Here are some great thoughts and truths I’ve chewed on in 2010. I hope they’ll help you:

• Discipline is remembering what you want
• God’s word isn’t just instruction, it’s empowerment to do what it says!
• I can be used by God everywhere I go
• Success is always being, not having
• God wants to be as unique with my story as He is with everyone else’s
• Focus on things that will produce fruit – long term
• People’s opinions don’t matter, it’s His Word that matters
• I’m always going to have to choose between people’s approval or God’s approval
• Apart from God, we can’t do anything worth doing!
• Job 23:10 – God knows where I’m at and where I’m going, when I come out, I’ll be like gold!
• II Chronicles 16:9 – I’ll only have victories where I trust God!
• John 21 – 3 Things I need to do if I love God – 1.) Follow Him 2.) Feed His sheep 3.) Don’t worry about how God is using everyone else
• Jesus was never confused. He always knew what to say, where to go, and what to do, and we should be the same.
• The only thing worth giving people is Jesus.
• World class Christians pray for the world
• Only Life Focus: To make Jesus famous one person at a time.
• Wherever I go and whatever I do, I’ll be blessed if I’m following God –Deut. 28:6
• God is who makes you great, you can never make yourself great!
• A “call” is not the same thing as “developed”
• “If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life, God shows up, then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what’s more important to you – the dream or Him?”
• “The impact God has planned for us doesn’t occur when we’re pursuing impact. It occurs when we’re pursuing God. At long last after a lifetime of striving God was enough. Not God and impact or God and ministry. Just God.”
• We’re educated way beyond our obedience!
• There isn’t a lack of people to minister to, there is a lack of people that have something to say when they minister
• Daily Choice: Am I going to be a leader or a clown?
• Prayer: God, develop me as quickly and as solidly as possible.
• David went from feeding the sheep to serving the King, out of Nowhere
• You can always be bigger on the inside than you are on the outside
• One act is better than a thousand intentions
• Prioritize the relationships that will sit on the front 3 rows of your funeral!
• When you’re lacking resources, God is helping you learn to be resourceful!
  
• To increase your capacity to receive you need one thing: Faithfulness
• Don’t try to impress, just be impressive!
• Haggai 1 – When your confused and it doesn’t seem like you’re going anywhere, you probably aren’t putting God’s Kingdom first. (Matt. 6:33)
• Stop talking about your goals and start working on them!
• We need to love and serve God for who He is, not what He can do for us.
• Dig Deep Roots (Character)
• Boundaries in Life are Incredibly important!
• Romans 10:11 – No one who believes in Him will ever be put to shame or disappointed!
• Psalm 113:7-8 He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the dung heap. He sets me among princes, even the princes of God’s own people!
• In all labor there is profit, but idle talk leads to poverty. –Proverbs 14:23
• Exalt the Word of God over everything else
• What I love about my heroes (Keith Moore, John Maxwell, etc.) is the God in them!
• Nobody has a step up on me in the Word! The more I value the Word of God, the more I’ll reap!
• God’s correction isn’t just correction, it’s preparation!
• Walk in the light you have, not the light someone else is trying to give you!
• It’s not what you know, it’s what people will receive!
• I’d be more effective if I asked God what I’m supposed to do everyday!
• Anytime you let other people’s opinions fill your heart, you push God out.
• Promotion comes from the Lord
• In life, you will have fruit testers!
• The season you are in is not forever. It will pass and just be a memory of what was!
• The Lord will be your confidence! –Proverbs 3:26
• Always ask yourself: “What’s important” Answer: Less and Less
• If the disciples figured to learn about leadership on the fast track and w/appropriate perks and bonuses, Jesus soon disillusioned them” –J Sanders
• “The application of: Doing it now has led to my success”
• Matthew 11:28 – Move with the UNFORCED rhythms of grace!
• Love God, Love People
• Quit feeding yourself, start feeding your sheep!
• Patient endurance is what I need now! Hebrews 10:35
• Nobody is going to make sure your successful!
• If God wants you to have something nothing will stop that.
• God won’t let you have second hand faith, He wants you to have your own!
• I need to spend unhurried time with God daily!
• We need to get to a place where if God doesn’t show up, we’ll fall flat on our faces!
• Know your worth or no one else will!

A while back, a mentor gave me a coffee table book from Life is Good as a gift. In the cover he wrote this note to me:

“Bubs, For your Library! The simplest of life’s lessons are often the most profound!!”

The book is literally filled with a picture on one page, and a short nugget on the page next to it. I go through it often to remind me that life isn’t as complicated as I make it out to be.

Here are some of my favorite lessons from the book:

• Optimism can take you anywhere
• Whatever you are, be a good one
• Youth knows no age
• Everything is a once in a lifetime experience
• Do what you like, like what you do.
• If you don’t go, you don’t see

• The best things in life are free
• The pursuit is the reward
• The World is Your entertainment center
• The little things in life are the big things
• Remember where you came from
• We will never know all the good a simple smile can do

We live in a world that tries to over-complicate everything don’t we? Even in our Christian walks, we over-complicate everything! Jesus came to simplify everything! The simple, yet beyond profound lesson from Jesus:

Love God, Love People

It is so true that the simplest of life’s lessons are the most profound. If we can just live out the simple lessons taught to us, everything we need to make up a rich and fulfilling life would take care of itself.

Let’s all simplify our lives.

Thoughts?

“Discipline is Remembering What You Want”

There are so many lessons in life that are timeless and that we need to be reminded of on a continual basis. These are some of the lessons I try to think on daily to keep my life in order, focused, and going somewhere:

• My Life isn’t My Own, it’s God’s, I surrender what I want my day to look like for what He wants it to look like.

• God is My Source

• Spending Time with God is the Most Important Thing I do

• I can’t Make Up Tomorrow what I fail to Pay For Today

• Success is a Journey, Not a Destination

• Because of God – I’m always in the right place at the right time, meeting the right people!

• God thinks I can Do Anything so I’m going to Dream as Big as I can!

• Pay Now, Play Later, or Play Now, and Pay Later

• Interruptions can be Divine Appointments
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• I can Change the World One Person at a Time

• If I don’t take control of my schedule, someone else will.

• Everybody I meet is Going Through Something and Needs Encouragement

• Financially – if I live like no one else lives now, later, I’ll live like no one else lives.

• Success is when those closest to me, respect me the most -> Connect with Family

• If I don’t Workout and Eat right – I’m going to get Fat

• Look for ways to create memories that you’ll never forget!

• Connect with 5 people you haven’t talked to in a week -> Send a text, facebook, etc.

• Life is Short ->ENJOY THE JOURNEY – HAVE FUN

What are some things you remind yourself  of daily to make sure your life is going in the right direction?