Facebook Page Username and About Section

Here are few tips regarding official/public Facebook pages.

• Set a proper username once you are able. 
• Set a proper description. 

Both of these functions are on the "Update Info" panel. Under the Admin Panel, which is at the top of your page if you are signed in as you and viewing the public page. Look for "Update Info" under the "Edit Page" section.

Username

Then You will find the third option down is "Username". Once you choose it you either won't be able to chang it, or you'll have to pay a fee to do so, so choose wisely. Remember that the username will come after Facebook.com like this "Facebook.com/Username" So choose something that is simple to say and write and will fit easily on a business card. See mine for example: Facebook.com/n2goodsuccess. 

About Section

Another factor to look at is the description section of your page. You can set this also on the "Update Info" page and look for the "Short Description" box. This will translate onto your page as an "About" section just under your profile photo. This section should be short. Put a motto/saying/business catch phrase. Then put either a link to your website or twitter account or both. Something for people to link out of Facebook and into your "real" web presence. If you don't have anything besides facebook place something else of interest. The MOST important thing you want them to know should be here and be short.

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Where are the jobs?

When I came across this I had to take a moment to think about it. On one hand it makes perfect sense. On another hand it's hard to believe this many people could ever be put out of work by Robots. The fact is that jobs are disapearing and being replaced by new jobs. But the jobs of the future are high tech and high skill. Not nessasarily high "education". The old days of going to get a bachelors or even masters or PhD and being gaurunteed a job are gone. In todays marketplace a job could just as easily go to a young kid right out of highschool who spent his freetime learning computers and technology instead of playing games or "hanging out" with friends all the time.

PAUL WISEMAN and BERNARD CONDON, AP Business WritersReleased : Friday, January 25, 2013 1:19 PMWASHINGTON -- They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider."Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the U.S., California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: What happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and trucks, jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaught of technology?"All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years," predicts Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy."If automation can unseat bus drivers, urban deliverymen, long-haul truckers, even cabbies, is any job safe?Vardi poses an equally scary question: "Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren't working?"

The days are coming however that some stats say 55% of the USA will be self employed. So stop hanging onto that corporation. What is God calling you to do, learn, train for?

There's a thought... DW


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Where are the jobs?

When I came across this I had to take a moment to think about it. On one hand it makes perfect sense. On another hand it's hard to believe this many people could ever be put out of work by Robots. The fact is that jobs are disapearing and being replaced by new jobs. But the jobs of the future are high tech and high skill. Not nessasarily high "education". The old days of going to get a bachelors or even masters or PhD and being gaurunteed a job are gone. In todays marketplace a job could just as easily go to a young kid right out of highschool who spent his freetime learning computers and technology instead of playing games or "hanging out" with friends all the time.

PAUL WISEMAN and BERNARD CONDON, AP Business WritersReleased : Friday, January 25, 2013 1:19 PMWASHINGTON -- They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider."Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the U.S., California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: What happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and trucks, jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaught of technology?"All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years," predicts Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy."If automation can unseat bus drivers, urban deliverymen, long-haul truckers, even cabbies, is any job safe?Vardi poses an equally scary question: "Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren't working?"

The days are coming however that some stats say 55% of the USA will be self employed. So stop hanging onto that corporation. What is God calling you to do, learn, train for?

There's a thought... DW


Have questions about anything I said here? Want to share your story? Comment Below!

I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!

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Blog: http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess
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Word Studies in Matthew 25

Matthew 25:34-36

34 "Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of MyFather, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

tovte {ADV} ejrei' {V-FAI-3S} oJ {T-NSM} basileu;? {N-NSM} toi'? {T-DPN} ejk {PREP} dexiw'naujtou', {P-GSM} Deu'te, {V-XXM-2P} oiJ {T-NPM} eujloghmevnoi {V-RPP-NPM} tou' {T-GSM}patrov? {N-GSM} mou, {P-1GS} klhronomhvsate {V-AAM-2P} th;n {T-ASF} hJtoimasmevnhn{V-RPP-ASF} uJmi'n {P-2DP} basileivan {N-ASF} ajpo; {PREP} katabolh'? {N-GSF} kovsmou: {N-GSM}

