Do One Thing Each Day to Reach Your Goal

Wherever you are on your life’s journey, do what’s at your hand to do. Don’t sit around waiting for your purpose in life to show up one day. Seek it; pursue it. The way to go after your destiny is to take small deliberate steps to explore what interests you. Some people know what their passion is early in life and are able to run with that passion. But if you happen to have several interests, none of which is so compelling that you would give every other interest up in order to follow one, then simply take each interest, one by one, and take one action each day to explore it.

Your commitment to do just one act every day related to a goal you have set for yourself has powerful significance. You may begin with only one step that you can see ahead of you. But after you take the first step—and sometimes it’s the only step you can see to take—another step, not visible to you before you took the first step, will emerge for you to take. You may never be able to fully script your life’s journey in advance, but it will always emerge as you move forward, one step at a time. It’s like driving through a thick fog that has been forecast to hang around for several days. You can decide to pull to the side of the road and wait until the fog lifts, or you can drive slowly in faith and inch toward your destination. However, unlike a fog, life does not lift in several days—it tends to go on interminably!

So, you are forced to come to grips with the Law of Faith. You can’t take a step forward in the fog or the dark or into the unknown without having accepted the Law of Faith at some level. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that what you’re doing will turn out right, whether you can see clearly now or not. Living by the Law of Faith means simply believing that your life has meaning and purpose, even if you don’t know what it is yet. The Law of Faith teaches you that you don’t have to know—indeed, you cannot know—everything. All you need to know is that if you muster the courage to move ahead, the way will be opened for you to advance. The Law of Faith is completely unrelated to your religion or religious preference or nonpreference—it is related to your belief in you and your knowing that you are not alone in the universe. There is help out there, waiting for you to summon it and appropriate it. The biblical definition of the Law of Faith is still true:

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. (Hebrews 11: 1-3 NIV)

Every person who has achieved success at any level has believed that whatever his or her goals in life were, they were achievable. In almost every case, great achievement has come to those who moved past criticism and the negative comments of those who kept telling them that what they were after was impossible to attain. What drove them on was their adherence to the Law of Faith.

Every solid created thing that you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands is made up of things that you can’t see with your eyes or touch with your hands. All matter is made up of elements that are made up of atoms and their three components: protons, neutrons and electrons—none of which is visible to the naked eye. In the same way, every new invention, every great idea, every forward advance in science begins in the invisible realm and only later manifests itself in the visible realm. In other words, everything that comes into existence begins with and is brought to its birth through the Law of Faith. But, that’s just the beginning—and not the end—of the story, as your own life experience and the biblical record maintain:

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. (James 2:17 NIV)

So, the Law of Faith teaches you that faith alone is insufficient to get you where you want and need to be. In order for your faith to be effective, you must act—do something—that puts your faith into action. If you say that you have faith that the big chair in the corner can hold your weight, and yet you refuse to sit in the chair, then you don’t really believe the chair can hold your weight. You cannot believe yourself into success without taking relevant and timely action to get you there. Your faith is what inspires you to take one step at a time to get to your next destination. But it is your action spurred on by your faith in yourself that takes you to the next destination!

If you have enough faith in yourself to accept the challenge of being teachable, accountable and willing to do what it takes to succeed, I pledge that I will do all in my power to help you succeed in business and in your life. Contact me at jchurchville8@gmail.com.

Attain Self-Mastery, Interdependence, and Reflective Leadership

Develop Self-Mastery. Self-Mastery is the first and deepest laid foundational building block for your business success. It is taking complete responsibility for your own behavior and deciding to control your own reactions to outside pressures. This means that you will not blame others for your past mistakes and your present circumstances. You will use your own self-awareness, self-knowledge, imagination, conscience and will-power to be self-determining and proactive. Self-Mastery says, “My success depends on me.”

Seek Interdependence. Interdependence is the second layer of foundational building block after obtaining Self-Mastery. Interdependence teaches you to develop strategic relationships with key people and to understand that you need them to help you create successful business outcomes. Once you have achieved Self-Mastery, you will realize that you cannot attain maximum effectiveness by your own thinking and behaving alone. You learn that by working in concert with others while being personally responsible for your own actions, a team mentality develops. The team mentality allows you and every member of the team to contribute to the effort at maximum levels and to experience maximum satisfaction from the process of working together.

Use Reflective Leadership to maximize business outcomes. Reflective Leadership is the “beyond myself, my family, my community and my organization” third course of foundational building block that requires interdependent organizational strategic partners to function as a “think-tank.” The goal of this Reflection is to think and plan together in new ways, using new approaches to create new products, services and solutions that meet needs and effectively address common problems. At this foundational level, there is a collective focus on working together to leverage the strengths of each group involved to maximize their collective profitability in their particular sphere of influence.

