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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

So this morning I'm going to address a question that came in from Deborah Armstrong

who asked we've had to make many changes due to the challenges of the economy

how do I know when it's time to cut people from my team?

Okay, this is a big question, Deborah, and one that depends on a lot of dynamics that I don't know about

your business and the quality of the people on your team.

All I can suggest with this little information is to test them,

kind of like God asked Gideon to test his troops.

There's a story from the Bible that went something like this.

So there's this guy Gideon and he's selected by God to be the leader of the Israelites

and to free the people of Israel from those who had turned to idle worship. Gideon had recruited men from

four tribes in order to meet an armed force of the mighty Midianites. But God told

Gideon that the men he had gathered were too many and Gideon asked well

What should I do and God said try this get the 32,000 troops together and give give them your last final and ringing speech.

Give them a real barn burner, God said, something like that.

We're off to fight the Midian Knights, something like that.

And he said, when you finish the speech, finish it like this.

Now that we're off the fight, if there's anybody here that is afraid and you think we're

about to lose this battle upcoming with the Midianites, you can be excused at this time. Go home, we can't use you this time.

Gideon said, clever, I should have thought of that myself. So Gideon gets the 32,000 troops together, he gets up on high ground, and he gives his last ringing speech. And he says, we're off the fight. But if there's anybody here who thinks we're going to lose, you can be excused at this time. You can just go home. We're just going to take who's left.

And sure enough, some of the men went home.

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