I’m carrying 40lbs on my back right now as I do today’s podcast walking around in nature, so there’s some huffing and puffing going on in today’s audio!
But it’s taught me a great lesson in using and maintaining the skill sets that we have been given and developed. As the choir director of my church, I was practicing a song I’ve been performing since 2009 many, many times, and yet I forgot it because I haven’t been maintaining my skills with it.
If you don’t practice a skill set and train a part of your body by maintaining the muscle memory, you’re going to lose it.
If you don’t use and practice and exercise your body or a skill set, you will lose it. That doesn’t mean that it’s not possible to get it back, but it’s easier to keep up instead of catching up.
Start where you are.
You can’t try to do what some other celebrity or athlete is currently doing as soon as you get off of the couch.
It takes time.
Push past the threshold, because if you don’t use it, you lose it.
The fast path to misery is to try to mimic those with greater mindsets and skill sets than where you’re at right now. The key is that you start where YOU are and measure your growth from where you were to where you are and want to go.
It’s all about expansion and becoming the best version of you. Create value for other people.
The only way to help other people to get what they want is to provide value.
Ask yourself:
* Where am I not practicing my skills and exercising my capabilities?
* What can I do today to step closer towards where I want to be?
* What skills sets have I needed to maintain better?
If you are not in tune with the Spirit of God in your life, it’s time to recommit what you believe. Become a greater steward of your resources. Start where you are and keep up everyday with YOU.
