TO GET WHERE YOU WANT TO GO IN LIFE, YOU MUST START FROM WHERE YOU ARE
(by Abel Teh)
James 1:5-8 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways
What is "success"? Success is an illusive (deceptive; misleading; false) misery to a special group called 'lucky'. A survey was conducted between two groups of people : the prisoners and the successful people. When they were asked "What is the definition of success?", these are what their answers:
1. For the prisoners, "Success is the people who are lucky enough to escape from police." or "Success means I'm lucky that I'm not caught up by the police." However,
2. For the successful people, "Success is spelled as HARDWORK". This means, success comes when you work hard! Success has nothing to do with luck.
To be successful in life, to go far in life, you must first start asking yourself, "Where am I now?" Are you in the right track of pursuing your dreams? Or have you been walking in a wrong direction that leads nowhere to your success? Are you happy with what you have now? Are you satisfied with your life?
[List down 3 things that you should change and put an action plan on how you can achieve them!] For example:
1. I want to have healthy body. Action plan: Go to gym, eat more vege and drink at least 8 glasses of water everyday.
2. Score good marks in university. Action plan: Write notes every week after class. Do revision at least 12 hours/ week.
3. ...
And make a decision that the Action Plan must start NOW! Change begins with a DECISION. A decision leads to DEDICATION. And dedications produces DISCIPLINE.
Decisiveness is the quality to bring change! What is the enemy of decisiveness? It is called "Ambivalence". Ambivalence means a simultaneous & contradictory attitudes or feelings toward and object, person, or action. Ambivalence is very dangerous as it causes dreams to become nightmares!
Ambivalence = sin of omission (you know you should have done the right things but you refuse to do so. Read: James 4:17) As such, ambivalence produces procrastination!
To stop the habit of procrastination, we should know why we procrastinate at the very first place.
1. Maybe we think the tasks ahead will be too heavy/ hectic. "I can't take it, later la.. later.. I will do it later.. Just give me another 5mins." or "I will freak out if I have to settle this problem now, give me time.. TOMORROW ok! TOMORROW.. i will give you solutions." But in a blink of eye, it's already one week and still.. the problem has not yet been solved. And you realize, you have more problems than a week ago.
2. Fear of change. "Yer.. if I change this ar.. later how will people look at me?"
3. PURE LAZINESS!!!!
Try to think this: If you room is clean, you will not allow dust to "visit" your table, your mirror or even the floor. BUT.. If you room is dirty, you will let the mess be messier.
So, since we want to be successful in life.. Since we want to go far in life, we should first destroy procrastination which prevents us from doing well in life. Amen? A very easy way to remember..
ABDEFGHI - 9 steps:
Activate your planner: write things down! You need to have a planner. Remember: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!
Break large task into smaller tasks. One step at a time! Break them and attack them one by one! woohoo!! sounds cool, huh? :)
Create deadlines! The deadline must be realistic. For example: "Jenny must lose 3kg in 14 days." (very realistic, right?). Not realistic deadline: Jenny must lose 3kg in 3years" =.="
Deal with the mess! Untidiness kills creativity. So deal with the mess!!!
Encourage yourself! The best cheerleader is you yourself! Eventhough if everyone in the world say that "you can't do it", but if you believe in yourself and say "i can do it no matter how bad the circumstances are", you will be the winner for sure!
Face your fears! Don't be pessimistic instead be positive! Be optimic!
Goals-revealed. When you've finally solve a problem, celebrate! Reward yourself.Hang on.. Don't give up!! When you're down, don't stop, don't give up.
Hang on... Remember this: things that don't kill you will eventually make you stronger.
Initiate now: Ecc 11:4 says the best time is now! NOW means NOW! Not "soon" or "later". The devil will not tell you there's no heaven. The devil will not tell you there's no hell. The devil will tell you, "There's NO HURRY!" Thus, make a decision to DO IT NOW! Don't be condemned by the devil.
I hope this will be very useful and helpful for all of you. LET'S STOP PROCRASTINATION!!! :) Go back to James 1:5-8, the verse clearly says that we need to ask of God for wisdom when we do not know what to do. And when we ask, we MUST ask with no doubting! Amen? As we want to go far and be successful in our life, we need wisdom! We need wisdom to stop the habit of procrastination. We need wisdom in our time management. We need wisdom to achieve success! To get where you want to go in life, you must start from where you are!
so u all enjoy this message...hope u all enjoy it and learn something from this message..=)
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