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"The 10 Greatest Lessons I Learned in 2012"

12/30/2012

Here are some of the greatest lessons that I learned from 2012 that I want to share with you. I asked myself some hard questions and received answers to those questions from the Lord.

1. Who your 5 closest friends are, and who you hang out with on a regular basis, matters.
- Who your closest friends are will help shape and define your character, good or bad.
- It will determine your income.
- Your friends will either drive you to achieve your greatness, or demotivate you to failure and frustration.

2. Love Others
- Take no one for granted.
- We are in the people business.
- What I do for others, God will do for me.

Loving others is more than just a commandment from God. It is a lifestyle we must practice to achieve our greatness. You will not become successful without loving others and showing your love for them.

3. Your Beliefs, and philosophy, Do Matter.
- Who Do You Believe, matters.
- A wrong belief, or set of beliefs could set you back for years from walking in, and achieving, your greatness.
- Your Self-belief matters. A healthy self-esteem is vital for you to achieve success.
- How many books every year that you read matters.
- How many audios/videos/DVD's you listen to or watch every year matters.
- What you learn from them matters.

4. Honor Your Commitments To Others.
- You are known if you keep your word, or break your word. Your word is your bond and you will become successful when known as a person who keeps his/her word to others.
- Can you be trusted by others?
- Can you be trusted by God?

5. Do Everything You Do As Unto The Lord.
- Do you add value to others, and to your employer at work?
- Is there order in your life?
a. God created the universe in perfect order.
b. Man is the only thing on this planet out of order.

6. What You Focus On Matters.
- You get what you think about (focus on) most of the time.
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." - Proverbs 23:7
- What are you thinking about most of the time?
- What would you like for others to remember you by when you die?
- What would you like to accomplish in your life while you are still living?
- Are you reading and meditating on the Word of God? If not, Why?

7. Saving Money For Your Future Matters.
- Save for investments to earn you more income. Make your money work for you. (Parable of the stewards)
- Save for your retirement.
- Save to invest in yourself. Your mind is your greatest investment.
- Save for sowing into others when they ask.

8. The Seeds That You Sow Matter.
- Pay your tithes to the Lord first.
- Give offerings unto the Lord.
- Sow into others.

9. Your Mentor(s) Matter.
- Who do you listen to?
- Do you have a mentor(s), and if not, why don't you?
- do you take action on the advice of your mentor?
- What are the results you are achieving?

10. Results Do Matter.
- We live in a results oriented society, and God expects results from you.
- When you are diligent in your life and work and are producing positive results, good things come to you.
- When you are lazy and producing little, or no results, bad things happen to you.
- Are you an action taker, or procrastinator?

- If you are not getting the results you want, you must ask yourself the hard questions and find out why. Take corrective action now to change your destiny. You will be glad you did.

I pray that this will cause you to think and start planning for 2013 to be the greatest year of your life.

May the Lord richly bless you will all wisdom, knowledge and understanding and may you walk in abundance and prosperity in 2013!

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What Is Holding You Back?

6/11/2011

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What is holding you back, what is stopping you from getting your blessings from God? What is keeping you from getting what you want in your life?

You may have an answer to those questions or you may not know the answer. You may be asking yourself those very questions. I have asked myself those very questions.

Sometimes I feel like I have run into a roadblock or something is an obstacle to me getting what I want. I sometimes have to scratch my head and ask myself, “Why am I not getting what I want? What is stopping me from getting what I want? What am I doing, or what can I do that I am not doing now?”

Here are a few things that I have identified that may be holding you back from getting what you want and getting your miracles from God:

1.   Your Attachment

If you are attached to something, or someone in your life that you know is holding you back, let it go.

God told Abram (later, Abraham) in Genesis 12:1-4, to leave from his father’s house, and his relatives and go to another land that God would show him later on when he got there. Has God told you to leave where you are at, where you are comfortable and where your friends and family are and go by faith to another place to start a business or a ministry, or both? Have you obeyed God? Your blessings are in obedience to the Holy Spirit.

Is there a person in your life that is holding you back? I read recently that five years from now your income will be the average of your five best friend’s income. Your quality of life will be the average quality of life of your five best friends five years from now. Ouch! If you keep doing what you are always doing, you will keep getting what you have always got. Is it enough? Maybe it’s time to change friends!

If you are at a dead end job that is holding you back, change jobs. Find another one where your talents are celebrated and not tolerated. God wants you to be successful!
Stay in your field of favor. If you are not there now, find it.

2.    Your Attitude

Your attitude determines whether you fly with the eagles or live a barnyard life. There will be times in your life that things just don’t go right. Your car will break down at the worst possible time, your spouse may have left you and now you are a single parent struggling to make ends meet, you may have been fired from your job or your employer went out of business. Maybe you made a decision that you thought was right at the time, however it proved to be a bad one and it cost you financially. I have been through all of these circumstances in my life at one time or another. The only thing that I had complete control over was my attitude.

My attitude needed adjusting many times in my life. I have found from my experiences that when my attitude is positive and I am happy, things seem to work out just fine for me. I find that I make better decisions, people like me more and give me favor and in general my life is so much better when I have a positive mental attitude and am happy.

3.    Your Actions

There have been times in my life that my actions, or my behavior, held me back. And sometimes it was my inaction, or procrastination, that held me back. What are your daily habits? Are you productive every day?

Here are some possible actions that may be holding you back:

a. Do you complete each task that you are assigned to do at work each day, or do you only do enough work to get by for the day?

b. Do you honor those in authority over you? Are you obedient to their instructions?

c. Are you quick tempered, or quickly angered? Do you show fits of anger when you don’t get your way? This type of behavior will keep you from getting what you want.

d. Do you procrastinate when you should be taking action now? Your procrastination, or inaction could be holding you back. When you are told to do something by your boss at work and you don’t complete the task right away, you could be holding yourself back. Employers are looking for people who will get the job done.

These are a few things that could be holding you back and not getting the things you want. If you look deep within yourself you will find the answers that are holding you back and not getting what you want. God bless you.

To Your Success,
Tom

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