My heart to encourage your heart
“Aim at nothing and you’ll hit it every time.”
Zig Ziglar
Repeat
Applause, like candy, is sweet to the taste yet leaves you always wanting more.
Have you ever received applause only to want more?
Applause is a poor motivator because it is so fickle.
The performer must top the last performance to increase applause.
What if we lived for the applause of heaven?
Does the applause of heaven exist?
The applause of heaven is a mindset whereby we seek to please those above not those
here on earth.
When we live for the applause of heaven we get earth thrown in.
When we focus on God’s pleasure in our endeavor we gain the applause of earth as well.
Application:
What is one area of your life that could benefit from the applause of heaven?
Resist the urge to blend in.
Blending in is easy and builds the wrong kind of muscles, the easy muscles.
Instead build the weird kind of muscles, the kind that gains the type of results you want anyways. Need some help? Try these as some examples of ways to be weird and build weird muscles:
This is a start as you set out to be weird.
Why weird?
Because so few people are actually doing this.
Begin today!
Application:
What is one thing you can start doing today to break out of the ruts? Share your story here.
Sometimes we end up somewhere different than we intended.
Detours are God’s way of getting our attention to check the road we are on and make course corrections.
Don’t dismiss the detour, embrace the change of scenery.
Ask yourself the simple question, “What can I take away from this detour?”.
Application:
When was the last time you encountered a life detour? Were you made aware of a course correction during that time?
Routines create ruts which over time can become shallow graves.
Choose one thing in your life that you KNOW will make you uncomfortable and do it.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
Question: If you do not like where you are today what needs to change?
Once you make up your mind to press play on your decision a release of adrenaline will shoot through your entire body like the fireworks before a football game, it’s the kickoff.
You will find that it never becomes comfortable to do hard things but you can learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
Application:
What is one crazy goal you can set before you? I chose to run a marathon and did it! How about you?
Dave Scott 