We must move to the areas of true value. And that kind of work, business, calling is anchored in what I call our “authorized work.”
Without knowing our authorized work we are susceptible to tons of unnecessary interruptions that consume about “28 percent of the knowledge worker's day, which translates to 28 billion lost hours to companies in the United States alone.” ("The Cost of Not Paying Attention: How Interruptions Impact Knowledge Worker Productivity," Jonathan B. Spira and Joshua B. Feintuch, Basex, 2005).
Do you see what’s going on here? Something so small, so common, but so destructive has us by the throat. Recognizing the enormity of the situation, I have created a new workplace strategy to determine and manage your authorized work: It’s simply called MasterPlan. This approach combines the science of dealing with interruptions with the art of living “on your post” - discerning and fulfilling your authorized work. Considering the impact of interruptions on not only our work but our quality of life, for those who have a calling, overcoming this is as important as breathing!
And yes we’ve got science to prove it. "People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves...The brain is very good at deluding itself," said neuroscientist Earl Miller.
Earl Miller, a Picower professor of neuroscience at MIT, says that for the most part, we simply can't focus on more than one thing at a time. "Switching from task to task, you think you're actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you're actually not," Miller said. The problem is that this behavior is consistent with a type of willing slavery where we have believed that we must accomplish our work without the proper tools.
Exodus 5:6-8 “On that same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers over the people and their foremen, saying, ‘You are no longer to give straw to the people to make bricks as before. They themselves must go and gather straw for themselves. And the number of bricks, which they were making before, you will impose upon them; you will not reduce that number.’”
We miss our authorized work because we believe we are free when we’ve really succumbed to a willing slavery - a way of working that we’re so used to, it has become invisible. Time to open our eyes.
That’s why so many are fearful in these times...they don’t know the power of authorized work and don’t have any tools to help them find it. But not you...in my next post, we’ll wrap this up and show you exactly how to leave the slave plantations and their systems that are crumbling on the nightly news and to begin to transform your business and life into a stronghold of hope that the world will marvel at.
I have asked Eric to expand on his ideas in a free webinar next week. He has graciously agreed to offer two time slots (Tuesday and Wednesday) for those who run businesses or non-profits and one on Friday for everyone else. As always, we have limited slots which is why we’ve booked three different times. Click here to register now. 
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Our \"authorized work\"! Is this not a most unique and accurate way of saying \"the purpose God has assigned us to? Or mission in in the here and now? Sometimes we are in training. And then after He has trained us He sends us into the battle to restore His kingdomon earth.
For sure when we know what God wants us to do He gives us His passion, His zeal to do it. And I do believe He keeps us from being distracted from the devil's many ploys to steal our attention away from what he wants us to do. That' s been my recent experience. in walking with the Lord.
Peace and love from up above,
David Thompson
David Thompson at 3:54pm EST - December 9, 2008