On a scale of 1-10, how adventurous is your life?
Are you living your dreams and working towards the desires of your heart? Are you stretching for more and setting increasingly big goals or have you settled for the things that are just within reach?
The easiest thing to do is to settle for the way things are today and accept the status quo as the new normal. However, deep down we know there has to be more.
What does “more” look like for you?
There are times when I talk myself into being satisfied with something I’ve outgrown because I do not see the way forward. Times like that, the comfort of the familiar tries to overtake the fulfillment of exploring the limits and daring greatly. Other times, the fear of failure and vulnerability of uncertainty keep me stuck to the same spot.
God has a bigger life planned for you and I. We were created in the image of God and wired to live an adventurous life. What better way to live than to have the God of the universe guiding us from one level of glory to the other.
No matter how great life has been, there is still a next level for you. Wake up each day with expectation and ask your Father in heaven – what is the next step?
Do not pay attention to the detractors who try to devalue you and your endeavors. Keep your eyes on the goal and keep your blinders on. Focus exclusively on what God places in your heart. No matter what the eventual outcome turns out to be, you would be further along than you were at the beginning. The process will make you a better person and the result is simply feedback.
”It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
You have the life of God in you and each day should be an adventure. Don’t settle – life was not meant to be boring but adventurously expectant and better than you ever dreamed of. Live fully!
