We All Deal With Something!

Achievement Strategy For Today
In order to be successful and confident in your life, you have to be willing to deal with the past life experiences that have affected who you have become. Words and hurtful things that happened to us, even in very early life, can have a lifetime effect on everything we do if we don't get peace with the issue and come to the correct terms of what happened. We get left with a choice! Either we look at the situation and forgive, use it as a stepping stone to build our future strengths on, or we can let it haunt us, torture us, and strip us of our power to overcome and achieve our purpose in life. WE ALL DEAL WITH SOMETHING! Now if we look at each situation, some would be much harder to overcome. The loss of a child or someone close to you, being violated by someone you loved or a stranger, feeling you were always made to feel worthless by those who should have loved you, but never showed it, being physically abused, being lied to by someone you trusted or having a spouse betray you. I could go on and on but lets talk about how we deal with these situations and how we can overcome them and get our peace back! When you're hurting, sometimes you hurt others and for those times in my life, I am sorry.  If we could just see ourselves from God's eyes, how much better would our choices and confidence had been!  

I teach a class called BABES. This is a christian based class for weight loss and it deals with issues that often cause us distress and setback in our lives. Our lesson this week is a lesson that I've now been through 3 sessions and everytime that lesson comes by again, I seem to find another deep root I have to deal with and pull out! As the creater of our BABES class teaches, in the particular lesson she remembered being a child in a part of the country that was very cold. She lived down a country road and had to once, walk home in a snow storm. She became so cold on the way home, she felt she couldn't go any farther. Her brothers ran ahead and she had her little paper lunch sack and layed down in the ditch and decided just to put her head on the sack and just die. She felt she couldn't go on! After laying there for a short time, she made a decision to get up and go on home. That she did and she really didn't think about it for several years. One day her brother told her that he had something he needed to apologize to her for. She asked him what and he took her back to that day. He had left her and ran ahead and it had bothered him that he left his little sister in the cold and never went back to help her. She was overwhelmed by his apology and later, taking a trip back to her home to visit her parents. She took a walk up the road and when she got to the place, where as a little girl she had layed down and decided to give up, and began to be frustrated looking for the spot. God then spoke to her and told her, "It isn't important where you were when you layed down! Why are you concerned? I don't remember this as the place you layed down to die, I remember this is the place where a little girl decided to get up!" She had never thought of it that way and began to dance, sing and rejoice in the fact that SHE GOT UP!

We often look at a situation from our point of view, but maybe if you look at it from God's point of view, it could completely help you understand. People who get their eye's off of God hurt people and God is saddened by this! He did not cause it but his heart is often broken by the pain a human being can cause to another. He is there to help you figure out "How" to deal with whatever the situation is. He can put things into place for you so you can see yourself from his eyes! He is always there to help you. Believe what he believes about you. Words are powerful so write down what he is saying about you and cancel out any thing that says otherwise! You were fearfully and wonderfully made! You can do ALL THINGS with his help if you will choose to let him help you! He will be the backbone of your strength. He will cause you to strive for success in EVERY aspect of your life! He gives you the POWER TO ACHIEVE! 

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!.