Everything you desire in life begins with your attainment of Self-Mastery. Once you have gained Self-Mastery, you will come to realize that you cannot become your highest and best self all by yourself. This will lead you to seek out principled people—or to be sought out by principled people—with whom you will develop strategic alliances. When you and those with whom you are strategically allied have gone as far as you can go, you will realize that your circle and sphere of influence must be larger and wider. It is at this point that—through your intention and action—the way will be opened to collaborate with partners who believe in the power of the Master Mind, and together, you will create new systems, products, services and applications that can be implemented to impact, empower and energize multitudes of people for their good and the welfare of millions of people around the world.

How to Find Your Purpose in Life

If you don’t know what you want in life, you’re probably confused. If you know what you want, but don’t go after it, you’re probably frustrated. But if you know what you want and are going after it with everything you have, even though you haven’t gotten where you want to be, you probably feel fulfilled just because you’re on the journey.

One way to discover your purpose is to imagine that you have $3 billion dollars in the bank and you owe no money to anyone and have no responsibility to anyone. If that were your situation, what would you want to accomplish in life?

If you don’t know what you really want in life, the most important question you can ask yourself is, “What really excites me so much that I can see myself getting out of bed every morning and doing that thing?” If what you’re doing now doesn’t make you feel like that, it’s time to find that thing that God created you to be and do.

You’ll find your purpose when you have a clear vision of what you want to do; you’ve figured out how your gifts and talents will help you do what you want to do; know what motivates you, what your values are, what’s important to you, and that your motive for doing your thing is good.

You must obey four universal laws: the Laws of Awareness, Action, Accountability and Attraction. In order to do what you want, you must be aware that you can do it; you must take specific and decisive action; you must be accountable to some human being who can be honest with you and challenge you to stay on course. Finally, your thoughts, speech and action must be aligned with what you want to do so that what you need to do it is attracted to you.

Once you’ve taken these steps, you must practice being committed, consistent, creative, purposeful, reflective and grateful.

Every highly successful person has at least one coach or mentor in their life. A reputable and highly-trained mentor or coach will require that you have a teachable spirit. If you’re hard-headed and already think you know everything, neither I nor any coach or mentor I know would waste time working with you. Then you must be prepared at each session; you must ask questions, show that you’re learning, and be accountable.

Mentoring and coaching are quite different fields. In the mentoring relationship, you become accountable to someone who is doing or has done what you want to do, and the relationship is cyclical in nature. In the coaching relationship, you are the captain. The role of the coach is to raise your awareness, based on the truth that every answer to every question you have is within yourself. The coach helps you become aware of faculties and abilities within yourself that you didn’t believe were there and to help you do things you didn’t believe you could do. Take the second step now! Contact me and discover how I can help you grow as your coach.

My African/Edenic Ode to Freedom

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 NIV

African/Edenic People living in this eurocentric-oriented racist society

Must grasp Personally and Resolutely an understanding of Who Jesus IS.

IS Revolution, IS Truth, IS Now, IS Future Forever.

Is not reaction, is not religion, is not the status quo christian lie.

Is not retrenchment, is not forgiveness without repentance.

IS a Body for an Eye, IS Judgment without Mercy, IS Wounding Love.

IS Reconciliation only after Unconditional Surrender, IS Power at Work

Now and not in future contemplation, IS Philosophical: Posits an

Understanding of the world from behind and anterior to it.

Is Psychological: radically altering the way African/Edenic People

Think Themselves, Think others and Think God.

Jesus—divorced from eurocentric-oriented religion—IS True Freedom,

Fundamental level, IS that State of Being in which African/Edenic People

Make Decisions, Plan Actions, Take Power, Manifest!

Jesus IS the truth that, without a revolutionary struggle that overcomes

The current African/Edenic Self-Image, we  are forever slaves in a

World-system matrix inimical to our best interests,

Opposed to our limitless capacity for personal

Human growth and development, and bent on Our total destruction.

Jesus IS the reality that the only road to African/Edenic freedom

Is Our connecting with Jesus, In Ourselves, submitting to Our

Radical leadership, engaging In Effective counter-hegemonic struggle.

Jesus IS the development of Our Critical Understanding—Our ability to be Transformed from non-critical, incoherent “common sense” African/Edenic People (Objects) to Kingdom-Oriented “Organic Intellectuals” (Subjects) who are Willing, Able, and Committed to Principled Leadership for counter-hegemonic struggle.