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How To Bring More “Dream” Clients from God Into Your Business

We all have a “dream client” that we wish every client was like. It’s not that this client paid you the most, it’s that they were impacted and changed the most by the product or service we created.

How can we bring more of these good-feeling situations into our businesses?

We must decide on a niche.

The best branding projects I’ve been involved in were the ones where I helped an entrepreneur discover what they were born to do, bring it to life, and help them tell the world about it. I’ve guided thousands of entrepreneurs on the journey of launching a business, but the best ones are when the entrepreneur feels a “calling” to create the product or service they envisioned.

So how do I attract more and more “dream clients” to allow me into their business plans?

All of us entrepreneurs are built by the same creator of the universe. And by design, God created us to come back and connect with Him regularly. This action of coming to God often is integral to the development of our entrepreneurial journey.

I personally believe this “daily huddle” with God is where we business owners uncover and discover our niche. The desire for quality time with God, our CEO, is how we were built so we could receive His loving care and divine direction for our entrepreneurial calling.

God built us GODPRENEURS to be restored by Him so He could reveal His ideas more to us.

The bible says

“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Getaway with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

(Matthew 11:28‭-‬30 MSG)

Rest is what prepares the mind for the revelation.

You’ll be able to decide on a niche more clearly when you are living freely and lightly.

When you discover how to connect with God regularly, you live in a condition of abundance. You’ll be getting filled up, so you can turn around and fill others up. You’ll see that the people that start buying your products and services will all contribute to confirming your joy and happiness in a very specific niche.

And when you’re feeling more of your joy, more often throughout the day, you’re able to have a better quality of life at the office, at home, and in your community.  You’re able to give because you first received it. You’re able to love and serve on those who you were meant to do business with. You’re able to do what you were born to do.

I have my personal brand, Daily Godpreneur, and I constantly come back to God and allow Him to guide my writings and teachings. In turn, I believe He brings me the people I’m supposed to do business with! He also inspires my marketing and advertising so I can attract even more followers.

If we neglect the daily task of coming to our CEO (God) for our discovery prayer time, we’re missing out on His revelation. If we fail to learn how to meet with God in prayer and meditation, we operate in a condition of depletion and start to depend on our own energy source. And as a form of survival, we’ll try to take from everyone, rather than overflow onto a specific group of people – the ones God called us to serve.

What’s Next?

Make a list of everything you LOVE doing and are UNIQUELY gifted at doing. Avoid things you’re good at or obligations just because you wear that hat in the business.  Keep it to your UNIQUE ABILITIES.

List things that you would do even if you weren’t paid to do it. What moves your heart, calms your heart, or makes it beat faster because you’re excited to do that service or provide that product?

What services do you provide that restores you, excites you, or connects you to God? What do you do at work that, after finishing, you think you yourself “Wow, that was a spiritual experience!” 

Once you have your list, narrow it down to the ONE PROBLEM you would do for the rest of your life.

That’s your niche.

How To Bring More “Dream” Clients from God Into Your Business was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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How to Align Your Business with Your Niche Calling

Do you ever feel frustrated that you know you have this gift – this calling to do something – but you’re not doing it?  You may have even created a plan and put some things together, but you haven’t pressed play.

The area between where you’re at now and where God has called you to be is called unrealized potential.  This “grey area” is what’s causing a misalignment in your life. If you don’t do something about it, your integrity takes a hit and you’ll continue to feel frustrated in life.

However, there are things we can be doing STARTING TODAY that can bring us back into alignment.

When I work with entrepreneurs before launching their businesses, I take my time to help them discover a very specific niche problem to solve.  I do this because it helps me create a better logo and website. However, I do it more because it helps me guide the entrepreneur towards alignment with their calling.

If the person I’m helping is feeling confused or frustrated, they won’t be ready to launch.  But if I can help them choose a niche, we’ll have a strong foundation.

Think about the concrete foundation of a very tall building. A foundation has integrity when its purpose, its design, its build, and its use are aligned. Said another way, to have integrity a foundation must be designed, laid out and constructed for a specific purpose—and it must actually be used toward that purpose. We can count on a foundation like that, even to bear the heavy and important load of a tall building, because all its existence is in alignment.

Although we entrepreneurs are infinitely more complex and wondrous than the concrete foundation of a building, we also need alignment in our business life to have that kind of integrity.

Deciding on a niche is like building our business on a strong foundation. And God wants to build a great thing upon the foundation of our calling. He has designed and built us for a specific purpose in entrepreneurship.

The Bible says

I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere.

(Ephesians 4:12 MSG)

The Apostle Paul urged followers to pursue their calling, stop delaying, AND to make sure the path they were on was the correct one.

God gave you spiritual gifts and natural talents and a heart that has been shaped with a unique passion to solve a specific problem in the marketplace. You’ve been shaped from birth by your individual journey. Therefore, your purpose, your design, and the way you were built will always align. God did that already. However, you choose you’ll use what God created. 

If we entrepreneurs search and ask to discover and listen to what God had in mind for us when He dreamt us up and knit us together in our mother’s womb – and then allow ourselves to be used in the way he intended, we bring our business lives into alignment.

But, if we don’t make this recognition and do the discovery work to get to the place of making a decision on what niche we were called to do, we strike out on our own. That’s our choice. We’re choosing to follow the world’s desires or our fears, and we commit ourselves to run businesses out of alignment.

Imagine if we all started small and practical and just decided on one little niche – a very small problem to solve for an extremely specific group of people – and moved forward with that idea. Let’s pick a product or service that requires our unique skills and abilities, our unique spiritual gifts, and our unique passion to right a wrong we’ve identified.

Decide on a niche that’s significant.

Don’t wait. Get going on it.

How to Align Your Business with Your Niche Calling was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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3 Ways God Reveals the Exact Niche Our Business Should Be In

Have you discovered your purpose in business, but find yourself struggling to execute on it because you get sucked back into old ways?

Maybe there’s a new direction you want to take with your business, but past clients and old services keep you from moving forward because…you’ve gotta pay the bills, right?

Or, there’s a personal brand or blog you’ve been meaning to launch, but with all the distractions of life, you can’t find the time to press play or continue building.

There’s a strategy I want to share with you today to help you move into “an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you” (Ephesians 4:20-24 MSG).

I’m constantly tweaking my branding agency. I’ve been helping businesses launch since 2005, but it hasn’t always stayed the same. I’ve changed my process, target market, and niche too many times to count.

In 2019, I decided I wanted to target more doctors. All I did was started talking more about doctors on my blog posts and examples. I even created a new page on my website to target that market specifically. Yes, I still had other types of businesses calling me, but I was doing small things to move me into a new direction that I felt God calling me towards.

