FOCUS AND PRIORITIES

I can do all things through Christ Who Strengthens Me!  That is one of my favorite scriptures!  My friend Laura invited me to a Christian Networking Group Meeting last night, so I finally got it in my busy schedule to go.  It was a refreshing time and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The speaker's topic was one that I was very familiar with.  One of my favorite studies I found as I began my Networking business years ago, was the familiarization with different personalities and how to relate to people, according to their personalities.  By understanding them you could more fully understand why, they are the way they are!  Now I get confused as to who I am because I feel I fit somewhere in every personality and I'm sure we all must share characteristics with the different accessed personalities.  One thing I remember about the personality study I did was that the good characteristics of each personality were the characteristics of "God's" personality and if we wanted to be more like God, then we needed to strive to have the good qualities of every personality.  Now, back to my subject of "focus" and "priorities."  I learned a long time ago to put God first in my life, before my family, before my business, before everything I did.  Why?  Because he has the best interest in my life.  I need to focus each day on what does God want me to do today and what is the top priority of my schedule?  What is the most important thing I need to start on?  I also learned that God wants family to be an important priority, right after him!  Sometimes I struggle with this.  My personality is one that loves to be active and busy.  I love a new project that has my interest!  If I feel something is boring that I need to do or my heart just isn't in it, It's hard for me to walk away from a project and get the other things in my life taken care of that need to be taken care of!  The principles of success are all in this formula.  God first, family second, and business and other priorities last.  One really successful lady, whose seminar I attended, said that she became a millionaire as she was taught the principles of success.  Her bitterness towards a church and their judgment towards her, made her turn away from God.  Yes she had become successful, but somehow there was an emptiness.  Some friends invited her to a service and she protested against going.  She blamed God for the harsh judgment some of his church members had against her in one of her previous "church experiences".  She finally decided to go with them, even though she was in protest the whole time.  As she sat there and listened to the sermon, she noticed as the minister went through the Bible and began to teach, he was teaching the very principles that she had been taught to build her success upon!  Startled by this, she turned her heart to God, realizing that people make mistakes and sometimes get judgmental and it wasn't God at all.  What he had for her was the formula she needed for not only a successful life financially, but he had the very formula she needed to fill that empty void that was in her life.  That's why, if you put him first, he will help you to line up your focus and get your priorities in order.  With God, all things are possible and YOU HAVE THE POWER TO ACHIEVE!.