If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land. Isaiah 1:19

So many of life’s blessings are dependent on one word: If.

If implies that something is available to us, but there is a choice involved that will affect whether or not we get what’s available. Today I want to encourage you that there is a world of opportunities that lies before you, if you’re interested.

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“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” -Dostoevsky

One of the main things that separates a successful person from an unsuccessful person are the habits they have developed. Successful people have developed the habits of hard work, discipline, and excellence. Unsuccessful people have developed the habit of laziness, doing the bare minimum, letting life happen to them, and making excuses.

Whether you succeed or fail in life will be largely determined by the habits you develop!

Below is a poem I heard recently that expresses the power of habit. After you read it, I would encourage you to examine the habits that you’ve developed in your life. What formed those habits? When did you form those habits? Are they good or bad habits? Decide which habits in your life need to go.

Then determine the habits you would like to develop in your life. To develop the habits required to be successful, find successful people that you admire and would like to be like. Find out what habits they have developed that make them successful. Then try to develop those habits in your own life.

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“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a confession to make. Some of you may be very surprise, others not so much. However, I have to come clean. Almost everything I do, I am scared to death. That’s right, it is very easy for me to let fear run my life. Most of my fear comes from caring too much about what people think.

Every time I write and publish a blog post I am scared people will think I’m just trying to promote myself. Every time I preach or teach, I’m afraid that I did a horrible job and people will think I wasted their time. Every job I have, I am afraid I’m not doing enough or doing well enough. I fear inadequacy. I fear failure. I fear rejection.

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