What do you do when the economy deals you a blow like it has so many of us in the last couple of years?
As we look around us we see so many people who have allowed the loss of a job or a career to wreck their lives.
Let me tell you my story of how, when one door closes in your face, there is always another one somewhere else that opens for you!
Sometimes the way God catapults us out of our comfortable complacency is to completely jerk the rug out from under our feet! It's the definition of a "wake up call!"
So what do we do when that happens? It can seem like our whole world is falling apart, especially when it's a financial problem.
I've learned that the best way to keep our attitudes up and keep pressing forward is to realize that finances, as important as they are, are only one part of our lives.
What has helped me tremendously is to make sure that I don't stop moving forward in all the other areas of my life.
This is the story of how, this past year, I've been able to set and achieve a huge goal for myself even while other parts of my life weren't perfect.
The funny thing is, I have never been a big goal setter before. I think that's going to change after this experience!
It all started about 5 or 6 years ago when the basketball team I played with kind of dissolved. I needed something to do to stay active, so I took up running.
I've never really been a distance runner before, but I figured that I could work into it and maybe even one day run a marathon.
For several years I did it fairly regularly but never very consistently. I had fun keeping myself motivated by keeping track of my Personal Records (PR's) at different distances.
Occasionally, I would run in a 5K race, just for fun, but the longest distance I had ever gotten to was 12 1/2 miles. That's a far cry from a full-blown marathon.
As we look around us we see so many people who have allowed the loss of a job or a career to wreck their lives.
Let me tell you my story of how, when one door closes in your face, there is always another one somewhere else that opens for you!
Sometimes the way God catapults us out of our comfortable complacency is to completely jerk the rug out from under our feet! It's the definition of a "wake up call!"
So what do we do when that happens? It can seem like our whole world is falling apart, especially when it's a financial problem.
I've learned that the best way to keep our attitudes up and keep pressing forward is to realize that finances, as important as they are, are only one part of our lives.
What has helped me tremendously is to make sure that I don't stop moving forward in all the other areas of my life.
This is the story of how, this past year, I've been able to set and achieve a huge goal for myself even while other parts of my life weren't perfect.
The funny thing is, I have never been a big goal setter before. I think that's going to change after this experience!
It all started about 5 or 6 years ago when the basketball team I played with kind of dissolved. I needed something to do to stay active, so I took up running.
I've never really been a distance runner before, but I figured that I could work into it and maybe even one day run a marathon.
For several years I did it fairly regularly but never very consistently. I had fun keeping myself motivated by keeping track of my Personal Records (PR's) at different distances.
Occasionally, I would run in a 5K race, just for fun, but the longest distance I had ever gotten to was 12 1/2 miles. That's a far cry from a full-blown marathon.
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