35 'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat ; I was thirsty, and you gaveMe something to drink ; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;

ejpeivnasa {V-AAI-1S} ga;r {CONJ} kai; {CONJ} ejdwvkatev {V-AAI-2P} moi {P-1DS} fagei'n, {V-2AAN} ejdivyhsa {V-AAI-1S} kai; {CONJ} ejpotivsatev {V-AAI-2P} me, {P-1AS} xevno? h~mhn {V-IXI-1S} kai; {CONJ} sunhgavgetev {V-2AAI-2P} me, {P-1AS}

36 naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and youcame to Me.'

gumno;? {A-NSM} kai; {CONJ} periebavletev {V-2AAI-2P} me, {P-1AS} hjsqevnhsa {V-AAI-1S} kai;{CONJ} ejpeskevyasqev {V-ADI-2P} me, {P-1AS} ejn {PREP} fulakh'/ {N-DSF} h~mhn {V-IXI-1S} kai;{CONJ} h~lqate {V-2AAI-2P} prov? {PREP} me. {P-1AS}

I want to examine a few words:

1. Stranger
1. Xenos: Without knowledge, new, unheard of... 
2. This doesn't JUST mean a person who is outside of Christ, although it means that too, it would also mean someone who is a Christian, but doesn't know that they have a Covenant relationship with God, and they don't know how to operate inside of that covenant. 
2. Invited
1. Sunago: Literally-To Lead. This is the word we get "Synagogue" from. It means to lead into, gather, invite, be a good host. It is compared to the word Sullego which means to collect in order to carry off. At the final harvest of souls the angels will Sullego the tares (enemy) and Sunago the wheat (Believers).
2. We are to lead with compassion into an inviting and hospitipal place all those who are without knowledge of Christ and/or their covenant in Him. 
3. Naked
1. Gumnos: without clothing, stripped, without an outer garment. One could be partially clothed but not fully clothed and still be Gumnos/Naked. 
2. There are those who are naked spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. We are to help clothe them all. 
4. Clothed
1. Periballo: To throw around. As in a mote around a castle, shawl around shoulders, robe around a man. 
2. This one who is stripped of their outer protection can be covered by ours. We could be using OUR Faith to put it to work on behalf of others who don't know how to use theirs. 
5. Sick
1. Astheneo: Literally to be without strength. Typcially this is physical weakness as opposed to other types of weakness. 
2. This isn't just someone with the flu. This is elderly, orphans, widows, people with disabilities, and others who need help. I would posit further that this could also mean that someone who doesn't have the capacity for something. A mechanic helping someone who is not mechanically inclined. 
6. Visited
1. Episkeptomai: To look on, look after, look with the eyes. Could also be to look after as in to care for another for their benefit. 
2. It is our job to "look after for the benefit of" those in our spehere of influence that are weak. 
1. This isn't JUST coming over to have coffee and talk. This is what our youth group was doing when they went to elderly peoples homes and cut the grass and cleaned the gutters. 
2. This is when KCM sent people to Sandy Vicitms LONG before any other Government institutions came to help, which as of 02/2013 they STILL haven't! 

Those are my thoughts from todays reading...What are yous? DW





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Moving Up, Lessons in Leadership

As I've pondered success and growing into new levels of success I am reminded of an interview I had recently with a former supervisor. Since we last really sat down to chat we've both had promotions. He shared something that had never occured to me regarding leadership. It takes new skills at each level. These are the levels in my field, but the principles will carry over into other fields.

1. The front line employee is taking calls and is responsible only to himself, for the most part. 
2. The front line Lead position is still right there in the mix and has a lot of influence, taking escalated issues and irate customers, but this person has influence over each of his direct reports in a very real and immediate way. 
3. The front line Supervisor is a salary position. It's full of meetings and reports. Due to the nature of this position the person has a lead or two under them along with 15-30 front line staff. This person would like to be there in the middle of it all, sharing their expertise, and is able to at some level. But the administrative details of the position make it hard to balance. 
4. The Manager. Now for a person who was VERY hands on at the Front Line, Lead and Supervisor level there comes a switch. It could be intimidating for a Front Line employee to be coached by someone this far above them. So the Manager cannot be in the midst of it or the results could be counter productive. He must now lead through his leaders. This process is the other side of delegation. 

Delegation, is what I want to ponder right now. I've always thought of delegation as the simple handing out of tasks and following up on their progress. But as I've studied this more, and read books like "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey", I've realized it's more about trust than anything else. You must develop your people into people you can trust. You also can't wait around for them to become that way on their own. Some will never get their, due to their own choices or mindsets, these you will have to lay aside and allow to stay where they are until their light turns on. Most can be lead into leadership.

