Tag: fear

The Pull Back

Jennifred Jones

*Progress! noun (accomplishment; deed done)

*Progress! verb (moving forward to attain a desired goal)

…my definitions…

But wait! It seems there are always things (forces) or thoughts trying to pull us back…not letting us progress towards our progress!

*Letting. Gerund (allowing something, someone to prevent us from moving forward out of our rut)

Again the 80/20 principle takes effect. Most are fearful of change, the unknown, the ‘what-ifs?’ so they hold back and want to hold you back too. The braver ones push on ahead seeing the end result of their progress in the minds eye…resulting in the bridges, skyscrapers, planes, computers, telephones, software…just about all the things we enjoy today. They crossed the line of fear and doubt.

Why not go all in with your thinking and making and doing. Go all out! Make the best craziest good thing or way of doing things anybody’s ever seen! Why not! Get those ideas out in public where they can be acted on. Why settle for mere status quo, only going so far, not wanting to draw too much attention to yourself so you pull back and settle in with the rest of the 80%. This is where inferior productivity arises.

On the road to nowhere…There was a good song with this title decades ago…happens alot! Might want to listen to it.

Do not, I repeat, do not settle your life into the 80% bracket of comfort, ease, no challenges, boring, nothing to look forward to [but at least I’m safe (more about this subject later)].

Climb yourself out of the ‘can’t do rut’ and get in the ‘can do lane’ and speed on ahead with the other 20% who are going somewhere doing important work.

Don’t let yourself get pulled back. Don’t even pull yourself back.

Keep progressing v. with your progress n. and see what good might happen!

There but for the Grace of God – Go I

Jennifred Jones

Mom said this to me frequently in my growing up years, when I was tempted to be critical of someone else.

So easy to get out of focus in life and fault find, blame, criticize…really it probably stems from insecurity, fear, loss of control, feelings of inadequacies on our part (the last one was a big one for me as I grew up). ‘Am I gonna make it?’

If I could just rest in the good plan God had for me…although I didn’t know it fully then…still don’t – but staying confident in who I was made to be and looking out for others instead of myself all the time, life became easier. My mind had less to think/worry about, and I was gonna be OK.

So far it has worked and is still working decades later.

How about you?

Good Heart vs Bad Heart

Jennifred Jones

There are far more people with good hearts in our world. They see a wrong done and want to make it right. They see a person in need and want to help.

Yet Bad always wants to quench the Good out/ of us through fear, intimidation, unforgiveness, neglect etc.

I can’t help that person, what would other people think?

I can’t help them after what they did to so and so!

If I help them what would my friends think.

Those people aren’t from my current associations.

I don’t have time.

Instead, let Good over power Bad.

Good will always stifle Bad if we allow it!

I’m going to help them. It doesn’t matter what somebody else thinks. If it was me, I’d be thankful for their help.

I will lay aside what they did to so and so, forgive and show goodness to them. Maybe it will melt their heart.

If my friends don’t like me helping out, then maybe I need new friends.

Our blood is all the same color and we’re all human beings, so Yes, I will help them.

I may be busy, but this will only take a portion of my time and we will both be better off.

See…it’s in you. God put his heart of goodness in you.

Now we gotta let out of our heart what is really in it.

Begin to overpower the bad with good—though you!