Homeless and Needy…???
March 16, 2010
This evening was a bit interesting, I was out in the Brush truck with the Fire Dept. (my full time job), and as I was on my way back to the station, I was approached by a ” homeless man.” Now I am by no means judging him or demeaning his situation. As I pulled up to the stop light, in the downtown area, a man made eye contact with me, pointed his finger and held up his hand for me to wait a min. He approached the fire apparatus and I rolled down the window. He then asked me if I was a fireman, I answered politely and said yes. From is point forward he worked a well rehearsed set of lines, stating that he did not mean to offend me by stopping me, he politely asked me for my time. He told me that he did not know that the local soup kitchen stopped serving dinner at 5. He was standing by a hot dog stand and stated the hot dog man was willing to sell him a hot dog. Next he proceeded with congenial push for money. Now before I go into the rest of the story, the man had a scruffy beard with a nice size spill of mustard and chili, from what I presume to be leftover from his last hotdog. In which, I am sure that even after one or two, he could still be hungry. My response, was to the kind man, sir I do not carry my wallet while I am on duty, and how I don’t have any money on me. Which is the truth and rarely do I have cash anyways.”
Now my point relates to personal and the business world. How often you do approach your spouse, your boss, co-worker, or the Lord with a need, while you have yet to clean your last meal off your chin or lips. It takes time for us to digest what we have just ingested before we can recognize what we need to move further. My thinking on the matter is that one should consider the fact that you may be full or your next idea needs more planning. The idea behind this is that when approaching a client, a friend , a boss, or your spouse go to them in the right timing. We all need to recognize that our seed’s (ideas or needs) need time to come into fruition. It doesn’t happen over night, it may not even happen with in a year, but in due time you will produce a harvest if you do the follow the steps below.
1. Plan it
2 Test it
3. Put it to action.
I hope to put these processes into actions in my personal, business and devotional time. I know there will be successes if I commit to these three steps. Just as the man asking for food, came to a complete stranger asked for money for the food with a well rehearsed set of lines, should have seen that his test results were negative. They may have been negative due to the fact that his appearance didn’t match the quality of his well rehearsed lines. Case in point it takes time to drive results and testing your plan will always allow you to fix major needs for the big plan to go into action.