We can all rebrand and redirect our focus because it’s human nature to be remade. We’re constantly shedding our skin and new skin is replacing it.

God uses entrepreneurship to help us be remade into our new selves – what He created us to do. But He won’t force the change on us. He wants us to keep asking, keep listening, and keep working with Him.

The bible says:

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

(Luke 11:9 NIV)

Jesus says to ask, seek, and knock. That’s three ways of saying the same thing – be continuous and relentless in pursuing the things of God.

God won’t reveal our true brand’s calling all at once. It’s a continuous process where He wants to guide and teach along the journey. God will identify our brand in a process and progression that builds on itself throughout our entrepreneurial career.

For this reason, you shouldn’t get hung up or stressed about being stuck between your old business model and the new direction God wants to take you. He wants to work THROUGH the process.

There’s no formula or timeline of how this works. However, when God gives us a calling in business that is unique to us, we have to treat that with the most extraordinary care. We can’t allow that vision to be lost or forgotten with the hustle and bustle of life. We have to have a system and process in place to constantly be revisiting the calling.

Deciding on a niche to serve is a process of documenting what God reveals to us and consistently revisiting and revising them. If we keep our calling top of mind, we’ll always be focused on who we were really meant to become in the marketplace.

How do we keep our calling top of mind so God brings our niche more into focus and action?

I’ve created a Trello board and Google Document dedicated to the purpose of writing out what God reveals to me about my purpose and calling. The more I revisit this and analyze it based on my current circumstances, the more my niche is revealed. Constantly reading and tweaking resurfaces the feelings towards solving the problem I was born to fix

Get a journal or open a document on your computer or phone and record what God has been revealing to you. Remember moments He spoke. Recall terrible client situations you never want to experience again and amazing clients you loved working with. Remember the situations you loved, products you were proud of. Bring back moments where you helped someone and it felt like you were in your zone. Write down Bible verses that impacted you and your business.

Imagine if we all collected and compiled all of these things and revisited them every morning, even if it was just for 5 minutes. Let’s preserve and protect what God shows us because it will reveal the niche product or service you were called to bring to life. Simply keep returning again and again. God is faithful. He will bring the vision to life.

3 Ways God Reveals the Exact Niche Our Business Should Be In was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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Struggling to Pick a Niche in Business? Here are 2 Obvious Clues from God.

As Christian entrepreneurs, our hearts are shaped from before we were born to hurt for a certain wrong in this world.  We don’t know it from birth, we uncover it along the way.

Entrepreneurship (God’s way) is taking a risk to launch a venture that will solve that specific problem you were created to pain over.

But with so many avenues to take and so many people we can help, how do we know the exact pain we were born to pour into?

I’ve always been in the business of launching businesses, either for myself or for my clients.  Before knowing anything about Christ, I’ve had a marketing and branding agency.

But something weird happened when I started my relationship with God 5 years after launching my company.  I started to “feel bad” for entrepreneurs that were coming to launch their business that I knew deep down the venture wasn’t going to work out for them.

Before knowing God, if you had an idea for a business, I would take your deposit and start working on whatever you had come to me asking for.  But after knowing God, I began to question the client, “Are you sure this is the business you were born to do?”

My relationship with God revealed to me a pain that I couldn’t shake off: there are people launching businesses that they have no business launching.  Furthermore, if this isn’t the right business, then what exactly is the business he or she is supposed to be in.

When we start our relationship with Christ and couple that with our vocation of entrepreneurship, God starts to shape our hearts to pain for the same things He pains for.  God gives us a NEW heart-shaped like His.

The Bible says

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

(EZEKIEL 36:26 NIV)

The first clue to deciding on a niche is to carefully analyze how when certain problems come up, your heart is moved.  The movement of your new heart is one way God teaches you what is your “thing” in the marketplace. Business books call it your unique selling proposition (USP): what you and your company uniquely solve, different from every other company on the planet.

Your heart was made to notice, to care, to move more for certain people (target market) and certain needs (niche problem to solve): when their needs are met, your heart is satisfied; when they aren’t, your heart hurts with their heart.

For me, it would pain me to see an entrepreneur try to be everything for everyone.  It wouldn’t sit right if the person launching the business was doing it off of a whim, or because there’s “money” to be made.  When I got my new heart, I grew a passion to help people discover what they were born to do BEFORE launching their business.

We can all become conscientious of the feelings our God-first heart gives off, and begin to meet the true needs or the people we’re called to help so that we can not only find their joy but ours too.

Also, take note that you’re not moved by the same thing I’m moved for.  This means you and I were uniquely created, and not all of us are shaped to solve the same thing.

A second clue to deciding on a niche is understanding that although all of us Christian entrepreneurs were created for good works, as individuals, we’re not created for EVERY work.  We’re all called to help those in need in our marketplaces, but as individual companies, we’re not called to meet EVERY need.

This is especially difficult for realtors to grasp their heads around.  They think because they have a license to service the entire state of Florida, that everyone is their target market.  But that’s impossible. I have to help them see that they were created to solve a very specific niche need, and the process of deciding on a niche makes the difference between top earners and those that struggle.

I have discovered what is my thing to do here in this world, and my prayer is that CHRIST teaches you what is yours!  Don’t look for your niche at a seminar or a YouTube video or because you saw someone else succeeding. Your niche will come from a heart after God’s heart.

Imagine if we all detached ourselves from our selfish desires and considered only our hearts.  What specific group of people can we help with a particular need that moves us in a unique way?  That’s our niche.

Struggling to Pick a Niche in Business? Here are 2 Obvious Clues from God. was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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Launching Your "Calling" During Quarantine - 10 Tips

Hi Godpreneurs,

As I connect with more of you on my Twitter and Facebook, it’s obvious this Coronavirus craze has been taking over our entire attention span and resources as business owners. It has turned many of our business plans upside down.

Amonst my own inner circle of Christian business owners, we’ve gone from insecurity to fear, then panic, helplessness, recalibrating, and finally to damage forecasting and praying for this to pass already!

However, if we live in fear, we could miss out on all the BENEFITS that can come from this season of retreat. The biggest one is that, overnight, the entire world went to ONLINE EDUCATION. And now businesses were forced to have a REMOTE working strategy, which was already beneficial even before all of this. Also, many new opportunities for collaborations are popping up as there’s a new sense of urgency to come up with creative solutions to run their businesses.

Even through all the challenges of the Coronavirus, as Christians, we don’t live in the spirit of fear.

The Bible says

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

(2 Timothy 1:7)

What if God wants to use this time for the business world to rise up to new levels of love and self-control? It seems like overnight, most of us have been given back one of our most valuable resources – time.

