Fear and Faith

I used to think that faith was believing, but it's not. I used to think I needed faith to take action but I don't. I can believe that what I'm doing in the world is of the utmost importance and still not have faith that, as Steve Jobs stated, all the dot's will connect in the end. I can also have no faith that something will work out, but step out and do it anyway. What I've learned is that the stepping out is the faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Now this may be a biblical definition of faith but I think in business we could all act with a little more faith. If I followed you around today what substance could you show me to demonstrate you have faith in what your creating, selling, refining, etc. Could you say to me, "See Ben, see the actions that I am taking, see me working in faith."

Fear is the killer of faith. Fear kills faith not because it kills our beliefs but because it causes us to stop and think, it causes us to question whether we should take action or not. Do you fear the incompetence of your employees or can you show me the substance of how they are empowered. Do you fear your customers or can you show me a blog where you ask them to be honest and you will broadcast it far and wide. Want to offend somebody, ask them if they have faith and when they inevitably respond "yes" tell them to show you. Tell them to take you to their faith, ask to touch their faith, ask to interact with their faith, ask if you can post their faith on your blog and maybe inspire faith in others.

How about you? Can I see your faith? You want me to buy that product and if I do that means I have to show you my faith, it sure would be a lot easier to do that if I could see yours.