This weekend, I did an experimental “prophetic business incubator” with 33 professionals. The location was Moravian Falls, on the property where Rick Joyner (one of the All-Time Top 20 Christian Authors) writes his books. He told me it is a unique geography with an “open heaven” for writing. My partner for this experiment was Dave Yarnes, a brilliant licensed commodities broker by day (and VP of Morningstar Ministries when not doing 500 million a month in currency trades).
We both shared our perspectives on the prophetic process for seeing your future business and building into it from where you are right now. It’s a combination of Personal Convergence and Organizational Convergence! Moving AS ONE! … a slice of heaven on earth.
The Convergence Code ™ is all about becoming the person you are uniquely called to be so that you can create the job you are uniquely called to do!
Once you step into that role, you are the smartest person in the world in that assignment!
Here are some of our notes:
1. If you want wind in your sails and sales in your wind, start thinking “Kingdom” and not just business. Build a kingdom culture inside your company and make God your Senior Partner!
- Since the kingdom is “righteousness, peace and joy” one third of your work needs to be joyful. In other words – 1/3 of your culture needs to be fun!
2. To identify moments of personal convergence, analyze the moments when you were the most fully energized and fully engaged in the last year. Note- in each instance you were enjoying the experience. The key word is “joy.”
What were you doing?
Who were you with?
What percent of the time are you in the convergence zone?
3. Your culture is your brand! Values, culture and business strategy are all connected.
- The billion-dollar shoe company, Zappos, calls these the “Zappos Family Core Values” That’s right. Think of your business as a “family.”
Here are their 10 core values:
- Deliver WOW Through Service
- Embrace and Drive Change
- Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
- Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
- Pursue Growth and Learning
- Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
- Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
- Do More With Less
- Be Passionate and Determined
- Be Humble
4. While joy (or “fun”) may seem like things aren’t serious, the opposite is true. The freedom that comes with joy enables you to have a highly innovative success oriented environment.
- In order to stay ahead of competition (or potential competition) you need to have an atmosphere of “urgency.” You can be seriously focused while enjoying the process of setting and exceeding your own high standards.
5. Maybe you don’t have a business right now, but…
- Finding your own passion, message and gifting are part of the journey into career convergence. The atmosphere you carry needs to be one that exhibits your own personal “Zappos” list of core values.
6. It’s all about the “experience” people have when you engage them.
- Be focused on meeting the needs of others (customer or employer) with a “wow” experience and you’ll uncover your own unique brand expression.
7. Again, I am sharing just a snippet of information. Nobody achieves recognition as an authority in their niche’ overnight, but the great news is that it is possible. In fact, it’s never been easier—especially if you start observing these things now and learn from the model others are building in plain sight.
Question: Where are you in the process of convergence? Please leave a comment below.
Thank you for sharing. I really wanted to be there… Maybe next time I will have the finances.
Lance you have a way of putting into words things that i sense within and can hardly verbalize. I honor the gift of God in you. Be blessed!!!
This is brilliant! You’ve listed in bullet points what I’ve been expressing to my husband and my kids for years. “Do the thing you were made for with all your might! Everything else will fall into place!” It is so true! I decided at 10 years old to become a hairdresser. The woman across the street from us where I grew up was a hairdresser and she was able to, seemingly with magic, get my unruly frizzy wild hair to flow like Farrah Fawcett’s! I went from crying because I couldn’t do anything with it at all, to crying because I was amazed that MY hair could do what it was doing! I knew then that I wanted to make that kind of magic for other girls. When I got to high school, vocational school was offered as an alternative to college prep and I took it! I had my professional license (and one the top 3 scores in my class on the board exams) a month before I had my high school diploma! Now, I can honestly say there isn’t a client I don’t enjoy, there isn’t a facet of the business I hate, and there is always room to grow and learn more! I am getting to do what I love and get paid to do it!
Wow- love that passion, you saw it and now you have it and id bet your really good at it to.To live your passions is a truly great place!
I love this post. It is both scary and trajectory building all in one. I believe (in response to the italicized question) that I have been reprogramming from what I am NOT. Over the last few years I have learned more an more about what make me tick and what I love, like, and hate. I feel confident that even in my “not knowing” I am moving closer to convergence now than I ever have in life.
I am currently in the process of recovery from surgery (brain) but reading your blog has brought me some clarity in what it is that God destined for me to do!! There ARE things that I have done throughout life that have brought me great joy and I can look back (while I have this time to do so!!) and take stock of moments of breakthrough. Now is my time to begin to actually notice where it is that God is taking me. People have prophesied different things over my life and I had been confused about them in the past. I am feeling like this year is the year for these to all come together into one – and look at this, it is my 50th birthday year! While it is difficult to think with head pain, when I have moments where I CAN think… THIS is what my mind rests on…God’s plan and my stepping into it! Thank you Lance! Keep ’em coming!!!
Cat
This is your Jubile year, we are to be freed from being enslave, if we choose to be so, many arent ,because they dont have that knowledge. Do a study on Jubile and see what you can believe for in your life.
Good stuff! Love the peace that comes with the concept and just seems to fit like a good shoe. Kingdom culture in the work place….Love it!
This is helpful, I am unemployed. I teach the word of God in Comedy. Spitfire Ministry. I do birthday parties also. I just don’t have a website yet. I also, have the name of a purse and jewelry business, that I am waiting for the funds to start and I found this very helpful. I feel stuck with stuff inside that I don’t know how to get out and get going in a direction, but know that I am to have my own business!!1
Hi, Alice. Spitfire Ministry sounds very interesting 🙂 I just wanted to encourage you to go for building a website! You can do it for free at weebly.com, and it is very simple…it has a drag and drop format, and also a blog format.
I am working on a new website, but I included my old one here so you could take a look.
I understand what you mean about being stuck. I feel that way too. I keep praying to be able to see past the obstacles to the road ahead. Grace, Grace!
It is helpful. THANK YOU
Extremely helpful, thought-provoking, lots of meat to chew on. (Do sheep eat meat?)
This would work well in homemaking and advancing the kingdom of Yah through family members.
The idea of convergence or even of being more than just a wage earner was so foreign to me ,until we discovered Lance, now we are building a business for businesses around night dreams and loving it.Life breeds life!