What if God wants us to draw closer to him in order to develop better time management habits so we can step closer into the business He created us to do?

Time is a wonderful gift from God if you know how to use it wisely.

Take the #QuarantineTimeChallenge

I’ve launched a campaign to inspire Christian entrepreneurs worldwide to take this #QuarantineaTime to re-start, re-build, and re-engineer the Business God Created You to Start!

During this time, let’s discover what you could do with all this season of time God as given us in order to jumpstart your business ideas:

1. Launch Your Personal Website

Check out www.alexmiranda22.com. It’s basically my online resume. I believe all entrepreneurs need one of these, regardless if you plan on becoming a personal brand later. I think this has become as necessary and fundamental as a business card. Essentially, it’s an online business card.

You can go to www.wix.com/templates/personal-brand and see that there are so many you can choose from and have yours up and running in no time.

This is a fabulous opportunity to stop for a moment and document your entrepreneurial journey and ventures. This will motivate you to carry on.

2. Finally, update your portfolio, case studies, and client spotlights

I know I’m not alone when I say that I could be doing a much better job at showing off my client work and spotlighting client success stories.

It frustrates me to no end that, even as a branding agency, I do a terrible job at keeping up with my portfolio.

I’m sure you’ve also been looking for some spare time to update your website portfolio.

Me and my team are going to look through all our folders and uncover every project we’ve been working on lately, freshen up our portfolio design, and pack into it all the experience that we’ve have gathered.

Regardless of your industry, if you take time to document your case studies, you’ll be opening some new doors for your business.

Remember that every case is a story. You should give a background, what the challenge was, and how you came alongside to bring success to your client.

Here’s a good example

Doctor Transformational Success Story

Branding Agency Case Study

3. Offer to help, NOT SELL. Here’s how.

The other day I sent an email out with ideas for my clients on things they can be doing while under #QuarantineTime. I wasn’t selling anything. In fact, my email said “reply to me and I’ll help you brainstorm ideas for your business.”

I’ve seen other coaches offer free 20-minute strategy sessions. And I’ve seen some companies open up their online courses for FREE during this time, offering a 2-month coupon.

Since many people will be restructuring and rethinking, now is a good time to HELP your customers think outside the box.

Get on social media or open up a mass email and invite your clients and prospects to take advantage of you. Get on the phone, jump into some chats, and keep engaging! Even if you don’t see how it could turn into a sale, now is the time to SHOW SOME LOVE.

When we love and serve others, we’re being like Christ. When we’re like Christ, we make ourselves BLESSABLE by God. And when we’re bless-able, God is able to do MORE through us and He’ll provide more too!

4. Redesign Your Website, Business Processes, or Services

Don’t like your website?

Not happy with how you handle customer orders?

Need to re-think your service offering?

All of these things affect your BRAND IMAGE, and now is a perfect time to work on those.

My company will be redesigning our website over the next month. I’m also pressing play on some initiatives to launch some new products.

Spend some time redesigning or re-engineering your business. Do something NEW that you’ve always wanted to do.

5. Time to Learn What You’ve Always Been Telling Yourself to Learn

For me, I’ve always known that I need to learn about Facebook ads. It’s just been eating me alive for YEARS that I haven’t gotten into it. This #QuarantineChalllenge is going to be when I finally dive deeper into them.

You’ve got some books stacked up. There’s a couple of online courses you have bookmarked. Now you have the time to sit down and learn.

I suggest digging deeper into topics relevant to your industry. Sharpen your toolkit.

PRO TIP: Jump on LinkedIn and share with the business world what you’re learning. People will start to see you as an expert.

6. Teach and Share Your God-Given Knowledge

I started www.DailyGodpreneur.com because I was studying the Bible for everything about entrepreneurship and blogging about my experiences. My desire to SHARE KNOWLEDGE is what’s helped me build up the following I have.

This #QuarantineChallenge is your opportunity to invite others into conversations with you so you can show them what you’re capable of.

Do you know how to coach mom’s into helping their babies fall asleep? Then share your knowledge!

Do you know how to cook a healthy meal for your kids? Then share your knowledge.

Are you a Facebook ads guru at your job? Then share your knowledge.

Share cases studies or projects you’ve been working on. Talk about what God has been showing you on this journey. Give insight into things you’re researching. Let others know about the books you’re reading or TedTalks you’re watching.

7. Start a Blog, Write a Book (I’ll Show You How)

I have over 650 blog posts written at www.DailyGodpreneur.com. The reason I have so many is because I figured our a formula.

Have you wanted to start a blog or write a book? This is a perfect time to get that going!

But writing a book is such a huge task! However, writing it section by section is not.

The formula is

3 blog posts become 1 chapter

3 chapters become 1 section

3 sections become 1 book

If you do the math, that’s 27 blog posts becomes 1 book.

Cool, right?

Watch my free webinar here where I go into a little more detail.

8. Organize the Entrepreneurs of Your Church

My church switched to an ‘online church’ model because of the Coronavurus quarantine. This means all the ministry’s have also moved online.

Think about putting together an online mastermind of other Christian entrepreneurs where you guys can all share your experiences. Get with the business owners of your church and share tips of what’s working now. Let’s all feed off of each other.

This is a time to make new friends and connections. Even though we can’t see each other phtlysically, we have zoom! We can still collaborate.

Start building more community. Now is the time…now more than ever!

9. Build a Community by Launching a Contest or Challenge

When the quarantine started happening, I got with my team to launch the #QuarantineChallenge out of nowhere. I had never done anything like it. It was totally out of the blue!

What can you come up with to get community involvement? I’ve seen so many things popping up where groups are coming together for so many reasons.

Launch a contest or start a Facebook or LinkedIn group. When this is all over, the community will always remember you for leading and giving the way you did.

10) LAUNCH A NEW BUSINESS!

What if this is the moment for you to finally launch your coaching business?

What if now is the time to start your consulting firm?

What if you could FINALLY start your freelance graphic design career?

There are so many possibilities!

Join the #QuarantineChallenge to finally start the business God created you to start!

Click here.

This is a time to THINK INSIDE THE BOX of what God has created you for. Now that you’re in the box, focus on your calling.

I want to help guide you. Join me at the challenge.

And please take care.

Alex Miranda

Launching Your “Calling” During Quarantine – 10 Tips was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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Launching Your "Calling" During Quarantine - 10 Tips

Hi Godpreneurs,

As I connect with more of you on my Twitter and Facebook, it’s obvious this Coronavirus craze has been taking over our entire attention span and resources as business owners. It has turned many of our business plans upside down.

Amonst my own inner circle of Christian business owners, we’ve gone from insecurity to fear, then panic, helplessness, recalibrating, and finally to damage forecasting and praying for this to pass already!

