The Pit

What do you do when you don’t know what to? The place where people give up is what I can the pit. When you’re in the pit, you see where you want to be, but no matter how hard you try, it seems you can’t get your footing . You begin to lose hope and doubt you’ll ever get out.

Your dreams are out of reach, and you feel like you’re in quick sand, seeking deeper with no way out. Our soul is full of trouble, we feel as though there is no hope.

In Psalm 88 David is saying, “I am counted among those who go down into the pit, I am like a man (woman) who has no help, set apart among the dead, whom you remember no more. You have aid me in the lowest pit in the darkest depths.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined and I can’t escape

Psalm 88:8

Sadly, most people give up in the pit. But if we don’t, we are the ones who see our dreams fulfilled.

None of have the perfect filtered life, like many portray on social media. Every person, even the ones who seem to have everything together, has at least one area in life that isn’t what they want it to be. It’s frustration. It’s hopeless. It’s where anxiety and fear have crept in. It’s where giving up not only seems reasonable, sometimes it feels like our only option.

The pit can be your health, your marriage, your children, your job. You know there’s more in you to express, but it seems some invisible ceiling is keeping you from reaching your potential or landing somewhere you want to be.

The pit is where your standing, and wondering if God really does have a plan and if so, why is He taking so long? Does He even see me where I’m at? It feels like you are one piece of of a 10- thousand piece puzzle and you don’t know where to begin.

But let me encourage you. When we are ready to give up in the pit, we have a God who is just getting started.

God doesn’t see as we see!

We see impossible, but He sees possibility. We see financial ruin, but He sees a path to blessing. We see the diagnosis, but He sees the way to healing. God sees the end from the beginning, when all we see is our past and our present. We see the pit, but God sees a way out, He sees an opportunity to show up and work through us and show us just how amazing He really is.

We need to see it through God’s perspective and use God’s strength to climb out of the pit, and reawaken our motivation when we’re temped to throw in the towel.

Where have you given up? Where are you considering giving up?

You are important, Please Don’t give up.

Important Life Lessons We Are Taught Too Late

Life is continuous learning experience. Throughout our lives we keep rising and falling, picking up important lesson to long way. Some of these lessons come from experience, yet there are others that we can learn watching others and reading inbox.

No matter how much we learn from the books there’s a significant difference between physical and theoretical experience. Furthermore there are many life lessons we cannot learn until we pay certain situations in our life. Most people say that there are lessons that come too late, catching us off guard and unprepared.

Here are a few:

Walk Your Own Path

People like to judge other people. This peer pressure can make you stray from the path you started to carve for your future. Don’t mind other people’s aspirations, don’t ever let someone else’s goals influence your vision of life. It’s your path and you decide where it takes you and how long it take you can see it through.

Don’t Hesitate When You Should Act

There’s an old Roman proverb that people often quote – “Carpe diem” – meaning “Seize the day.” More often than not, we fail to act due to the lack of confidence or courage. This hesitation keeps us from moving forward and puts us in a cage of wondering what might have been. Whenever you feel it’s time to act, take action. No matter the outcome you will end up smarter than before.

Experience What You Have Learned

No matter how much we think we know about some topic, it’s only after we have put that knowledge and he uses that we get the confirmation and the actual level of understanding that it possesses. Sure, we can read about painting, learn about technique and brush types, color and platelets, but only when we get in front of the canvas and start painting that we put our knowledge to the test,

People often face difficulties when it comes to putting what they have learned into practice, therefore all this knowledge becomes useless when it should be the fuel that propels our their lives.

Good Things Don’t Come Easy

If you want to have a good life successful career, emotional satisfaction, and trustworthy friends you have to work hard. Luck and take you only so far and the rest is entirely up to you, the amount of effort you put in everyday, and the ability to learn from your mistakes. Don’t think for one moment that someone else is going to fight your battles with the same vigor and devotion as you would.

Never Fail To Try More

Even when we’re feeling most prepared there is a chance we fail in accomplishing our goal. An athlete could lead thee entire race only to fall just before the finish line and lose. This doesn’t mean the athlete should stop competing, on the contrary, he would work even harder for the next competition. The results will come eventually.

