Keep sowing and planting
Proverbs 20:4
"Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing." (NIV)
"Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest." (NLT)
"If you are too lazy to plow, don't expect a harvest." (CEV)
During this time of the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen many businesses close and/or have been partially closed. We are also seeing our neighbors and friends lose their jobs and/or have had their hours cut.
When businesses are shut down their revenue stops. When restaurants have been partially shut down, their revenue is cut in half, or more. Many of the businesses that are still fully operational have still lost much of their weekly/monthly revenue.
Even in the midst of all of this chaotic life we are all stuck in, I have watched as our local businesses have come up with some very imaginative new ideas, in the way of trying to keep revenue dollars coming in … and I have been very impressed.
I've seen many businesses begin to offer curb-side service and delivery. I've seen some restaurants begin to offer take home 'oven-ready' meals as an extra source of income and still other businesses began selling/making specialty items they used to not offer. I have been very amazed, intrigued and genuinely impressed.
Creativity in business is a crucial step. Creativity and innovation within a well-run company has always been recognized as a sure path to success. The need for creative problem solving has arisen more and more in the last few weeks, in order to help find solutions to this global hysteria.
It is this creativity and innovation that will keep us businesses strong and make us bigger and better because of it!
Within my own businesses, I've watched as our staffs have pooled together and come up with some very imaginative ways in order to make extra revenue and to come up with very interesting stories to cover. I have been motivated by the great ideas everyone has come up with and the innovative ways everyone has rallied together, as a team.
This last month, and the months that still lie before us, are our times (business and personal) to be plowing and sowing our seeds – so that we WILL have a harvest to feed upon. For it is written in THE Book!
So, Jefferson County…Stay strong! Keep plowing! Keep planting your seeds! For if you do… God WILL provide…come harvest time!
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