This morning, as I was reading “Chase the Lion,” the author made some points that really resonated with me.
To achieve the highest level of success in any field, you need a high pain threshold when it comes to failure.
A few years ago in the Disney film, “Frozen,” the theme song “Let it Go” won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2014. This powerful ballad was an instant hit, selling more than 10 million copies. But what’s easily forgotten is the fact that there were seventeen songs the husband/wife song writing duo of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote that didn’t make the cut. Most of us give up after two or three rejections. But to achieve the highest level of success in any field, you need a high pain threshold when it comes to failure!
The benefit of a strong work ethic.
When the London Philharmonic Orchestra selected the 50 greatest pieces of classical music, the list included six pieces by Mozart, five by Beethoven, and three by Bach. To generate those masterpieces, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces, Beethoven produced 650, and Bach wrote more than 1,000 pieces of music. If it had been baseball, Bach would have been batting .003! It takes a lot of swings to get a hit…and a strong work ethic! We glamorize success, but it always comes back to basics. You have to practice scales, practice skills, and practice techniques over and over again!
Dreams aren’t just born; they are sometimes born again.
Most dreams die not because they’re the wrong dream but because the timing is wrong. We’re not ready for it, or it isn’t ready for us. But what seems like a waiting period is really a grace period. Don’t put a period where God puts a comma. When the time is right, dust off the dream and rededicate it to God.
When we operate in faith, we aren’t risking our reputation.
You may doubt yourself because of your lack of education or experience, but if God has called you, you aren’t really doubting yourself…you are doubting God! God doesn’t call the qualified, God qualifies the called! Faith is taking the first step before God reveals the second step!