Take Care Of Your Health Early

When we were young we can push our body to its limits day after day. It seems there’s nothing can touch us and we are invincible. However, as we grow old all the parties, drinking, smoking and eating fast food takes at toll on our health. Start developing healthy habits while you are still young and healthy. Get regular check-ups with your doctor and dentist in order to prevent future problems.

Make Every Moment Count

Life goes by faster than we think. When you’re in your 20s and you think you’ll stay there forever but before you know it you are in your 30s and then it’s too late or do you think you wanna treat you as a young person. Leave your life who is 416 because life is short and you never know what tomorrow brings.

Live And Let Live

We often try to help people when we see they’re making a mistake. This type of behavior can lead us into all kinds of trouble and misunderstanding. Don’t forget your ideas on others, let those who want your help in guidance seek you out. Sometimes it’s best to stay away and let them come to you or you might seem intrusive to others.

Be Flexible With Your Goals

Sometimes we feel is the right time to take action and put our plans in motion only to realize that we were wrong. It’s important to analyze our current position and how our activities could influence our future. Sometimes it’s better to postpone a certain goal or even change it for the time being. Excepting a promotion in a bad time to get us into more trouble than good if the timing is not right.

For Every Action, There’s An Equal Opposite Reaction

What are you say something or act in a certain way, think about the consequences. I personally could be unprepared to hear some truth I won’t respond well to your gesture, no matter how good your intentions are. Treat each word with caution.

Take these pieces of advice as guidance, not as a rule. You life is your own and you know what’s best for you. However, keep in mind that morning is wiser and evening. Enjoy life!

Dealing With Disappointment

When it comes to dealing with disappointment, the way you choose to handle it can determine how your life will turn out. When you feel disappointed, all that means is that something or someone will help me up to our expectation. For most people, this occurs when we reach for a goal and come up short. Everyone has to deal with this. The way we handle situations will determine our success or failure in life.

Let’s look into why we feel disappointed and something we can do to overcome this feeling.

Expectations are nothing but rules. These rules will dictate, at least in your mind, what has to happen before a satisfactory result is achieved. Say you wanted to lose 15 pounds in 30 days. You go out there and you start working out and eating right. You do everything the experts tell you and when the 30 days is up, you step on the scale to find out you’ve only lost 10 pounds. Chances are that you will feel quite disappointed. The reason is because you set a rule on that have to happen for you to feel satisfied.

So what do you do in this situation or any other situation where you fail to achieve what you set out to achieve? If you do let more people view and you give up or complain and whine about how you never get what you want, then you were going to continue to feel miserable. If you decide that you’re going to adjust and do better next time, you will be able to succeed at handling disappointing situations in a productive way.

Remember that disappointment it’s just a feeling that is caused by the rules you set up. This works externally as well. Let’s say you expected that your child will get straight A’s in school but they end up getting mostly B’s, The only reason you feel disappointed is because you created the rule that unless your child gets all A’s you will not be satisfied.

So how can we use this back to help you deal with disappointment? There are two things you can do. The first is to realize that when you’re feeling disappointed, it’s because certain rule that you have created were not met. Whether the rules were placed on you or by someone else it doesn’t matter. In order to deal with this feeling, one thing you can do if you change the rules.

Instead of saying, “If I don’t lose 15 pounds in 30 days, I’m going to be disappointed,” you can say, “I will do everything I can to reach my boa but if I happen to fall short, I will at least know that I gave it my all.” This is just an example but hopefully you get the point. You made the rules that card yourself to feel disappointed which means you can also change the rules.

The second thing you can do legs your rule you set up for other people. If you want to stop being disappointed all the time when it comes to other people, create the rules that make it harder for people who make you disappointed. The rules that hair to happen or you could be satisfied or not something you were born with. You created them. It’s great to have high expectations for yourself because you have control over your actions but when you place too many rules on other people who don’t have that self-control, be prepared to have a lot of disappointment.

Dealing with disappointment just requires understanding what causes a feeling you come up in the first place. Once you understand that it’s a result of you or other people willing to meet your rules of what has to happen for you to feel satisfied, you can begin to start changing those rules and make it harder for you to feel disappointment.