It’s not optional for us to sit on what we have been given to accomplish in this life.
Everybody’s been given something to bring to the planet. That only you can do, that only you can perform, that only you can initiate. And, if you don’t do that, if you’re not filling in your life with your mission then there are gaps in your life. What do we do when we’re not living out our true identity? We begin to fill the gaps, we fill the holes with garbage – alcohol, drugs, worry, self-destructive behavior.
When you begin to look at your life and you know that you’re not doing what you can do because you have allowed yourself to be held captive by your fears, you will go through things. And while you’re going through them, you can’t understand why it’s happening to you. But after you go through it, you get back and you look at it and you say “oh, now I understand why I needed that lesson. I couldn’t understand it there but after I got through it then I saw that it was preparing me for bigger and better things.”
As you go through the challenges of life and you look at it and embrace whatever comes to you, don’t run from it, step toward it. Don’t try and duck it like most people do. Most people want it easy. Handle those hard things, make those hard decisions right now that you don’t want to make, learn those things that you don’t like to do but you know that in order for you to get where you want to go. This is one of the hoops that you have to flip through and whatever you got to do, do it. If you don’t, life is going to whoop you until you surrender and say “okay, all right, all right, all right, all right, I cooperate, okay, I learned, okay”
If it’s hard then do it hard now.
How do you hang in there during the hard difficult times?
You must have faith.
You’ve got to believe in yourself.
You’ve got to believe in your abilities.
You’ve got to believe in your service, your company, your ideas, unquestionably.
You got to have faith and that faith gives you patience to accept that it is not going to happen as quickly as you want it to happen.
A lot of things are going to happen that will catch you off guard and so therefore you’ve got to deal with and handle it as it comes. Not only that, but faith and patience drives you into action you need to keep moving and keep plugging away. Some people stop because they don’t see instant results. It doesn’t happen quickly. You got to keep on watering your dreams.
The harder the battle the sweeter the victory
Why see that it’s hard and there’s a struggle, see what you become in the process is more important. In the process, what’s far more important is the kind of person you become, the character that you built, the courage that you develop, the faith that you’re manifesting. It’s something that you get up in the morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you’re a different kind of person. You walk with a different kind of spirit and people know that you understand what life is, that you have embraced life. You know it was hard but you did it hard.
For us to begin to look at the future, know that it’s possible. That we can have our dream and if other people have done it, then we can do it. We fail a lot of times, a lot of other folks failed and eventually they came back and they succeeded. It’s possible we can have what we want and we know that we want to get it.
It’s necessary that we align ourselves with people that think like we do.
It’s necessary we get negative do-nothing people out of our lives.
It’s necessary we never stop learning and growing and developing ourselves.
It’s necessary that we never give up.
We know that if we’re going to keep moving, we’re going to find a way to win or find a way to make it happen. We know it’s not going to be a picnic. Yes, it’s hard and we will do it hard. Once we do it hard and we go through it we realize it was worth it. Once you discover it was worth it, it is done well.
When you’re working, you have a wall to break. Suppose you are running a marathon, running the 26 mile marathon and hypothetically that 18th mile is the wall. When you’re running, everything in you is telling you to stop, to give up. Every muscle is aching and you’re saying to yourself that you can’t do it. But you just keep on and you keep on and you keep on it. You may be moving at slow motion but then eventually when you break through that 18-mile wall, you know it’s almost done and you automatically glide on in. You know it’s there, you know you’re going to get to the finish line.
We’ve all had experiences where we were working on something and we knew it was possible and we did those things that were necessary to bring it into reality. We took the responsibility to make it happen. All the people couldn’t see it. A lot of people didn’t believe it and you were attacked, you were criticized. People were opposing you but you kept on doing it. It was hard, it was rough, it was difficult, but to you it was worth it.
