First, I want to congratulate you for making it through the first six months of 2024! Whether you are proud of your progress or dissatisfied with your results, the reality is that you still have six months to make some changes in your life and that is a lot of time. Personally, the last six months have been filled with challenges, obstacles, and discomfort. However, I have also been challenged to grow, develop, and evolve into the next best version of myself. Just as the seasons change, you must understand that the seasons of your life will change. I hope that through these insights you will gain wisdom, clarity, and strategy to make adjustments, take action, and actualize your dreams.
It is important to maintain perspective. This is normally the point in this year when many people start to feel down and discouraged. Often people realize that they have not been very productive and that they have yet to make the progress that they want. However, I want to caution you about going down this emotional path. Instead of becoming depressed and discouraged, I wanted you to maintain perspective. In other words, see this as a wake-up call and an opportunity to change the course of your life. After all, rehearsing your failures will never empower you to seize your future. Give yourself some grace and create a growth plan to get from where you are to where it is you want to be. Perspective is powerful and it anchors you in what is possible for your life. Your perspective will either unlock your potential or imprison your potential. If you can maintain perspective then you can ultimately make progress and embrace the life of your dreams.
You need to identify what is not working in your life. It is one thing to hope for a better life. It is another thing to identify the barriers that are standing between you and the life that you were born for. I want to challenge you to take some time and identify what is not working in your life. Why is this so important? Any pattern or cycle that you fail to identify will persist in your life. If you want your life to be different, then you are going to have to identify the things that are dividing you from your vision and distancing you from what is possible for your life. As you can identify what is not working, you will gain clarity, you will course correct, and ultimately you will be empowered to chart the course to change in your life. Ultimately, you will continue to get more of what you do not want until you get clear about what you want in your life. Identify and break the destructive habits that create cycles of failure and dishonor the seed of your potential.
You can only embrace what is next for your life by defining what is next. At the time of this piece, I am seeing some of the greatest breakthroughs and results of my life. Goals are being accomplished, dreams are being realized and growth is happening at an accelerated rate. You may be wondering what has led to these results in my life. I truly believe that I am embracing what is next for my life because I took the time to define what the next season of my life was going to look like. Close your eyes for a moment. What do you see as next for your life? Who are you in your next season? What impact are you having in your next season? In what capacity will you lead in your next season? If you cannot define your next season then you will never access your next season. Take a few minutes to imagine and envision your next. If you do not define what is next you will spend the rest of your life living by default. Next is not just something that we sit around and anticipate. Next is something that you must become the architect of in your life. Define what is next so that you can ultimately design what is next for your life. What you are intentional about defining you are empowered and prepared to access and to dominate.
You cannot embrace your next without courage. You can have the best of intentions and deep hope. However, if you do not have courage you will never embrace what is next for your life. Why is that? The moment a dream or vision begins to burn in your heart you will be met with hostile resistance and opposition. Sometimes the opposition will come in the form of obstacles or barriers. Other times it will come through conflicting views and contradictory perspectives. Regardless of how it shows up in your life, you will have to decide whether you are going to retreat in fear or run toward your giant with audacious faith. Courage is not the denial of obstacles. Courage is having the audacity to defy the odds and destroy obstacles. Your dreams cannot live without courage. More importantly, your faith shrinks without the force of courage. If you have made it through the last six months, then courage will be the catalyst to breakthroughs and results in the next six months. Courage is the willingness to extinguish your fears and to fully engage your faith! Courage is immune to impossibilities!
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