The Dash Between Perishing and Sacrificing for Your Dream (Chapter 4 - Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success)

Proverbs 29:18 – “Where there is no vision, the people will perish.”

Perishing is the dangerous state of living in a mundane existence without even realizing it.  When you are living out your life doing the same jobs, doing the same thing over and over, again with no dreams or aspirations or hope for the future, you are slowly perishing with no direction.

Don’t allow yourself to wander aimlessly in circles, unclear about your purpose, while you are wasting your gift and destroying your promise.  Don’t go another day without a clear direction and focus for your life. 

Create a new vision for your life and commit to living that new promise.

When we are disconnected from a real vision, we perish through a slow and painful process, and not knowing or being aware will trick you into thinking that this is the way that things are supposed to be. 

You can be sure that you are in a state of perish if you have lazy tendencies or habits.  If you have the following characteristics, you might be perishing slowly:

-       - Procrastination

-       - Doing things halfway, improperly, or not at all

-       - Lack of enthusiasm

-       - Unreliability

-       - Un-trustworthy

-       - Negativity or any negative trait will derail you from your dreams

Dash Deposits

To help you start to live your dreams, everyday try to identify ‘Dash Deposits,” simple efforts you can make on a daily bases to reach your destiny and add to your legacy. 

Sometimes you have to live on a wing and a prayer.  At some point you are going to have to take a leap of faith and hope that you can fly.  Sometimes nobody will believe in you or what you are doing but you.  Nobody but you and God can see it, but you know your gift is in there.  To some, it might be nothing more than a useless hobby, but you know its more – you know it’s the key to your future.  If you don’t know and believe in your gift for yourself, you will never have the lift that God has destined for you. 

The only difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful people know what their gift is and how to focus on it at all costs.  Once you know your gift, pursuing it becomes your sole focus.

When you are living off your gift, you just know it, you can feel it, and you won’t have to force it.  You will be in a space where your dream is no longer a question of who you are but the answer for everything you are meant to be.

When trying to move from a state of perishing into the Land of Promise, you have to step up and let the world see your gift.  You have to commit to taking the lid off your dreams everyday.  Blow the lid off of your dream every day and say to the world, “I might be in this place right now, paying my dues and mastering my craft, but my dreams are out of this world and I won’t be here for long!”