However, if we live in fear, we could miss out on all the BENEFITS that can come from this season of retreat. The biggest one is that, overnight, the entire world went to ONLINE EDUCATION. And now businesses were forced to have a REMOTE working strategy, which was already beneficial even before all of this. Also, many new opportunities for collaborations are popping up as there’s a new sense of urgency to come up with creative solutions to run their businesses.

Even through all the challenges of the Coronavirus, as Christians, we don’t live in the spirit of fear.

The Bible says

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

(2 Timothy 1:7)

What if God wants to use this time for the business world to rise up to new levels of love and self-control? It seems like overnight, most of us have been given back one of our most valuable resources – time.

What if God wants us to draw closer to him in order to develop better time management habits so we can step closer into the business He created us to do?

Time is a wonderful gift from God if you know how to use it wisely.

Take the #QuarantineTimeChallenge

I’ve launched a campaign to inspire Christian entrepreneurs worldwide to take this #QuarantineaTime to re-start, re-build, and re-engineer the Business God Created You to Start!

During this time, let’s discover what you could do with all this season of time God as given us in order to jumpstart your business ideas:

1. Launch Your Personal Website

Check out www.alexmiranda22.com. It’s basically my online resume. I believe all entrepreneurs need one of these, regardless if you plan on becoming a personal brand later. I think this has become as necessary and fundamental as a business card. Essentially, it’s an online business card.

You can go to www.wix.com/templates/personal-brand and see that there are so many you can choose from and have yours up and running in no time.

This is a fabulous opportunity to stop for a moment and document your entrepreneurial journey and ventures. This will motivate you to carry on.

2. Finally, update your portfolio, case studies, and client spotlights

I know I’m not alone when I say that I could be doing a much better job at showing off my client work and spotlighting client success stories.

It frustrates me to no end that, even as a branding agency, I do a terrible job at keeping up with my portfolio.

I’m sure you’ve also been looking for some spare time to update your website portfolio.

Me and my team are going to look through all our folders and uncover every project we’ve been working on lately, freshen up our portfolio design, and pack into it all the experience that we’ve have gathered.

Regardless of your industry, if you take time to document your case studies, you’ll be opening some new doors for your business.

Remember that every case is a story. You should give a background, what the challenge was, and how you came alongside to bring success to your client.

Here’s a good example

Doctor Transformational Success Story

Branding Agency Case Study

3. Offer to help, NOT SELL. Here’s how.

The other day I sent an email out with ideas for my clients on things they can be doing while under #QuarantineTime. I wasn’t selling anything. In fact, my email said “reply to me and I’ll help you brainstorm ideas for your business.”

I’ve seen other coaches offer free 20-minute strategy sessions. And I’ve seen some companies open up their online courses for FREE during this time, offering a 2-month coupon.

Since many people will be restructuring and rethinking, now is a good time to HELP your customers think outside the box.

Get on social media or open up a mass email and invite your clients and prospects to take advantage of you. Get on the phone, jump into some chats, and keep engaging! Even if you don’t see how it could turn into a sale, now is the time to SHOW SOME LOVE.

When we love and serve others, we’re being like Christ. When we’re like Christ, we make ourselves BLESSABLE by God. And when we’re bless-able, God is able to do MORE through us and He’ll provide more too!

4. Redesign Your Website, Business Processes, or Services

Don’t like your website?

Not happy with how you handle customer orders?

Need to re-think your service offering?

All of these things affect your BRAND IMAGE, and now is a perfect time to work on those.

My company will be redesigning our website over the next month. I’m also pressing play on some initiatives to launch some new products.

Spend some time redesigning or re-engineering your business. Do something NEW that you’ve always wanted to do.

5. Time to Learn What You’ve Always Been Telling Yourself to Learn

For me, I’ve always known that I need to learn about Facebook ads. It’s just been eating me alive for YEARS that I haven’t gotten into it. This #QuarantineChalllenge is going to be when I finally dive deeper into them.

You’ve got some books stacked up. There’s a couple of online courses you have bookmarked. Now you have the time to sit down and learn.

I suggest digging deeper into topics relevant to your industry. Sharpen your toolkit.

PRO TIP: Jump on LinkedIn and share with the business world what you’re learning. People will start to see you as an expert.

6. Teach and Share Your God-Given Knowledge

I started www.DailyGodpreneur.com because I was studying the Bible for everything about entrepreneurship and blogging about my experiences. My desire to SHARE KNOWLEDGE is what’s helped me build up the following I have.

This #QuarantineChallenge is your opportunity to invite others into conversations with you so you can show them what you’re capable of.

Do you know how to coach mom’s into helping their babies fall asleep? Then share your knowledge!

Do you know how to cook a healthy meal for your kids? Then share your knowledge.

Are you a Facebook ads guru at your job? Then share your knowledge.

Share cases studies or projects you’ve been working on. Talk about what God has been showing you on this journey. Give insight into things you’re researching. Let others know about the books you’re reading or TedTalks you’re watching.

7. Start a Blog, Write a Book (I’ll Show You How)

I have over 650 blog posts written at www.DailyGodpreneur.com. The reason I have so many is because I figured our a formula.

Have you wanted to start a blog or write a book? This is a perfect time to get that going!

But writing a book is such a huge task! However, writing it section by section is not.

The formula is

3 blog posts become 1 chapter

3 chapters become 1 section

3 sections become 1 book

If you do the math, that’s 27 blog posts becomes 1 book.

Cool, right?

Watch my free webinar here where I go into a little more detail.

8. Organize the Entrepreneurs of Your Church

My church switched to an ‘online church’ model because of the Coronavurus quarantine. This means all the ministry’s have also moved online.

Think about putting together an online mastermind of other Christian entrepreneurs where you guys can all share your experiences. Get with the business owners of your church and share tips of what’s working now. Let’s all feed off of each other.

This is a time to make new friends and connections. Even though we can’t see each other phtlysically, we have zoom! We can still collaborate.

Start building more community. Now is the time…now more than ever!

9. Build a Community by Launching a Contest or Challenge

When the quarantine started happening, I got with my team to launch the #QuarantineChallenge out of nowhere. I had never done anything like it. It was totally out of the blue!

What can you come up with to get community involvement? I’ve seen so many things popping up where groups are coming together for so many reasons.

Launch a contest or start a Facebook or LinkedIn group. When this is all over, the community will always remember you for leading and giving the way you did.

10) LAUNCH A NEW BUSINESS!

What if this is the moment for you to finally launch your coaching business?

What if now is the time to start your consulting firm?

What if you could FINALLY start your freelance graphic design career?

There are so many possibilities!

