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Monday, October 25, 2010

Sagein.wordpress.com

To all my 7 followers and to everyone and anyone who has contributed to a "page view", I thank you all for chipping in words of encouragement to further my passion in expressing Christ's love.

However, I will now transition to WORDPRESS, and end my chapter to my fun and fruitful Blogspot.

You can all catch me at Sagein.wordpress.com

P.S. Can anyone help me make my wordpress look better?? :DDD

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

A Great Blog

After receiving a B- on my first essay, I managed to receive A’s on my next two essays.
This will likely be the third.
Did someone say ‘Turkey’?
The prompt for my management class was…

Could you apply the Good to Great Model to CSUN? If you did what would you find?

My Good to Great model defines that everyone possesses the capabilities to become great, but only a few choose to do so. Before we can achieve greatness, we need to be better than good. We can distinguish how to be great by looking at what is good. “We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools” (Collins, page 1). I disagree with this statement because CSUN is “good” compared to “great” Ivy League schools. I believe that CSUN concentrates on solving their biggest problems such as budget cuts, and lack the energy and resources towards their biggest opportunities, whereas Harvard’s outlook distinguishes them towards greatness. Attending a good school does not bind me from becoming a great leader.

CSUN can become the best California State University. Therefore, I do not have to confide to its “good” values; instead, I can become a great leader by blending personal humility with professional will. “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice” (Collins, page 11). My circumstances at CSUN do not dictate whether I choose to be good or great. I choose those qualities for myself. “The transformation [is] a process of buildup followed by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action” (Collins, page 12). My breakthrough came six months earlier when I decided to pick up the Cross and follow [Jesus] daily. By following Jesus’s disciplined thoughts and actions, I, too, can possess great leadership.

The process of being good to great is a “human problem” more so than an institutionalized problem (Collins, page 16). There are many factors that determine an institution’s status; therefore, not every institution has the opportunity to be great; however, each individual’s “capability resides within them, perhaps buried or ignored, but there nonetheless” (Collins, page 37).

Attending CSUN is not a boundary that excludes me from becoming a level 5 executive. “Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless” (Collins, page 22). I am on the road to becoming a great leader; will I continue to follow it?

Works Cited

Collins, James C. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap–and Others Don’t. New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 2001. Print. *I recommend this book.

As much as I want to transition from good to great, I may get there, I may not.
However, Jesus never transitioned.
He was great from the beginning.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Ethics 101


Without sin, there would be no discussion about ethics.
Without mistakes, why mention ethics?

The corporate ladder looks risky to climb when you're at the bottom of a 1,300 feet skyscraper.
Your in front of the stairs; you better be in shape.
When you're climbing it, are you asking where is the top of this thing?
You don't want to go back down because wasted time and opportunity is written in your mind.
The elevator rings. The door opens. It's willing to take you all the way to the top.
All you have to do is get in.
You discover a briefcase, and you open it.
You stare at a contract worth 5 million dollars, and an undisclosed amount of fame, and power.
You press the button, and the door shuts.
You take a deep breath, and you're on your up.

The elevator hid you on your way to an easy victory.
You took the easy way out because you understood ethics.
If you truly understood sin, you would've asked God to help you up the stairs.

People who depend on ethics...

make excuses.
start looking for ways to avoid consequence.
think that doing good will erase their past mistakes.
say, "Bring it on, media".
are comfortable in the court house.
make lieing as easy as telling the truth.
are a slave to the Devil.

Sadly, those who twist the meaning of SIN are no different.

The corporate ladder is not absolutely vertical.
It's angled, intentionally engaging you to the top.

In business, ethics seem to a forefront issue.
And in every profession, good ethics seem to recognize you as the good apple.
The bad apple is tainted with marks and bruises because he or she was not ethical.


Separation of church and state dumbs down SIN into ETHICS.

Ethics delves into the idea that we are good people that tend to sometimes make bad choices.
Oh, ethics sounds so forgiving.
My mind and body craves ethics.

Society's cure to depravity is to beat around the bush from the truth.
Sin is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable.
Sin is the kryptonite for flesh.

Congratulations, everyone passes ethics.
Next Fall, we will be learning about sin.
There will be no curve.



Saturday, October 9, 2010

K(NO)W

Know God, know life.
No God, no life.

Know God, Know Peace.
No God, No Peace.

Know God, know Perfection.
Know that we can never attain it.
Know that we can strive to be the original image as God's children, yet know that you may be cropping yourself from true completion.

Know God, know Heaven.
No God, no Heaven.
God Knows Hell.

Satan knows he is a fallen angel.
Satan knows he is running out of time before Jesus comes back to restore order.
Satan knows he can never escape his surroundings.

Know God, Know Love.
NO God, no Love.

Know God, know forgiveness.
No God, No Forgiveness.

Know God, Know Grace.
No God, NO grace.

Know God, Know Mercy
No God, No mercy.

Know God knows more about us than we will ever know about ourselves.
Without God's presence, we have no meaning in life.

Know that Jesus would stop and seek every one he encountered for who they were.
Know that Jesus observes from the inside out. Know that He is the First and the Last.

You may know a lot of things, but Knowledge is useless without God's provision.
Some people's shelter have been knowledge.
One day God will test your heart with fire. Will your shelter hold up then?
Apart from Faith, know that knowledge is deceiving.
Knowledge apart from God has been proven to be evil. Ask Genesis 3.

Know why Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and you will know human's depraved nature.

A stairway of books leads nowhere.
That foundation will crumble.
You will fall.

Know and confess that you are not God.
Know that you will never beat God.
Know that He is searching for you.

Know yourself, but Know God more.
Know God more through faith and belief in His Salvation.
Believe in His Salvation, and you will surely repent.

For I once was lost, but (k)now I'm found.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Become My Embrace


World English Dictionary labels a "cheater" as one who deceives especially for one's own gain.

Cheating stems from our selfishness, our desire for temporary pleasure.

God's outstretched arms are ready to hug you. Don't cherish a different idol.

Are we valuing relationships or looking for ways to cheat?


Everyone is careful to not cheat on their boyfriends/ girlfriends...

How does God feel when you cheat on Him?

If you don't have a relationship with God,
you've never experienced Agape Love.

We say we love God. But, our heart is elsewhere.
We are deceiving God and ourselves thinking that we love.
We don't love, we use.

I should have never had girlfriends in the past.
I've cheated on God.
I told him I loved Him.
Why did I expect to do better for my girlfriend?

God forGIVEs to give you another chance.
God's Mercy keeps bailing you out.
Push enough wrong buttons, and His wrath will keep you in jail.

"Ask and you shall receive" has been a primary method for us to manipulate God's love. We tell God that we love Him only to lie again.

"I was so wrong, for so long, Only tryin' to please myself
[Lord], I was caught up in [world's] lust, when I don't want anyone else. So,I know I should've treated you better. But me and you were meant to last forever."

Your phone has died out.
You need an outlet.
Repent earnestly.
Tell him that you'll
"stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the one who gave it all".

God secures his relationship with you through an uncompromising covenant.
No other relationship can ever fulfill the same promises.
He will never cheat. Will you?