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Anticipating A Purposeful 2006 By Reflecting On 2005

Reflections on 2005 in anticipation of 2006 has led me to think about my own personal career journey. What career change goals do I have for a prosperous and purposeful New Year? In a recent career change related article, I wrote on the topic how to find your dream career, thinking it was for others who are on their career change journey. I honestly feel anyone of us needs to be poised to respond to career change opportunities whenever they arise. As I reflect on my past career change choices, they were responses to opportunities I could not have predicted nor orchestrated.

My Christian Web Site: What Determinies A Good Online Income Opportunity?

As I reflect on year 2005, there have been some career pursuits, especially related to this Christian web site, that I want to explore and develop in 2006. By now, if you follow this blog or have explored my website, you know that I see the internet as a tremendous avenue for ministry and for business. I believe and promote the idea that the internet is a key ministry funding resource, providing income opportunities for Christian entrepreneurs.

What changes do I want to make in 2006 that impact my entrepreneurial ministry efforts?

1. Be more selective in responding to online income opportunities. In this first year of developing this Christian based, career change website, everything seemed to be the perfect online income opportunity to chase after. But I have decided that I have just so much time to give to internet marketing pursuits.
2. Be willing to remove myself from affiliate marketing programs that do not fit me. I have started deleting myself from what may be good and even prosperous affiliate marketing programs, instead focusing on just a handful of these affiliate marketing relationships to fund my internet ministry efforts.

What Income Producing Programs Will I Keep To Fund My Ministry Efforts?

• WebsiteTLC, my SBI Ministry Web Host, has been the most productive income producer to support my internet ministry endeavor.
• PhoneTLC, which is a ministry communication products resource as well as telecommunication products for home businesses. I have decided that being the middleman for phone services, long distance services, domain hosting services, and even broadband internet service makes business sense.

Onward with purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater

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04-01-2006 - Church Sign Sayings and Church Sign Quotes Can Communicate A Powerful Message

To those, seeking a sign that God exists, a church might consider just that, a sign. Church sign sayings provide a way to communicate spiritual mini-sermons, declaring their message to those who are potential church visitors. Perhaps you too have driven past a church sign, anticipating a new creative church sign message which brightens one's day.

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05-01-2006 - Change Career Ideas Come From Daily Life Experiences

Helping People In My World Survive Financially

I am often asked "What can I do to increase income?". As a healthcare chaplain, my role as a pastoral care giver is to help people in my world survive financially. In my faith-based internet ministry this personal finance question is often asked: "How can I survive financially as a pastor?" When I was a parish pastor (before discovering how to become a chaplain) financially strapped people often sought advice on debt relief strategies or counsel on career change opportunities. One of the key concepts in Henry Blackaby's book Experiencing God that helped me understand God's will was to open your eyes to see what God is already doing in your life. Recently I opened my eyes to discover the fingerprints of God all over my daily life experiences. It seemed that there were several career change conversations that arose just out of fulfilling my chaplain duties.

Discovering Unique Career Opportunities

Paintless Dent Repair Business First was as I was exploring auto body repair shops in order to fix a dent on my wife's car. That was when I discovered that there is an alternative to taking a car to an auto body shop -- paintless dent repair is what we chose. In the process, I discovered that paintless dent repair is an honest home based business opportunity for those with mechanical skills. Then, while fulfilling skilled nursing facility ministry duties as a hospice chaplain, I locked my keys in my car. I called my American Express auto club and soon a young mobile locksmith arrived to open my car door. Mobile Locksmith Business As a mobile locksmith, his tools were very basic, yet he told me he "owned most of the County of San Diego as a mobile locksmith". He did not divulge too much mobile locksmith business information except to say he did a car related career search on the internet. He responded to a locksmith career opportunity based in New York.

Keep Your Eyes Open To Income Producing Opportunities

So if you too need to increase your personal finances or launch you own home based business, keep your eyes open to the daily complications of life, those car repair problems, and even ask this question: "Could the daily trials of people lead me to a life-related problem solving career?" Onward with purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater Launching your own website could launch a new internet ministry or income producing home business: Check out Website Ministry Opportunity to explore how your website presenting your life's passion can become a way to minister and to create extra income. Copyright © 2006, Chaplain Paul L. Slater, San Diego, CA., All Rights Reserved

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09-01-2006 - Positive Benefits of Faith In The Workplace Environment

Faith was once considered to be one's private faith choice and was usually compartmentalized to one day per week, the day worship services were attended. But there seems to be, from my perspective, a wider appreciation for the benefits of faith in the lives of people. Employers have gone from

• "keep it to yourself and out of the workplace",
• to "nice you have a faith",
• to "how good for you and for me that you have a positive, life (and work) related faith".

