Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future.
It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.
- Joni Erickson Tada
Wats goodie people? I always attempt to come back strong after a long hiatus from my writing so I chose whatever has been the strongest element in my life to write about. No matter where we stand in life, focusing on conquering what immediately faces us should always be our primary goal...too often we get caught up looking in the future that we don't give our current situations their proper attention...A failure to prepare represents a desire to be unsuccessful...
This sense of looking ahead can appear in school, relationships, family, work, and life in general as we have become a world that is dependent on not only instant gratification but future security. The only true control that we can assert over the future is creating a good series of events to lead to our future. So many of us get stuck in attempting to make a 5 year plan of getting married, having kids, making $1 million, and having the greatest set of best friends that it makes every day hard to live. When you put that much restriction on your life and try to guide everything towards what you think your future will be, you block yourself from what can be truly meant for you. Stop focusing on "what will be" and work on making "what is" greater...
Setting future goals is helpful indeed, no doubt because you have to have some idea about what you want to do or self motivation may never occur, but never allow something that isn't tangible take control over your life. Just because it doesn't look like you’re on the right path, who is to say what is really that right path for you. As long as you are living and breathing and making efforts to improve daily, your path is as right as it can be. The future should serve as a sense of hope rather than a completely determining factor. Use the future to know that you'll always have an opportunity to do better but remember that you can only make efforts to be better in your immediate present...
Whenever life becomes too much to deal with, step back…take a deep breath...and start taking pleasure in the simplicity of life. As a great friend told me, simple = amazing...the simple elements of life can be a laugh shared with a friend, a good television show, a workout, just whatever takes minimal effort to make YOU happy. Take a moment to remind yourself that there are simple things in life worth living for and that can help you in getting in order the elements of your life that have made it hard to live. Overcoming adversity is based in asserting individual control and taking risks and chances....Hope this helps get at least one person through something because it's surely just helped me...
God Bless...PromoDave Signing Out...
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