255: 7 Lessons From a Challenging Season In Life and Business

Using our time wisely as women in business is so important. We must ensure first of all that we don’t let the business conflict with our top priorities and roles in life and secondly we must make sure we focus on income producing activities when we do work on the business so that we see progress and growth from our focused effort.

Here are 7 lessons from a challenging season in life and business. I hope they encourage you on your journey as an entrepreneur and help you get back up when you fall down.

2 steps to help women in business have fun and enjoy the entrepreneurial journey. If we don’t enjoy the journey we are missing out on all the joy God has for us in our business calling. And when we don’t operate in our feminine design as women we burn ourselves out and wonder why we don’t feel inspired in business. Today will help you have more fun and get more results while you enjoy the journey as a women in business

3 Steps to identify and respond to a God given assignment in business requires that you recognize it as a God calling, respond to the assignment and also recognize when that assignment is over and you are called to the next one. Today we cover all 3 steps and how to know the difference between and God calling and something else.

These two steps will help you overcome resistance and get into action in business and important areas of life. When we understand these two concepts we are less likely to get discouraged and give up. We are more likely to succeed when we understand what I am about to cover in this episode.

Trusting God through unanswered prayers is easier said than done. These are the times our faith is tested. Sometimes we keep the faith through it and sometimes we turn away from God or lose our fire for God. We struggle to trust Him and sometimes we struggle to keep praying the big prayers and trusting God with the desires of our heart. Some prayers are still in the process of being answered and some are prayers that had a deadline and the prayer was not answered. It can lead to a crisis of faith even though we see in the Bible over and over people who had to walk through very difficult things before they say the promises of God and the promise land. This episode will encourage you and help light the fire in your heart for God again. 

When your faith is tested is when you discover how strong or weak your faith in God truly is. When your faith is tested you can respond by drawing closer to God or doubting God. No better way to see a real life example of when your faith is tested than to hear from someone who was just told she has 3 years left to live due to stage 4 cancer. Listen to how she is responding to her faith being tested and be encouraged.

In life we have those wake up calls where we get the reality check that we aren’t promised tomorrow. We all know we don’t know how long we are here but how rarely we live our day like it could be our last. It’s more common to take time for granted like we have forever. In business and life we can live our lives with intention and purpose when we wake up to the reality that we are not promised tomorrow. If today could be our last what are putting off that God has called to us to do? This episode will inspire you into purposeful, intentional action.

Stepping into your God given assignment requires these 7 simple steps we are going to cover today. The steps are simple but it doesn’t mean it’s easy. We constantly have the enemy trying to pull us away from and distract us from our God given assignment . These 7 steps will help you stay strong in doing what God has called you to do!

If you are feeling behind or feeling like it's too late to do what you have been called to do imagine shifting your perspetive to an empowered mindset that you are right where you are supposed to be to take the next step. This perspective shift will bring you peace, contentment and peace of mind. It will also get you into action instead of feeling discouraged and stuck. Listen and get into action in what you have been called to do!