Friday; September 27
Do you ever get discouraged because you don’t get the results you expected (or hoped) to get? As a minister, trainer and teacher I face this discouragement on a regular basis. The problem is that no matter what I do, there is only so much I can do. Sure, maybe I could work harder or develop better skills; but at the end of the day, I can only control with I can control – and I have to be okay with that. Interestingly, I believe that there gets to be a point of diminishing results when it comes to effort. There needs to be a point in time when we believe like we have done all we can do and unless we come to grips with that reality, we will keep pushing ourselves to the point of discouragement – and that can lead to the temptation of giving up. The other day Jeane sent me a saying, “We control the effort, not the outcome.”. As I tried to get to the source of this thought, I realized a lot of people are credited with it (including Bryant McGill, Ryan Holiday … and now, Jea