Well…how many resolutions did you make?
Now, how many have you broken already?
The putting up of new calendars is the favorite time of year for folks to resolve to make changes for the better. A fresh year means a great chance to begin again.
So why do we end up making many of the same resolutions over and over again?
Personally, the biggest changes I’ve made in my life have occurred at the time I know they need to be made. Not on January 1st.
In reality I do have one thing I really want to be able to accomplish right now. I need to clone myself so I have enough time to get everything done that I have to do.
I help the Apainter Paul do that when I help him paint houses. He can go off and work on some other project and come back to a completed job just because I’m there.
That’s not fair. How am I ever going to get my stuff done when I’m doing the work of two guys?
I’m beginning to do that with my internet marketing business…I hope.
I’ve been spinning my wheels trying to get this thing in gear but my driving life keeps getting in the way. That’s why I paid for a training that’s supposed to help me hire a highly qualified and motivated person who’ll get in contact with business owners who need what I have to offer.
It sounded good on the webinar. Now all I need to do is buy more time to complete the training while marketing my book, 100 Prayers of a Writer, that just went back on the market…and paying my bills by driving my life away…and eating and sleeping whenever possible.
YIKES!
And all you hope to do is lose weight while getting in better shape. Do the work of two guys. That’s what works for little old me.
I honestly hope I can look back twelve months from now and see how far from this messed up life I’ve grown…or is it going to be groan again?
No. No. No. I have to think positively. That’s what the positive thinking guru says all the time anyway.
Why hasn’t that worked for me in the past?
Just like that humanistic little engine that could I need to keep telling myself I think I can…I think I can…I think I can and it’ll magically happen.
NOT.
Okay, I admit that a certain amount of this is my fault. I have to put forth effort in the right things in order for change to happen. I think.
I can.
There’s an important ingredient in this equation the guru guy missed. God has to open the right doors for success to occur.
Too many folks have been told they can be whatever they want to be in life. Only to run for a political office and not get enough votes to make the impact they want to make.
I have to help get the word out that my book is available for it to impact lives, but God has to get it to those souls who need to read the words on the pages. It’s a crazy equation but it’s the reality of it all.
I can hire someone who can call 100 business owners but God has to get enough of them to say yes to my offer before I can bring in enough money to walk away from driving as a career.
In the end I don’t want any of it to work if it’ll take me away from my deep relationship I have with Abba God. I’d rather live on the streets in harmony with God than be successfully empty without Him.
That’s as honest as I can get.
Pray for God to be glorified in everything you do, too.
That, my friend, is real success.
I’ll see you later. Wade
