Prayer, Angels and Mouintaintops

Prayer and Angels

I offer some of my time as an advisor to a small maturing startup led by a young husband and wife team, Monica and Anthony  They have done an amazing job over the past 4 years building a business from scratch. They seem to benefit from my suggestions, but really, they are destined to be successful. They simply love what they are doing and they work very hard. We met this week and they shared a beautiful story with me.

About 12 months ago they were ready to close up shop. They were out of money and their sales pipeline was dry. The advisory board I’m on encouraged them to hang tough. They did, and business started rolling in not long after that.  This past week I asked them what had happened? Monica said that shortly after the advisory board meeting, a good friend of theirs came over, cooked them a nice dinner and then led them in prayer for the business to succeed. During the course of the evening, this good friend told them that she felt the presence of an angel nearby and that the angel was there to help them, all they needed to do was ask the angel to help.  They prayed some more, asked for the angel to send them work and concluded their evening.

Seven days later they began what would be a stunning run of landing clients and growing the business.

I donate my time to Monica and Anthony, and they repaid me with a reminder of the strength of Angels this week. I couldn’t have gotten a better payoff!

Mountaintops

My nephew Will, a former H.S. wrestler, has been busy setting out on his own in Boulder, Colorado and building his own business. Like all wrestlers I know, he is committed to accomplishing his goals. When I saw him in March, he was working hard at his business as a personal trainer. He had a mentor, worked at a gym, kept busy networking and finding leads while also landing a position coaching the Boulder H.S. wrestling team. He had an impressive vision and gameplan. Will seemed to be working every waking hour and pinching pennies while confident of his ultimate success.

In June we caught up and over dinner, he shared how his business had taken off and he now had time to take day or two off each week. I asked which of his efforts had paid off for him. He grinned sheepishly, shrugged his shoulders, and said it really wasn’t anything he had planned.

He said, “Well, I was talking to my mentor about getting more business and my mentor said to me, ‘you haven’t gone up to the mountaintop, opened your arms out wide and asked God to bring me clients.’

“So,” Will said, “I climbed up to the top of a mountain, I opened my arms to the gods and I asked for the clients to come. And they came”

So simple.

These conversations, and all the support I continue to receive  each day reminds me to trust in God, and in the Prayers and Angels that surround us.  To face this “climb” with open arms and embrace the challenge with not only a plan, but also the humility to ask for help and guidance along the way.

“Climb” to #crushit