What's Your Bottom Line Saying?

One company makes it and another one closes. One company is flourishing and the other goes bankrupt. What is the difference? Every day this happens…one company in a particular industry closes its doors and another company in the same industry is looking for ways to bring on more talented people because they have more work than they know how to fill.

What is the difference? Are the approaches to business in these instances that dramatically different that it causes one to flourish and one to fail? I would guess the answer to that is yes. But what is the difference? What is the determining factor?

Well…there are a lot of self-claimed experts that claim to have the answer to those questions. Bookstores are full of them. If you go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble you will find hundreds if not thousands of books written by experts telling you how to be the business that flourishes. Some of these books are great. There is a great deal of knowledge to be learned by those who have gone ahead of us and made the mistakes and have found out what works. We can read of their experiences and learn a lot. But I think there is a greater determining factor that truly makes all the difference in the world.

Galatians 6:4-5 – “Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.”

There are trends in business, there are certain approaches that yield greater results, there are advantages to those who are on the cutting edge…but the bottom line always comes down to those who take responsibility for doing the creative best that they can with their own life. That’s pretty much the bottom line.

What’s your bottom line saying?

Have a blessed day,

RodZ

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