Hmm ... Food for thought! When training in the gym to build up part of our body, we use a particular technique to isolate the selected area. We strengthen this area through many repetitions of the technique. Our whole lives are like our physical bodies. We all have parts that are already strong centers of power ... and parts we want to strengthen challenge areas. There are many challenge areas right in our communities that need to be strengthened! Our centers of power are those aspects of our lives where we feel fulfilled, competent, confident, at ease and truly alive, where we get results. Our challenge areas are aspects where we experience dissatisfaction or even frustration, where we seem to lack answers, where we do not get good results. We avoid our challenge areas because ... they make us feel inadequate, incompetent, sometimes even unworthy. Sometimes we are just lazy ... we simply think someone else will do it instead of us ... but we need to start thinking in terms of who can do it better than ourselves! It is important to identify our centers of power and challenge areas starting with our neighborhoods, our towns, our cities. If our challenge areas are neglected for too long, they can debilitate our centers of power, just as when our health is neglected, our career, home and other areas of life also suffer. We have all neglected America for too long, we left it up to the Community Organizers ... we had no time to get involved at the local level ... we thought it was not necessary! We thought the country was strong, it would always be the same ... it would always be there for us! We had to learn the hard way! We now know how that turned out! If we want to convert our challenge areas into centers of power, we must be prepared to experience a certain degree of discomfort. We need to concentrate on avoiding the common pitfall of undervaluing our future. We are told so often to live in the present ... that future gains can seem very remote. But remember, the future is just around the corner, it will happen, soon enough. The gains we are working for will materialize right in front of our eyes! Ask yourself ... what you have done for America lately? What have you done at the local level, in your own community? Are you waiting for someone else to step up to the plate? ... Isnt there something you can do to guarantee a different outcome? Have you even thought about getting involved? ... Does it ever cross your mind to do something, other than criticize? ... You only get what you deserve! ... Dont sit at home in front of the TV, eating snacks and expect miracles. Each one of us must look for that special gift that God has granted us, and go to work, at what we do best ... to obtain the kind of results we are looking for! ... What is your gift? ... Dont sit on the sidelines! ... Get involved! https://facebook/maria.matters1
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 02:21:54 +0000
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