04-03-2007 - Telling My Ministry Career Story To Fulfill My Own Purpose...
Reasons I Tell My Ministry Career Story
Reason #1 for telling my ministry career story is to fulfill what I see as God's purpose in life -- "Helping people be all they can be by the grace of God".
Reason #2 for sharing my personal career journey is for me to see the hand of God in leading me throughout my life, confirming to me that I can trust God with career decisions.
Reason #3 for describing my new career exploration is that being transparent regarding career failures, pastor career burnout, and ministry career frustrations is to help others describe their own feelings of career failure and to normalize those feelings of career frustration.
So if you want to read my career change story, click on My Ministry Career Story.
Onward with purpose,
Chaplain Paul Slater
By the way, if you are interested in the how to of telling my ministry career journey using the internet, here is the book that helped me understand how to launch a ministry focused website.
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22-03-2007 - The Business Of Life Coaching...
A recent article I wrote focuses on steps to becoming a life coach featuring the business of life coaching and career coaching. Those who offer life coach courses, write life coaching courses, or provide life coaching training as their professional career are actually in what is called the life coaching industry. I thought that was what parents did.
Pastors and teachers are certainly life coaches. But that there is actually a career field dedicated to mentoring people in life and career choices.
In the article I wrote about becoming a life coach, I mention a life coaching advertisement that I responded to as I was researching the life coaching career field:
Become a Life Coach: Offer life coach courses, life coaching courses, and life coaching training in your own lucrative coaching business:
- Career Coaching
- Business Coaching
- Health Coaching
- Spiritual Life Coaching
- and much more
Your can read more by going to Becoming A Life Coach... Click to see a favorite product or featured website:
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27-03-2007 - The Refinance Merry-go-round
Refinancing is a challenge in that there are certain steps that need to be taken to get the refinancing ball rolling.
First of all, we need to get our income taxes done so that we have the proper paperwork to hand in with our loan application. TurboTax has been my product of choice for doing our taxes for over 10 years.
Of course, we want to look our best or at least have our house look its best when the appraisal is done. That means all kinds of unfinished projects to complete. Phew, refinancing takes a lot of work.
In the process, we are converting our garage to living space. Garage conversions may or may not add value to the appraisal according to a friend, who is a professional appraiser. Our garage conversion project is to simply make a space for our son to land until he gets on his feet financially.
The timeclock is clicking on our original mortgage, an ARM or adjustable rate mortgage due to be adjusted up in a few months. The prepayment penalty has us watching the timing closely.
So the refinancing merry-go-round keeps us spinning from one activity to the other. Yep, refinancing is hard work.
Onward with purpose,
Chaplain Paul Slater
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