Delegation is about training the next generation of leaders. I think of Jesus, how he took a rag tag band of people and turned them into the group that would turn the Roman world upside down. How did he do it? Did he personally train 1,000's of people? No. And neither can an effective high level manager. Instead, He trained 120 people superficially in meetings, 12 people one and one, and 3 people he allowed into his inner most circle and closest experiences to watch him and learn.

So likewise, if you want leaders you have to train them to be leaders. At the Lead Level, you can allow some of your Front Line to take on small responsiblities, maybe sending out an email when new information comes out on a particular subject. This will take the load off of you in creating the email and through simple edits and collaberation you can duplicate your time and start training a leader.

At the Supervisor level you can begin to designate higher level tasks and time to do them, not long time, but time. Also at the Supervisor level you take your leads and let them into your inner circle to start getting in their head. The sooner they are thinking right the sooner you can trust them to make decisions you would have made in your absence.

At the Manager level you have many people under you. You can't personally coach them all, but you can work with your leaders to lead others to lead. The problem is you now have people with their own needs, desires, and ideas. You have to work with them. You can't create carbon copies of leaders. But what you can do is find their potential within and bring it out of them.

In all levels you have to find trust. This is what my leaders have done in and for me over the years that has produced a leader, in training, in me. They didn't JUST assign me projects, they actually asked me to decide what types of projects I could/would like to work on. They were digging out of me something they never could have put in me.

When training a leader...

1. What is their motivation?
2. What is their strength?
3. What is their strongest area of growth (formerly known as weakness)?
4. What can you asign them, at their level, in line with business needs, that they can work on themselves?
5. What can you show/demonstrate/allow them access to that they wouldn't see without your allowing them? 
6. Be an Open Book. Don't disclose condidential information, or share EVERY attitude and thought you have about the staff around you, that's just foolish and immature. But DO be an open book. If you struggled with something and you found a way to overcome, share the struggle not just the solution. The process you used to overcome is often MORE valuable than the solution itself. 
7. ... Other ideas about developing leaders? Please share below. 

See this video also: Antony Bell on Developing Leaders

Have questions about anything I said here? Want to share your story? Comment Below!

I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!

N2 Good SuccessDarrell G. Wolfe
Blog: http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess
Twitter: http://twitter.com/n2goodsuccess

See Also:
Books by Darrell G. Wolfe: Amazon.com/author/darrellgwolfe 
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Moving Up, Lessons in Leadership

As I've pondered success and growing into new levels of success I am reminded of an interview I had recently with a former supervisor. Since we last really sat down to chat we've both had promotions. He shared something that had never occured to me regarding leadership. It takes new skills at each level. These are the levels in my field, but the principles will carry over into other fields.

1. The front line employee is taking calls and is responsible only to himself, for the most part. 
2. The front line Lead position is still right there in the mix and has a lot of influence, taking escalated issues and irate customers, but this person has influence over each of his direct reports in a very real and immediate way. 
3. The front line Supervisor is a salary position. It's full of meetings and reports. Due to the nature of this position the person has a lead or two under them along with 15-30 front line staff. This person would like to be there in the middle of it all, sharing their expertise, and is able to at some level. But the administrative details of the position make it hard to balance. 
4. The Manager. Now for a person who was VERY hands on at the Front Line, Lead and Supervisor level there comes a switch. It could be intimidating for a Front Line employee to be coached by someone this far above them. So the Manager cannot be in the midst of it or the results could be counter productive. He must now lead through his leaders. This process is the other side of delegation. 

Delegation, is what I want to ponder right now. I've always thought of delegation as the simple handing out of tasks and following up on their progress. But as I've studied this more, and read books like "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey", I've realized it's more about trust than anything else. You must develop your people into people you can trust. You also can't wait around for them to become that way on their own. Some will never get their, due to their own choices or mindsets, these you will have to lay aside and allow to stay where they are until their light turns on. Most can be lead into leadership.

Delegation is about training the next generation of leaders. I think of Jesus, how he took a rag tag band of people and turned them into the group that would turn the Roman world upside down. How did he do it? Did he personally train 1,000's of people? No. And neither can an effective high level manager. Instead, He trained 120 people superficially in meetings, 12 people one and one, and 3 people he allowed into his inner most circle and closest experiences to watch him and learn.

So likewise, if you want leaders you have to train them to be leaders. At the Lead Level, you can allow some of your Front Line to take on small responsiblities, maybe sending out an email when new information comes out on a particular subject. This will take the load off of you in creating the email and through simple edits and collaberation you can duplicate your time and start training a leader.

