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You are the architect of a goal that you are passionate about. You have just designed the most beautiful structure you have ever seen. It has consumed your waking and sleeping hours for months now. It is your baby and you can see it, taste it, almost touch it, but your contractor doesn’t believe that he can build it.
It is too fantastic he says and out of his league. There is no way that a building like that could maintain its integrity built on a slope like that. How can you even get men over there when there is no road or bridge?
It is impossible to build it the way you want. Can you change it? Make it less grand?
No said the architect, I want it this way. This is what I want and I can see it. I have been dreaming about this for so long and it consumes me. I know that it is possible. Please trust me. It can be done. I don’t think so said the contractor, and this went back and forth for many weeks. Now they are both stuck. What should the architect do?
What would you do? Do you hire a new contractor, someone who willing to take a risk and build something they have never done before? Would you be able to trust them? OR, would you reduce the vision like the first contractor said, and stay with him?
Most folks respond adamantly that they would hire a contractor who is willing to work with them and give them what they want. Says K “I would find an architect that caught fire with my vision and wanted to dialogue about it and co-create it with me. I would look for someone who had the absolute passion and enthusiasm that I did for what I was doing.”
How about you? Do you have your answer?
What if I told you that YOU were the architect? Oh, and you are the contractor too.
Every day millions of people just like you have dreams and goals and desires that their very own architect designs for them, and every day they set that dream aside because their contractor says NO, it’s not possible!!
Why are you so adamant that you would find someone to give you what you really want,when every day you smother your real passion to start a business of your own. Your dream of becoming a full time painter or the author of published a book lies unfulfilled?
Don’t let your dreams die or be diluted when you can have it all.
There is an old Native American Proverb and it goes like this, “I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy … myself. - anonymous Native American Proverb
Now that you recognize the war inside, why don’t you let your architect win a round and see where it takes you? If you have a passion for something that consumes you than don’t let anything or anyone get in your way of achieving your goal. Even yourself.
Can you think of something that you can do right now to help you align yourself with your vision? How could you mediate between your architect and your contractor to get working on your goal? What ACTION could you take to start breaking ground on your dream?
I specialize in the impossible. People tell me all the time that I make things seem easy and do-able. I have thought about this long and hard and figured out why. It is because I believe. I believe I can do something so I can. So can you. Let me ask you again…..What would you do if it were you?
Frankie is a Strategic Vision Coach who specializes in the impossible. From Boardroom to Bedroom she is the Strategy Queen. Find out what makes her so unique and what programs and services she offers from her two websites, http://www.conversationwithmyshoes.com or http://www.coachpicasso.com
“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18); “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful” (Colossians 4:2).
What faith it takes to give thanks in all circumstances, especially the circumscribed ones! God’s will becomes ours when we can accept divine providence as our confidence of His divine love, as well. The seemingly unbearable yoke that presses on our neck becomes lined with down when we can say, “Thank You, Father, for this, too!”
“And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, `Father, I thank You that You have heard Me” (John 11:41). What a perfect prayer of faith! We, too, can look up and thank Him and know that our Father hears our prayers. “Before they call I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24). What a comfort it is to know that we are heard and our anguished prayer answered, even before we present our petitions!
The following is an excerpt from On The High Road Of Surrender, by Frances J. Roberts, a friend, mentor and one of the finest Christian writers I know:
“Rejoice in the Lord always, for as you rejoice and give thanks, you release heaven’s treasures and shower upon your head the blessings of a delighted Father. Nothing so thoroughly delights the Father’s heart as the praises of His children.
“For praise exercises the heart toward gratitude, and gratitude nurtures contentment, and you may know for a certainty that no fruit ever appears on the tree of discontent.
“So praise, My children, and never cease in your praising, for in the midst of it I will manifest Myself, and you will understand that when I demand of you your praises it is for your highest good.
“Out of praises come courage, faith, strength, optimism, clarity and peace. Out of praises come health and happiness and the soul satisfaction men seek in the world and do not find.
“Praise will transform the humblest dwelling to a hallowed haven. It will light the countenance and make the plainest face beautiful. It is impossible for the man who has learned unceasing praise to be a failure. God’s blessing attends his path, and God’s Spirit rules his heart. He is eternally at peace with both God and man.”
I know from personal experience that “out of praises come courage, faith, strength, optimism, clarity and peace.” Praise is a wonderful ointment for the wounds of life. Thanksgiving is a mark of the Christian; an unthankful heart is a mark of the wicked. “Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful … ” (Romans 1:21). “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be … ungrateful …” (2 Timothy 3:1,2).
O Father, thank You for everything that happens in our lives, for we know it is covered with Your love, for You can do nothing that harms us.