June 2019

7 Business Tips You’ll Find Inside the swHw Business Tracker

By |2020-05-08T13:19:22-04:00June 21st, 2019|Business, Faith, Faith-Based Leadership, Family|

We’ve explained the difference between planning and tracking before, but there’s one more key difference between the swHw Business Tracker and a planner: Most planners don’t come equipped with hundreds of business tips. The swHw Business Tracker does. In fact, as Jami G. said when her tracker arrived: “Access to the guide alone is worth the purchase of the tracker!” So here’s a sneak peek of seven business tips you’ll find inside the swHw Business Tracker: 1. Track your todays. Goals aren’t just for monthly, quarterly, and yearly tracking. Setting daily goals is a huge factor in whether or not you show up consistently. Our tracker keeps it simple by aligning your daily goals with your daily priorities --- and then holds you accountable to moving fromthought àtask àdone.  2. Social media content creation isn’t hard…if you’re working. As you work, you’re constantly sharing information and encountering stories that would be valuable to share with future and current customers. Our business tracker allows you to collect and organize all of your thoughts, ideas, and information in a single location so you are always prepared with valuable content to share. 3. Wowing your customers and co-workers (whether planned or spontaneous!)always requires [...]

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May 2019

Laying Down Striving for Surrendered Effort

By |2020-05-08T13:19:33-04:00May 17th, 2019|Business, Faith, Faith-Based Leadership, Family|

Life includes numerous roles and responsibilities. In the home alone, you can be nurse, teacher, chef, and taxi driver—all in the same five minutes. But can I ask you a question? When you look at “all the things,” do you ever get overwhelmed? Do you ever feel the pressure to find “balance” in your life, but don’t know where to begin? I’ve been there, friend. I spent years trying to achieve life balance. But whenever I had a glimmer of hope that balance was in sight, our season would change, causing me to begin again. Can you relate? It’s been an imperfect journey, but over the last few years, I’ve realized why I never achieved that life balance I strived so hard to find: God never intended me to balance my life. The word“balance” implies everything in your life has equal importance. But God’s Word lovingly teaches about our priorities: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” - Matthew 6:33 In simple terms? Put God first, and He orders everything else. I know I’ve spent a large portion of my life striving to get “all the things.” [...]

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January 2019

Read This Before You Set Your 2019 Goals

By |2020-05-08T13:21:51-04:00January 4th, 2019|Business, Faith, Faith-Based Leadership|

What should I do? This time of year, I think that question probably creeps up more than ever, as we feel like we need to set goals for what we want to accomplish. And while there’s certainly nothing wrong with setting goals, there’s something we need to do first, and I found it not too long ago in Luke 3. John the Baptist, the first prophet who had appeared in centuries (There are 400 years of silence between the end of Malachi and the beginning of the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke + John!), had a familiar message of repentance for sin, and with it, a bold call to actually live for God. I love how we see that he put it in Luke 3:8: “Therefore, bear fruits in keeping with repentance.” Repentance isn’t just a prayer we pray or words we say. Our actions are supposed to show that we live differently when we live for God. The Bible records that three different groups (the crowds, the tax collectors, and the soldiers) all asked John the same question after hearing his message: “What shall we do?” (Luke 3:10; 12; 14) See? That same question that probably plagues many [...]

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December 2018

Biblical Identity: A Firmer Foundation

By |2020-05-08T13:22:24-04:00December 18th, 2018|Business, Faith, Faith-Based Leadership, Uncategorized|

No doubt, in your career, you’ve had to take a personality test or two. I’ve used them with every team I’ve been on, as they can be useful to uncover personal strengths and weaknesses, help you communicate more effectively with teammates, and equip you to better understand how you and those around you are motivated. But when it comes to uncovering our life purpose as followers of Christ, are our personalities and preferences the best foundation? I don’t think so. Why? My wife, Michelle, has put it this way many times: Kingdom assignments don’t come with personality and preference passes. A few examples: Evangelism isn’t just for extroverts. Leaders aren’t exempt from serving. Forgiveness isn’t just for those with a natural bend toward compassion. So as each of us navigate the specific call God has on all of our lives, we can always assume our specific assignment falls under the umbrella of the corporate calling God gives to all who believe in Him. (Quick Tip: The best way to discover your specific assignment is to get busy with God’s call to all Christians.) We are to know God and make Him known. We are to be disciples who make [...]

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2019 Bible Reading Plan

By |2020-05-08T13:22:05-04:00December 17th, 2018|Faith, Faith-Based Leadership, Family, Uncategorized|

We believe that the decision to be in God’s Word positively affects every other decision we make. While we pray our swHw teachings remind you of what God has already said, there’s no replacement for going straight to the source of His Word, which is why we like to provide a free Bible reading plan every year - whether you are a swHw member or not. We heard such great feedback of how much you loved 2018's chronological plan that we're keeping that approach for this year too -- but we also heard from many of you that it was hard waiting until October to dive into the New Testament. (We felt the same way!) This year's plan includes a side-by-side chronological reading plan of the Old Testament and the New Testament. This way, you'll get a slower-paced read of the life of Jesus + spreading of the gospel all year long, alongside a historical reading of the Old Testament. You can think of the Old Testament as a sonogram - a picture of what was to come - and the New Testament as a living, breathing snapshot of God coming down to do for us what we could [...]

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