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As 2010 begins, it is a great time to reassess and adjust your life plan, particularly evaluating financial stability and life fulfillment, which were major difficulties for Americans in 2009.

1. Remember, you are the boss of your life! When making life-changing decisions, such as employment transitions, maintain control of your future! Like many, you may have entrusted your life and your financial plan (fixed salary, pension, benefits, etc.) to someone else and ended up at a financial loss you never expected. So, do not trust or rely solely on others (an employer, financial advisor and investment broker) to control your financial future. Follow God’s advice and direction. To avoid others from getting a grip on your finances, read “How to Hear God to Prosper.”

2. Remember the things you are thankful for. Many people experienced challenging times in 2009 because of material-losses—houses, cars, possessions, salaries, investments, etc. Do not overlook non-material assets in your life. Loyal family and friends are always a blessing. Good health is extremely valuable, particularly during hard times. If you have a sense of humor or an optimistic outlook, you have a good thing. Materialism does not contribute to a life of worth and fulfillment, but many of the things we cannot buy, like great personality attributes, do.

3. When incorporating a new plan, assess what you have done wrong or would like to do better in order to experience a change for the New Year. Don’t beat yourself up for wrongs you have suffered, just address them, so you do not repeat them. If you worked at a job you hated, start planning to change to something you enjoy. Being true to yourself eradicates discontentment.

4. Find your happiest self. What makes you happy? What is the one thing you would love to do everyday for the rest of your life? Do not dismiss something because you do not have the money or resources to do it. Once you determine what you really want to do, then find resources to make it happen.

5.  Make a difference in someone else’s life. Help someone by using your expertise; give someone free advice or a free service. Many problems we face, as a nation, can be solved by helping one another. A change in our outlook is necessary in 2010—instead of looking for the government and others to help us, 2010 needs to be the year we seek out those we can help, in our community and elsewhere.

6. Make sure to include God in your plans for the New Year. This does not necessarily mean you have to go to church every Sunday. More importantly, you must know God. Many Americans have incited third-world conditions for themselves because they practiced the customs of foreign religions, rather than Christianity. Too many Americans have never studied Christianity, even though we live in a country that was founded on Christian principles, and blessed. A simple way to understand Christianity is to read the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (the first 4 books of the New Testament of The Bible). To learn how to prosper, using simple godly principles, read “How to Hear God to Prosper.” Do not underestimate knowing the true God. Knowing the true God is the difference between having a prosperous year and having a year worst than America experienced in 2009.

© Found Treasure Publishing 2010

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By VC Edwards

Customer Service is your reasonable duty.

While men and women serve and sacrifice their lives in combat to keep us free, we find it difficult to uphold honor and quality, on the home front. Most Americans will never serve in the military, but we all have a responsibility to represent our country with exemplary customer service in whatever field we are privileged to perform. Whether you are president of a company or a pizza delivery guy, your job or career requires you to provide service to customers who patronize that business. Whatever you do, you are required to, either, make decisions that affect service, or provide actual service. If you fail to provide the quality of service advertised and expected for the compensation, you have not served your country with honor.

Workers today, too often, throw a wrench in consumer purchasing, lessening the enjoyment of the purchase. Most of us have had the experience of calling customer service for assistance, to be transferred from one department to another, with no headway. Workers take no accountability, giving unreliable information or transferring calls without end, creating a vicious internal game at the expense of the consumer. Americans suffer poor customer service in every industry—in retail, housing, transportation, food, medical, education, banking, insurance, utility, investment, and government. The business strategy of many companies, particularly companies who monopolize a market area, is to beg for business, and shut off quality service once they get your business.

Americans are of the highest paid workers in the world, yet our quality of workmanship and service has become inferior to most. Instead of serving our country, we wage war against our consumers, conspiring against them as they buy our products. This is, undoubtedly, a twisted business strategy for companies who want to thrive. CEO’s and workers have become obsessed with pay raises and bonuses, at the expense of humanity and service. The scale has been tipped so far from quality service, that it has cost many their jobs.

Everyone relies on the integrity of service of others, everyday. Everyday we depend on the military for service that keeps our country and us safe and free. We depend on others for service, just as others depend on us. The cost we owe for living in the greatest country in the world is our service to fellow Americans and people around the world, who purchase our products. God’s divine order makes sure that whatever love we give to others will come back to us, in the form of daily safety, protection, provision and favor. And when we do not love, we reap consequences of a recession. As we struggle in a recession, we now beg for the same help we should have given others.

As Americans, our constitutional rights to be free are conditional upon the service we give to others. Our Constitution upholds the principle that we are to “love our neighbors.” “Love thy neighbor” is a real principle, which must be applied to experience favorable consequences. There is every reason to believe we will get another chance, if we vow to serve, to treat everyone the way we want to be treated and to prove we are the greatest nation in the world, in service.

For more information, read “How to Hear God to Prosper” by VC Edwards.

© VC Edwards 2009

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