Back in 2007, Marshall Goldsmith wrote a book with the above title about how successful people become even more successful.

The book was a good read; but what I really loved was the title: “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”

The title itself is loaded with truth…

What got you to where you are presently won’t get you to where you want to be in the future.

Where are you today?  Is that the “there” you desired yesterday? 
 

“And it will be that you shall drink from the brook…and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there” 1Kings 17:4

Where is there? — and more importantly, how do you know when you have arrived?

There is the next place.  It is the God-inspired destination in our adventurous journey of faith. It is usually not the path of least resistance that you presently find before you. It’s the next challenge that is around the bend that allows you to partner with God.

Have you identified your “there?”  Could it be improving your life by eating healthier?  Could it be managing your time better or investing more quality time with your loved ones? Could it be going back to school and finishing your degree?  Or is it learning a new marketable skill that can open up new opportunities for you?  Here’s a big one: perhaps reading the Bible more consistently and/or attending worship services more regularly.

To get there, we’ll need to make some changes. Because we all know the old saying, “If we keep doing what we are doing, we’ll keep getting what we have been getting, and if you don’t like what you’ve been getting then change what you’ve been doing.”

Today you have been granted a great gift from your Creator, the power of choice. The necessary choices that you need to make are within your power to make them—go all the way!

Just a thought,

 Carl

Success has been defined as getting up one more time than you have been knocked down. What a great definition. Life is difficult. Thanks to Adam and Eve the difficulty begins at birth. New life has always been associated with pain and sorrow, which inevitably gives way to joy and fulfillment. So, what do you do when life knocks you down? When a dream is shattered?  A hope is deferred? A business venture sputters or fails? A marriage ends? You do what you have always done- Get back up one more time!

Many boxing fans can remember the epic fight on February 11, 1990 in Tokyo Japan, between Mike Tyson and James “Buster” Douglas. Tyson was the unbeaten World Champion. In the eighth round Tyson knocked Douglas down. Douglas was being given a ten count by the referee, but got back up before he was counted out. Later in the fight, he went on to knock out “Iron” Mike Tyson and became the new heavy weight champion of the world. I think God has His own way of giving us a ten count, and at nine if you’re not back up He starts counting over again UNTIL YOU GET BACK UP!
 

Even if good people fall seven times,
they will get back up.
But when trouble strikes the wicked,
that’s the end of them.
Proverbs 24:16 (CEV)

If success is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down, what are you waiting for? GET UP! GET OVER IT! GET GOING!
 
Just a thought,
Carl

1 Corinthians 9:24 (CEV)
You know that many runners enter a race, and only one of them wins the prize. So run to win!

“Run to win.” In others words, winning is an honorable spiritual goal. The Bible is a book of winners and losers. Scripture catalogues the winners and the losers for our benefit, this is so we can learn from it and live. Yes, we all know that life has winners and losers. In professional sports, some teams don’t know how to lose and some teams always seem to find a way to lose (I won’t mention the Cowboys performance this past Sunday night). Winning in life and business is about making extraordinary things happen. It is standing up against the odds, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. To win means to be successful or victorious. When it comes to winning there is not a winning formula. There is just a winning attitude. Some possess it and others have misplaced it. The attitude of a winner is a never-say-die mentality. An attitude that turns defeat on its head with a tenacious persistence that won’t quit until victory is secured.

What are the qualities of a winning attitude?

Selfless.     Team comes first.

Serving.    People aren’t a means to an end.

Steadfast. Opposition yields to patient endurance. All winners possess a stick-to- itiveness about them. 

How’s your attitude of late? Come on, Winner! As the sword hilt read in Robin Hood: “Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions.”
 
Just a thought,
Carl