Entrepreneur Journal

This week, I read an article called, Stars and Stepping Stones, that made me think of something that happens to me occasionally. I like to hike long distances, Occasionally, when I am tired, or bored, or mostly in a hurry, I put my head down and hustle along just as fast as my feet will carry me. Sometimes, this leads me to take to my very shortened point of view, to be the trail, but after having gone ten feet or so, or to the edge of a cliff, it is clear that whatever I am on is not the trail and if I don't remember to look up once in a while, I walk right off a cliff. I do this in life, too. There are times when I am bored, or stressed, or tired, or in a hurry, that I put my head down and old along, and only realize I have stepped off the cliff when I am falling.  In both instances, I have been reminded this week, I need to look up and look forward, even when I think I know what is ahead, lest I be surprised, either pleasantly or most unpleasantly.

         I also watched a short video about the power of doing and trusting in the Lord to help me. This made me think of a stumbling block I have run in to from time to time. When I built my first off road vehicle from the ground up, I spent the first night when I had assembled most of the parts, staring at them on the floor of my garage, realizing that I had no idea how to do what I had started out to do. So I went to bed. And in the morning, I woke up, and I started building the chassis. And then the axles, and then the motor, and before long, I had a working car that a few months earlier had been a pile of steel and parts.  I woke up that morning with the thought that people do what I was attempting to do all over the world, every minute of every day. Why couldn't I? I am no less smart or talented than they are, so what am I waiting for. People do difficult and challenging things all the time, that sometimes leave the rest us scratching our heads. They do it, why can't we?

What challenge sits before you that you have balked at because you think you are not up to the task? What can you do today to get started at defeating this dragon? Who told you that you couldn't do whatever it is you have to do today? Why are you standing in your own way?