Join the #QuarantineChallenge to finally start the business God created you to start!

Click here.

This is a time to THINK INSIDE THE BOX of what God has created you for. Now that you’re in the box, focus on your calling.

I want to help guide you. Join me at the challenge.

And please take care.

Alex Miranda

Launching Your “Calling” During Quarantine – 10 Tips was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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KDE Podcast 254: Applying the Power of the Scripture in Business (Conversation with Alex Miranda)

Today’s guest is serial entrepreneur and founder of Daily Godpreneur Alex Miranda.

Listen here: https://kingdomdrivenentrepreneur.com/alex-miranda/

Alex has a rich testimony that speaks to the transforming power of immersing yourself in the Bible and allowing the Holy Spirit to bring the scripture to life and make it tangible in your life and business. We also talk about how God shifted how he engages with clients in a really practical way that points them back to the One who created them (whether they believe in Jesus or not).

Also included in today’s episode is a bonus conversation with business advisor Drew Hiss regarding his book that helps entrepreneurs understand and apply the timeless principles found in the book of Proverbs to business.

Episode Length: 44 minutes

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KDE Podcast 254: Applying the Power of the Scripture in Business (Conversation with Alex Miranda) was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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How to Make More Sales and Convert More Prospects While Glorifying God In Business

Click here to take the class!

This 5 session class is for entrepreneurs at all levels.  Whether you have been running a successful business for years or you’re just starting out, you will benefit by starting/re-starting your business by partnering with God.

Does Glorifying God Mean You’ll Make More Money?

We always want to increase our profits.  Biblically speaking, there are things that can prevent you from experiencing growth.  However, the Lord wants you to succeed more than you do for yourself. You’ll learn the difference between desiring more income and experiencing financial increase as a bi-product of trusting God & His principles.

Should People Know Your A Christian Where You Work?

Some of us have work where there is low interaction with people.  Sharing your faith can be uncomfortable, but it doesn’t have to be.  The Bible says, “by this people will know that you are my disciples, if you have…” Others can come to know the Lord by your actions and not just words. We will dive into this topic so you no longer feel awkward, scared, or pushy if you want to share Christ with others!

Grow Your Business WITHOUT Compromising Your Faith!

“What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?” – Mark 8:36 There is a simple way to experience growth without compromising your faith, or taking unscrupulous short cuts.  Learn to discern the voice of the Holy Spirit vs anything else when making decisions for your business.

Learn to Get Your Offers in Front of YOUR Perfect Audience!

This workshop is not just biblical principles.  In modules 4 and 5, it is all sales and online marketing! We will dive deep into identifying the perfect target audience, crafting irresistible offers, and create your very own online sales funnel so you are creating new customers and profits 24/7! This is especially helpful if you have never marketed online or are a newbie when it comes to online business development.

Click here to take the class!

How to Make More Sales and Convert More Prospects While Glorifying God In Business was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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Coronavirus and Christian Business Owners - How to Use this Time to PRESS PLAY on your Calling

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Interview with Reverand Ron Gelock of Christ-Centered Coaching and Alex Miranda of Daily Godprenuer to discuss what we can be doing during this time of retreat to really focus in on our calling in business.

Coronavirus and Christian Business Owners – How to Use this Time to PRESS PLAY on your Calling was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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Got Sidetracked from Launching Your Christian Blog? Here's How to Get Back to God's Business!

I’ve been building my Christian personal brand since 2014.  I was also running my branding and marketing agency at the same time.

It’s not easy to launch a personal brand while also running a business.  From one day to the next, a client can call with a massive project, forcing me to put my “pet project” to the side so I can make some money.

Just like that, my desire to get out there with my “signature product” has been derailed…again… 

I know I’m not alone because I’m in the business of launching people’s personal brands…it’s a struggle we all share!

Entrepreneurship is like the Miami weather in the summer – one moment it’s clear skies, and the next moment there’s a hurricane.

The danger with this “unpredictable storm” is that it could lead to a place of us asking ourselves “why would God make it so hard for me to do what I feel He’s calling me to do?”

To make matters worse, when we do finally launch our Christian personal brand, we don’t get the number of subscribers we sought or purchases we predicted.  This can REALLY derail even the most faithful church-goer! When we start going through some very real trials on our personal brand journey, we question why God would allow it. We may even fight back tears of anger and frustration and think, “How can I represent a God I can’t trust?”

Our questions and doubts hit at the heart of one of a Christian entrepreneur’s biggest decisions: Will we trust that God is good even when business is not?

Our response to pain and challenges along the personal brand journey determines so much about our future success (or failure).

The Bible tells the story of doubting Thomas.  He didn’t believe Jesus was resurrected until Jesus shows up and proves it by showing Thomas his piercings and scars.

But then Jesus tells Thomas one of the most important lessons for all Christianity.

Then Jesus told him,

“Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (John 20:29 NIV)

Faith in entrepreneurship requires trust in a plan from God that’s not always predictable or understandable by our human standards.

If you’re honest, you too want irrefutable proof of God’s providence on your personal brand journey – especially if you’re doing it for the Kingdom!  You want proof in a number of followers, subscribers, likes, comments, and retweets. You want the proof in sales and joint ventures. 

We tend to think we wouldn’t be going through a struggle of launching and growing a Christian personal brand if God were really with us.  We may even think putting God in the brand was a mistake. But that’s not it. With Jesus is in our brand’s boat, the storms of solitude may still rock us, but we won’t sink. He’s with us, both in a successful launch and in the worst-case imaginable…nobody listens.

God is with us. God is for us. Who can be against us? 

Let’s all trust God with whatever we’ve been holding back on our Christian personal brand journey. 

Let’s trust Him with our future product launches. 

Let’s trust Him with our virtual assistants. 

Let’s trust Him with our social media channels. 

Let’s trust Him with our followers. 

Let’s trust Him that he’ll provide financially!

Let’s trust God without a doubt that we’re on the right path!

Period.

Let’s pray: 

Heavenly Father, we trust You with the personal brand we’re starting and other things we’re stopping. We trust You with where we’re staying and going in Your name. We trust You enough to give our business life to serve and connect to the people you’ve entrusted us with. We trust You are present with purpose in the midst of our entrepreneurial storms. Thank You for being with us, guiding our steps, and giving us a calling to be Your light in the marketplace. Amen.

Got Sidetracked from Launching Your Christian Blog? Here’s How to Get Back to God’s Business! was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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How to Connect with other Christian Personal Brands to Exponentially Grow Yours

People might think I’m an extrovert that loves to go out and connect with people.  Can I share a secret? I’m not a networking kinda guy….

Don’t get me wrong, I love to connect with people.  I can meet a stranger at a party and by the time we leave, I’ve inspired that person to think differently.