So it is that even in the workplace employers are becoming aware of the positive and practical impact faith brings to employees' work ethic and life ethics as well. As a workplace chaplain, my employer encourages me to help fellow stressed-out employees draw upon their faith as a resource for job stress coping skills. Faith in the workplace is viewed not only as essential for healthy living but as necessary for successful employment. As our country once again grieves a national tragedy -- the Sago West Virginia Mining tragedy -- faith is at the center of the story. The headline from the newspaper I read this morning states "West Virginia mourners display grief, faith". Faith was at the center of how those coal miners faced their final living moments. As I think about positive benefits of faith in facing life's tragedies, I return to a previous article I wrote regarding the positive impact of faith during troubled times. Initially written to help those changing careers, my purpose was to highlight the positives of faith in stressful times. Reflecting on career change uncertainties, I expressed appreciation for my faith's positive impact on how I face life and relationships. Positive Benefit of Faith #1: one's personal faith gives a unique perspective on life and death. Positive Benefit of Faith #2: a person's faith gives freedom from the regrets of the past and empowerment to embrace the future. Positive Benefit of Faith #3: a life changing faith propels an understanding of God's purpose for life, giving the person of faith a healthy perspecive from which to make choices. Positive Benefit of Faith #4: a life related faith helps people give priority to relationships, giving emphasis on love and respect as they put others first. Positive Benefit of Faith #5: a dynamic personal faith gives balance to life and thus to work, helping them understand that life is so much more than work! Onward and upward with purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater

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11-01-2006 - Weight Loss Strategies and Career Change Strategies

Weight Loss and Career Change How do Weight Loss and Career Change go together? I believe that losing weight has a lot to do with changing careers. How so? Well, there are two sides to this weight loss coin when it comes to career change and losing weight. The first has to do with causing career change thoughts while the second has to do with preparing yourself for a new employment opportunity. Weight Loss Is Always A Hot Topic In January Every New Year our thoughts turn to shedding pounds. My workplace office is buzzing about diet strategies and weight loss plans. It seems as if most of us want to shed some extra pounds put on over the holidays. Recently I was prompted to write this article by the new bathroom scales my son bought. And then I heard about the ChangeOne Diet from Reader's Digest. Check out the ChangeOne Diet from Reader's Digest (now there's a trusted name). ChangeOneDiet.com from Reader's Digest - The Health Authority

• The ChangeOne Diet is the first-ever diet from Reader's Digest. It is not just any diet. It is a new way of living.
• The ChangeOne Diet from Reader's Digest is a healthy eating program that helps our valued customers lose weight by making one small change a week.

Losing Weight on a Busy Schedule You want to lose weight but when you're so busy driving to and from work, your busy schedule seems to crowd out good intentions for weight loss. How can busy professionals find time to lose weight? There are a few weight loss tricks that have worked in the past that worked for me. I am determined to restart these weight loss strategies again. In Losing Weight, Will Power Is Key Here is what I have discovered: You can lose weight while keeping a busy schedule but it does require extra planning and foresight. Weight loss strategies seem so simple to say but so hard to implement into a daily weight loss routine. That is because, for me, is so simple -- to lose weight means to control portions and to exercise. But the simple part is in saying it. Following through on a weight loss plan and daily exercise regimen is the tough part. One of the reasons I keep gaining weight is that I often have to eat my words! And my wife says that my jumping to conclusions is not real exercise. Nor does she give me credit for running off at the mouth! Nonetheless, I want to explore this area of weigt loss planning because I know that for me, talking and writing about it means I have opened up one of the keys to weight loss -- accountability. Onward with weight loss purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater

