Prioritize, focus, ignore? How do you bring the vision of your heart, mind, and spirit into reality to get to that place you were destined to be? You need order in your personal life.
To live your goals, you must set priorities, focus on them, and learn to ignore tugs on your time, energy, and resources that are outside of Destiny’s call.
I realized that if I was going to fulfill God’s vision for my life and live out my destiny, I had to learn how to accept that our all-powerful God created in me a limited resource.
I can only do so much in the course of a day or a season of my life. My various roles are husband, father, pastor, business owner, etc.
I cannot give them all equal attention every day. I cannot meet the demands of each responsibility equally every day.
I know that at the end of each day, one of those areas will come up lacking. Some days I’m a better business owner than a husband. Other days, I’m a better father than I am a pastor.
What is important to me, however, is that I don’t allow the same area of responsibility to go lacking every day. Every day I prioritize. Every day I live my destiny.
I have an order by which my life is structured. On any given day, I prioritize. I determine what is most important and what most needs my attention.
After I have prioritized, I focus. I put my concentration and energy on the tasks and situations that I have determined most need my attention.
Equally important to prioritizing and focusing is the ability to ignore. What someone else deems a crisis may not be my crisis, or it may not be a situation that merits my attention that day.
You may be missing tremendous opportunities because you have not ordered what it takes in your life to get ahead.
It is so vitally important that your life has an order and a rhythm so you won’t miss the seasons of life when you are most productive and vital.
You can’t sign up for more than you can deliver and you can’t focus on any one responsibility for too long.
When my, children were younger, they loved having me around the house. But I knew that if I spent too much time around the house, I would not be making money to support my family.
My kids couldn’t play their video games with no power because the electric bill hadn’t been paid! They wouldn’t have fun wrestling each other on the floor if their stomachs were growling.
So sometimes they had to miss me a little so I could keep food on the table.
Since each of us has a destiny, it is important for each of us to have a personal strategy for accomplishing what we long to do in life. Each of us is unique.
Each of us has a function and a purpose that no one else can fulfill. Establish your own personal priorities so that you live your authentic life.
Have you ever admired an actor in a movie or had a favorite recording artist who seemingly dropped off the scene?
You may have even wondered why a person would give up a lifestyle of fame and adulation. Sometimes people become famous only to discover it’s not the lifestyle that empowers them to fulfill their destiny.
Some singers don’t want the pressure of creating another hit record. They just want to make music. Some actors don’t want to lose the ability to go grocery shopping without being mobbed by fans.
They just want the opportunity to use their gifts. Sometimes people back away from fame or notoriety, but not because they didn’t have the talent.
Instead they come to realize that the pressures of pursuing fame do not fit into their destiny. Fame is not the highest expression of Destiny; neither is wealth.
Most people live out their destiny with, out fortune or fame. Some have affected many, many lives, by became neither rich nor famous in fulfilling their destiny.
God has not designed one person to be better than another. Your destiny is yours. Own it and pursue it.
It doesn’t matter where you were born or your current education level—you can rise to where you were destined to be. Don’t waste time com, paring yourself or your destiny with someone else’s.
You were created for a reason. You are alive for a reason. Pursue that reason with passion and live in your true purpose.
When you see others fulfilling their destiny, you may feel jealousy or envy. They’ve gotten to a place you haven’t or believe you can’t.
Don’t go there! You need all of your energy to work toward your own purpose, even if you haven’t realized precisely what that is yet.
Rejoice with those who are walking in their own Destiny. When feelings of jealousy seem to overpower you, remind yourself that you have a Destiny.
Be thankful God has designed a purpose for you and that you are on your way to fulfilling what you were put on this earth to do.
If you are tempted to feel envious, use those feelings to inspire you to emulate, not hate. Tell yourself, “If he can do it, so can I!”
Think of how happy you will be for yourself and how happy you will want others to be for you as you climb your own ladder of success.
Think of your destiny and everyone else’s in this way: Imagine you are running or walking on a track to improve your physical condition.
It doesn’t make sense to be jealous of the person running past you in the next lane. Maybe she’s been training longer.
Her level of fitness has no impact on your own, just as yours has no impact on the person in the other lane that you just passed.
Instead of being jealous, compliment her. Find out how she optimized her physical condition, and set out to do the same, because jealousy is energy that is better spent on building up yourself.
God wants you to prioritize, focus, and ignore so you can reach the place you were meant to be. When you have your priorities in place, you can focus on them and give them the attention they deserve because you know what’s important.
When you know what’s important, you can ignore the things that can only distract you from arriving at Destiny. Prioritize, focus, ignore? Share your thought below…