However, do I PURPOSE to go out and connect? No.  It’s just not in my nature to be intentional about it…yet.

We’re all made to serve our marketplaces, and we can certainly make a great impact without intentionally going out to connect with people, but connecting with others is PARAMOUNT to building a Christian personal brand.

We can’t build a personal brand without being…personable.

We can’t be personable if….we’re not intentionally stepping out of our comfort zone to connect with others.

God has so many great opportunities lined up for our calling, but He’s going to bring that about through us connecting with others.

Who we connect with today will change the blog posts and videos and testimonial stories we share tomorrow!

The Bible tells a great story of how one man’s intentional desire to connect with others changed the course of history!

Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them. Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him. (Matthew 4:23‭-‬25 NIV)

Jesus’s ascension from obscurity to authority started when he connects with people around Galilee and recruits his first disciples who begin to travel with him and eventually form the core of the early Church.  The next scene is Jesus connecting with more people, healing the sick, more people find out and come to where he’s at, and the rest is history.

Jesus didn’t start out like a rockstar preacher.  He was called to this, but he wasn’t the authority on the scene…yet.

Jesus had a plan to reach out to anyone who would give him a chance to share his newfound ministry. Jesus’s decision to connect didn’t just change his story; it changed history. You see, Jesus was 12 connections away from altering the course of his humanity. And those connections became the 12 disciples that started the Christian church you call home today.

You may be one podcast interview away from changing your story.  Any opportunities that come your way, paid or not, that are anywhere near to being relevant to your personal development, take it.  God is lining connections up for you on your personal brand journey.

We’re one friend away from a better client. You’re one reader away from your next business partner. You’re one conversation away from getting a coaching client. You’re one mentor away from understanding your gifts and becoming a better Christian business influencer.

Let’s be intentional about connecting with the right people.  On the same coin, who do we need to DISCONNECT with to open up space for God’s connections?

How to Connect with other Christian Personal Brands to Exponentially Grow Yours was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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How to Build a Personal Brand While Staying Humble

Serving others comes naturally to me. I’m a “nurturing” personality type.  I love training, motivating, mentoring and counseling other people.

I believe it was my servant attitude that made it easier for me to build a Christian personal brand around myself.  I understood early on in business that entrepreneurship wasn’t about me, it was about having the attitude about helping others first.

But I know there are other personality types out there where serving doesn’t come naturally, and instead, there’s more of a self-centered approach to business.  After all, we’re the owners whose names are on the line, so we want it OUR way.

All of us Christians building a personal brand can be a bit self-centered.  By nature, we’re all selfish. We’re born this way. However, the danger of building a personal brand is that we put ourselves in a position to forget about God and be consumed with “self” promotion.  

Although we’re Christians with a God-first message for the marketplace, we’re still influenced by the “have it your way” culture we live in.  But God wants us to have it His way.

How can we build a personal brand and, at the same time, build a business that’s not all about us?

The secret is to develop and master a go-giver, servant’s heart.

The difference between “personal branding” and “Christian personal branding” is that in the latter, Christ is first.  And if we’re going to build a personal brand around Jesus, then Jesus tells us 

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” (Matthew 16:24 NIV)

Being a Christian, you’re actually in a better position to build a personal brand than someone who doesn’t have Jesus because we’re constantly reminded of our position behind Jesus “to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” (John 4:34 NIV)

While others serve themselves by feeding off of their personal brand, you get the privilege of saying your food is to serve God, please Him, and complete the assignment God called you to do in the marketplace.  Your food is to do the will of God and finish His work. That’s the calling of Christian personal branding.

When others building their personal brands are “filling themselves,” God keeps you in check by reminding you to fill others.

When the materialistic culture around us says, “Get all you can! It’s all about you,” God wants us to contribute rather than to consume so we don’t become consumed with ourselves.

God created us to be givers. Developing a Christian personal brand allows us to focus on the needs of others rather than focusing on our desires.  Instead of making it all about ourselves, we can build a business around serving others, and get rewarded (paid) for it!

This kind of business attitude will change your brand story.

The best stories we have as business owners are remembering how we helped someone in their business with our product or service.  When we helped someone solve a problem, we were serving that person. It feels good to tell those stories because we were made to serve just as Jesus did on earth.

Serving others may not feel as natural to many of us, but serving isn’t something we do.  A Christian personal brand is stepping into the servant we are called to be – becoming more like Christ.

Lord, I pray that you reveal how you’re calling us to serve others through our personal relationships with others. Who are You calling us to serve in the marketplace? Where are you calling us to serve? In Jesus’ name. Amen!

How to Build a Personal Brand While Staying Humble was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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When Is the Right Time to Finally Launch Your Christian Blog?

I have a love-hate relationship with entrepreneurship.

I love that the marketplace is always changing, so there’s always something new to launch!

However, sometimes I just want to stay in my safe and secure stage of business, but I know I can’t stay if I want to keep up with the times.

Our worldly nature is to seek security and avoid change. It’s a defense mechanism. But as entrepreneurs looking to influence others, it’s a good idea for us to keep our hearts prepared for change because… change is a guarantee.

There are reasons we’re called to stand our ground when the pressure mounts in our businesses, but many times God is calling us to take a risk. 

How do we know when it’s time to finally GO and launch our personal brand?  And if we already have launched, how can we sense it’s time to go to the next level or launch the next product or service?

The answer is…when we feel restless where we are, that could be God planting a divine desire in us to serve Him in a new, surprising way!

The Bible says

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

(James 4:17 NIV)

God’s calling can’t be ignored.  He created every human with a purpose to accomplish, and if things are going to be different on Earth, people need to step into their calling.  This is why it’s a sin for people to ignore and NOT do what they were born to do.

God has inspired YOU to serve a specific group of people (target market), with an idea (business plan), to solve a problem (niche), in a certain area (marketplace).  God is calling you to finally LAUNCH that idea for your personal brand!

If you have a hunch, you need to follow it. Embrace the adventure into the unknown.  And the best way to make this leap of faith is to get a good running start with a group of other Christian entrepreneurs launching and growing their personal brands (you’re in good company here at Daily Godpreneur).

The moment we sense something new happening in our business or something different in the marketplace, even if we don’t change immediately, it’s always a good idea that we keep our hearts open for this change.

There’s a season to start planning, shed off what’s not serving us anymore, and stay focused on doing the little things preparing ourselves for the launch of our Christian personal brand.

But at some point…we have to LAUNCH!

“But what if it’s not right? What if it’s the wrong direction?”. I’ve heard it all.  I’m in the business of launching brands, I know the questions that keep us up at night staring at the ceiling causing anxiety and restlessness.

