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The “You” Who Asks for Something Great and the “You” Who Receives It Are 2 Different People

When something is missing in your life it is very likely because you have not qualified for it yet. God often puts desires inside you for great things that are beyond your current level. You think that the great thing you’re pursuing is the reward, when the real reward is the new “you” that the pursuit is going to produce.

Several years ago I was frustrated by the fact that I wasn’t producing 60 per month in a certain area. I prayed and asked God why I was not able to hit “60 per month.”  For 2 years God did not say one thing in response to my prayer. After 2 years I started averaging over 60 per month. Then, for the first time in over 2 years, God begin to talk to me about it. He said, “Two (2) years ago you weren’t in position to produce 60 per month.”  “You didn’t have the structure for it; you didn’t have the staff for it; you didn’t have the marketing in place for it.”  In other words, you can pray for something that you have not even prepared for.  You can be praying for something that you are not going to receive because you do NOT qualify for it yet.

Many times we’re a roast beef sandwich level individual asking for a filet mignon level blessing. The “you” who asks for something great and the “you” who receives it will be two (2) different people. The “you” who receives the great thing you’re asking for today is usually a much more structured, disciplined, organized, and wiser individual. Focus on becoming the individual who already has the great thing you’re seeking. When you become that person, the thing you’re seeking will start seeking you…until it finds its way to your door.

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Here’s how to accelerate the process:  Just start acting like the person you were going to give yourself 5 years to become. 

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You Can’t Have a “New” Year Without Becoming a New “You”

I noticed a phenomenon. When people don’t like the results of this year they bad mouth the year and start anxiously awaiting the arrival of the New Year. The common belief is that the new “year” will automatically bring new “results.” That is a myth! If you bring the same “you” into the new year the new year will act just like the “old” year.

The calendar is consistent at changing, but if you don’t change the new calendar will still feel like the old one. If you expect new “results” without becoming a new “you,” you will be disappointed by the new “year.” By March you will find yourself losing faith in the new year. By October you will be asking the year to hurry and be over, thinking that another “new year” is going to produce the “new beginning” that you so desperately need. The truth is, if you don’t improve, neither will your results. Your results will change when you do.

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How to Bring a New “You” to the New “Year.”

  1. Don’t make promises to the New Year.
  • If you have to wait for a new year to make a promise to improve, your chances of improvement are not very likely.
  • Start making small but powerful adjustments in your thinking. It’s your thinking that determines your capacity to succeed.
  • Decide to change your focus.
  1. Start acting like the great person you were going to give yourself 5 years to become.
  • How would the “you” you envision yourself being in 5 years think, respond, organize, create, and structure?
  • Start doing (today) what you know the transformed you would do.
  • If you have a vision of a better you, then you already have a model to copy.
  1. Aggressively focus on your “incomes”–great incomes result in great “outcomes.”
  • You can only give what you have.
  • The reason you can’t keep the promises you make to the New Year is because it is not in you in the first place.
  • Focus on what it is you want to be and become full of that. Internal process is what produces external progress.
  • When you become full of a certain thing, it will spill out of you automatically.
  • Focus on what you’re pouring in. Your incomes produce your outcomes.

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The Change You Anticipate Today Has No Power to Surprise You Tomorrow

Stan Ellis

Stan Ellis

Change has become more prominent in the last few years than ever before. Change is showing up everywhere. It has one of the loudest voices and is one of the most powerful influences of the current age. It seems to come out of nowhere. Many of the changes you experience present themselves almost as if they’re an enemy to your progress.  There are numerous changes that produce nothing but frustration. Just when you begin to find your flow, something unexpected can be introduced into your mix that interrupts your momentum.

Unexpected changes throws most people off and distracts them from their progress. Just when you figure out how to manage that difficult task, get everything figured out, and start making progress, something gets introduced into the mix that messes up everything. You’ve experienced having all the pieces of the proverbial puzzle together when something comes along and scrambles all the pieces, requiring you to start completely over.

It’s likely that something in your life is changing so slowly right now that you are probably not discerning just how much progress it’s making. I’m talking about an unwanted change. It just bodacious shows up on your radar one day and announces that it’s exerting its influence. When you look back in retrospect you realize that this change wasn’t as sudden as it first appeared. It had been slowly approaching you for some time. You just failed to discern that it was headed your way. Or, you were too busy with your life demands to do something about it before it forced itself on you.

Have you noticed that change does not make adjustments “for” you—it makes adjustments “to” you? It makes adjustments “in” you. Change does not respond to you—it demands that you respond to it.

What if you learned the art of discerning what is “about” to change before it actually comes? If you are ever blindsided by change you are already at a disadvantage. It places you in a position where you are reacting to the change that threw you off. It forces you to play from behind.   Here’s 3-ways to get an advantage over change:

        1.  Live Alert

  • Something is about to change. What is it?
  • Don’t wait until you are shocked by change. Begin to ask yourself, “What is most likely to change next year, six months from now, next month?”
  • What is already on shaky ground? What is reaching the end to its useful life?
  • Discern the things in your life that you’re depending on right now that are not sustainable long-term.

       2.  Live in Today While Thinking in Tomorrow.

  • Beat change to the punch.
  • Change something before change does.
  • If you are active at making changes in your thinking, your preparation, your daily patterns, and your disciplines, when change comes it simply becomes a part of what you’re already doing—changing.

        3.  Initiate and institute change into your life-flow.

  • There are too many layers to you for you to remain the same anyway.
  • Each change you make is simply a new reflection of the amazing “you” that you are.
  • Change a pattern of thought. Forgive quickly, release daily, love freely.
  • Change your disciplines. Get up early, do things correctly, refuse to be ordinary.
  • Change your environment. Go where you’re inspired. If it doesn’t inspire, let it expire.

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