Donna Suter Consulting

06/08/2023

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A wise person possesses an essential trait that is apart from intelligence. It's the ability to listen to a confrontation about his or her behavior, own it, apologize, learn from it, and behave differently as a result of being corrected.

05/12/2023

Did you know that I graduated from UGA and am a big football fan.

Former head coach, Mark Richt, wrote a book that talks about Energy Vampires. Are you mindful of whom you are hanging out?

I offer these eight questions from his book. They will lead us to making the summer of 2023 the best ever.

There are two parts to influence: First, influence that is powerful; and second, influence that is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

"No" puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions:
1. Who am I around?
2. What are they doing to me?
3. What have they got me reading?
4. What have they got me saying?
5. Where do they have me going?
6. What do they have me thinking?
And most important,
7. what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question:
8. Is that okay?

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

PS Don't let anyone steal your joy.

05/06/2023

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02/17/2023

Partner w other local businesses is a strategy that still works

01/02/2023

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Happy New Year!!! Here is a thought for you as you think of changes in 2023: If you are going to make a significant change, make sure you bring the needed resources to the plan, or the change is not going to happen. Match your plan with your goal and you will succeed!

12/28/2022

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We all have those moments when either we overreact or someone else does. It can be scary and it can derail an important conversation. Here's why it happens.

08/14/2022

Elisabeth often talked about faith on GTJ. She read from the book, FAITH IS, by Pamela Reeve. One day she spoke of the impact George MacDonald's books had in her life. She told of the following long passage that she copied and gave to her dad because he was prone to worry too much. At her father's death years later, this paper with this long quote was found in his pocket. She also recommended a CS Lewis book that is an anthology of MacDonald's books. Mr Lewis became a Christian through reading MacDonald. Here is a long quote she read from Mr MacDonald on obedience and trust:

"Trust and obedience is the greatest thing that is required of any of us. The care that is filling your mind at this moment, or but waiting until you lay the book aside, to consume you, that need, which is no real need, is a demon sucking at the spring of your life. Do you object, saying, "But no, you do not understand. The thing I am worrying about is a reasonable anxiety, an unavoidable care." ?

"Does it involve something you have to do at this very moment?", I ask.

"Well, no."

"Then you are allowing it to usurp the place of something that is required of you at this moment. The greatest thing that can ever be required of any man or woman."

"And what is that?"

"To trust in the living God."

"What if God does not want me to have what I need at this moment?"

"If He does not want you to have something you value, it is to give you instead something He values."

"And if I do not want what He has to give me?"

"If you are not willing that God should have His way with you, then in the name of God, BE MISERABLE., until your misery drives you to the arms of the Father. "

"Oh, but this is only about some financial concern. I do trust him with spiritual matters."

"Everything is an affair of the Spirit. If God has a way of dealing with you in your life, it is the only way. Everything little thing in which you would have your own way has a mission for your redemption. He will treat you as a willful child until you take your Father's way for your own."

(Pictured is George MacDonald)

08/13/2022

Challenges can be overcome