In this video, Margie Warrell encourages us to know our why, to connect with our purpose, to understand our calling in life.  While Margie focuses her teaching toward those in the world of business, we believe that this is one of the most important aspect of human existence and the key to engaging your Godly destiny - whatever your area of influence.

Regarding Margie Warrell, Big Speak shares, "Recognized internationally as a thought leader in human potential, Margie Warrell’s personal and professional development programs as a top female motivational speaker engage, educate and empower.  Margie has walked her talk when it comes to living bravely and building resilience. Her message of courage – and it’s imperative to rethink risk and challenge self-limiting ’stories’ – stems from the many challenges and personal adversities she’s faced in her life. Since growing up on a dairy farm in rural Australia, she has traveled extensively, venturing off the beaten track in over 60 countries through the Middle East, South America, Africa and Asia and relocated around the world several times with her husband and four children."

Whether in the world of business or in the business of life, service to others is a key to living your Godly destiny.  This type of purpose can be in the "big" things or the "little" things, but regardless of the size of the thing - significance matters.  Also, don't forget little things can be hidden as big things and big things can be disguised as little things.

As you watch this video and listen to this story, please kindly consider how a little act of kindness and service mushroomed into motivating and inspiring tens of thousands of people directly.  Also, please kindly contemplate the incredible power of service.

In this video, Gary Hamel outlines the changes in management and leadership thought that are shaping the future.  At the core of his presentation is his understanding that human beings are amazingly adaptable, innovative and engaging - that we are built to aim high and start working.

Be encouraged as this bit of leading business thought helps to prepare you discover, unlock and live your Godly destiny.

This video by Rich Sheridan introduces us to the idea that we should experiment with ideas without fear.  He suggests that fear must be sucked from the room to truly unleash purpose and destiny.  Is it possible that your Godly destiny is stalled out by fear of making a mistake?  What if the answer to true spiritual authority and destiny was to make mistakes faster, free from fear?  Could embracing the joy of the Lord help you unlock and live your Godly destiny.  Might unspeakable joy follow?

Before discounting this idea as foolishness, you might want to here Rich's story and how experimenting without fear transformed his business and life.

From Menlow Innovations website, "Learn what focusing on Joy can do for your company Menlo is a software design and development company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Last year, 2,197 people came from around the world to visit us. They made the trek not to learn about technology, but to witness a radically different approach to workplace culture — one intentionally designed to produce joy.

At Menlo, we have built a culture that removes the fear and ambiguity that traditionally makes a workplace miserable. With joy as the explicit goal, we've changed everything about how our company is run, and have brought that joy into the lives of our clients and their end users. Joy, Inc. offers readers an inside look at our belief system and how it influences our physical environment, embraces making mistakes, and eliminates stereotypical meetings all while fostering dignity and respect for each other.

Joy, Inc. is for readers in any field who want tangible examples for a healthier, happier atmosphere at work—and the sustainable business results required for growth. Readers will come away with an inspirational blueprint for how to create a corporate culture centered on joy in their own workplace."

What would happen if we were animated by joy rather than fear?

Hebrews 10: 24-25 instructs us to, "...think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near." (NLT) 

Great togetherness in pursuit of Godly destiny requires that we root for each other, and encourage each other.  And, as Godly destinies are expressed through business enterprise, we find that the same Biblical principals apply.

To that end we share this video by Chester Elton, where on his website he describes the power of the Carrot Principle.  He opines, "The Carrot Principle shows definitively that the central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition—a practice that unquestionably taps into our own human nature. Recognition inspires results in every age group, career level, and culture! With breakthrough research of 200,000 people over ten years from The Jackson Organization, and massive, new global data collected by Towers Perrin, The Carrot Principle demonstrates how constructive praise and meaningful rewards powerfully motivates people from every walk of life and inspires employees to excel, engage, and bring their best to work every day.

Drawing on case studies from leading companies including Disney, DHL, KPMG, and Pepsi Bottling Group, bestselling authors Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton show how the transformative power of purpose-based recognition produces astonishing results—whether measured by return on equity, return on assets, or operating margin. And they show how great managers who lead with carrots achieve higher:

• Productivity
• Engagement
• Retention
• Customer satisfaction

The Carrot Principle illustrates that the relationship between recognition and improved business results is highly predictable—it’s proven to work, time and time again. But, it’s not the employee recognition some of us have been using for years. This is recognition done right, recognition combined with four other core traits of effective leadership. And, effective recognition, which all managers can easily learn and begin practicing for immediate results doesn’t take time—it can be done in a matter of moments, and it requires very little investment to create a huge ROI."

Have you ever wondered what makes a human system work - whether it be a family, church, business, school or government?

One finding suggests that “the influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows….only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform possibilities into fact….and only a similar combination can make a culture take form over a thousand natural obstacles….man, not the earth, makes civilization.” Will and Ariel Durant

Therefore, we see that human factors are more important than other factors in creating a high performing human cultures.  So, what drives the ability to enjoy a high performance human system?  Know this, the synergy of innovation and execution will create something greater than the sum of their parts – and, this is the high performance we all seek.

What is your cultural operating system?  Does it provide constant, gentle pressure to continually bring things back to your core values and principles?  Can you speak truth to power?  Do you depend on a handful of people to drag the others along? Can anyone hold anyone accountable?  Do great ideas come to nothing?

Based on significant research on business operations, four crucial skills of a high performance human system were discovered.  These include:

• Self-Directed Change – Are people continually engaged in self-directed change?
• Interpersonal – Can anyone say anything to anyone?
• Team – Can anyone hold anyone accountable?
• Organizational – Are leaders skilled at influencing rapid, profound, and sustainable behavior change?

As these crucial skills are embraced, the ability to innovate and execute soars.  And, you will be better able to live your Godly destiny.