Power of Positive Impact

iUniverse, Inc.

Contents

Dedication..............................................................................................................................vAn Effective Model for the Recovery and Development of a Society: An Individual Makes a Difference Even with Little.....................1A Generous Mind Is a Portal to Think about Others and to Succeed........................................................................4A Loving and Caring Heart Will Never Go Broke...........................................................................................7Taking Action to Effect Positive Changes in Your Environment for Your Own Good..........................................................10Addressing Issues of Life as You Network with Others....................................................................................13Analyzing Your Impact to Improve and to Give Your Best to Receive the Best..............................................................16Challenging Yourself to Face Changes Needed for Positive Impact.........................................................................19Changing With Changes, to Stay on Top as a Thriver......................................................................................22Confronting Issues Squarely for Impact..................................................................................................25Developing an Endpoint Lifestyle to Embrace the Future..................................................................................29Embracing Challenges as a Gateway for Impact in Order to Prosper........................................................................32Engaging People around You to Succeed...................................................................................................35Everyday Secrets to Working Your Way to Succeed.........................................................................................37Getting the Right Reception Link Necessary for Impact...................................................................................40How to Obtain High-Intelligence Informatics for Vision and Impact.......................................................................43Impacting Lives by Encouraging Independence.............................................................................................46Inspiring Others by Becoming Appreciative...............................................................................................49Lack of Knowledge Will Enlist Your Name in the Hall of Failure..........................................................................52Using the Outcome of Your Success to make Others Successful.............................................................................55Your Environment is a Threshold for Scoring Your Contributions..........................................................................58Excitement, Joy, Flexibility and Connectivity are derived as You Impact Otheres.........................................................61Maximizing Your Return on Investment by Investing in People.............................................................................64How to Become a Reformer to Manage Time and Resources...................................................................................67Understanding Your Position of Prominence for Preparations to avoid Impulsive Decisions.................................................70Lessons on Persistence to Obtain and Transfer Inheritance to Generations................................................................73Preparing for Tomorrow Today with What You Don't Know You Have..........................................................................76The Importance of Restoring Inevitable Net-Work for Survival............................................................................79Obeying Rules, Regulations and Using Common Sense Principles to improve Health, Wealth and Impact.......................................81Seeing Greatness in Your Environment for Meaningful Planning............................................................................83What Is Your Next Level?................................................................................................................86Staying On Course for Bigger Dreams to Enable Others to Realize Their Dreams............................................................89Strong Identity, Fearlessness, and Team Spirit Are Powerful Forces for a Meaningful Impact..............................................92Super-Sizing Your Impact during Crises..................................................................................................95The Skill Set of Knowledge, Impact and Technology are Your Seeds for the Future.........................................................97The World Is In Need Of People That Never Give Up.......................................................................................100Transformation and Reformation as You Walk into Victory in Hard Times...................................................................103Triumphant Opportunities Result When You Reach Out for Others...........................................................................106Turning Your Mess into a Message for Others.............................................................................................109Using a Lean Approach to Impact One's Surroundings......................................................................................112Using Crises as a Pivotal Force for Vision and Impact...................................................................................115Virtualization: The Calling Out of a Hero in You........................................................................................118Vital Information Is Important for Targeting Your Scope of Impact.......................................................................121We Are All Needy People to Impact Others and to Receive Impact..........................................................................124You Are Not the Mistake but a Noble Created for Noble Impact............................................................................127Your Bright Ideas Could Resolve the Key Challenges of Your World........................................................................130Your Interest Determines Your Impact....................................................................................................133Your Positive Impact Depends on Your Outlook............................................................................................136Using Even Your Painful Experiences To Enlarge Your Domain..............................................................................139Your Wealth Comes from Your Impact......................................................................................................142About the Author........................................................................................................................145

Chapter One

Positive impact is a powerful force within all individuals to respond to problems, needs, and situations. The development and growth in the economy and society are dependent on this impact. Positive impact is one of God's recipes for lifting up, providing hope and meaningful services to oneself and others. This lifestyle fosters good thoughts to project enthusiasm, remove doubts, and create positive outcomes of delivery and learning systems via inputs. Our world is so broad, and an individual's disposition to meet all needs is so limited. One needs others to advance to receive advice to services, and to impact and develop skills for use to serve in various capacities. Everyone has something to offer in order to bring meaning to life. People are needed to interpret policies and to provide guidance via technical, physical, and emotional support.

