Last week I asked you what you would do if money wasn’t a factor. What did you come up with? My hope is that it started to spark something inside of you. Ultimately my hope is that it would start to unlock the chains we sometimes put ourselves in. It usually starts early in life when we get scared of our dreams. We all have had dreams at one time or another. Whether it was wanting to be a doctor or firefighter when we were kids all the way until later in life when we wanted to be a difference maker in this world. That usually comes about the time we get out of high school. If you went to college, why did you go? What did you want to make a difference doing?
Usually at this point in life is where we start to get scared of the future. We start to listen to the wrong voices, some are inside voices and some are outside voices of others that may not know what we desire or what we even want to learn and get better at doing. Often times, we don’t give ourselves credit for the things we are learning or what we have learned in our past.
When you sit in a quiet place and think about your life, what comes to mind. If you’re like me, I can remember both good times and bad. I can remember the wins I have had in life and the mistakes I wish I wouldn’t have made. Can you remember the awards you won and the achievements you made happen or won? Let’s call these things markers.
Our past, I will call it our timeline, is one of the keys we can use to help unlock our future. Take a piece of paper and draw a line on it from left to right. The far left side is when you were born and the far right is today. Now, think back as far as you can in the past an make a mark on your timeline for how old you were and what that memory marker was. One more thing, was that first memory marker a positive or negative thought? And on a scale from one to ten how positive or negative was it? Put down the major memory markers in your life and how positive or negative they were. It will take a little time and if you allow yourself to think about it during the day, you will find yourself remembering things you had only thought you forgot about.
There is a reason it is helpful for us to do this exercise. I will talk more about it soon but for now, see if you can start to see any patterns in your life. Look for threads through your own life and see if you can connect any of the dots.
I want to help you see what your past has to do with your future and how it can help you unlock your dreams. In the journey of life, and you’ve heard this before, you never get anywhere unless you are willing to take that fist step. Through the Bible we see that God created people for a purpose on purpose. When he told Jeremiah that he wanted him to be a profit to the nations or when King David had accomplished what God put before him then he died.
God has a plan for you!! Sometimes we just gave up on our dreams or what God has put in our hearts and desires.
Have a great day and we will talk soon!
Bryan
ETHOS 4 LIFE 