The Power of Persistence
If you have been reading our posts for some time I believe you would discover that I write about what we ourselves are either going through or already have gone through. This weeks article will shed some light on why this post has been such a long time coming.
It’s obvious that the world is really under tremendous duress as a result of how things have been run over the years. It is also undoubtedly causing serious obstacles for those of us who are trying to pursue our GOD given dream. I should know because those same obstacles have caused us to take a hardline approach to all we have to do to keep thing running around here. Sometimes the obstacles can seem insurmountable. But if we apply the correct spiritual principles we can not only overcome the obstacles but we can also experience victory on the other side.
Recently my wife and I sat down to a night at the movies for our date night and watched a lesser known film with Anthony Hopkins called “The Worlds Fastest Indian” I was thinking it had to do with an Indian tribe or something and I was quite surprised at the angle that was taken. It was the story of Burt Munro a fellow from an obscure place, Invercargill, at the south end of New Zealand, who was obsessed with breaking the worlds speed record on a motorized land bike that was manufactured by Indian Motorbikes.
It was his dream to push the limits of this little Indian at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to see how fast it will go. The story tells of all the challenges and hundreds of set backs he encountered from equipment failure to people who did not believe in him to the obstacles he faces as he traveled to the US on a boat and finally those he faced at the Bonneville Speedway.
All along his journey he met interesting characters who contributed to his emotional, physical and mental well being as well as those few who inspired a bit of hope.
What this little gem of a movie communicated so loud and clear was the power of persistence. He never gave up even when it seemed all was lost.
When you are following your GOD given dream there is one thing you can be sure of and that is that you will meet with tons of opposition along the way.
It will come from those closest to you as well as from every other direction imaginable. You’ll have set back after set back, equipment failures, disbelievers, doubters, skeptics of all sorts and even dream stealers. Money will run dry, enthusiasm will disappear and drive may even run out. You man even find yourself battling bouts of depression.
But one thing is for sure - If you persist when you feel like you want to throw in the towel, if you will never give in when you feel like you want to die, and instead keep trying by taking help from those who will come in your life at just the right time, you will eventually come to see this GOD given dream you have been given stewardship over come to pass.
Just as the little Indian went on to break the worlds speed record for it’s class, and still holds it today, you will stand in that dream because it’s GOD’s dream. All HE needs is some one who will say yes even when it seems impossible to everyone else around you and the crowed is yelling no.
The power of persistence will help see you through to the end.
Untill next time make sure you fly right and get clsoer to GOD!
The Hardest Truth To Accept
What would you do if you found out everything you knew was a lie? That you had been deceived and were living in a darkened understanding?
Would you want to know or would you just continue to live in darkness?
As hard as it may be to believe, and receive, we all live in a level of darkened understanding due to the system that is in place and our own character flaws of pride, arrogance, fear, lust and greed.
Most people don’t want the light of truth because they have come to trust and love their darkened world of understanding. To complicate matters the pride of life does not want to accept the possibility that the life & lifestyle created is built on shaky ground. We would not dare build a hotel on unstable ground but when it comes to our lives we don’t use the same wisdom. It’s not untill the ground is radically shifted that we wake up.
I’ll never forget the day part of my own darkened understanding was enlightened to real truth. I was both grateful that I could see and still have the opportunity to learn, while at the same time I was grieved that I had deceived my own self for so long.
I was at a hotel getting ready to shoot a commercial the next day. I was reading this 500 year old book that a friend gave me. With it’s direct and powerful words it gently pulled the veil back and exposed my own darkness. I literally had no idea I was blind. It revealed how most all my decisions were being made to protect my own selfishness and to gratify my own desires for self gratification & greed. I even hid behind a lie that I wanted to help people. When push came to shove I really wanted financial provision.
It was a moment of new freedom. In this freshly found liberty I could finally see more clearly and make a new choice. To move into the light and let it expose all the darkness in me so I could be purged. It was that or stay in the darkness and continue down the path of misery and ultimate failure . I was shocked to see that a part of me was not wanting to let go of my habitual ways and thoughts.
Of course my decision was to step into the light as much as I possibly could. It has been both a joyous decision as well as a heart breaking decison as all my faults were being revealed. I wanted to live the ideal lifestyle and have lots of money, to live in a nice home and enjoy my work. Every thing came under scrutiny. I discovered it’s not about your job, about money, lifestyle. No it’s infinitely more valuable and precious than that.
Now I’d like to pass this torch of light to you for free so that you too can be transformed for the better.
Enclosed is a link to this profound little book that has been the most read spiritual devotional of all time. It has transformed more lives than any other devotional. Please do you and your loved ones a favor and read it several times. When you finish the First section of 5, email me your thoughts and share how it’s impacted your life as we continue this journey to fulfilling your purpose.