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15-01-2006 - Reflections on Religious Freedom Day

by Chaplain Paul Slater I wrote about Religious Freedom Day in another website I write for, The World Village Blog. I took the opportunity to write on another webmaster's website because doing so gives me another venue for ministry. But having other websites point back to my website also helps my website's PageRank as well as the website popularity of this Change Career, With Purpose website according to Alexa. One of the challenges that website content providers must be careful of is duplicate content. Search engine marketing companies such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN will penalize websites for duplicating content on several other websites. So the challenge is to make enough changes so as to appear as a totally different article. That said, I will say again what I said on the World Village website, which to me sounds like a new form of double talk. Did you know that tomorrow is Religious Freedom Day? That's what I thought. At least I am not the only one who somehow missed this special day celebrating one of the greatest freedoms we have -- freedom of religion. I shared a confession in the article I wrote for World Village. I forgot that Monday, January 16 is Religious Freedom Day. In fact, the truth be known, I was not even aware that there was a special day emphasizing Religious Freedom. It is for that reason that I forgot to send you a Religious Freedom card (I wonder when Hallmark will start producing Religious Freedom Cards?). Nor did I buy you a Religious Freedom gift. Sorry about that. But then again, this is one of those gifts that we have already. What a privilege we who live in the United States have in this area of freedoms. We do so often take for granted that we can choose to worship God or not. As a health care chaplain I often have people ask for my services who declare themselves to have no faith affiliation whatsoever. My role is not to enter their room with my gospel guns blazing. In fact I have an idea that type of approach just may be why they decided not to declare their faith. The chaplain's task is to help them explore their own spirituality and to draw upon whatever faith resources they have within. Many times they have more inner faith resources than they realize. But back to Religious Freedom Day. Here is the President's proclamation that gave me the first clue that there was even such a day to celebrate.

Religious Freedom Day, 2006 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

The right to religious freedom is a foundation of America. On Religious Freedom Day, our Nation celebrates the passage of the 1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and the protection of religious freedom in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Our Founding Fathers knew the importance of freedom of religion to a stable democracy, and our Constitution protects individuals' rights to worship as they choose. We reject religious discrimination in every form, and we continue our efforts to oppose prejudice and to counter any infringements on religious freedom. Today, we are also working to advance freedom of religion abroad. The Department of State's Office of International Religious Freedom plays an important role in these efforts, advocating for religious freedom and actively working against religious persecution around the world. In recent years, we have seen important progress, including in Vietnam, Laos, India, Georgia, and the United Arab Emirates, and with the release of many individuals in countries throughout the world who had been imprisoned because of their faith. By helping to secure the religious freedom of people in other countries, we promote the spread of liberty and human dignity. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 16, 2006, as Religious Freedom Day. I call on all Americans to

• reflect on the great blessing of religious liberty,
• endeavor to preserve this freedom for future generations,
• and commemorate this day with appropriate events and activities in their schools, places of worship, neighborhoods, and homes.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth. GEORGE W. BUSH http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060113-9.html

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20-01-2006 - As Your Blood Pressure Goes Up, Thinking Capacity Goes Down

What does increased blood pressure have to do with a change career, with purpose decision?

Career Change Information For Your Change Career Journey

Career change guidance could be seen in a news item from the Department of Health and Human Services radio spot health report HealthBeat. As blood pressure goes up, the ability to think seems to go down. A researcher found that in data on more than 1,500 people in upstate New York. Michael Robbins of the University of Maine checked blood pressure readings against scores on tests of abilities such as abstract reasoning and recognizing patterns. Robbins' study, which was supported by the National Institutes of Health, was in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

Career Change Advice: Keep Blood Pressure Under Control

Robbins says his findings amount to another reason to keep blood pressure under control:

"High blood pressure is related to increased risk of heart disease and stroke. And this study, as well as a number of others, also indicate that high blood pressure is related to decrements in cognitive performance."

So if your job related stress is sending your blood pressure up, you need to take action to do something about reducing job related stress and reducing your blood pressure. Talk to your doctor about your increased blood pressure but talk to God for guidance in career change guidance. Onward and upward with purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater

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26-01-2006 - Permission to Make A Change Career, With Purpose, Decision

Wondering If It Is Time To Change Careers

I have been in contact with several people who are wondering if it is time to change careers or to change jobs within their career of choice. What I notice is that most of us guard ourselves against this change career process by some unique career change excuses, using what may be considered noble, reasoning strategies, such as these:

• To move to a new job would be disloyal to my present employer;
• Responding to a change career opportunity would leave my present employer in a employment quandary;
• The timing to change careers or to move to a new job is too soon in my present job situation. I shouldn't even consider changing careers or moving to a new job until I have been here awhile.

