You're Closer than you Think

I know it’s my set time for favor but it seems like each day gets harder than the next to see the true manifestation of what I believe. I have been trying to close a business deal for several weeks now. I know I’m close but each day it seems to elude me and the moving parts to make it happen are always just within my reach. My mind tells me this deal may not happen, being an entrepreneur is just to hard and maybe I’m not cut out for this.

While working diligently to pull this deal together that will open up multiple doors for my future I’m surrounded by life. My daughter and I are bumping heads as she wants the liberty to come and go and do as she pleases under my roof. Even as this tug of war is going on I know this is just another distraction to get me off course.

In my professional career I’ve had the pleasure to experience 5 different careers. Each one built upon the next as I was either a pioneer or a forerunner in those positions. My career at one of the leading super markets in the country thrush me into a promotion within culture. I was one of the first people hired into management outside of the company in over 70 years. I was met with opposition on every level as the decision to diversify their management teams forced them to hire from the outside.

Every night for about nine months I went home and cried because of the intensity of what I endured each day. I wanted to quit but I had relocated my family from Florida back home to Atlanta. I did not quit, I kept pushing until I became an integral part of the team.

I believe it’s the same principle in dealing with our daily lives. The greatest difficulty will come right before we give birth to our dreams. That’s why everything but the great wall is coming against you right now. You are in the final push. Maybe like me, that business deal just doesn’t seem like it’s going to go through. Yet, if you keep pushing and keep believing like a woman in labor you will push to your promise.

Determine today to not get down and allow your mind to pull you into what I call stinking thinking. Instead of thinking you can’t take it anymore, it’s not going to happen, the marriage is over, or the promotion is not coming turn your thoughts around. You are about to give birth to your promise. The tougher the challenge the closer you are to your victory. You are closer than you think and God will bring to pass every dream He put into your heart.