View from the Summit

 Here's another "top 5" list to help kick your week off right. Enjoy!

1. Don't try to do it all today.
2. Start today, usually tomorrow never happens.
3. Eat the ugliest frog first. 
4. Get a general consensus from a trusted few because we have blind spots.
5. Trust your spouse on many things because they know you better than anyone. She has a 6th sense that you don't have.

REASON 1: As a Christ follower first and foremost, you have to know Him personally and realize His divine authority over all creation.

You cannot grow alone when the supreme heavenly father has a unique plan for your life.

God reveals our life incrementally as we follow him on a daily basis and cultivate our faith. God orders our steps as we diligently search his will. Other Christians are a great source of strength and wisdom and the Bible clearly tells us to forsake not the assembling of the saints.

Corporate worship is a God directed plan that helps us spiritually mature and allows for interaction with other believers. During immense study and prayer our true motives are revealed and hopefully humility is exercised.

Realizing we are simply stewards over what God has entrusted in us will cause extreme care in the way we prepare to handle our resources. Being aware of Gods grace and compassion will create in us a desire to honor our fellow man in a way that we want to be treated. 

My Top Fives:

I thought it would be fun (and helpful) to occassionaly share with you some simple lists of my "top 5".

These will be quick and straightforward things I have learned through the years. ~ Enjoy!

Are you optimistic?

One of the most powerful tools you have is your attitude. When you have a good attitude, you are just breeding more great thoughts. I look at all obstacles as nothing more than great opportunities to grow, change and choose an alternate path.

Many times the closure of one missed opportunity or a perceived failure always presents an exciting new beginning. 

Are you afraid?

What are you afraid of? Fear is possibly the largest deterrent of success known to man. It really means false evidence appearing real or frantic efforts to appear recovered. Are you allowing fear of failure to hold you back from pursuing a meaningful career? 

If you want a purposeful and meaningful career you will need to deal with these two important human traits to move forward and accomplish your predetermined goals. 

God intended for man to work; we are wired this way. I battle constantly with the thought of who I am is what I do. There is nothing further from the truth. Yet who I am, has a great impact on what I do. 

If I see this the wrong way I will always be on the eternal hamster wheel. I will never me able to relax and enjoy life, I will constantly be moving the bar. Our self worth is so caught up in our occupation or the number of possessions we have that we miss our true passion. 

We chase other people's dreams or try to live up to someone else’s expectations. 

What gives you energy? This is how we determine your passion. If doing a certain thing is effortless and you gain a sense of fulfillment and gratification from it, you are in the sweet spot. 

If you can't wait until tomorrow to get an opportunity to do it again, you’re there. Your career was never intended to be something you dread.