I had a dream last night that I was teaching a group of guys at church (something I used to do a lot of) about how to improve their relationship with Jesus. The way I illustrated it was kind of crazy...
I was getting frustrated with them because I was starting to lose their attention. The youth minister was trying to get them to listen to me too but it wasn't working. Finally I yelled out as loud as I could and said, "you guys care more about who the freaking WWE Champion is more than the Lord Jesus Christ!" Needless to say, that got their attention.
Once I had their full attention I went on very passionately explaining to them how important it is to keep their relationship with the Lord their top priority. Everyone was listening. And then I told them something I feel like was actually for me in my real life circumstances instead of a group of young men...
I told them they needed to focus on accomplishing short term goals rather than trying to conquer a lot of long term goals. I told them that creating an environment of a lot of short term accomplishments would help build a strong foundation and would help motivate them to knock out those more difficult tasks ahead of them.
I woke up feeling like I had to learn this lesson myself. It was kind of weird seeing me tell a group of people something I actually needed to hear myself!
Sweet Dreams,
Joe
ahh - teaching a lesson to yourself... :)
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