Evidence of a lack of employment, great disparity in wages, and gaps in connectivity is proof that we need to work hard to impact each other for mutual benefits. We are not using our unique attributes to help others to hope, dream, and aspire higher. Society is responsible for developing the skills needed to cater for its development and needs. Thus, any investment made to develop new technology and to improve the services of professionals to impact the people will always help society to move ahead. This is the reason why people who take time to study the needs of their environment, and who align their careers and plan their future to meet those needs, are always ahead and doing better in life.

Every human has so much untapped knowledge, words of encouragement, and skill that he or she can give out to others during his or her lifetime. A failure to do so is due to not knowing, not caring, or being selfish. You may also be exposed to people and things that are not meant for you, or for operating outside your destined territory. You are a vessel full of substance and inner will to impact, receive, and give out freely, emptying yourself to serve others with no reservation. Your positive impact is your masterpiece display of compassion, kindness, words of encouragement, noble services, and aid to others to derive fulfillment and wealth in return. This meaningful impact to make a difference will not only determine your next level of upward mobility, but it will always enlist your name in the heart of people you touched.

The importance of good relationships and team spirit are the keys to securing victorious, prosperous, healthy, and peaceful paths; these ideas have been outlined and demonstrated in the Creator's manual. It is very obvious that everybody wants a wealthy, long life, having peace and becoming successful. However, people's view on working their way to attain these goals is tinted for not taking time to learn the steps and the process of a successful journey in life. The ultimate point is that God created you to have a prosperous life using the transformative power of love, and you have a burden to make a difference, whereby you look out for others no matter the location, situation, and circumstance. You are designed with unique features and attributes to reach out and touch others for your breakthrough. Your customized personal attributes can remain dormant and unused, thereby making you uncomfortable for not emptying out what you have within. Self-centeredness is a retarding force against reaching out. Selfishness will always keep you mute, silencing your voice's ability to reach others. Your failure to recognize and work out on it may ruin your opportunities to use this platform to broaden your horizon for noble influence and popularity. Out of selfishness, greed and manipulation, one can overlook the interest of others and can develop an abuse of power, systems, and others, which can lead to losing everything for which you have worked.

Your perspective in life will always shift to neglect positive impact, the source of real wealth, when you shift your focus to self-attainment and enrichment, putting others on the back burner. There is nothing wrong with improving yourself to provide better services and have better relationships. However, it becomes a problem when you make it a goal to run a relay race solo just to maximize profit, climb the corporate ladder, and neglect those around you in the process. Watching your actions and their effects on others is very important—your future, happiness, and how you will be remembered are dependent on them. A little encouraging word of a teacher to a struggling student facing a crisis at home could stimulate the student to bounce back and become the research oncologist who finds the cure for cancer.

The attitude to make a difference in the lives of people around you should begin at home, whereby a trusting, supportive, and noncompetitive environment is created to transcend to society at large. The assurance and confidence derived from a supportive home leaves an imprint that enables one to navigate life and to embrace changes, making contributions using information, feedback, and team spirit as a platform to build up. A broad embracement of others' trust, love, gifts, talents, services, and impact is God's recipe for victorious living. The stimulus package to live a victorious life is included in your positive impact for others. This involves the use of your talents, skills, services, words, or actions to stimulate others to hope, when you ignite the deeming light via your impact. This stimulation can be done anywhere, anytime, and to anyone you come across; it is a sure way to obtain enthusiasm, knowledge, drive, and scalability to improve your environment, leaving it buoyant, vibrant, developed, and enriched with a sure return on investment for meaningful services. Your positive impact during your productive years will become your savings in the later years in the form of wages, royalties, and memories from the people you touched.

