For the past six weeks, track and field season has consumed our lives. With both of our girls participating this spring, life has been a non-stop turnstile of practices, uniforms, spikes and track meets. Throw in an ankle injury and it's been more like a revolving circus!
But as I've watched athletes run, jump, and throw, I've learned a few truths that can help me, and hopefully you, cross the finish line in our own seasons of life:
- It takes effort and discipline to accomplish your goals.
- Don't settle for anything less than the best - God's best!
- Don't look back - it only slows you down and lets your opponent take back hard-fought ground from you!
- It's the little things that make the difference; those little things that mean the difference between winning and losing.
- Even if you have gifts, abilities, and talent, you still have to keep working and pushing yourself - raw talent alone won't bring victory!
- You have to BELIEVE.
- Wise counsel and guidance is essential, BUT you have to be willing to heed that wisdom or else you'll keep making the same mistakes and not reach your goal.
- Don't compare yourself to everyone else, it only distracts you - focus on what you can do!
- You must have mental focus because "as a man a thinks in his hearts, so he is" (Proverbs 23:7).
