Instant Success
I just read a statement from Daniel Tardy that said Valentines Day is usually the time that people have already given up on their New Years resolutions. Wow we give our life changing goals a whole 45 days to be complete. On top of that we quit in the middle of the shortest month of the year! I want to start a new business on Jan.1, but if I am not profitable and able to leave my current job I will be done Feb.14. Or I want to get out of debt that has taken me my whole adult life to acquire; I will give it 45 days. Wow, we live in a microwave society and our goals require cooking in a crock-pot. Hey I am as spoiled as the rest of us, but the crock-pot does teach me patients. What makes us think this way, we have the lottery mentality, just one ticket and I will be set for life. It is a blessing that we do not achieve success quickly. It can destroy us because we have not developed the character or the spiritual muscle to handle it yet. Look at this statistic, 80% of NFL players are broke ten years after they retire. We can’t just beat up the people who strike it rich quick. When we get married we want to have everything our parents have now. We don’t realize it has taken them their whole lives to get where they are now; we want to put it in the microwave and go! Then we pray, God give me patients and give them to me now! He even tells us In Proverbs 13:11, Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.”
If we want to reach our goals and accomplish what we were put on the earth to do we need to change our mindset to crock-pot mode and cook a lot slower than we like. We also have to have a goal bigger than ourselves and our wants. We need to be disciplined. Discipline is the thing we don’t want to do to get the result we want. It’s hard, but it’s worth doing. As Vince Lombardi says: “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.” You may be thinking well what if I am not getting any where with my business do I keep trying and losing? Not always, you may have to modify your plan or change it, and if you get no traction re-evaluate and see if you need to continue. My wires get crossed and I have to quit some things or change them, remember the world is not perfect. Don’t think I have everything down to a perfect science, I am not even close, but I am learning it takes more time than I like. This builds what is lacking in my life, patience and perseverance. It’s not comfortable but it is good for me weather it feels like it at times or not. I love the line in the outlaw of Josey Wales, played by Clint Eastwood. “ When things look bad and you think you’re not gonna make it, that’s when you gotta get mean, I mean plum mad dog mean, because if you give up you neither live nor win.” Let’s start winning and living and not quit before the process gets going good. Start that new career or business, get out of debt, lose the weight and get your life back so you can accomplish what you were put on the earth to do!
Tim West
Go West Coaching
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
When in doubt
I read this and thought it was really good. We all go through doubt in out lives, we especially doubt ourselves and God. So no matter where you may be in your life dont quit, breakthrough will come,just not in our timing but in His.
Tim West
Go West Coaching
When the One You Doubt is You
T. Suzanne Eller
"Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. 'You of little faith,' he said, 'why did you doubt?'" Matthew 14:31 (NIV)
Devotion:
I walked away discouraged. It was a disaster! The end of the world! I mentally listed all the ways I had messed up.
Things had not gone the way I had hoped. Later that night as I lay in bed, going over the events one more time, regret plopped right in the middle of my chest.
I wish that I could say that self-doubt was never a problem again after that day, but it has tried to spring up again from time to time. It's just that I handle it in a different way now. I finally recognized self-doubt for what it is. It's an unhealthful twist on humility. It appears to be self-assessment, or even meekness. Instead, it is distracting to my dreams and the direction that God is trying to lead me.
Self doubt can be paralyzing unless we learn to unpack it. Asking questions like:
Is there a valid reason I am doubting? Maybe there are gaps that need to be filled with education, with knowledge, with training, or good old-fashioned time alone with our Heavenly Father.
Is it due to a certain person or my past? My friend and Proverbs 31 Ministries sister Lysa TerKeurst describes twirling around as a child, her dress fanning out around her, to capture her father's attention.
How many times do we twirl, trying to fill that place where a father's words or a mother's hugs didn't? We keep on twirling hoping that someone might notice, and we come up empty if they don't, even when there is no way that anyone can see that need.
Is it the enemy? We have an enemy according to Scripture. An enemy that desires to steal, to take away, to wound by distracting us from God's grace, call, and leading. Do we so intently focus on the things we didn't do "right" or well, at least in our eyes, and fail to see the good that took place?
When I stopped to take an honest look at the event where the world was coming to an end, the reality is that it was a small hiccup. A perfect learning experience, allowing me to fill in a gap that needed to be filled.
Self-doubt can either riddle us, consuming our thoughts, or it can be an avenue to honestly assess why it's there, and what we can do about it—with God's help.
I read this and thought it was really good. We all go through doubt in out lives, we especially doubt ourselves and God. So no matter where you may be in your life dont quit, breakthrough will come,just not in our timing but in His.
Tim West
Go West Coaching
When the One You Doubt is You
T. Suzanne Eller
"Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. 'You of little faith,' he said, 'why did you doubt?'" Matthew 14:31 (NIV)
Devotion:
I walked away discouraged. It was a disaster! The end of the world! I mentally listed all the ways I had messed up.
Things had not gone the way I had hoped. Later that night as I lay in bed, going over the events one more time, regret plopped right in the middle of my chest.
I wish that I could say that self-doubt was never a problem again after that day, but it has tried to spring up again from time to time. It's just that I handle it in a different way now. I finally recognized self-doubt for what it is. It's an unhealthful twist on humility. It appears to be self-assessment, or even meekness. Instead, it is distracting to my dreams and the direction that God is trying to lead me.
Self doubt can be paralyzing unless we learn to unpack it. Asking questions like:
Is there a valid reason I am doubting? Maybe there are gaps that need to be filled with education, with knowledge, with training, or good old-fashioned time alone with our Heavenly Father.
Is it due to a certain person or my past? My friend and Proverbs 31 Ministries sister Lysa TerKeurst describes twirling around as a child, her dress fanning out around her, to capture her father's attention.
How many times do we twirl, trying to fill that place where a father's words or a mother's hugs didn't? We keep on twirling hoping that someone might notice, and we come up empty if they don't, even when there is no way that anyone can see that need.
Is it the enemy? We have an enemy according to Scripture. An enemy that desires to steal, to take away, to wound by distracting us from God's grace, call, and leading. Do we so intently focus on the things we didn't do "right" or well, at least in our eyes, and fail to see the good that took place?
When I stopped to take an honest look at the event where the world was coming to an end, the reality is that it was a small hiccup. A perfect learning experience, allowing me to fill in a gap that needed to be filled.
Self-doubt can either riddle us, consuming our thoughts, or it can be an avenue to honestly assess why it's there, and what we can do about it—with God's help.
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