Saintly CEO: Stop Fixing, Start Offering: A 40-Day Strategy for the Catholic Founder
Plus 3 Simple Steps to Install This Worldview
PSA: Lent starts on Wednesday. (Hopefully, you knew this already.) Be sure to get your Ash in Church (sorry, I had to).
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News/Updates
Feature Content:
Heavenly Hustlers
Misc Resources
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News / Updates
Lent starts on Wednesday — be sure to get your ashes and to prepare, in order to make a good Lent.
Keep an eye out — we’re releasing the podcast tomorrow instead of Thursday, because it contains some good advice about doing Lent well. AND it’s our first episode with a priest. Hyped for that.
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How Lent Can Transform The Lows Of Business Into A Hand Delivered Gift From God
If you’re paying any attention to your faith, I’m sure you’ve heard plenty of advice on the three pillars of Lent: Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving. I won’t focus on those today.
Instead, let’s take the next 40 days to do one thing in our businesses, and let’s do it really well.
We’re going to offer up all the ‘lows’ of business to God.
In business, even when things are going great, there are challenges (things suck). It’s the nature of the beast. Our first instinct is to fix the business by getting rid of those problems, but we actually come closer to God by accepting them. There is nothing wrong with improving your processes so you don’t face the same issues tomorrow, but while you have them, don’t let them get you worked up.
Each challenge is an opportunity to trust God — to trust that ‘this bad news is not the end of my world.’ Let’s be real, if your soul is in a state of grace, no news is truly consequential.
If you started your business for the right reasons, you aren’t doing this for easy money or recognition. A Catholic Founder runs their business because they recognize they’ve been given a talent(s) and they had better not bury it in the sand.
The mystical part is that God is bringing us closer to Him through the business itself; we are answering His call. If we believe this, how can we not praise Him for the challenges He sends our way?
In most cases, we have no idea why He sent a specific challenge or what He is preparing us for. It doesn’t matter. What matters is accepting it as coming directly from the hands of God.
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Lower Stress: If you’re not worrying (because you trust in God) you’ll have a lot less stress.
A New Perspective: You’ll see each challenge as a gift from God.
Constant Prayer: You’ll think about God more often because each challenge makes Him present in your workday.
Business Clarity: You’ll identify your bottlenecks quickly (nothing shouts “problem” like pain).
Personal Calm: You’ll become more composed in other areas of life by mastering your response to professional friction.
Ultimately, practicing this acceptance is how we learn to say ‘yes’ to our cross.
By embracing our unique cross, we walk in unity with Christ as He carried The Cross (which bore the weight of the entire world’s sins). The more we unite our lives with His Passion, the more like Him we become. We grow in true love. True love is fundamentally about sacrifice — as proven by the ultimate sacrifice of His only-begotten Son.
3 Tips for Your Lenten Journey:
To wrap up, use these 3 tips to help you do this as you embark on your Lenten journey.
Journal for 5 Minutes Each Morning: Every morning, write down (in your own words — speak from the heart here) a commitment to accept anything you receive that day as a gift from God. Commit to bearing it all patiently and with gratitude.
Gift or Curse. You Decide: When bad news hits your desk, recognize that God is personally delivering you a gift. Whether that gift appears positive or negative depends entirely on your disposition toward it.
The Evening Audit: Before bed, review how you responded to those gifts. Where did you succeed? Where did you fail? Offer it all to God. Use this as an opportunity for humility. To recognize how reliant you are on Him for literally everything.
God Bless & Happy Building
~Silas Mähner
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