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Relationships
A relationship with your creator is the most important one you could have.
Then you will know what to do with your life and you will not feel like you
are wandering through life without direction. You can also find peace. You
will be able to pray with confidence that God is hearing your prayers and
answering them in the best way possible.
We
encourage you to seek out a personal relationship with God. Many people who consider themselves to be spiritual or religious have yet to attain
this and see God work miracles in their lives. Sometimes this is because they
have not fervently sought God out with an open heart and mind, or were
unwilling to accept the sacrifice Jesus Christ made for us on the
cross. They are still guessing what God wants, when knowing God's will and
having him guide you is possible.
If you are not yet
convinced that Jesus Christ is the son of God sacrificed for our sins, we
challenge you to ask God yourself to reveal the truth to you in this area.
Click on Solutions and Request a Share (this leads you through the prayer
that brings you into relationship with God) to see God confirm this for you.
If we are wrong, nothing will change in your life and you would have lost nothing. If
you do not enter into relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and we are
correct that Jesus is the way, you risk losing everything. If you are putting
off making a decision to start a relationship with God, you are risking
dying before you have a chance to make it, and missing out on all the great blessings a relationship
with our father in heaven has to offer.
If you repent of your
sins, confess Jesus Christ as
your personal Lord and Saviour, and believe in your heart that he came in
the flesh, died for your sins, and God raised
him from the dead, you can become a child of God with the richest
inheritance imaginable! You can read the entire Solutions page to
develop a better understanding of how this process works. An answer for you
is here if you
are a skeptic and you want to understand why the bible says acceptance of Jesus is
necessary to have a personal relationship with God.
Friends and Enemies
Obviously, having positive
relationships is very important to your happiness. If we ever find ourselves
in economic upheaval or ruin and the currency loses almost all of its value
(which has happened many times throughout history and is happening right now
in some places around the world), our relationships could be almost all we will have of
value. Therefore, we at Phree Shares Inc.
endeavor to have over 6 billion friends - everyone in the world. Some may try to hurt us, but we
still try our best to treat them as a friend by telling them the right way to go if
they are lost. They may still go left and be left behind, but we try to be
up front and speak the truth to our friends.
And here is the truth: Jesus
Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Why not acknowledge him as Lord and Saviour so that although you may die you will be
resurrected and live forever?
Do you think we are naive to
treat everyone well even if they consider us to be enemies? This
is the best thing for them and us whether people realize that or not. It is
another way of phrasing "love your enemies and bless those who curse
you".
This is simply the best way to treat people, and it results in blessings
from above.
Our creator wants all of his creations to love and help each other.
We encourage you to
regularly attend a good bible-based church that you feel called by God to
attend. You may have to try several to find the right one, but not finding a
perfect church is not a reason to not attend one at all, for there are no
perfect churches just like there are no perfect people. Being with a body of believers
has a strengthening effect on your faith. Think of it: a group of pencils bound together are much stronger than one standing alone, and the devil
would like nothing better than to break your faith into pieces.
"Just like there is
special education for the academically-challenged, relationship-challenged
people need special ed too. I’m relationship-challenged so I am enrolled
in a special class for people like me and I attend at least once a week.
It's called church. But perhaps you are perfect at relationships so you
don’t need to go." - Phree Shares shareholder about church
attendance.
Work Relationships
It is important to be honest
at work to achieve long-term success. You could appear to be more
successful in the short-term by lying and being sneaky, but this type of
behaviour will catch up to you eventually. Being honest and patient for good
results is the best long-term policy. That is the way to leave a good mark behind
you and have good references in the future. Striving for your personal best
every day is a
great work ethic that also pays off. Do you take feedback well from others?
Why not request
it in advance of reviews so that you know what to improve upon before your
review? Then you can do better in your review when you have it!
Are you doing the right
thing ethically, and doing it to the best of your ability even when no one
is looking? This shows whether you have integrity and it will
eventually pay off if you have it. If you are able and feel called to,
taking on an extra assignment voluntarily, even if you are not getting paid
extra for it, could be a reason you become too valuable to be laid off in
the future. Why not work on something and include whoever wants to help you
with it so you are not just being self-serving but you can credit a whole
team for working on the project?
Giving others credit for
how much they help you to do well is very important and will result in you
earning the respect and appreciation of your colleagues.
Also, do you always think
twice before you
speak once at work? Work is not the place to let everyone hear your
thoughts. Doing your best not to complain will pay dividends in the future.
People would prefer to work with and employ someone positive than
someone who is always complaining. A positive attitude is a key asset that model
employees have, and it often pays off in raises and/or promotions. It could
also save your job.
