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Business With Spirit

by Debbie Simmons

126 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0380; ISBN 1-55369-567-4; US$18.00, C$21.95, EUR14.30, £9.90

Business With Spirit is a rare blend of business principles, and spiritual practices you can use to live what you believe at work.

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About the Book

Business With Spirit offers practical suggestions to bring your chosen path or belief system into your workplace everyday. You will learn to be true to your own spiritual practice, attract others of various faiths to join in prayer support and learn many ways to place God as you understand God in the CEO seat.

About the Author

Debbie Simmons has over twenty years of marketing, advertising, sales, management, and training experience. She is a certified adult education teacher, trainer and professional group facilitator. She has worked for small family owned companies and large corporations. She has owned an advertising and consulting firm.
Her commitment to her own development of spiritual choice has been combined with professional experiences. To illustrate this, she's written Business With Spirit. This blend offers a refreshing and rare view of professional life. You can explore the positive impact that including your spiritual choices in your workplace can have on your career, your co-workers and your company.
Debbie is available for public speaking engagements. Her presentation is interactive, fun and thought provoking. She is a consultant for businesses of all sizes. She facilitates company organization sessions that include, but are not limited to, mission statement development, crisis-management planning, sales training, internal communication and product marketing and advertising. She works with people on their professional goals through prayer in action. She will help develop common and separated office prayer groups, management prayer circles and company wide spiritual inclusion.
Debbie and her husband Mike reside in Cincinnati. They are parents and grandparents. Both are active in their spiritual home, New Thought Unity Center. They are interested in nature, herbal medicine and enjoy life and love. Other interests include Reiki, fitness, and a wide variety of spiritual studies.
For more about her work, other books, to arrange a speaking engagement, or discuss specific needs for your business, visit her Website at BusinessWithSpirit.com or e-mail Debbie at businesswithspirit@yahoo.com

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To begin living what you believe at work, you must first understand that there is a connection between what each of us do for a living and God.
When the men who drew up the documents of freedom and our rights came together, God was included. Our Declaration of Independence reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We knew our rights were God-given.
I cannot stress this enough. I'm not talking about practicing your religion at work or trying to get others to follow your chosen path. I'm talking about you, one person, living what you believe in. We spend about eight-hours a day asleep. Eight hours with family or friends and another eight at work. Our active time should be spent living in freedom, pursuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We should be experiencing love, peace and joy. We owe our freedom to God. This is about including God in your life, especially at work.
In order to spiritually bond at work, we must understand that we are all the same.
Despite all the differences between all these religious practices, they are all very much the same. Every major religion believes in one omnipotent God. That God has a different name depending on where you live. Here in America God is God, the Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit, because we are English speaking and mainly of European Christian decent. American Indians believe in a central Great Spirit who helps and guides nature. The Great Spirit is one with Mother Earth, who sustains human life. All natural powers are honored and connected as one. In the Jewish faith God is Jehovah, in Islam God is Allah and in Hindu God is Sri Krishna.
We may speak a different language, call God by different names, but the basic fundamentals of one faith are true for most. If this is so, and I believe it is, then we can come together, even at work, and practice those spiritual principles. This is not practicing our religion, thumping on our own religious text, certain that our way to connect with God is the only right way. What we are doing is getting out of our own way to bond together. You come together to agree on the needs you have, the needs your co-workers have and the goals of your company. You can openly honor God in your meetings, and in the very policies you create for your business. This is a bold step, but it is possible.
All religions know that God is their source of supply. All religions pray, believing that God hears and answers prayer. All religions instruct you to ask for what you need and God will supply it. The power of God flows through you. You are where God shows up. We all know that we should give thanks. All the credit for who we are and what we achieve is God's. Your path to God may be different from mine, but we are all headed in the same direction.
If you called on God for anything on September 11th, are you still talking to Him/Her now? If not, why not? I heard of some places where employees gathered in small circles to pray that day. Are you still gathering to pray for co-workers, a successful marketing campaign, or a turn in the recession that grew deeper after the attacks? If not, why not?
Coming together at work to pray for our own needs, the requests of our co-workers, and the success of our own business can be part of our daily practice.
Many human resource departments have implemented the celebration of diversity in the workplace. We've come to understand that the mix of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and age are not only areas that if mistreated can become lawsuits, but each of these differences gives each business a unique blend of people power. Openly recognizing each person's religious freedom and the spiritual oneness of the group is easy to include as part of your diversity program.
Once we start to include God in our work, why don't we get all we ask for?
While we were talking about prayer and goal setting I mentioned that I don't always get what I want. If God is all the love I claim Him/Her to be and only wants my good, then why don't I get my own way every time? The answer rests in another spiritual law. We are required to forgive every one, everything, all the time.
Giving of your time and talent is spiritual law.
Years ago I was taught to give back to the community from which I take my living. Giving can take many forms from time and talent to money. No matter how you give, it is important to do so to activate the spiritual law of giving and receiving.
Make a crisis plan and include God in it.
Battles, bad things happen. Don't even begin to think that because you are being true to your religious practice that you will become immune to life's challenges. The only thing your faith will do for you is make you better equipped to handle them. You can not avoid them. What you do need to know, at the core of your being, is that when you put God in charge of every battle, you will win.
As a company, crisis management planning should be a step you've already taken. You might have some plans in place, but I'll bet you forget to include God in them. If you've started to use any of the suggestions I've made so far, you know that including God works and is an absolute must for the success of your business.
Professional prosperity includes you, your coworkers and your company.
When I teach this portion in my business development series, the focus is on using money wisely for advertising. The budget we develop is a marketing and advertising budget, which includes how to set a price for your product or service. We learn about each advertising media available in the area. After setting the sales goals we hope to attain, we set the advertising budget to meet those goals. In our mock business in the classroom we make a profit and life is good. What has been missing in my lesson is the spiritual law of giving and receiving money. We all want, but we seldom give. We have been taught to give as part of our religious practice, but we resist the spiritual laws that will make us wealthy. This chapter isn't about money. It's about prosperity.
Protecting our human and natural resources is a spiritual obligation.
Since you are dust, you are part of the planet. God gave you charge over all living things and therefore you are the caretaker of the earth. This is a huge responsibility. If a four-year old boy can develop love and concern for an animal, and figure out a way to save its life, why can't we as adults who are supposed to know more, do the same?
Mr. Fezziwig is loved by family and friends alike. He is respected. He's found a way to express the love in his heart yet maintain a professional business relationship with his vendors and customers. He cares and takes time to express it. He doesn't do this only at Christmas. How do I know that? If his only joyous, caring time were during the holidays, when it came time to throw the party, no one would show up. His shop is full which tells me he's loved year round. How great would it be to work for a boss like that? How much of a pleasure would it be to do business with a man like that?

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