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1. Be honest about who you are
2. Measure who you are in comparison to those who are successful and happy
3. Change (without shame) one thing at a time
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All of G-Pop’s children want to be successful.
They like the sound of it.
They like the feel of it.
And certainly, they enjoy the benefits that come from being considered one of the “top dogs.”
Yet even though the willingness of each generation changes, the path to success remains the same. Matter of fact, no success can ever be acquired without understanding three undeniable realities:
1. The effort you are willing to give will always be insufficient.
2. The passion you bring will continually fall short.
3. The plan you have conceived will be found wanting.
It isn’t mean-spirited. It’s just a system that makes sure that the lazy, gluttonous, selfish cheaters don’t soak up all the treasures of the Earth.
So what is necessary to be successful? A two-word philosophy:
One more.
That’s it. It always takes one more. Whenever you think you have sufficiently addressed a situation, take the precaution of doing one more.
If someone asks you for two bottles of water, bring three. When you arrive, there will always be somebody who changed his or her mind and now wants one. You will look like a genius.
If you check your GPS, and it says a trip is going to take three hours and forty-five minutes, allot four hours and thirty minutes, just in case life throws you that normal curve in the road.
You never find success in the first mile.
But along about the first mile mark, the competition lessens as the travelers lose heart or begin to pout because things were not as easy as they anticipated.
Anyone who is willing to go the second mile will find the journey simpler, less congested and a private pathway to their heart’s desire.
It always takes one more.
Sometimes it’s one more prayer.
Oftentimes it’s one additional follow-up instead of walking away and throwing in the towel.
Life is not out to get you–but life is also not out to help you,
G-Pop wants his children to know that the only way you aid your cause is to look at what you can bring–and then find one more to offer.
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How much time does it take to maintain a relationship?
How much emotion do we need to be successful?
How much money is enough to cause us to relax?
How much proof do we need that God is alive?
How much disappointment before we give up?
How much passion is required to compete?
How much doubt is necessary to fortify our faith?
How much ignorance does it take to create prejudice?
How much prayer to receive a miracle?
How much longer will we live?
How much discipline do we use to make a child honorable?
How much sex to confirm our love?
How much responsibility does it take to foster freedom?
How much do we control our destiny?
And …
How much can we trust our evaluations of such matters?
After all, how much does it matter?
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Jonathots Daily Blog
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It’s going to be very difficult to have faith that moves mountains if you attempt to maintain a positive attitude that fails to recognize the “rise” in difficulties ahead.
Likewise, if you contend that every Tennessee “smoky hill” is Mt. Everest, you probably won’t do much earth rearranging, either.
For after all, one of the great comedies-in-error is the fact that human beings require a certain amount of balance that they rarely find, or for that matter, are willing to pursue. So instead of analyzing our feelings to find shreds of quality within, we relegate certain emotions as “bad” and others as “good.”
For instance, boredom is normally considered to be a negative in the human family. When we’re bored we become grumpy and immediately try to alleviate the condition by grabbing onto the first roller coaster that zooms through the amusement park.
Yet we consider confidence to be a positive attribute which will propel our wishes and dreams to a conclusion and manifest an obvious victory.
Here’s the truth:
I can’t be a complete person if I’m just dissatisfied–I settle into a muddy pit of mediocrity and complaining.
But in like manner, if I have confidence all the time, it will soon be dashed by the reality of competition, trial and tribulation, leaving me running to the corner like a little whipped pup.
It’s the balance of the two.
Every Friday in this G series, we’re going to discuss this balance, which will be one thing we consider to be negative and another we think is positive–which really need to be blended, to generate our human effort through creativity.
I’m dissatisfied, so I will consider, with confidence, what more I can do.
Without dissatisfaction, my confidence is just boasting. And without confidence, my dissatisfaction is merely cranky.
Learn the ways of your human days.
Come face to face with the nature of the race.
And understand that a dissatisfied soul who is able to tap his or her confidence notices that the mountain is small enough that the faith provided …, just might move it.
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Jonathots Daily Blog
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I said yes to life, so here comes no–to give me a chance to prove my point.
I shove off to achieve and circumstances push back. Now what?
Leaning–either to my own understanding, or trusting God. One makes sense to me and the other sounds really religious. But here’s the problem with my understanding: it is generations and generations and situations and situations, literally screaming at me, “Be careful!”
Now deep in my soul I know that I’ve never been successful while pursuing a path of caution. I haven’t even managed to manipulate a comfortable status quo. After all, the world is filled with tribulation and if you’re not prepared to adjust to the new dilemmas, you will lose ground even if you don’t move one way or the other.
Trusting God is the step of allowing myself to “be ready.” Ready for what?
Yes, it comes down to a choice between “be careful” and “be ready.”
Case in point is what happened to me this weekend in Vandalia. I was a little bit frustrated with the circumstances of an engagement that came our way. It was a late-notice arrangement and I was never fully convinced that the venue wanted us to come in the first place. I’m a human being. I want to be loved, I want to be appreciated and I want to be needed. I felt the church had decided to “accommodate” me. I hate that word. I don’t want to be accommodated–I want to be desired.
So because of that, when a storm watch foretold of bad weather on Sunday night, I seized on the opportunity to cancel the date, fully aware that if there were a tornado watch in the air, all of God’s little children would scurry to their basements.
You see, it sounds logical. But actually I was being careful.
Careful about the storm, careful about the audience, and mostly–careful to avoid humiliation by small attendance.
As it turns out, the alleged vicious outpouring from the heavens never materialized and the concert could have been held without interruption.
My leaning was to my own understanding. Rather than being ready to use my talents, abilities and take a chance that things would work out to the good, I decided to be careful. I did it because I was frustrated, cautious and quite honestly, a little lazy.
So the good folks of Vandalia never got a chance to receive what we could share with them.
And by the way…I was wrong.
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