Value Growth Partners Founder and now a partner at Newport, mark o brien Chicago has over thirty years of experience in Business Growth, Successions, and Transitions as a business owner, executive, and advisor to privately held & family businesses. He is adept at accelerating sustainable growth in competitive & challenging markets.
Knowledge, skillset, and experiences enriched through hands-on work in manufacturing and distribution within aerospace, automotive, woodworking, plastics, supply-chain logistics, & technology worldwide. Mark is highly experienced with innovating, improving, & implementing manufacturing & supply chain solutions that yield improvements in productivity, cost reductions, and throughput resulting in sustainable growth.
After many years of assisting owners in transitioning their business, Mark and VGP partners help business owners realize that one of the biggest challenges is executing succession and transition is the lack of a plan for "What's NEXT?"
It's very challenging for an owner or executive leader to manage a leadership succession and even more difficult to manage a business transition without a transition plan that addresses "What's Next." We understand and have a plan that will assist.
Find out more about Mark O Brien Chicago on our website and contact us if you are looking for help with a business transition strategy. Value Growth Partners/Newport can assist you in knowing and growing your business value before the transition - (312) 525-8382.
Value Growth Partners Founder and now a partner at Newport, mark o brien Chicago has over thirty years of experience in Business Growth, Successions, and Transitions as a business owner, executive, and advisor to privately held & family businesses. He is adept at accelerating sustainable growth in competitive & challenging markets.
Knowledge, skillset, and experiences enriched through hands-on work in manufacturing and distribution within aerospace, automotive, woodworking, plastics, supply-chain logistics, & technology worldwide. Mark is highly experienced with innovating, improving, & implementing manufacturing & supply chain solutions that yield improvements in productivity, cost reductions, and throughput resulting in sustainable growth.
After many years of assisting owners in transitioning their business, Mark and VGP partners help business owners realize that one of the biggest challenges is executing succession and transition is the lack of a plan for "What's NEXT?"
It's very challenging for an owner or executive leader to manage a leadership succession and even more difficult to manage a business transition without a transition plan that addresses "What's Next." We understand and have a plan that will assist.
Find out more about Mark O Brien Chicago on our website and contact us if you are looking for help with a business transition strategy. Value Growth Partners/Newport can assist you in knowing and growing your business value before the transition - (312) 525-8382.
Mindfulness - An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
by Mark Williams (Author), Danny Penman (Author), Jon Kabat-Zinn(Foreword)
THE LIFE-CHANGING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.
MINDFULNESS reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that you can incorporate into daily life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and exhaustion. It promotes the kind of happiness and peace that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life throws at you with new courage.
The book is based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). MBCT revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes just a few minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed. MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and is widely recommended by US physicians and the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - in other words, it works. More importantly, it also works for people who are not depressed but who are struggling to keep up with the constant demands of the modern world.
MBCT was developed by the book's author, Oxford professor Mark Williams, and his colleagues at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto. By investing just 10 to 20 minutes each day, you can learn the simple mindfulness meditations at the heart of MBCT and fully reap their benefits. The book includes links to audio meditations to help guide you through the process. You'll be surprised by how quickly these techniques will have you enjoying life again.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in this book. Professor Mark Williams and Dr. Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.” —Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
“Peace can't be achieved in the outside world unless we have peace on the inside. Mark Williams and Danny Penman's book gives us this peace.” —Goldie Hawn
“This is an inspiring program for anyone caring about his or her own health and sanity.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn
About the Author
Mark Williams is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and a Research Fellow at Oxford and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He is the author of The Mindful Way Through Depression. He lives in England. Danny Penman, PhD, is a feature and comment writer for the UK's Daily Mail. After gaining a PhD in biochemistry, he worked for The Independent and the BBC. He lives in England.
6. He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites,
as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
7. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching
as doctrines the commandments of men.
Worship is not a matter of Sunday, nor is confined to a building. If we understand the meaning of worship, our life will be different. The worship involves two things, drawing near to God and honoring Him. When we worship God we need to draw near to God, and we need to honor Him.
We would like to call drawing near to God as fellowship and honoring God as service.
Fellowship and service are the two important aspects of our worship of God. We need to listen to God, and we need to talk to Him. This is a fellowship
we have with God. If you want to listen to Him, you need to come to His Word. So, every day, we need to come to the New Testament to read it,
study it, think about it, meditate on it, and pray to the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus will enlighten us to speak to our hearts and lead us into the truth. Then we shall know the truth, and the truth will set us free from all the sinful negative things in our lives. So that is how we can have fellowship with Christ. Then, with the word we received, with the enlightenment received, we should talk to Him. We should praise and thank Him. We should pray to Him.
Then, after having fellowship, we also need to honor Him. In honoring
Him, we should go beyond singing songs, we should honor Him with the righteous deeds/life. That righteous life will be produced by having fellowship with Him. It is a spontaneous thing. When we have fellowship with
Christ, automatically, our life will be changed. We have been saved to worship. And we worship to be saved.
Hebrew 7:25
"Therefore, He is also able to save to the uttermost, those
who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make
intercession for them."
The Lord Jesus saves those who come to God through Him. We are being sanctified, so the sanctification, the transformation, the renewal is a lifelong process. So for that, we need to come to God every day. That is the meaning of the complete Salvation. God wants to save us to the uttermost. He doesn't want to give a partial Salvation. He wants to give us the complete Salvation. For our Salvation to be completed, we need to come to God every day, Only by coming to the Word of Christ, our minds can be renewed. Our thinking, our desires, can be renewed. We can think the way God wants us to think, we can desire what God wants us to desire, we need to fellowship with Him. We need to come to his Word every day.
Hebrews 10: 22
"22. let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with
pure water."
So the way to fellowship with God is through the experience of the powerful death of our Lord Jesus Christ. That means to have fellowship with God...to have fellowship with Christ we need to lose a little bit of our earthly comfort and our time. When we do that, we can enjoy the heavenly blessings, the spiritual blessings, which the world can never give. The spiritual blessings, the heavenly blessings are so precious. When we do that, we can draw closer to God.
So the worship means drawing near to God and honoring God. We can honor God only by drawing near to Him. Unless we fellowship with Him, unless we draw closer to Him, we will never be able to honor Him as He wants. God is asking us to fellowship with Jesus Christ by coming to the New Testament every day to receive the speaking of the Lord. And then with that speaking, we should every day, praise Him, thank Him and pray to Him. And then we should confess His name to others. We should share the joy we received from Him with others. So that way we can honor Him in our daily lives.
May the Lord Jesus Christ strengthen each one of us to do that. Amen.
