Direction

 Direction is EVERYthing.  Where are you headed?  Time to have some serious and honest conversations with yoursel.   One Life  Its all we get.  Choose your direction.

Roads

 Faith is EVERYthing.  Know that you have to keep travelling.  Your destination, in all its glory WILL arrive.  You simply have to keep moving.  The clouds will part, the fog dissipates,  and you will stand at the pinnacle of all the steps.  Keep stepping.  Keep the faith.

Keep aiming

 

I had a baseball coach once that was adiment about the concept of "keep swinging".  You are not goimg to hit a single, double, or homerun if you dont swing.  You cant stay in the batters box and keep watching balls come by in hopes that you get a walk.  You have to suck it up and swing at the 90 mile an hour fast ball coming in or the curve that you think will take your head off.  SWING.!

I used to have a compound bow with quite the poundage of draw.  It was an effort to pull it back.  All of the garbage of life that is the draw, draw.  Keep drawing, keep aiming, and "LET IT GO". 

Even if you don't know the target, you arent going to hit anything if you don't keep pulling back and letting it go.  You will eventually hit just the thing that is planned for you.  Never give up.  Keep firing away. 

Who are you?

 

The ? mark is the que.  You are who you decide to be.  Who are you going to decide to be?  I promise you that only action leads to the answer.  Good intentions without action equals "Blah, Blah, Blah",  The same equals the same.  If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.  Think about that!  Today, and every day is made for change.  Where do you want that change to lead?

Some of us have to hit the absolute rock bottom.  Some of us can learn lessons from others.  Either way, the choice of YOU is on YOU.  Lets focus on YOU this year.  Have a full tank.  You can't help another that ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere if you don't have gas in the tank.  Fill you first.  I promise that you are more than you "think " you are.  The thoughts change with action.  Action first, and then the thoughts change.

Do Work!

 

There is a fine young gentleman that comes into the gym daily.  Let's call him, Larry.  I love his optimistic attitude and energy.  It is quite contagious.  Larry always has a smile on his face.  Another thing that stands out is that he comes in with worn and tattered leather "work" gloves.  What a beautiful thing to step in a gym wearing somehing that reminds yourself, "I am here to DO WORK".  I love it.

We are in the season where 90% of people that join a gym will drop off within 90 days.  Embrace the idea that you are there to do the work for YOU.  You are building a house that is YOURS.  Its not the time to cut corners or not show when its time to frame, put up drywall, or nail down the roof.  You want to walk through that front door with a finished house you can be proud of.  Time to put on the leathers, and through blood, sweat, and tears, build YOUR house.  No contractor is going to do it for you.

Happy building friends... Can't wait to see your house this time next year.

What Now?

 

It doesn't take a "New Year".  It takes a single NEW DAY.  We all have that opportunity regardless of a circumstance, situation, injury, depression,or any other life reality.  Its just life.  We may have made a few mistakes last year or yesterday.  But, today is a new day.  We are not a result of our past we are we we choose to be TODAY by looking for and making opportunities to strive for all to be better than yesterday.  If nothing changes, nothing changes.  New thoughts, attitudes, actions, friends, and goals.

What Now?  What will you do today to make it better than yesterday?  Be honest with yourself, do not accept excuses, and DO.  Time to rip the rear view off and shut down the negative voices in your head.  We all have power in us we never new was there.  Time to dig deep and let the warrior arise.

Have a better than good day and year my friends.

 Many things, people, and experiences can absolutely burn us below the surface of the ground.  In the Bible, there is always the word...."BUT. " Out of the ashes, new growth, new perspective, and new hope.  Sometimes, you have to not fight the flames and let God take care of all the dead debris around you.

Let go and let God takes ona whole new meaning when you absolutely surrender to the scalding hurt of the flame, and you rest in the faith that God is purging all around you, for not only your good, but his.  Your ashes will be an instrument for things beyond your control knowing all good will come to those seeking and called to his purpose.  Let go.  Stop trying to fight the flames and look forward to the beauty that is to come.  A little pain for a fruitful next chapter.  Never give up my friends.  Do not crumble within the suffocating and blinding smoke or your feeling your skin is melting away.  There is a new flesh.  A new breath and is around the corner.  HOLD ON!  

Eventually,  you will BE a flame burning debris around YOU, sparking new growth...... Game on!