Christian Living

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Not satisfied with the present state of affairs in your life, perhaps your health, finances, career? Would you like to see things change for the better? Do you have a picture in your mind’s eye of where you would like to be? If you do great, but the question that obviously follows is, what plan have you put in place to get there? Or are you simply hoping that someday, somehow, you will arrive there? It doesn’t work that way; while hope in itself is not a bad thing, but hoping for a better life without planning for it will keep you rooted to the same spot or worse still, cause you to move backwards and end up frustrated.
John Maxwell has said that hope is not a strategy and I agree. If you are going to move from point A to point B you are going to need more than hope. You are going to need a plan. Strategic planning and not hope is the way to the next level, so begin right now, this very moment to write out clearly what it is you want and where you would like to be, writing it down amongst other things helps to provide clarity. As you write please ignore the little voice telling you that you can’t possibly achieve it and don’t panic, no one is looking at your list, no one has to see what you have written down, so go ahead and make it as grand as you like and while you are doing this don’t think of where you are presently, just focus on where you want to be because if you focus on where you currently are, you will lose faith in your ability to get where you want to be.
After you have written it down the next thing to do is ask yourself the question, what do I need to do to go from here to there? The word, do, suggests action and so action will be required if you will move from point A to point B. Depending on where you are and what you have written down, the answer to this question will vary from person to person. For me at one stage when I desired a career change, the answer was to go for certifications, I did and got the job I wanted, my salary changed and so did my lifestyle. I was able to move from where I was to where I wanted to be at the time simply by answering the question, how. The answer to that question helped me develop a plan which I followed.
Whatever your answer may be, I want to encourage you to turn it into a plan and dare to follow it to the letter. Your success is closer than you think.

Eturuvie Erebor

Woman Empowered by Inspiration.

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