When I awoke this morning, I felt like today was going to be different. I am off today and I had to put my car in the shop. It barely stays cranked when it's in drive and it sounds like a truck. I was debating whether to have it toad or try to drive it to the shop. The shop is about 1.5 miles from my home. Well, after carefully thinking this through I decided to just drive it and see if I can make it. I had to maneuver a little bit but I made it. I dropped the car off and never once thought about how I was going to get back home. I walked over to Chik-Fil-A and had breakfast. While I was eating breakfast, I thought to myself, "I can just walk back home." There was no need to try and call someone and then have to wait on them to get there. Even though there was only one person I could have called that was in the area. So I began to walk. The road that leads to my home that I was walking on doesn't have a sidewalk on either side of it. As I am walking all types of vehicles pass me. There was an 18 wheeler, a dump truck and a crazy teenager that was swerving. In order for me to avoid being hit, i had to walk in the bushes. You know that little crevice that you see when there is no sidewalk on the side of the road. The place that holds all of the trash that people throw out of their windows while driving.
While I was on my journey I begin to thinking about life (as I always do). I started thinking about how we forget where we come from once we reach a certain level in life. The average person wouldn't have walked back home. They would have found a ride before they left to drop the car off. Then I began to think about my legs and my brain. I started thinking that God gave me these utensils and they work just fine so I need to use them to the best of my ability. I used my brain to think about what made sense and what was best for me and my situation. Then after I came up with a plan, I used my legs to make this plan happen.
God gives us everything we need to make it in life. He doesn't hold us back from obtaining any goal that we have, we hold ourselves back. It's like we have forgotten how to make it in life. Effort is not work when there is a goal to be reached. We have to put forth some effort if we want to reach any goal that we have set. And not only do we need to put forth the effort, but we need to think outside the box and create a plan that fits our life, not someone else life. You have to do whats best for you because whats best for someone else, will not be the best thing for you. I use to always ask myself that if I were to become wealthy would I still be the same person on the inside that I am today. If I drove a 7 series BMW and the dealership was 1.5 miles from my home, would I ask them to take me back home or would I walk? I asked myself this question over ten years ago when I was in college riding a bike to and from work and now I have a car and I still walked...I guess I would be...what about you, would you still walk?
No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich (Chinese proverb)....this is my favorite quote!!!!!
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