Hard Work Pays Off

“Hard Work Pays Off”

If you consider yourself a hard worker, you've probably had a lot of people tell you you're going to be a great success. To be honest, you should also listen to those who will tell you hard work doesn't guarantee success, but lack of hard work certainly guarantees failure.

Whether you're just starting off in your career, or considering making significant changes, remember always to combine hard work with smart work. Get close to people who can add value to your skills and other resources. Never waste mistakes but use them to get better.

Compelled By Compassion

"Compelled by Compassion"

I am convinced that nothing will set a leader apart more than being compelled by compassion.

Compassion is seeing what others see, hearing what others hear, and feeling what others feel. When we are willing to enter into another person’s life and into their pain, we are able to be moved with compassion.

Compassion does not eliminate the importance of other great traits of leadership. But we should strive to influence all elements of our leadership with compassion:
Confidence with compassion
Competence with compassion
Authority with compassion
Intensity with compassion
Follow-through with compassion
Due diligence with compassion
Leading with compassion

Compassionate Leadership is not calling for us to dumb down major leadership needs. leadership is calling for a new kind of leader that does each of these and more with great compassion.

Compassion

Compassion Fuels Passion!
Passion is one of the greatest things needed in a leader. We can get everyone worked up through a motivational speech about how they should do something, but we must also care about the. Perhaps there is more truth in this cliché than we may want to admire: “People never care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

Compassion Creates Culture!
Compassion creates a culture for walking slowly through the crowd, listening intently to what others are saying. This demonstrates an unselfish concern for others—for them personally first, but also for what they do in their job. This kind of compassionate leadership that invests privately into the lives of others creates a capital beyond words or what can be put on a spreadsheet.

Compassion Influences Productivity!
A compassionate leader influences the organization to greater productivity. In fact, there can be 10 times greater production when the leader enters into the world of others with great compassion. This really should not surprise us at all. A compassionate leader brings enormous value to their organization.

YOU CAN.

Iron Sharpens Iron

Things that are made of iron, like a knife or a sword, can sharpen each other. You can take two knives made of iron, rub them together, and they’ll sharpen each other without the other one dulling out.

That should be true with our friendships. We should hang around people who have the same values as us. That way, we can continually build each other up.

Those kinds of friendships will help you and your friends grow each other, challenge each other, encourage each other, and strengthen each other to be who God intended you to be.

So go and be iron to one another and become who God made you to be.

Eyes

The human eye sees more than you realize—much more than you can actually process. For instance, when you look up at the stars, you are technically looking at all of them; you just can’t perceive all you are seeing. I can prove it to you. A telescope or other lens just magnifies and brings into focus what you are already looking at, what is there all along. Even in the daytime, the stars are right in front of you, hidden in plain sight. The reason you can’t make out what you are seeing is because of distance and interference. So it is spiritually. You must not rely on the naked eye. What you think you see is not all that is there. There are unseen things. Spiritual things. Eternal things. You must learn to see life through the eyes of a Lion. Doing so is to utilize the telescope of faith, which will not only allow you to perceive the invisible—it will give you the strength to do the impossible.

What We Do

Why we do what we do -

According to U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States, there is an estimated Average of 423,773 children in foster care. Unfortunately, young people transitioning out of the foster care system are significantly affected by the instability that accompanies long periods of out-of-home placement during childhood and adolescence. The experiences of these youth place them at a higher risk for unemployment, poor educational outcomes, health issues, early parenthood, long-term dependency on public assistance, increased rates of incarceration, and homelessness.

Of those 423,000 children in foster care, approximately 20,000 young people age out of the foster care system each year, many without family or economic support. Unfortunately, foster youth do not always have the option of turning to their families for support. Alone, these young people are confronting the harsh reality of the gap between the wages they earn and the cost of housing, as well as the knowledge and confidence they need to become a contributive part of the American society. As a result, youth aging out of the foster care system are becoming homeless at disconcerting rates with anywhere from 12% to 36% of young people transitioning out of the system experiencing some form of homelessness to include incarceration at the expense of the American tax payers.

The You Can Foundation’s (YCF) mission is to provide financial, educational, inspirational and motivational assistance to underprivileged teenagers and young adults that live or have lived their childhood life outside of the traditional structures of a mother and/or father lead household.

With an emphasis on those teenagers transitioning out of the foster care system, YCF organizes resources to create financial, educational, vocational, health care, entrepreneurial, and recreational opportunities for youth who are leaving or have recently left foster care. The goal is to help young people leaving foster care become financially literate; gain experience with the banking system; amass assets for education, housing, health care, and a few other specified expenses; and gain streamlined entry to educational, training, and vocational opportunities.