Maybe it comes with my age but it seems that I spend a lot more time pondering the results of my decisions…both past and present. Like most people, I want to make good choices…choices that have long term good results. However, when I go to this place in my thinking the choices that dominate my thoughts are the ones where I wish I could get a “do over”. But instead of getting “do over’s” life simply gives us “Next!”
Recently I sent this message to all the managers in our organization:
Mac Anderson says “The difference in our success or failure is not change but choice…"
Our success or failure is made up of a lot of choices…some big but many small and sometimes seemingly insignificant ones that we make each and every day.
Those choices put on display what we are truly made of…what we are truly about.
As the saying goes…It’s not what you say…it’s what you do.
Choose consistency…choose to stay on task…choose to honor your word.
No doubt, there are changes we all need to make but it is the everyday choices that show which direction we have chosen.
Yesterday, I received a note from someone who had been a part of my Youth Ministry some 20 years ago. They wrote me a short note just to say what a “powerful impact” I had on their life. I have received a few of those lately, since I joined the world on Face Book, and I always read them several times. I do this because I am trying to absorb them. I am trying to experience the fact that as I have moved through this life I have, in fact, made some good decisions and the results have been good.
Proverbs 17:22 says “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Kind words from a friend are like good medicine…they nurture the spirit…bring life to the bones…produce a “cheerful heart”.
Dwelling on the bad decisions…those times I failed…even hurt...others…crushes the spirit. While not belittling past mistakes I must advance on today…make a difference to someone today…make good choices today…because I can’t help but wonder…
Will anyone write me a note twenty years from today and say thanks for having a “powerful impact” on my life? As a result of...today?
Today’s choices matter and today is the only day I can control. Because tomorrow morning there will be no "do overs". When I wake up life will simply say…"Next"!
Recently I sent this message to all the managers in our organization:
Mac Anderson says “The difference in our success or failure is not change but choice…"
Our success or failure is made up of a lot of choices…some big but many small and sometimes seemingly insignificant ones that we make each and every day.
Those choices put on display what we are truly made of…what we are truly about.
As the saying goes…It’s not what you say…it’s what you do.
Choose consistency…choose to stay on task…choose to honor your word.
No doubt, there are changes we all need to make but it is the everyday choices that show which direction we have chosen.
Yesterday, I received a note from someone who had been a part of my Youth Ministry some 20 years ago. They wrote me a short note just to say what a “powerful impact” I had on their life. I have received a few of those lately, since I joined the world on Face Book, and I always read them several times. I do this because I am trying to absorb them. I am trying to experience the fact that as I have moved through this life I have, in fact, made some good decisions and the results have been good.
Proverbs 17:22 says “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Kind words from a friend are like good medicine…they nurture the spirit…bring life to the bones…produce a “cheerful heart”.
Dwelling on the bad decisions…those times I failed…even hurt...others…crushes the spirit. While not belittling past mistakes I must advance on today…make a difference to someone today…make good choices today…because I can’t help but wonder…
Will anyone write me a note twenty years from today and say thanks for having a “powerful impact” on my life? As a result of...today?
Today’s choices matter and today is the only day I can control. Because tomorrow morning there will be no "do overs". When I wake up life will simply say…"Next"!
1 comment:
I agree Dad! Thats is a interesting way of thinking about making each day count.
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