Accomplishing a skill is fairly easy: you find out how to do something, and then practice until you have it down. Maintaining a positive attitude and having faith in the Lord’s ability to work everything out for your good – especially in the face of very challenging circumstances – is much more difficult. Most people start out with faith and a positive attitude and when striving to accomplish a goal. But somewhere along the way, when obstacles appear and forward movement slows to a crawl, a person’s attitude and their level of faith makes the difference between success and potential failure.

Since attitude and faith are key elements to achieving your visions, it is important to understand how you “tick” and then use your strengths to your advantage. Knowing and accepting your weaknesses is also important in order for you to strategically use your time and efforts wisely. In addition, listening to the Lord for His guidance and direction is necessary because He will often divinely arrange things to happen that will compensate for your weaknesses to ensure He gets the glory.  :)

As for my life, I dream big, and life “happens,” so I hit obstacles all the time.  But I never let obstacles keep me stuck. With the Lord’s help, I will find a way over them, under them, around them, and if necessary, through them to achieve whatever it is I am attempting to do. For me, it is only acceptable to put my goal on hold or let it go when I have no other options to pursue or when the Lord clearly tells me He has other plans for my life.  And because I am a natural visionary and “rainmaker,” I rarely have difficulty strategizing different alternatives to continue moving forward, – as long as I know the Lord is with me.

On the rare occasion when I have banged my head against the “obstacle wall” long enough with no results, I often re-evaluate my desires or find a new version of them. Then I draw on the resources I previously utilized to make the new form of my desire happen.

It’s very uncommon for me to give up completely on a dream or goal if the Lord told me it was going to happen. Often what happens is that I’ll receive a deeper revelation from the Lord of my previous interpretation of that goal or dream to clarify what He meant rather than what I thought it meant.  :)  Once that happens, I shift my priorities and focus to move in that direction.

Because of my decision to surrender everything in my life to the Lord, every year I become even more confident that anything is possible in my life – especially if I am willing to invest my time, money, and other resources to make it happen.