I’m Going to Anyway…

Get into the habit of telling yourself, “I want this, 100%.”

There’s no reason you shouldn’t want the life you deserve to have if you’ve made countless sacrifices and put in work that not everyone is willing to do.

While I’m not about being proud in a negative sense, keep a small (as in, highly diminished) ego to celebrate your positive accomplishments.

I have certain friends in my life who I feel are bothered by growth as I follow my gifts.

I’ve had people try to sway me (and not in the Bublé way) away from my intended path.

When you set a course and plan out a flight in aviation, the course is set, and while deviating from the plan occurs due to extenuating circumstances, the plan is there for a reason.

In the same way, your path is not someone else’s issue to worry about. You are going to follow your path, not another person’s idea of what you should be doing.

If any voice is telling you something against what you know you’re meant to do, ignore them.

Look, if you exceedingly suck at cooking, maybe being a chef isn’t in the cards, at least at that time until your skills improve. That’s fine, and people are right to worry when it makes little sense.

But if you are excellent at something, then follow that path and gift with all you have.

In Hebrew thought, you shouldn’t even improve your weaknesses because they might hinder your growth in your strengths.

Not that you can’t improve other areas of your life, though.

People might look past your understanding because they’ve already made up their minds about everything.

If something is not achievable for you, that isn’t my concern, since I’m aiming to achieve what it is I am meant to do.

Instead of talking about other people, maybe do something for yourself and create something worth making.

My path is the crazy path, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. But it makes sense to me because I chose it out of all other paths.

We must do what we must do to make our chosen path work for us.

If it takes writing 50 books (in my own name) to get one into millions of hands, then I’ll do that.

The odds don’t scare me, and I don’t believe in lottery tickets. My belief is that you make the ticket yourself and get all the right numbers by doing the work yourself.

Whether you think Satan or God is on my side is irrelevant to me.

“A Christian writer can’t write books like that. That’s evvviiiiillll.” An artist writes what they must.

“I tried something, and I failed, so there’s no point.” So fail again. And then once more, or until something clicks for you.

“This seems like vainglory instead of humble.” The more people I reach, the more I can help others achieve their dreams too.

Small minds don’t stretch out in grand plans and fill them congruently.

Just let people be.

If you do the work, put your plans in His hands, and have genuine patience that lasts for more than a few seconds, things have a funny way of working out.

Shalom.