God Speaks Daily

“Success isn’t a moment in time, it’s the path between moments.”

In the past I found myself thinking, “When I have the big, fancy house, I’ll be successful. When I have the trophy wife, I’ll be successful. When I have a Cadillac, I’ll be successful.” When I got those things I still didn’t feel successful. (I never married the woman who looked like Cathrine Zeta Jones, but I could have just by asking.)

I was looking for things outside myself to feel good about. I was looking to the future instead of living in the moment.

This saying reminds me that it’s not the end result, having those things or being there, it’s the process.

This is so important, because I hear many people saying, “I can’t do this until I have this done,” or driving themselves to meet these goals and they give up the now in their quest for future success.

The truth is when we live our lives with self-accountability and self-responsibility, when we have a community around us, and when we a positive and realistic the vision of our futures, we have success. Whether we have money or not, whether we have the fancy cars and fancy houses.

It’s not about the future, it’s about now.

When accountants look at the books of a business, they look at the cash flow statement, which is the things going in and out and how a business works through a period of time. This gives a real look at the business.

Accountants also look at something called a balance sheet. When they look at the balance sheet, that’s a snapshot of the corporation at that specific date, like December 31st at midnight. Because the balance sheet only shows the assets and liabilities of a company at one moment in time, it gives no information about the prospects for the business.

We need to look at our lives in terms of a cash flow statement, where every day we’re looking at what goes on, rather than projecting to some future point where we’re going to take a photograph of what our life looks like and say, “This is when I’ll be successful.”

By looking at each day and a series of days we get a better idea of our progress. A better idea of areas needing improvement and areas where we excel.

Terry

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