It is never too late to begin this impact journey to live in wealth, peace, wellness, and fulfillment. Your impact is that hope fulfilled by making a difference as you celebrate the future by enabling others to hope with what you have. This book will help explore various ways to achieve this milestone and to redeem lost time from lessons as you realize that many people have fallen, and it is only through the outstretched hands of others that they were able get back on their feet. Your positive impact is your vehicle into the future; your deeds and other little things done here transport you to your next level. It is the most soothing and happiest thing to do in our joint effort to have a buoyant, developed, peaceful, healthy, and wealthy society.

A Generous Mind Is a Portal to Think about Others and to Succeed

Your mind is a storage area and network to process past and present information analytically, as well as to stay connected, manage time, and grow relationships, business, and family for success. An informed mind senses and receives high-speed visual, graphic, auditory, and physical signals to support daily decision making. A renewed mind is a storage network with the infra-ability to receive visions from the Creator. You are uniquely made to solve problems, mature with patience, and encounter assigned problems to move from one level to another. You will go through challenges when you have something to offer that can impact generations.

Ruth was able to discern her purpose to withstand initial trials and challenges, and that paid off by her marrying Boaz, a rich man from whose lineage Christ was born. Ruth was a Moabite who rejected her pagan way of life by hanging around the people of Israel (Ruth 1–3). A renewed mind is provided with help, nurturing, guidance, protection, and ideas on how to gainfully go about making impact (Gal. 6:9). In short, your victory in life is dependent on how you are able to use the information processed in your mind to solve problems. The ability to make choices is given to you by God. Important elemental ingredients in your information package are warning signs of danger, power, and adverse effects of fear, as well as the power of your words to drive or thwart your impact. It is your choice if you use, abuse, reject, or ignore the information that guides you in the Bible (Jer. 33:3).

The lesson learned from Ruth's story is that your mind is an information warehouse fed with what you hear, read, and experience, and this warehouse forms your belief system. This medium needs to be sound, alert, and healthy in order to always remind you that you are vital and valuable to yourself before you can value people and things around you. This sense of value builds your confidence, dignity, integrity, discipline, and hope to engage the self. All around prosperity is God's will and plan for you. However, your will and plan have to align with His to receive the blueprint and to broaden your horizon. When you know your purpose and are willing to pursue it, then material wealth, health, a long life, and peace are added as bonuses. Your lack of understanding that you have been given the authority to make important decisions on earth can create fear (John 3:31). Fear may resonate when a person lacks the capability to use the information in his or her storage area network to manage the environment. Fear is a virus in the host environment, and God's words are the anti-viral tools. Your Citrix access is the Holy Spirit, automatically harbored by those who believe in Christ. However, the conscience is a general access, available to everyone else to make choices. Citrix access empowers you to fight fear and obtain vital information from your spiritual smart phone (Ps. 32:8–9).

Your mind is programmed to use analytical networks to solve problems in alignment with your scope of purpose. When your vision is clouded for thinking only of how to meet your needs selfishly, the aftermath may not be pleasing (Luke 18:18–27). You are created to broaden your horizon, using the overflow to impact others. Your mind is not meant for fantasy, negativity, or idleness, but for creating a connectivity portal in order to make progress. Your connectivity needs to be checked if you are not prospering and enriching yourself. God's word is the light and food of life. A lack of God's words to discern, visualize, and plant in fertile grounds causes lack, poverty, and unfulfillment. An encounter with Christ removes every spiritual blindness and greed (John 9:25); it provides opportunities to do little things one day at a time faithfully, for gigantic results with time. The encounter also provides a field guide to enable you to pick the right seed, field, season, and vineyard for a great return on investment. Your vision and impact assessment will be mapped out for you when you listen to the Holy Spirit within you. You are God's overflow, as His temple. The body of Christ is a temple equipped to rise above the threshold and to impact others by love, actions, kindness, and giving (Ezek. 47:1–12).