We need to use the restlessness in our favor! Sometimes the best decision we can make in finding God’s direction is to finally LAUNCH.

In the Bible, God revealed Himself to Abram and gave him a very simple and direct command: walk away from everything you’ve ever known. “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1).  The entire course of humanity would have been different if Abram would have ignored his calling.

God has been revealing Himself to you or else you wouldn’t be reading this blog post.

It’s time. Leave. LAUNCH. GO!

To step toward our destiny of being personally used by God to influence the marketplace with our message to businesses worldwide, we have to step away from our security.

To go to the next level in our life, there are 4 key areas where we have to leave our businesses.

We have to leave the industry we know and step into this new industry of teaching, speaking, writing, coaching, and consulting. 

We have to step away from the comfortable way of doing business we’ve been in for years.  

We have to see new ways of generating revenue and stop holding on to the predictable way we’ve been used to. 

We have to focus on the harder, more difficult business concepts to learn as opposed to staying in our “easy zone” of things we know how to do.

Who knows where God can take our personal brand story if we just let Him!  One day, years from now, we’ll look back on our entrepreneurial journey and see the whole story.

The question is…what’s your story going to be?

Will it be, “I felt like God was calling me to influence the marketplace with the Word of God, but I was afraid, so I did nothing.” 

Or will you have a faith-filled God-venture to tell?!

The difference comes down to acting when God “LAUNCH,” or staying where you’re comfortable.

What business is God calling you to leave?

What Christian personal brand is He calling you to launch?

I’m praying for you!

When Is the Right Time to Finally Launch Your Christian Blog? was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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How to NOT Quit on Your Christian-Based Blogging

Not many people know this, but back in 2017, I was seriously considering hanging up the hat on this Godpreneur brand along with the agency I’ve had since 2005 to get a 9-5 job. I looked online for positions, I applied for a couple, and I even went in for an interview.

It was the lowest point in my business life. Bills had piled up, clients weren’t calling, and I was lost in the direction of my Christian personal brand.

I often think about how different my life would be had I given up at that time. My story would go something like “Yeah, I HAD a calling over my business life, and I have it my all but it didn’t work out. Oh well, that’s life.”

As Christian entrepreneurs looking to launch a personal brand that will unashamedly put God first, we WILL wrestle with occasional challenges in different seasons of our business: a client we don’t think we can stand another day, a partnership that’s suddenly gone wrong, a dream that’s running out of money to fund, a product launch that’s failed our expectations.

When we face difficulties in pursuing our personal brand calling, it’s natural to reconsider our huge, business-altering decisions. We might ask questions like these.

Should I take my chances, leave this burning desire of mine, and look for another way to make money?

After I failed attempt…again…is it time to move on?

Am I really cut out to be a personal brand influencer for God? Should I cut my losses before things get any worse?

In each of these examples – and with most major choices on our pilgrimage of Godpreneurship – we find ourselves at a pivotal fork in the road, and it’s time to decide to stay the course or walk away.

At this moment, we have to ask ourselves: Are we choosing to quit because it’s the right thing or because it seems like giving up would be easier?

The Bible says: 

Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. (James 5:7‭-‬8 NIV)

Farming is such a crazy business because you plant some seeds and can’t eat or collect that money for months and months.  The amount of faith needed to “stay the course” and trust that God will provide makes farming the perfect metaphor for kingdom-minded entrepreneurs.

When you’re facing the tough questions of staying the course or walking away from your God-first brand, oftentimes the best choice is to keep your venture going.

Although there are some situations and decisions you need to walk back from, the important question to ask yourself is, “Am I choosing to give up on the venture because it’s the right thing or because it seems like leaving would make life easier?”

We Godpreneurs can sometimes show the greatest act of faith when we show faithfulness to what we feel God has called us to change in our respective marketplaces.  Sometime in the future we can look back and thank God that we stayed the course of our personal branding when it would have been easier to walk away and slide back into the shadows. What a testimony!

Imagine if all of us “called” to share a testimony in business didn’t quit and instead finished the race set out before us! Remember, God made us in His image and He is the author and finisher of our personal brand story!

Let me pray for you.

Dear God, I’m praying for anyone trying to walk away from their calling, that you would convict them and give them the strength to stay and finish. Provide resources and people that will help them stay the course of their calling. Give them the strength to press on, in Jesus’ name, AMEN!

How to NOT Quit on Your Christian-Based Blogging was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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Deciding What to Cut Out So We Can FINALLY Launch our Christian Blog

One of my biggest struggles in entrepreneurship is getting involved in too many things taking me in too many different directions.

For me, it’s a blessing and a curse.

My gifting is to activate, launch, press play, bring things to life, move forward despite all odds, and go into the unknown in faith.

But if left unchecked, I can easily launch things that are out of line with where God wants me TODAY. I stress the word today because I’ve learned that just because I got a vision doesn’t mean that I need to press play today.

Now I find myself going back and pausing (or even canceling) projects that I feel God may open up opportunities for later on.

Christian entrepreneurs have good intentions or at least some kind of justification for the things we do in business. Most of us have this desire to do more and be more. God is so awesome to us that He’s given us the gift of vision – seeing our future in a different way.

God has also deposited ambition in our hearts to fuel us along the journey of entrepreneurship.

But too many times we take on projects we’re not meant to do right now, sacrificing the launch and focus of our God-First personal brand.  We don’t take the time to really stop, take a time-out, pray about it, sleep on it, or get guidance.

And even though we had good, godly intentions behind our actions, we seem surprised when we find ourselves a long way from our goals and even further from the location where God wanted us to be today.

How can we stop a train that’s already moving?

How can we take time to really know what we’re supposed to focus on today?

How do we develop the skill of easily dropping projects that, if we were honest, probably wasn’t the next step on our Godprenurial journey?

The big changes in our business lives—both negative and positive—happen with a series of decisions we need to make as soon as possible.

The Bible says

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1‭-‬2 NIV)

God’s Word says to “throw off everything that hinders.” Hinders what? Hinders from running the race marked out for us!

You have a calling from God to launch and grow your personal influence in business. He’s waiting to use you. There’s something that God has put on your heart, and although the other things may seem related or a building block, it’s really a distraction that’s entangling you.

When you’re entangled in other projects or businesses not related to your personal brand calling, you’re in sin because it’s disobedience to what God wants you to do TODAY.

I know it’s harsh. It’s harsh for me too. I’m with you on this sin.  But when a project, business idea, or job is taking us in a direction we know is moving farther away from the business God has called us to personally do, we need to pause not only to consider the financial and strategic consequences but also to decide to stop traveling in the wrong direction.

How Can We Turn From Non-Calling Projects?

