Be Steady

Imagine these pictures like a window. We are looking out at your circumstances. Take a long look. Imagine swinging back and forth with the sun warming the air around you, a cool breeze tickling the hair on your arms and falling asleep on a comfortable hammock. Incredible. It would be so easy to be the best you here wouldn't it? You would be so enjoyable to be around. Things just couldn't get any better!






What about the view from this window? The perfect storm. Everything is going wrong. Nobody likes you. You can't get wrong right. To get this point across, let me list a few country song titles. How Come Your Dog Don't Bite Nobody But Me?, I Was Looking Back to See If You Were Looking Back to See If I Was Looking Back to See if You Were Looking Back at Me, and my favorite, You're The Hangnail In My Life, And I Can't Bite You Off. What is it like to be around you on this day? Pleasant? Full of possibility?




Far to often our circumstances determine what kind of day we are having. Things are going our way. We are having a good day. Things are not going our way. Our life is over.

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It IS possible to pull these apart. They are completely separate. Let the results be the results. Let self be self. How is this possible? Some of it is being able to answer these three big questions. What is my vision? What is my purpose? What is my mission? Inside each of these is knowing what your values are and honoring them at all times. Can you answer these right now? Do you have them written on paper? I bet you can't and I bet you don't. Will you do it after reading this? Statistics say most will not! If you are the one who hasn't taken the time to go deep and discover you, then you will live the rest of your life flipping back and forth from the top picture to the bottom picture. Good day. Bad day. Day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day...a life wasted.

Or.

This can be the start of finding the place of Steady. This I know to be true. You WILL experience the FULL range of the pictures. The pictures are your circumstances. Not you. Not your soul. Did you catch that? The picture is what we see looking OUT. What should we see looking IN? It's a window, not a mirror. When we look in, we should see Steady. Steadfast. Firm. Unfaltering. Resolute. Balanced.

Remember this. Are you looking out. Or are you looking in. Will you be your circumstances. Or will you be steady.

It's a window. Not a mirror.