Keep your eye on the ball!

When I last played softball at church I was the third baseman. You have to pay attention a lot at third base; you don’t have time to day dream because things happen fast. I was reminded of that when a guy hit the ball right down the line and I caught it with my chin. Like Toby Keith said I ain’t as good as I once was. But hey at least I got in front of the ball, and did not get knocked out. I was once again reminded of this when I played brick breaker (a time wasting game on my Blackberry). All of the little things rolling down like guns, lasers and the life one, get you focused on catching them and you focus on the wrong thing, and miss the ball.

Life is like that, we see all of the cool things that look fun and we go after them. We work extra we spend a lot of time on things that are time burners and we miss the main point of living, which is life more abudantly. We get busy making a living and not a life, and then God sends a hard hit ball down the third base line and smack, you remember what you are doing when your head clears. But if you are not careful you will get scared when another ball is hit your way and you will avoid it altogether and miss the fun in life. Its fun when you make a good play and its fun when you live your life the way God intended, man fully alive. So maybe you are like me, starting a new business, focusing on getting the income to start coming in and you miss the adventure of working and being creative, meeting new people and HELPING them. I love to help people but, when I daydream about making the money that is all I see and I miss out why I love doing what I do, helping people. As Zig Ziglar says “You help enough people get what they want you will get what you want.” So let’s keep our eye on the ball and enjoy making that play and stay in front of the ball (life). Now go have a great game and tell me how you played!

Tim
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