At the Supervisor level you can begin to designate higher level tasks and time to do them, not long time, but time. Also at the Supervisor level you take your leads and let them into your inner circle to start getting in their head. The sooner they are thinking right the sooner you can trust them to make decisions you would have made in your absence.

At the Manager level you have many people under you. You can't personally coach them all, but you can work with your leaders to lead others to lead. The problem is you now have people with their own needs, desires, and ideas. You have to work with them. You can't create carbon copies of leaders. But what you can do is find their potential within and bring it out of them.

In all levels you have to find trust. This is what my leaders have done in and for me over the years that has produced a leader, in training, in me. They didn't JUST assign me projects, they actually asked me to decide what types of projects I could/would like to work on. They were digging out of me something they never could have put in me.

When training a leader...

1. What is their motivation?
2. What is their strength?
3. What is their strongest area of growth (formerly known as weakness)?
4. What can you asign them, at their level, in line with business needs, that they can work on themselves?
5. What can you show/demonstrate/allow them access to that they wouldn't see without your allowing them? 
6. Be an Open Book. Don't disclose condidential information, or share EVERY attitude and thought you have about the staff around you, that's just foolish and immature. But DO be an open book. If you struggled with something and you found a way to overcome, share the struggle not just the solution. The process you used to overcome is often MORE valuable than the solution itself. 
7. ... Other ideas about developing leaders? Please share below. 

See this video also: Antony Bell on Developing Leaders

Have questions about anything I said here? Want to share your story? Comment Below!

I call you empowered 2 prosper with good success!

N2 Good SuccessDarrell G. Wolfe
Blog: http://n2gs.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/n2goodsuccess
Twitter: http://twitter.com/n2goodsuccess

See Also:
Books by Darrell G. Wolfe: Amazon.com/author/darrellgwolfe 
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Boy Scouts Deal with "Gay" question...

 I read an article about the boyscouts dealing with the "Gay" question. Here is my problem with an article like the one posted below at the bottom of this post. Havings struggled with this myself when I was younger, there are two statements that operate under false assumptions in this article.

1. LDS says that you "can be gay but can't act on those feeling"
2. "And I want every boy, regardless of sexual orientation, to be able to participate in the scouting program."

These statements operate under the premise that you can be "Gay" just like you can be black or white, male or female, etc. Gay, contrary to popular cultural belief is NOT a state that one is, but a mindset one operates under.

Now, Christian's have been quick to call it a choice, which in essence it is, but it's a choice in the same way that alcoholism or addiction is a choice. It's a result of mindsets and decisions, but not a direct choice. Nobody says: "I think I'll choose to be an alcoholic" Likewise nobody(not most of them anyway) says: "I think I'll choose to be gay."

However, this is not to say that being alcoholic or gay is choiceless and automatic. Both are the result of conditioning and beliefs. Anyone who wants to be free of alcoholism can be, anyone who wants to be free of homosexuality can be. Not through pop culture programs either. AA isn't any more effective for Alcoholics than other so-called "Gay recovery programs" have been for Gays. Those fail because they attempt to use psychology and therapy to do something only Faith in the Word of God can do.

All mindsets are the result of the overflow of the heart. What have been put in the ears, in the eyes and spoken by the mouth becomes belief. We see this with anorexia all the time. You can tell the girl she is TOO skinny, and it's unhealthy, and she needs to eat, but in her mind she is fat and nothing YOU say can change that. To her, she is fat and she must stop eating. It's not truth, but to her it feels true. This is the case with "gay". You may feel gay, you may believe you are gay. There actually is no such thing. Gay is a state of mind. All twisted or incorrect states of mind can be changed by the renewing of your mind through the Word of God. You need to saturate yourself with who you are according to the One who created you, and not who the broken world says you are.

This is a VERY unpopular teaching and I don't expect it to become any more popular, but it's the truth. If you don't want to be "free" of being gay, don't be, that is your decision. If you want to be you can be. Here are three great resources for help:

1. http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/freedom-kairos/media1(See Sexuality)
2. http://www.kcm.org/bvov-media
3. http://exodusinternational.org/
4. http://www.amazon.com/You-Dont-Have-Gay-Homosexuality/dp/0942817087

Read more about that article: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/20811532/boy-scouts-consider-lifting-gay-ban#ixzz2JU7oxFdi

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