When someone has to get
laid off, a decision-maker is more likely
to let someone go that brings down the morale of the workforce by constantly
complaining or being negative. They could even think you would be happy to
go if you are always complaining. Think about it. We encourage you to have a
T.G.I.T. attitude everyday at work (Thank God It's Today!) and not only a
T.G.I.F. attitude (Thank God It's Friday, because I cannot stand Monday
through Thursday at work). For most people reading this, millions of people
suffering in impoverished conditions around the world would give up almost
anything to move to where you live and work your job for more hours, for
less pay, with a manager many times worse than yours!
"Effective
methodology can be learned, experience can be attained, but a positive
attitude is the highway to both destinations!" - Phree Shares
shareholder on attitude.
There is always a way!
The way! We encourage you to find that way. We recommendation writing down
the way. What comes after the dream? A plan. What's better than a man with a
plan? A woman with a plan! What's even better? A department with a plan. A
people with a plan....a planet with a plan! A written one! Why not write a
plan for your life at home and one for every work for which you will be
working at Christmas.
Some goal-setting
documents you can share with businesses are Target Income Statements and
Target Balance Sheets. Target Income Statements are make-believe income
statements for some time period ending at some future date - how large you
envision your income and how small you envision your expenses to be over
that time period.
Target Balance Sheets are
make-believe balance sheets that show how you want your assets and
liabilities to look at a certain date in the future.
Corporate Culture
It is very important to
not be consumed or transformed by a negative corporate culture, but to have
the strength to do the right thing. It is easy to become a
gossiper or complainer for example, when everyone around you is gossiping or
complaining. Attempt to find the strength to be an individual by enlisting
the support of a family member or partner to encourage you to keep your
hands clean despite any inappropriate behaviour that others are engaged in
doing. You might not be popular for not taking part in the wrong
behaviour that is popular at your workplace, but it is more important to
be right than to be popular. At times in history enslaving a whole race
of people was popular. But it was not right.
Treat Everyone With
Love, Yes, Even at Work!
Many people say they hate
their manager,
supervisor or co-workers. And they bad-mouth them behind their back
regularly. We do not advise that you
to be fake and pretend to like anyone. We encourage you to authentically
love everyone despite their flaws. Are you perfect? Are you sure you are not biased
if you judge yourself to be closer to perfection than them? If you truly
act
better should you not be understanding that not everyone has reached the
same level of maturity that you have?
Click on "Need A
Job", "Start A Club" and "Hire Yourself" if you do
not like your job. Then have patience to wait for a brighter future - either
for the situation where you are to improve, or for you to do something
different some day. If you are negative at
work you will just bring other people down and make the environment worse
for you as well.
Some positive people will avoid you, and the
negative people will help you drown yourself in sorrow. Staying there
forever bringing people down is not the best thing for your employer either.
This could even put your job at risk.
We encourage you
employees to treat your employer as you would like to be treated if you were employing them.
We encourage you
employers or bosses to treat your employees as you would like to be treated
if you were working for them.
We encourage you to
treat all of your colleagues with the same respect and appreciation with
which you would like to be treated.
Personal Relationships
Are you choosing friends and partners that are
compatible with you? If a relationship drains you, do you recognize the energy that
you are losing and find a way to stop losing it? Both people could be
happier if you take the first step to change the relationship. Do you take things slowly
or find yourself consistently making commitments to the wrong people before
you get to know them well enough? This could be a recipe for disaster, if
you commit to someone before you know them well enough. We encourage you to
measure twice and join once. In society today so many people are joining and
separating several times resulting in many broken hearts and homes and
children growing up with busy single-parents struggling to support their
families.
Honour is very important in relationships; you should value the other person
and show that you value them. Knowing the best ways to show love to someone
you are in a relationship with, whether a friend or partner, is very important.
Based upon Gary Chapman's book, The Five Love Languages, the five ways to
express love are:
1. Quality Time
2. Physical Touch
3. Acts of Service (doing favours to help
the person)
4. Gift-giving
5. Words of Affirmation (e.g. saying
encouraging things or complimenting the person)
Knowing how your loved ones appreciate
receiving love will help you to make sure they feel loved by
you. Just ask the person which love language means the most to them. Gary
Chapman's book has a useful quiz at the back that allows you to rank the
five love languages in order of importance to you. Then
you have a decision to make. Was the person's happiness and whether they
feel loved by you or not important enough for you to express love to them
the way they prefer to receive it (in addition to the other ways)? If not,
do you really love them as much as you should? Were they willing to speak
your love language to you when you shared it with them?
Both of you should
be willing to speak one another's primary love language (expressing other
too of course) to each other if you love each other, even as friends (with
some differences, like acceptable forms of physical touch for instance).
Showing love is essential for a loving relationship to remain healthy. Love is not an
emotion, it is an act in which the lover is willing to sacrifice.
The free
idea under Free Ideas, posted on September 21st deals with relationships and
we encourage you to read it. Just click on Free Ideas. Treat people like you would like to be treated. If your friend,
colleague, partner, or spouse does the same,
you will treat each other well!
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