Welcome to the September 8th edition of Faith & Life Lessons.
You will see this email full of tidbits from my week. My goal is simple. I hope that from how I live my life, you can find a thing or two that helps you as you try to live a life that matters. I am always trying to do one thing - make Christ-focused decisions in love, work, and life. And this was my week.
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The Story of My Week.
The overwhelming nature of the goals I am pursuing hit me at some point this week.
It hit me to the point that I wondered how I was going to thrive through the season it would take me to get to the final outcome.
It’s in situations like these that I remind myself why I have these goals in the first place.
I did that again this week.
It didn’t completely push the fear to the background
It simply puts a bigger sense of action over the fear such that the fear seems small compared to it.
I remain committed to the goals.
Not only the goals.
But also the actions I need to take to arrive at them.
I update my plans and adapt them to the current circumstances.
I know I will win.
God is leading my action line.
Things I Learnt
1 - YOUR INTENTIONS WILL MAKE YOUR ACTIONS & DEFINE YOUR ENVIRONMENT: If you want a warm work or family environment, set intentions every time you come into that environment.
Not only set intentions but also take actions that support the intentions.
Someone once told me that he does his intention setting when he is parking his car as he gets home.
He tells himself that he has left work in the office and now he is going home to be a father and husband.
Someone else said he does his intention setting as he stands in front of the door to his house. The door is the intention trigger.
The intentions followed by the actions create and sustain the environment.
In an email I sent out to my team at work during the week, I stated my intention for the workplace environment I want to create. My intention is this “I want to build a team of people better than me who I empower to succeed.”
I show every day at work to take actions that support this intention.
By doing this, I create a workplace environment that reflects my intention.
From intentions to actions to the environment.
2 - PREPARE FOR THE LIFE PERFORMANCE: I was listening to a Tony Robbins interview in which he talks about the level of practice that basketball superstar Steph Curry engages in.
According to him, Steph practices 500 shots every day. Tallied up that's 3500 shots per week. 168,000 per year. And 2.52 million shots over the 15 years Steph's been in the NBA.
But wait for this, less than 1/10th of 1% of his shots are seen in a game! Out of 16,000 game shots with 3,557 he makes, he achieves greatness.
It reminds me of how much more I need to put into practice for anything I want to do.
Someone asked me how I was able to write the book I published in a short time. Well, I have been writing and publishing something online consistently every week for over 6 years. OK, I missed one week in the six years.
Before then, I had been writing and publishing sporadically for over 15 years.
I still need the consistency of Steph Curry to achieve legendary status in whatever I work on.
This is what I have to aim for.
Postscript
May you always find the encouragement you need to remain consistent in pursuing your big goals. Amen
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Tola - The Everyday Disciple
I help Christians like you who want to live intentional lives incorporate their faith into everyday life so they can make Christ-focused decisions in all areas of life and truly live to make an impact and make God happy.
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