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Marketplace Proverbs & Coffee With Ernie · Marketplace Proverbs and Coffee with Ernie-A Proverb Per Day Keeps Stinking Thinking At Bay

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  SPEAKER_00: The four most difficult words for an overachiever to adapt are, it's by God's grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: For years, I wanted the awards, the applause, and the spotlight.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought those things meant I'd made it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I grow in age.
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  SPEAKER_00: I grow deeper and realize the most powerful four words we can say at the end of
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  SPEAKER_00: an assignment isn't, look what I did there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's by God's grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, our focus is Proverbs 25, 6 through 7, because it's the 25th day of the month.
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  SPEAKER_00: And welcome to Marketplace Proverbs and Coffee with Ernie,
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  SPEAKER_00: where a proverb a day keeps stinking thinking away.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Ernie Lansford,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's my desire to help you connect biblical wisdom
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  SPEAKER_00: to everyday marketplace decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Allowing you to build relationships that outlast any transactions.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do my best to bring timeless biblical truth into the marketplace
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  SPEAKER_00: where influence is real, choices are constant, and relationships matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, pour yourself a cup of coffee,
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  SPEAKER_00: tea, soda, water, whatever it is you drink when you listen to this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: So reading the chapter of Proverbs 25,
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  SPEAKER_00: verses 6 through 7 from the CSB, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't boast about yourself before the king,
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  SPEAKER_00: and don't stand in the place of the great,
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  SPEAKER_00: for it is better for him to say to you,
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  SPEAKER_00: Come up here, than to demote you in plain view of a noble.
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  SPEAKER_00: In my early years of chasing transactions, I was an overachiever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And not just in results, but in image.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't just want to succeed from man's perspective.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to be seen succeeding.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted the plaques, the titles, the recognition.
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  SPEAKER_00: And looking back, I can see for what it was, really.
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  SPEAKER_00: Transactional validation.
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  SPEAKER_00: My performance had become the altar, and the awards were my offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't recognize the cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, ego, edging God out, always carries a hidden price tag.
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  SPEAKER_00: And mine was exhaustion, frustration, a spirit of heaviness at times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 25 warns us against self-promotion, against forcing our way to the front.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was doing just that, frankly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd like to share something.
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  SPEAKER_00: I read two men and their final words.
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  SPEAKER_00: I once heard a pastor tell how the Apostle John,
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  SPEAKER_00: who lived past 100, rarely spoke in his final days.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when he did, it was just three words.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then that same pastor in his presentation that Saturday afternoon said
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  SPEAKER_00: that Billy Graham,
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  SPEAKER_00: another man who ran his race well,
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  SPEAKER_00: summed up his life's work in just three words, by God's grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, those words resonated me in the best way because when I look back at my career,
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  SPEAKER_00: the moments I regret most Weren't the losses.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were the seasons when it was all about the trinity of me, myself, and I.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I stopped chasing quick transactions and stopped caring about titles
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  SPEAKER_00: and trophies, everything shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started building meaningful relationships.
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  SPEAKER_00: And soon, the transactions started coming to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, in the marketplace, the KPIs that really matter come from Proverbs 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: It isn't just about kings and nobles.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about posture.
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  SPEAKER_00: The KPI that really matters is humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: And humility isn't playing small.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's letting God lift us up in his time, not ours.
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  SPEAKER_00: The KPI that matters most in the kingdom isn't our rank.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's our readiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the quiet integrity that eventually gets noticed,
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  SPEAKER_00: not because we demanded it, but because God brought it into view.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus modeled this perfectly.
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  SPEAKER_00: No striving, no self-promotion, just strength under control.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's customer success code, quote, self-promotion exhaust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spirit-led humility invites God's promotion in his time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's expanded action points reflect honestly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Identify where you're still saying, it's all me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it in your sales goal, your reputation, or your leadership style?
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  SPEAKER_00: Action point number two, release the spotlight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Resist the temptation to boast or self-promote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your results and your relationships speak to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Action point number three, pursue depth, not applause.
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  SPEAKER_00: Replace surface-level wins with investment in trust,
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  SPEAKER_00: service, significance added, value added that give long-term value.
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  SPEAKER_00: Action point number four, close the day in peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask yourself, did I reflect God today in my tone, my decisions, and my integrity?
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  SPEAKER_00: I remind you that I've talked about before that there are five Gospels,
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  SPEAKER_00: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the fifth Gospel is us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We may be the only Bible people read this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: thank you for joining me for today's episode of Marketplace Proverbs and Coffee
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  SPEAKER_00: with Ernie.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I share insights from Proverbs to inspire the adoption
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  SPEAKER_00: of customer success mastery in the marketplace, I want to be clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: My goal is to offer practical applications from my own experience, not to teach doctrine.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am committed to staying true to God's Word and avoiding any false doctoring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Focusing only on how these verses and applications can guide us in serving
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  SPEAKER_00: with integrity and wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, if you hear me spreading false doctrine, please call me out, Ernie at Ernie.Coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: I truly do appreciate your comments,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I speak the book of Numbers, chapter 6, verses 24 through 26 over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the Lord bless you and protect you.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the Lord look with favor on you and give you peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this message encouraged you, please share it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every good thing I've been able to do in the marketplace has been by God's grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a KPI no spreadsheet can measure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So remember, success is temporal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adding significance to others is infinite.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's meet again on the next episode of Marketplace Proverbs and Coffee with Ernie.