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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: so let's start the day out with asking
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  SPEAKER_00: a question what trophies are we chasing you know in the marketplace trophies come
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  SPEAKER_00: in many forms sales awards promotion titles and plaques on the wall and
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  SPEAKER_00: then there's followers online and occasionally the quiet applause
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  SPEAKER_00: of being noticed now none of those things are wrong
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  SPEAKER_00: but proverbs 10 forces us to ask a deeper question what happens when
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  SPEAKER_00: the trophies we chase become the things that define us today we'll explore
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  SPEAKER_00: the difference between temporary recognition and lasting significance
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  SPEAKER_00: welcome to marketplace proverbs and coffee with ernie where a proverb
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  SPEAKER_00: a day keeps stinking thinking at bay i'm ernie lansford after more than 60 years
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  SPEAKER_00: in sales and leadership i've learned that biblical wisdom is
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  SPEAKER_00: the most valuable asset we can carry into
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  SPEAKER_00: the marketplace each time i read proverbs scripture
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  SPEAKER_00: reveals practical insight for leadership service and building relationships
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  SPEAKER_00: that far outlast the last transaction so pour yourself a cup of your favorite brew
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  SPEAKER_00: and let's explore today's proverb together today we are in proverbs 10 verses 4
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  SPEAKER_00: through 5 quote a lazy person will end up poor but a hard worker will become rich
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  SPEAKER_00: those who gather crops on time are wise but those who sleep through the harvest are
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  SPEAKER_00: a disgrace that's proverbs 10 verses 4 through 5 there was a time in my life
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  SPEAKER_00: when i grappled with what zig zig zig referred to as stinking thinking
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  SPEAKER_00: about money i didn't see money as a useful tool but rather as a scoreboard
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  SPEAKER_00: Now to me,
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  SPEAKER_00: money represented a way to accumulate what I'd call trophies,
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  SPEAKER_00: tangible signs that I wasn't lazy, that I was succeeding, and that I mattered.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, those trophies came at a cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back in the 70s and 80s,
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  SPEAKER_00: I traveled across three states as a territory sales representative for St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Louis Music.
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  SPEAKER_00: the home of alvarez guitars and ampeg amps back in those days you know
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  SPEAKER_00: and i started out driving
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  SPEAKER_00: a really nice pontiac bonneville now pontiac is no longer made but this was
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  SPEAKER_00: a nice four-door sedan and it was the bonneville model i think it was the top of
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  SPEAKER_00: the line of the of the sedan series and but that wasn't good enough then i went for
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  SPEAKER_00: a shiny cadillac
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  SPEAKER_00: and then i traded the cadillac for a turbocharged volvo 760 and eventually i owned
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  SPEAKER_00: the stylish mercedes-benz 450 sl coupe now on
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  SPEAKER_00: the surface it seemed like success was mine
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  SPEAKER_00: but beneath it all i was stretched i became an enslaved borrower to the lenders
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  SPEAKER_00: one memory really stays with me is i was visiting my parents while traveling
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  SPEAKER_00: through my territory they lived in my territory and i love them very much but i got
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  SPEAKER_00: to be transparent with you i didn't stay overnight just to be with them i stayed
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  SPEAKER_00: because i just made a car payment and a hotel wasn't in my budget
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  SPEAKER_00: and frankly i had just enough gas
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  SPEAKER_00: to complete my rounds and then get back home to Pensacola, Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, there wasn't even enough money to invite a customer out for coffee or lunch.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted respect for my ego, but my bank account was the reality check.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was caught up in what I now call the J-O-B mindset, you know, job.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an acronym for just over broke.
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  SPEAKER_00: and in a culture that often values appearance more
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  SPEAKER_00: than substance i gotta tell you that's an easy trap to fall into and
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  SPEAKER_00: in today's marketplace it's common to see people confuse working hard with hustling
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  SPEAKER_00: and often hustle is driven more by desire to look successful than
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  SPEAKER_00: by actually being successful remember we don't just want to succeed
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  SPEAKER_00: we also want to feel good about what we've achieved and Jesus teaches us clearly
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  SPEAKER_00: that we can't serve two masters we'll either use money to serve us
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  SPEAKER_00: or let it control us or stay true to our values amid shifting cultural currents
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's really important to see the opposite of allowing money to use us
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  SPEAKER_00: and control us it's important that we see money as a helpful tool
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  SPEAKER_00: not a symbol of status money does provide us options you know
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  SPEAKER_00: if i have ten dollars my choices are limited but if i have 25 my options grow but
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  SPEAKER_00: the real question isn't what money can do for us it's what it allows us to do
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  SPEAKER_00: for others and for good causes
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  SPEAKER_00: you know as a gospel-centric customer success master
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  SPEAKER_00: I've come to see that working and serving are about earning to live and give rather
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  SPEAKER_00: than living just to make money that little change has made a world of difference
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  SPEAKER_00: when I let go of chasing after comfort I started focusing
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  SPEAKER_00: on building meaningful relationships when I aimed to add significance
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  SPEAKER_00: to others instead of trying to impress them everything shifted the stress eased up
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  SPEAKER_00: the worry lessened
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  SPEAKER_00: i began to truly understand what the apostle paul was saying
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  SPEAKER_00: in philippians 4 12 content whether in plenty or in want contentment isn't
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  SPEAKER_00: about complacency it's about clarity and with clarity comes
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  SPEAKER_00: as my guide i can better navigate life's cultural shifts think on
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  SPEAKER_00: that today's customer success code
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  SPEAKER_00: true wealth is found in the stewardship of our relationship not the status
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  SPEAKER_00: of our possessions today's action points action point number one is let's do
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  SPEAKER_00: a trophy audit look at your recent big purchase was it made to serve a purpose or
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  SPEAKER_00: to feed your ego action point number two is serving
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  SPEAKER_00: the right master this week right now today identify one area
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  SPEAKER_00: where you've been living to work rather than working to live how can you pivot that
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  SPEAKER_00: to the working to live and serve mindset and
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  SPEAKER_00: then action point number three is let's expand our options financial discipline
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  SPEAKER_00: isn't about being stingy it's about creating expanded options to bless our family
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  SPEAKER_00: and community
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  SPEAKER_00: lord thank you for convicting me of my former worship of money please forgive me
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  SPEAKER_00: for chasing trophies instead of your truth thank you for being my provider and for
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  SPEAKER_00: the grace to steward the resources you put in my hands help me to use my work
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  SPEAKER_00: to serve others and add significance to them and honor you in jesus name amen
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  SPEAKER_00: well thank you for joining me on this episode of marketplace proverbs and coffee
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  SPEAKER_00: with ernie if this episode has been meaningful for to you or adding significance
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  SPEAKER_00: to you please consider sharing it that's how we influence the marketplace
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  SPEAKER_00: for god we truly do
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  SPEAKER_00: and remember chasing personal success is temporal adding significance
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  SPEAKER_00: to others is infinite