Breakfast with Fred: Mentoring a Generation of Leaders

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Fred knew the power of organizing his thoughts through writing. He regularly quoted Francis Bacon: "Readng makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." This week you will share in a very private reading -- "Fred’s credo." May you be blessed and stimulated to think and write.

Purpose: To determine what I will become knowing I will become the sum of my choices, and my decisions.

I Will:

1) Respect truth by searching for it and accepting it from any source.

2) Look for the essence of matters as the elegance of life.

3) Endeavor to pray honestly about any subject, assuming God already knows.

4) Expect nothing but what I earn, but accept gifts gratefully.

5) Own myself. Thereby I can contribute my uniqueness to life. I will concentrate on my uniqueness rather than what I like to do, or what pays the most. If my uniqueness if lost, then there has been no compelling reason for my having lived. I will have failed to contribute my piece to life’s jigsaw puzzle.

6) Limit extension self-knowledge to my most productive strengths and destructive weaknesses.

7) Construct concepts for my thinking and actions so as to minimize large mistakes and give consistency to my living.

8) Relax in the sovereignty of God.

9) Decide issues of life by faith based on biblical authority. 10) Respect money as a tool, never an idol.

11) Endeavor to accept my rightful responsibility because it is right, not necessarily because I like it.

12) Realize my acts affect others and have ripple effects.

13) Accept human imperfection as a reality �½ï¿½ but never an excuse.

14) Seek profitable and interesting experiences in areas of life that will continually broaden me.

15) Turn all experiences into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom.

16) Live so that �½the best is yet to be�½ by attending to maturity,, health,, relationships, and capital.

I Will Not:

1) Build an unreal image which enslaves me or alienates me from others.

2) Make a junkyard of my old age through bad decisions.

3) Sacrifice self-respect, health, family, relationship with God for business success.


This week think deeply about: 1) What is my personal creed? 2) Which I will penetrated my heart? 3) Which I will not needs some attention ?

Words of Wisdom: "I will become the sum of my choices, and my decisions."

Scripture’s Words of Wisdom: "that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of ghd Lord." Colossians 1: 9-10 (NET Bible)