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It starts HERE, it starts NOW!

Posted by DaveOlson in business development, creativity, entrepreneur, leadership, personal growth, ramblings, self-discipline on Aug 28, 2010

  • What you have is more valuable than what you don’t have.
  • The thing you own is more useful than the thing you want.
  • Money in hand buys more than money still owed.
  • The grass is greener on the other side of the fence but it doesn’t fill your belly.
  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
  • Faith pulls the future into the present or does it really pull the present into a better future.
  • God says He is the I Am not the I will be.
  • God asks Moses, ‘what is in your hand?’
  • Jesus says to the disciples, ‘the kingdom of God is near you’
  • Paul writes, ‘the word of faith is in your mouth and in your heart’

    • So why do we keep looking out there for what we already have?

    Now go back and read this post again… it will make more sense!

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    Sacrifice is overrated

    Posted by DaveOlson in leadership, personal growth, ramblings, self-discipline on Jun 07, 2010

    God isn’t asking you for the greatest sacrifice, he’s asking for the greatest impact. Now it may be that the two are often synonymous but not necessarily.
    I wonder how often we have missed the opportunity to make an impact because we thought we had to make a sacrifice.

    I know that God’s call to faithfulness sometimes means sacrifice but let’s not forget the call to fruitfulness. It’s entirely possible to become a martyr when God called a conqueror.

    I’ve seen people settle for things in their life, claiming sacrifice, acting the martyr but never acheiving God’s purpose for them. Even Paul pointed out that if there was no resurrection then we’ve sacrificed for nothing.

    Sacrifice may be a virtue but it’s not always Godly.

    The thing is, what are you sacrificing for?

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    Where Are You Looking

    Posted by DaveOlson in creativity, leadership, personal growth, ramblings, self-discipline on May 20, 2010

    Seek and you will find.

    We’ve all heard that before. It’s been a rally cry for perseverance. If you search long enough and don’t give up you’ll find what you are looking for.

    WRONG!

    No matter how long you search you won’t find anything unless you are looking in the right place. Thebreward for seeking comes to the persistant but to the one who persists in the right place.

    The other day we were in Madrid and decided to go on one of those double decker tour buses. We paid the person at our hotel reception and got directions. I understood that the pickup point was near the bullring we had visited the night before. So off we went map in hand looking for the double decker MadridVision bus.

    The problem was I misread the map and turned left toward the bullring instead of right. We waited for the bus for thirty minutes. I asked a couple of people where the bus stop was but my limited Spanish gave very little help.

    In the end I reviewed a street map for quite awhile until I realized we were in a completely different part of the city than where the bus stops were. So after walking another twenty minutes we finally found the right bus stop.

    My point is this: it didn’t matter how long we searched for the bus we couldn’t find it because we were in the wrong place. We could have persisted all day and never found the bus.

    So many people do the same thing in life. They look for answers in all the wrong places. They ask for advice from people who are no farther ahead than they are. They want someone to confirm what they already think not challenge them. If you want to find the solutions in life you need to ask someone who has already found some solutions.

    Before you start searching, consider where you will look.

    What do you think?

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