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Most people do not really have goals. The cost is too great and most people simply spend their lives looking for the easy way out.
Then there was Ffyona Campbell, a British long distance walker, who over a period of 11 years walked 20,000 miles and earned for charity 11,000 pounds.
She walked across America and Australia. She walked through Europe.
She walked across Africa from Cape Town to Tangier. She walking through jungles, deserts and a 400 mile wide mine field, she earned her label as “the greatest walker of them all.”
When asked why she did it she replied, “Because I said I would.”
“Who did you say it to?” she was asked.
“I said it to myself.”
What do you say to yourself when you arise each morning…before you set out to fill in the rest of the day before you?
I’m not saying that the goal of Ffyona Campbell is one that many people would want to set for themselves…but that is not the point.
The point is that she said to herself “I’m going to do it…and she did it.” It was difficult and she still did it. There were times when she could have given up on the idea…but she didn’t.
In that early morning conversation with yourself I was just talking about, tell yourself that you want to be soul-deep in your thinking….deep and dedicated to something else besides being a sloth hanging upside down from a tree.
Tell yourself you will set a personal record for walking through the jungles and deserts of life and never giving up. That if life is a marathon then you will fill its highways and byways with purpose.
And when you ask yourself why you are doing it, answer yourself, “Because I said I would.”
Say it, and do it, and say it, and do it, and keep on saying and doing it for the rest of your life.
Phl 4:13 "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
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Most people do not really have goals. The cost is too great and most people simply spend their lives looking for the easy way out.
Then there was Ffyona Campbell, a British long distance walker, who over a period of 11 years walked 20,000 miles and earned for charity 11,000 pounds.
She walked across America and Australia. She walked through Europe.
She walked across Africa from Cape Town to Tangier. She walking through jungles, deserts and a 400 mile wide mine field, she earned her label as “the greatest walker of them all.”
When asked why she did it she replied, “Because I said I would.”
“Who did you say it to?” she was asked.
“I said it to myself.”
What do you say to yourself when you arise each morning…before you set out to fill in the rest of the day before you?
I’m not saying that the goal of Ffyona Campbell is one that many people would want to set for themselves…but that is not the point.
The point is that she said to herself “I’m going to do it…and she did it.” It was difficult and she still did it. There were times when she could have given up on the idea…but she didn’t.
In that early morning conversation with yourself I was just talking about, tell yourself that you want to be soul-deep in your thinking….deep and dedicated to something else besides being a sloth hanging upside down from a tree.
Tell yourself you will set a personal record for walking through the jungles and deserts of life and never giving up. That if life is a marathon then you will fill its highways and byways with purpose.
And when you ask yourself why you are doing it, answer yourself, “Because I said I would.”
Say it, and do it, and say it, and do it, and keep on saying and doing it for the rest of your life.
Phl 4:13 "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
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NEIL’S 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN” IS AVAILABLE ON Amazon.com’s KINDLE READER
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