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Visualization. Success requires it, happiness, requires it. Where you look, where you put your perspective is where your perspective, or your reality comes from.
Friday before Jackmans game, I had him sit down on the field and visualize what he was going to do before his game. He kept talking about getting another interception, so I told him sit down right here and take a couple minutes to visualize how you are going to play.
We get out on the field and he says, "im going to get another interception." i tell him that "i dont want to hear your words, I want to see your actions." Sure enough first play was a pass play, and he intercepted it! He says "see dad i told you I was going to get another interception."
Visualization, what you see is where you put your focus which is far more likely to happen. If all you see and anticipate is bad stuff happening, it more than likely will always feel like bad is happening because you arent focusing on all the good that is happening around you. If you are always expecting the worse, you are putting your faith in the worst thing happening. Its tough, I get that, but we must look through a different lens, a lens of where we want to go. If I always thought that I would never be able to quit smoking pot, it would have been far more difficult. But I had the perspective of looking at all the reasons why I didnt need it, compared to the reasons why I thought I "needed" it.
We must put our glasses on for what we not only want to happen, but what we have faith in will happen, then stop chasing the fantasy that it happens on its own. Jack didnt just see him getting another interception, he knew it was going to happen through executing his assignment, believing in himself, and listening to his coach. He got it, he got his interception.
I challenge us all to put our glasses on to see the good around us, the possibilities around us. I dont look at the bad in my life anymore, i dont look at the three kids hassling me for this and that. I look at those beautiful faces saying to me that I am their provider, I am where their focus is because I can provide that here on Earth. I look at the joy in the faces, the fact that a little owie may result in a big cry can be rather humorous to me. All i have to do is provide comfort and a band aid to them and its all better. Even toddlers get perception and visualization. They visualize a band aid makes the pain go away, and sure enough with that band aid the pain then goes away. They have the right glasses on.
i challenge us to look at where we see ourselves going, look at all the potential this gift of life provides us. It is not a fantasy though. If we are not willing to put the work in, we cant fantasize getting the results we want. We must visualize that once I grab this shovel, once I sweat and work and get blisters, I will have the beautiful garden i envision.
I challenge all out there to "get your glasses on", look at the potential, then realize it. Hard work is so gratifying, fantasies are not. Visualization is required. If I want the blessing of God, can I sit here and do nothing, or will I have to MAKE time to receive it? I must make time, I must open the Word of God, I must do what it says. It says to me, visualize success and blessing by hard work and obedience. Just like Jack demonstrated. He visualized, he obeyed his coach, he worked hard to get into position and fight off others for the ball. It didnt drop in his hand while he was watching the grass grow under his feet.
It is what it is, and this be it...
Visualization. Success requires it, happiness, requires it. Where you look, where you put your perspective is where your perspective, or your reality comes from.
Friday before Jackmans game, I had him sit down on the field and visualize what he was going to do before his game. He kept talking about getting another interception, so I told him sit down right here and take a couple minutes to visualize how you are going to play.
We get out on the field and he says, "im going to get another interception." i tell him that "i dont want to hear your words, I want to see your actions." Sure enough first play was a pass play, and he intercepted it! He says "see dad i told you I was going to get another interception."
Visualization, what you see is where you put your focus which is far more likely to happen. If all you see and anticipate is bad stuff happening, it more than likely will always feel like bad is happening because you arent focusing on all the good that is happening around you. If you are always expecting the worse, you are putting your faith in the worst thing happening. Its tough, I get that, but we must look through a different lens, a lens of where we want to go. If I always thought that I would never be able to quit smoking pot, it would have been far more difficult. But I had the perspective of looking at all the reasons why I didnt need it, compared to the reasons why I thought I "needed" it.
We must put our glasses on for what we not only want to happen, but what we have faith in will happen, then stop chasing the fantasy that it happens on its own. Jack didnt just see him getting another interception, he knew it was going to happen through executing his assignment, believing in himself, and listening to his coach. He got it, he got his interception.
I challenge us all to put our glasses on to see the good around us, the possibilities around us. I dont look at the bad in my life anymore, i dont look at the three kids hassling me for this and that. I look at those beautiful faces saying to me that I am their provider, I am where their focus is because I can provide that here on Earth. I look at the joy in the faces, the fact that a little owie may result in a big cry can be rather humorous to me. All i have to do is provide comfort and a band aid to them and its all better. Even toddlers get perception and visualization. They visualize a band aid makes the pain go away, and sure enough with that band aid the pain then goes away. They have the right glasses on.
i challenge us to look at where we see ourselves going, look at all the potential this gift of life provides us. It is not a fantasy though. If we are not willing to put the work in, we cant fantasize getting the results we want. We must visualize that once I grab this shovel, once I sweat and work and get blisters, I will have the beautiful garden i envision.
I challenge all out there to "get your glasses on", look at the potential, then realize it. Hard work is so gratifying, fantasies are not. Visualization is required. If I want the blessing of God, can I sit here and do nothing, or will I have to MAKE time to receive it? I must make time, I must open the Word of God, I must do what it says. It says to me, visualize success and blessing by hard work and obedience. Just like Jack demonstrated. He visualized, he obeyed his coach, he worked hard to get into position and fight off others for the ball. It didnt drop in his hand while he was watching the grass grow under his feet.
It is what it is, and this be it...
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