At the end of every podcast, we like to ask our guests to share what God has been teaching them in this season of life. Today’s guest is Hamilton Powell of Crown & Caliber. He buys and sells used luxury watches, and today he’s going to share with us how he got started on this entrepreneurial venture and what it means to “kill the good idea fairy.”

 Psalm 119:33
Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees,
    that I may follow it to the end.

As it relates to the entrepreneur's identity, we certainly have our own battle that's unique versus most others where we're hardwired to perform. And I think that we have to be very careful to make sure that we're wrapping our identity, not in our performance, not in the day to day, but in where it should be. 

And for me, my go to verse here recently has been in Psalm 119:33. 

It's teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes and I will keep it to the end. Give me understanding that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart. Lead me in the paths your commandment for I delight in it. Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to selfish gain. Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things and give me life in your ways. 

Confirm to your servant your promise that you may be feared. Turn away the reproach I dread and another person is a disgrace I dread. For your rules are good. Behold, I long for your precepts and your righteousness give me life. 

So that idea of take away the disgrace I dread. How often am I or any of us so fearful of that disgrace that we dread, particularly as entrepreneurs? So instead turn my eyes from looking at worthless things. 

So I've just found that verse is now sitting on my desk. I look at it every day and it's like every month it has new meaning to me. There's a new layer that's peeled back on that and just shows the power of the word that is living and it changes as you go through other things. The word itself doesn't change, obviously, but its meaning to me becomes more and more rich with every chapter I go through.