DEALING WITH DILEMMAS (3)
Scripture: Daniel 2:1-16
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Title: Dealing With Dilemmas (3)
Series: Daniel and His Friends
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Daniel 2:1-16
Edward Roy had a dilemma, not devastating but big enough to cause him to struggle through a few sleepless nights. He ran a lowly business - Jiffy Johns of Pompano Beach, Florida. He had 500 portable toilets for rent for outdoor gatherings. When he started his business in 1982 there were lots of outdoor activities which needed his business, that was not his dilemma. He now needed to figure out what to do with all the sewage.
Most would have thrown up their hands in exasperation and spent half of the profit to have someone else haul it away. But not Ed.
There had to be a better way. In his search for a solution, he found a solar-heating process that turned sewage into fertilizer. Instead of trying to sell the technology his company expanded and began
to operate three plants at the cost of $3 million dollars each.
Under this new arrangement, the company began to treat sewage and convert it into fertilizer, which was then sold for great profit.
Jiffy stock turned in the best performance of any stock, rising from 92 cense a share to $16.50 a gain of 1700%. One stockbroker predicted the stock would be selling for $25 a share within the
next six months.
Life is difficult and filled with dilemmas, finding ways to solve them is the challenge that we are face daily. Webster defined a dilemma as: a situation that involves a choice between two equally unsatisfactory alternatives or a problem seemingly incapable of a satisfactory solution.
In other words, a dilemma is: "a no-win situation." It is a problem with no good or real solution. Either way you choose you lose.
We face dilemmas in how we use our time, how to please our family, friends and supervisors, how to fix a broken relationship and how to spend our money. The more difficult the obstacle the stronger our character becomes after hurdling it.
FORGOTTEN DREAM :1-4
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Series: Daniel and His Friends
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Daniel 2:1-16
Edward Roy had a dilemma, not devastating but big enough to cause him to struggle through a few sleepless nights. He ran a lowly business - Jiffy Johns of Pompano Beach, Florida. He had 500 portable toilets for rent for outdoor gatherings. When he started his business in 1982 there were lots of outdoor activities which needed his business, that was not his dilemma. He now needed to figure out what to do with all the sewage.
Most would have thrown up their hands in exasperation and spent half of the profit to have someone else haul it away. But not Ed.
There had to be a better way. In his search for a solution, he found a solar-heating process that turned sewage into fertilizer. Instead of trying to sell the technology his company expanded and began
to operate three plants at the cost of $3 million dollars each.
Under this new arrangement, the company began to treat sewage and convert it into fertilizer, which was then sold for great profit.
Jiffy stock turned in the best performance of any stock, rising from 92 cense a share to $16.50 a gain of 1700%. One stockbroker predicted the stock would be selling for $25 a share within the
next six months.
Life is difficult and filled with dilemmas, finding ways to solve them is the challenge that we are face daily. Webster defined a dilemma as: a situation that involves a choice between two equally unsatisfactory alternatives or a problem seemingly incapable of a satisfactory solution.
In other words, a dilemma is: "a no-win situation." It is a problem with no good or real solution. Either way you choose you lose.
We face dilemmas in how we use our time, how to please our family, friends and supervisors, how to fix a broken relationship and how to spend our money. The more difficult the obstacle the stronger our character becomes after hurdling it.
FORGOTTEN DREAM :1-4
Dr ...
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