It is unrealistic to think that you will not encounter problems for being successful. Successful people attract envy or attacks, but they have a partnership with an Advocate that sees in secrets and fights for them. Thus, it is wise for anyone who wants to make any kind of dent in this life to seek divine help, security, and a field guide from an Advocate, Jesus Christ for health, living will, and durable power of attorney (Prov. 2:8). Obtaining your vision from God opens doors for connectivity and impact; it enables you to see abundance in lack, joy in adversity, hope in a hopeless situation, and love in hate. The lack of the above causes you to see the opposite during your trial, and you'll use the wrong choice of words and lose out.

Your mind is a repository of unlimited information purposefully designed to reach targeted audience, clients and people via noble services for wealth.

A Loving and Caring Heart Will Never Go Broke

The kindness and brokenness of a loving heart generates a fuel to regenerate lost hope, joy, beauty, purpose, and passion in others; this fuel is caused by disappointments and other external factors. Love is the building block of every home, institution, and society. Every created thing will fade away with time due to lack of maintenance, attention, and genuine love of the people meant to care for it. With care and adequate attention, created things will be desirable, attractive, appealing, tasteful, admired, and cherished. God loves all His creations to have a vested interest in anyone who practices genuine love by going the extra mile for the sake of others. God reciprocates and holds in the highest esteem the effort of anyone who goes beyond the call of duty to maintain a happy, peaceful, productive, and unified environment (Ps. 51). The need to have loving people in every home and entity is imminent when people, nations, and societies are facing various storms and challenges. Genuine love puts the needs of others in perspective with the earnest desire to have these needs met. Loving and kind people have a tendency to calm the storms using special effects; they cause others to hope and to see the good in bad situations, providing helping hands to those who have fallen by the wayside. Anyone can fall by the wayside, either by making poor choices or from the domino effect of others' decisions.

It is evident from the news and reports of economic, behavioral, and environmental clues that storms across the globe are causing physical, mental, and financial stress on people. It is expected that mental stress will increase with challenges for worrying about making ends meet. However, your physical, mental, financial, and spiritual well-being is God's concern. He has made some recommendations in His words to guide and empower you to navigate every storm. The warnings about the effects of the storms, the reason for some storms and people's behaviors, the benefits of storms, and who is in those storms with you are outlined in His manual. God is in control of every creation to use timing, events, and storms to trigger people into actions to better their lives (Rom. 1:17). Some storms may be orchestrated by God to help us identify needs, breakdowns, shortcomings, and structural defects in both human and infrastructures.

You are properly equipped and linked to the Creator to handle every kind of storm. However, becoming unhappy with the very things He had created for your enjoyment can occur when you fail to reason with His seasons. Although most of us feel the pinch of the rising cost of living, unemployment, and other major losses, you should be mindful that there is always God's presence in every storm, and you should seek, find love, and trust Him, because God is love. Invariably, you should check around for His closeness in every storm. It may take a storm to bring that love inside of you out to melt the frozen river of joy for invention, bright ideas, patience, humility, and submission (Eph. 3:17–19). Experiencing various storms may be your opportunity to break the monotonous routine and do something different, like chatting with neighbors and getting to know total strangers who may be of use to you in the future. You are created to connect, relate, and reach out for others. A storm has a way of robbing you of your pride so that you seek help, even from those you would not talk to in normal circumstances. Some storms may offer you an opportunity to have a teachable heart. An unteachable heart is very prideful and rebellious, and it may not have respect for authority.

For those experiencing losses, it may be a good time to reorganize, retrain, re-engage, and embrace something new. Life comes with daily newness, and we should not hold tight to stale ideas. There is never a better time to encourage your children and loved ones to hope than during a storm. Some storms may be impactful enough to move those who refused to be moved because they were too comfortable. The effects of major storms are powerful enough to push everything in its path. In essence, experiencing a storm can become a transformer to love life again, refocusing, relearning, and listening to warnings in the future. The storm of life has a tendency to cause individuals to develop empathy for others who have faced likewise in their seasons (2 Tim. 2:24–26). It is not very wise to be provocative, snobbish, and judgmental to your associates, clients, and friends for not knowing the depth of their problems. Critics learn to refrain from being critical of others after encountering storms (Rom. 12:16). Thus, storms can become a melting pot used by God to teach people to be kind, broken, and loving in order to obtain favor and victory.

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