The Bible verse above starts out with “therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses…”

First, we need to realize that God didn’t design entrepreneurship to be a journey you travel on your own. He knew the enemy brings all these distractions and sins along the pilgrimage of your pursuing your personal calling.  

That’s why we have the Holy Spirit, the church, and a series of guides, coaches, consultants, and mentors along with way.  We might need to step toward accountability, a new partnership, or a new place to work from.

Second, we have to “throw off everything that hinders” us from pursuing our calling.  We need to assess what’s taking us in a direction we don’t want to go or that God doesn’t want us to go?

What do you need to stop completely?  What can we stop in order to move you closer to the business God created us to start?

What we need to do to STOP distracting projects is

Take a day or half-day.

Fast and pray for guidance.

Sleep on it.

Get some godly wisdom from business people you trust.

Picture the possible outcomes.

Then, ask yourself, “Is this something I should stop completely?”

The decision we make here is the next stepping-stone toward our destination!

In order to start on the journey of our personal brand calling in business, something else has to stop. It’s likely MANY things have to stop (especially if you’re a freak like me and love to launch things!)

Although the word ‘stopping’ is usually seen as negative, it’s not so negative when we think of stopping to get gas. Stopping can be one of the most productive things we do in business!

When we stop to take inventory of where we are and where we want to go, we can then decide how to move into our calling in business. In other words, stopping actually means stepping in a new direction in our entrepreneurial journey.

What can you stop in order to move you closer to God’s divine direction?

My prayer for myself and for you is that we stop, repent, and turn away from anything that’s not serving our entrepreneurial calling and return to God and His path for our personal brand.

Deciding What to Cut Out So We Can FINALLY Launch our Christian Blog was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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Want to Launch a Christian Blog? How to Muster the Courage

In 2014, I led a Bible study for entrepreneurs in my church.  During those weeks, I felt the Holy Spirit calling me in a new way in my business.

At the time, my agency did logos and websites for different companies. Clients would come to me if they were launching or re-branding their businesses.

But during this Bible study, God was showing me that if an entrepreneur didn’t have a bigger vision for their business – a godly vision – then the venture would likely fail.

This thought burdened me because, being in the position that I was in where I help businesses launch, I had the opportunity to share this thought and help guide the entrepreneur to launching the business that God created them to start.

That’s when I discovered my personal calling business – I help entrepreneurs uncover their calling in business, and my agency brings it to life!

My personal calling (helping people discover what they are born to do) was different than my agency’s calling (bringing that calling I helped discover to life).

This was the foundation of my personal brand, The Born to Do Method.

You would think that once I discovered this, I stopped everything I was doing to ONLY focus on my calling. Right?

You’d think that a Godpreneur like myself, that teaches other people to ONLY pursue their calling, would himself heed to his own advice. Right?

Well, that’s NOT my story.

Instead, the story of launching the business God created me to start has chapters that, until now, I didn’t want to share with anyone.

From that moment of discovery in 2014, all the way to 2019, I ended up in places I never wanted to be. I blew my calling off. I made decisions that took me farther away from my purpose than I ever intended to go. I chartered my own path that cost me more than I ever thought I’d have to pay. I hurt people. I compromised my values. I broke promises to myself, God, and the people I worked with.

I was running from my calling.

We all have a story we’re going to tell one day about the journey towards uncovering and bringing to life the business God created us to start.

Our story might look like an immediate, meteoric rise to fame and fortune, or a battle of frustration, failure, resistance, procrastination, and delay.

But our story isn’t over. It’s not too late for us to change the brand launch story we’ll tell one day!

The Bible says

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:18‭-‬19 NIV)

The entire Bible is a story of the good news: His story is not over!

It’s never too late for you to change the story of your calling in business. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done (or haven’t done), your entrepreneurial future is unwritten!

When you decide to start writing the NEW story God has shown you, victory is coming, more connections begin to line up, your journey of making a difference begins, and you start to the goodness God had for you all along. The old has gone and the new is here (2 Cor 5:17)!

It doesn’t matter what’s been written in the past, with God’s help, you can transform your entrepreneurial life into one you’re proud to share.

So how do we begin to write our new story?

We must LAUNCH SOMETHING NEW!

The Bible says

“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” (Ephesians 4:22‭-‬24 NIV)

It doesn’t matter how uncertain, afraid, or stuck we may feel right now, our story continues today and tomorrow. We have a choice of what we LAUNCH TODAY.

Imagine if we all launched into the direction of the entrepreneurial story we want to tell!

What personal brand has God called you to start that you haven’t launched yet? Is it a blog? A book?  A community? A course to teach? A coaching service to provide?

Write what’s coming to your heart. Don’t think about the resources it will take, God, got you covered!

Want to Launch a Christian Blog? How to Muster the Courage was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda

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The Struggles of Launching a Christian Blog and Personal Brand - My Testimony of @DailyGodpreneur

In late 2014, I was making some major changes in my business that left me depressed, broken, and redefining my complete identity.

Since 2005, my company had served the nightclub industry.  I had built an agency niche around the nightlife and my personal brand as a “nightlife marketing authority.”. I had books, a blog, and I was speaking at events across the United States to help nightclub marketers with ideas on how to pack out their clubs.

Then, Jesus found me in 2008.  I started going back to church and discovering this new way of personal development through Christ.  It was all so new and exciting for me. It felt like literally being born again…  

As exciting as it was for me personally, my ethics and morals were beginning to change and my agency and personal brand were no longer lining up with my new set of values.

I was about to go through one of the biggest public transformations someone can make – from nightclub promoter to follower of Christ.

After years of battling my old and new identity, I made a decision in 2014 that would change my life and the lives of my partners and employees.  I shut down the nightlife side of my agency and personal brand to begin to build a new brand.

What was the new brand?

I had no idea.  I just knew it wasn’t what I was doing.

Many of us feel in our hearts that there’s an opportunity to share a God-inspired personal message with the business world.  As that fire starts to build within us, every day we make choices that are getting us closer to coming out with this personal brand message or continuing to watch others launch theirs while we stay on the sidelines.

What would your business and your life look like if God was using your calling to reach hundreds, thousands, even millions?

I wrote a series I’m titling “7 Steps to Launching a Christian Personal Brand”.  Thought my own struggles and victories, I’m going to encourage you with seven principles to help you start and grow your influence through God-first personal branding.

I pray over the course of the next 7 posts that you receive the spiritual and practical business guidance you need to play out a God-honoring personal brand story you’ll love to share with the world!

The Struggles of Launching a Christian Blog and Personal Brand – My Testimony of @DailyGodpreneur was originally published on Daily Godpreneur with Alex Miranda