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"We need

to know 

we're not alone.*

I hope you'll download a free PDF book that could help you if you are in charge of anything. At the least it could encourage you and at the most it should help you. I printed its 57 pages after reading the first chapter. The book
is The Edge of Success: 9 Building Blocks to Double Your Sales by Infusionsoft  
CEO Clate Mask. 

I wondered at first if someone was pulling my leg; I could hardly believe that someone was describing so exactly many of my experiences as an entrepreneur, i.e., author, publisher of other authors, and manager of Opine eStore (coming soon). I did some research on Infusionsoft and it seemed that, yes, the author and his company are real. If you have tried to initiate anything, I think you'll benefit from this free book full of identification and encouragement for those who have entrepreneurial experiences, fears, and hopes. Excellent examples and vignettes round it out.  

The Edge of Success summarizes the author’s journey to start and develop a software business with two partners. Infusionsoft develops and offers sales and marketing software for small businesses. In his 59-page free document, Clate Mask records specific hard times he, his colleagues, and their families faced due to desperate financial trials and other hurdles. He tells how customers’ phone calls and e-mails helped to guide and reinforce his determination and business decisions aimed at helping business software users find new products to meet specific needs, and do it with more ease and integration. 

I recommend The Edge of Success for anyone on a mission, whether a skill, program, outreach, or volunteer work. Whatever you will lead this year, whether a project, program, or business, you will likely feel alone at times. You may need financial, skills, or cooperation help that seems elusive or proves to be unreliable. Maintaining clarity about what you have taken on and why you wanted to do it in the first place will likely bring you face to face with big tests. 

We are not alone in whatever good we are trying to do, and it helps to remember that fact while we learn how to better handle what we do with added results. Clate Mask has shared, freely from his entrepreneurial experience. I think that's a wise personal and business move on his part. That’s my bottom line as I point to this resource, The Edge of Success.  

*Source of opening quote: This is a version of words by a young student in Shadowlands, a film about C.S. Lewis, who said, "We read to know we are not alone."

Jean Purcell is a book publisher (Opine Publishing--website redesign now under construction by Adazing Design), author (under pen name), and blogger.  
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Our Faith, Our Selves: Write of these

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Remembrances swirl, of words, the Word, and trying to tie things together that refuse tying down. This is part of the life of faith.

     Some of us who believe in Jesus as the Redeemer, Son of God, only begotten of the Father, doubt ourselves when locked up on purpose with our thoughts. "As a Christian, why do I write, when there is already a profusion of words? Why add more? Hasn't all been said?"

     Yet, one does not ask, "Are there already too many candles lit to reveal the way or light bulbs waiting to cast out darkness?"

     In Shadowlands, C. S. Lewis has a student at Oxford who says that his school teacher father told him, "We read to remind ourselves that we are not alone." A profound explanation also for why writers write.  

Writers that claim to write only for themselves cannot win my belief that that is true. I find the claim almost impossible to believe, although I have not walked in those shoes, so how can I know for sure? I cannot help challenging, however: "If you write only for yourself, for your pleasure or relief, then why do you deliberately make your writing public?" The desire to connect with others must be there, if only for attention. That, too, is a form of connection.
     I write daily. Whatever I write, it will connect with someone somewhere at some time unknown to me. I pray the effect will profit them. I do not write lightly very often, and very often I wish I could. I sort of plod along. Yet, plod I must, and I have learned to respect plodding.
     Sometimes I am tracking thoughts and impressions as they change. They narrow or widen. Increasingly I notice how much I long to delve deeper in the inner life and to find better expression for that. It's part of holding onto something unnamed that is trying to get my attention for an important reason I cannot guess. It may have to do with interpretations earlier, now broadening or changing altogether. It may have to do with perceptions growing brighter or dimmer, as the case may be. This draws the writer to admit certain things and then to seek to be true to that. I am not as afraid or embarrassed as I once was to see my glaring weaknesses compared with those whose strengths of discernment and expression have helped me in vital ways at precipitous times.
     I still scribble on the backs of envelopes and margins of certain books. I started the habit long ago of using that habit like a coded diary. Sometimes I have added dates to the margin. When we reread the familiar with new notes we see that it has met us afresh, not quite exactly as it did the first time. We recognize it, yet differently now. It means more...or less. We are not where we were then. This is especially true of the holy words.
     Like the blasts of unseen winds, words and meanings wake us up again under different circumstances, different places on the path. It is faith, after all, that called us into the relatively unknown, to us, landscape of faith. This supernatural gift for the mind and heart that we call faith leaves us unsatisfied with just the little that we have. Yet, seeking more that lies in the familiar Word and shining on it the helping glimmer of faith...has to cost us. What helps us bear the most costly parts are that the seeking of God faithfully will, at some point, relieve, comfort, or amaze us. Yes, it baffles us, but we can, we learn, bear that. Searching, as if through the glass darkly, we lean into God in the hope of getting even a glimpse of one new glowing ray. However thin it might be, however little or much we came near to seeing that way before, we search for treasures of God, personal for us as well as universal. 
     Again, when this happens, we want to, or we must, write. 

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