Fulfilling your real dream your real purpose you first have to step out of darkness and in to the light. That’s what that tug in your heart is. You know that there is something more, you know that you have a greater purpose but you can’t seem to put your finger on it. That pull or tug is the love of the creator wooing you to come up higher and deeper in life.
Make the decision to step into the light. Don’t worry about the darkness that will be exposed. Think of it as a liberating of the spirit. There is forgiveness and love in the light but you have to say yes and take that first step.
Just download this free copy of the most profound book that has radically transformed so many others and share with me the impact it is having on your own life.
Until next time remember to always fly right.
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Roger G -aka- Your Inflight Motivater
I Told You So Syndrome (Don’t Let It Happen To You)
Have you ever wondered why it is that nobody listens to your advice when you actually do have the answer? You could tell some one 20 times and they still don’t listen or act on what you have been sharing with them. That is until their life get’s into a place where they become desperate.
That’s exactly what happened when I was working at a major airline. I was sharing with dozen and dozens of flight attendants how to start their own home based business to earn extra income and no body would listen to me or take my advice UNTIL they lost a major portion of their income when the airline industry took it’s nose dive.
I decided to call this common occurrence the “I told you so syndrome”
If you are fortunate to be a parent you know what I am talking about. You can tell your children something 20 to 30 times or more and they never seem to listen until one day some one they respect comes along and tells them the exact same thing and all of a sudden the lights go on. And what do you end up saying? “I’ve told you that 100 times and now you get it?” Or they now come to you when their lives are in shambles and they say as they did to me in the airlines business “Hey aren’t you that entrepreneur guy that has all those business ideas?” Now all of a sudden they are ready to listen. At least a little better. When before they had no interest even when I warned them of impending troubles ahead. It’s a matter of respect vs. trust. They may trust you but unfortunately they don’t respect you because of your own life walk.
Unfortunately because of our prideful human nature we are doomed to repeat mistakes over and over unless we get to that point that we say “Enough is enough, I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired” and we decide to change at all costs. We get into that mindset that takes extreme measures to change the circumstances and finally our mind and heart is open for real answers.
But why is it that so many just don’t want to change? Why is it that they just barley exist and struggle from pay check to pay check with too much month at the end of the money?
It’s because they are asleep spiritually.
They have been lulled into a state of existence that says “My life is not that bad” or “my life is ok” and they just deal with the painful state or empty state they are in by drugging themselves with activity that keeps them from feeling the pain or they convince them selves that it’s too hard to change.
They have bought into the lie that this lower existence they find themselves in is less painful than the discipline it will take to change. So they end up becoming lazy on almost every level and just medicate themselves with the endless activity of work, entertainment, or drugs and drinking, or other forms of escapism to escape their present state. Then it takes something extremely traumatic to wake them up our of their stupor and help them realize that life is more than what they have been experiencing. For the first time they may live with their eyes wide open and do something about it, unless however they fall back into the same medicated trap that their habits had been established on.
That’s where we find ourselves today. A society medicated on selfish pursuits and taking care of itself instead of sacrificing our lives for the benefit of another and helping our fellow man break free from the shackles of a suffering life. (Sharing The Gospel) We are relationally, mentally, emotionally, financially and spiritually trapped in a way of thinking and feeling that keeps us from opening our eyes and hearts to the real life that exists outside our perceptions of reality.
Our very ideas of what life is and what it is supposed to be have become skewed because of the system we are in. As a result we have built our entire society and it’s systems on a flawed foundation that is crumbling.
Everything we hope for or dream about is not properly lined up with the real principles of life so rather than experiencing the divine life, we end up suffering or struggling through life.
Instead we literally need to have our own minds transformed and enlightened by a the CREATOR HIMSELF, or through one of HIS appointed representatives, that truly has our best interests at heart otherwise we will forever stay in our present state or worse, we will experience further decline.
That’s why I am about to do something very special. If you recall last week I told you about a course I assembled for three months called Champions of Adversity. In it I was going to teach you for 12 weeks a way of moving through these adversities and help you change your thinking for $27.97.
Instead I have decided to do this for a simple love offering. At the end of each lesson, you will have the opportunity to contribute what you feel you can to help me continue the work, to help you break free from this self imposed prison. If you can give $1, $5, $10, $20 or more then feel free to do so. If you you can not no worries just pay it forward to some one else some how or contribute on a latter lesson.
The lessons are too important to miss because of money being tight.
This will be one of the most important series this year because it’s going to tell you like it is so you can slowly transform your thinking into a mindset that can carry the light of GOD to a darkened world around you. You will in a sense become a light bearer to those in desperate need around you.
At the end of the three months we’ll begin the next level that I’ll share with you when we get to that point.
So in the mean time come on over and enroll in the course free of charge and give what you can each lesson to help shoulder some of the time, labor and expense to make this course available to you.
Until next week make sure you learn to Fly Right!
Roger - A.K.A. Your In-Flight Success Advisor!
