Monday, September 29, 2014

Eric Standlee September 29, 2014 at 05:00PM

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Eric Standlee September 29, 2014 at 10:45AM

“When you can accept yourself just as you are, then you can change.” – Carl Rodgers

Eric Standlee September 29, 2014 at 09:30AM

“Everything is being done for you, not to you.” – Byron Katie

Friday, September 26, 2014

Eric Standlee September 26, 2014 at 06:15PM

I help business owners avoid debt but free up money to use in their businesses.

Eric Standlee September 26, 2014 at 05:00PM

I help business owners learn how to fund new projects.

Eric Standlee September 26, 2014 at 03:45PM

I help business owners free up cash from existing assets.

Eric Standlee September 26, 2014 at 02:30PM

Do you know how scary it can be to borrow money from a bank?

Eric Standlee September 26, 2014 at 01:15PM

Do you know how your company might want to fund a new business project but don't have the cash?

Eric Standlee September 26, 2014 at 12:01PM

Do you know how many small businesses are strapped for cash?

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Eric Standlee September 25, 2014 at 10:45AM

I'll believe it when I see it. The only thing wrong with that statement is that when you "see it" it'll already be done! And that's OK because now you know it's doable. However, Who invented the second airplane or who was the second man to break the four minute mile? If you have a vision that you want to see come true for you, Then you need to "believe" in your vision. So what you should be saying is... 'I'll see it when I believe it." Whatever you vision for yourself, you must “believe” in it and then You'll “see” it come true. VISION BIG! Be-Aholic Peter Remington

Monday, September 22, 2014

Jeans

Once upon a time there was a man who lived on the streets.  He had one old sweater and a torn pair of old jeans.  There were holes everywhere.

Over the years teams of street ministers would try to get him to come in to the shelter to get some new clothes but to no avail.

Everyone could see he needed to change his clothes; everyone but the man himself.  They cajoled him. They pleaded with him.  They prayed for him.

One team even bought new jeans for the man and tried to get him to put them on for his own good.

But instead of being grateful for such caring and loving acts of human kindness, the man just got angrier and angrier.

Soon, even the kindest street teams stopped reaching out to him.  Then one very cold winter night an ambulance driver picked the near frozen old man up and drove him to the emergency room.

Once there, the driver asked the old man why he would never accept the new clothes, why he would never change.  And the old man replied, "These were my fathers jeans I just didn't know anything else would fit."

On some level, in business or in our relationships, sometimes we are wearing our father's "genes".  It takes a very brave leader to look at his torn "genes" and choose to throw them off.

Perhaps you got the "anger" genes or the "I am always right" genes.  Maybe you got the "I am a failure genes" or the "you will never succeed" genes.

You may have gotten the "it's my way or the highway" genes.  At first we do not realize we are wearing someone else's "genes".  We just pick it up from our parents or our other relatives or our teachers or our coaches.

But eventually, we are doing things just the way they did with the same results.  Relationships get shattered and success eludes us despite our valiant efforts.

I know this is true because I saw my own father wear his father's "genes".  Despite being a charming brilliant man, he was an angry man.  It was in the last year of his life when he finally asked me for help.  He said, "I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do."

My answer to him was simply, "Just say you are sorry.  Just say you are sorry."  After a short pause my father said, "I'm sorry...I am sorry."

That day, he shed his father's "genes".  Within a month he died.  The morning of his death he called me at the office, which he never did.  We had a very pleasant chat.  He died soon after the call.

My father only got to wear his new "genes" for a very few days.  Please don't wait that long to receive the gift that comes with your new "genes".  Live the life God has planned for you and don't live the broken life of your relatives and teachers.

God has a plan and a purpose for your life and I am convinced that overcoming your family "genes" may be a part of His plan for you.

Just say you are sorry, ask for forgiveness.  Accept the loving care of God's ministers of peace, His angles.  God loves you.

God's purpose never fails.

Be on Purpose,

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Friday, September 05, 2014

Eric Standlee September 05, 2014 at 09:30AM

"Don't ask for time for yourself. If you ask, people can say no. If you just do it, then you've got it. Your being happy is the only change they'll notice." Dr. Mira Kirshenbaum

Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Eric Standlee September 03, 2014 at 08:15AM

You will never be successful until you turn your pain in to greatness. Unknown

Eric Standlee September 03, 2014 at 07:00AM

Most people take their greatness to the grave with them. - Brown Don't die regretting the great things you could have done.

Tuesday, September 02, 2014