The Change Career Seed Thought Has Been Planted

But nonetheless, after all this noble talk, it seems as if the change career seed thought has been planted! All that is needed now is giving yourself personal permission given to make the career change move. The arguments we espouse against considering an opportunity to change careers are really pretty empty. After all, most of the management or even the owners of a company at one time made the same decision to be in their present position. Besides, who are they to talk about loyalty? Most of our bosses are one job offer phone call away from moving themselves! Understand that loyalty goes two ways on the career path avenue. Employment is a two way street. Most of the employers I have had paid far less than the going salary for the positions I have had and knew that it was low. It seems to me that if loyalty were a career change consideration, one's present employer would be doing all they could to keep their employees, especially if they know that the employment market is more attractive at other companies. In other words, they should be demonstrating loyalty, not just expecting employee loyalty. What career change advice did I share with my young employee friend who was considering a job opportunity offer?

• First, at age 59, I shared my career change story, telling her about how I had stayed in difficult job situations, turning down phenominal job opportunities. I was honest that I am at times haunted by my decision not to even consider the offers because of my faulty employment loyalty rationale.
• I shared that I can now look back and see that I should have responded to the new employment opportunities if I had given myself permission to do so.
• I also told her that she needed to prove to herself that, even if she does take the new career job opportunity, she will find there are people problems and employment challenges there too.
• I finallly acknowledged that at least I know the grass is not greener on the proverbial other side of the employment fence.

Permission To Change Careers Granted

Usually it is just a matter of time, once your mind begins to entertain career change thoughts, before you grant yourself permission to take the new career change opportunity. So, save yourself some time. Permission to change careers granted! Onward with purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater Ever considered a self employed home business? Check out SFI Home Business Opportunity Launching your own website could launch a new internet ministry or income producing home business: Check out Website Ministry Opportunity to explore how your website presenting your life's passion can become a way to minister and to create extra income. Copyright © 2006, Chaplain Paul L. Slater, San Diego, CA., All Rights Reserved

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26-01-2006 - Shackled by Debt Is A Word Picture Easy To Visualize In My Mind

There are some phrases that paint word pictures that are easily visualized in the mind. But the term Shackled By Debt is also a term that we can feel. I guess that is why the banner below is one of those word pictures that people feel as well as see. Many of us have had our career change motivation prompted by the ball and chain of debt. One of the key career change motivators for those in ministry careers is often the financial pressures pastors experience from low salaries. In my ministry career path, I honestly confess that my career change decision to become a healthcare chaplain had a financial component to my decision to expand my ministry. I often encourage pastors to explore creative income producing strategies to increase their income. For example, home based businesses for pastors can often create the extra income needed to stay in a low paying ministry assignment. Today our piano was turned by a minister of music who also has a piano tuning business. If I was a church in need of a music pastor but did not have the funds to pay the salary for another church staff member, I would search for a piano tuner who could serve in a music minstry position or hire a musician who would learn to tune pianos to supplement his or her income. That is just one ministry income producing strategy. I will leave it up to you to come up with other income generating ideas in order to fund the financial needs of your ministry. Onward with purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater Oh yes, the word picture I mentioned. Another idea for funding a low paying ministry assignment.

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28-01-2006 - Launching A Successful Solution Focused Website

How Do I Launch A Successful Solution Focused Website?

I was asked by a friend recently how to have a website of her own. She had a noble purpose in mind for her site, providing frustrated caregivers resources to help them in their elder caregiver assignment. That is what gets me excited -- people seeing the internet as a way to fulfill their purpose with a purpose driven website focused on meeting needs. She said that she recently bought a book on how to build a website but it was like a whole new language. Her question to me was "Chaplain Paul, how did you learn how to do what you have done in building your change career website?" I showed her my website, explaining that the only way I would ever attempt to build a ministry website or home business website (actually Change Career With Purpose is a ministry/business website) is to go with a website host that gives the struggling webmaster all the tools they will ever need for launching a successful solution providing website.

Building Websites With Purpose

If you want to see how I launched a highly trafficked ministry website that is also an income producing website business, my web host shares everything you will ever need to know plus some. Just click on this link to see how to build websites-with-a-purpose. This web building resource is best used by serious folks who desire to launch real web based businesses in order to build ongoing profits within months and will continue to grow over the long-term. When it comes to launching a website about something you are passionate about, some folks really want to kick the tires. The Action Guide shows exactly what I did, step by step, to launch my solution focused website. So kick the proverbial website tires all you want. The Solution Focused Website Action Guide even lets you take a test drive! Onward with purpose, Chaplain Paul Slater Click to see a favorite product or featured website:

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