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How David Defeated Goliath…

How David Defeated Goliath…

Last updated on: August 15, 2018 at 6:05 pm by Andy Gill

How David Defeated Goliath… 2018-08-15T18:05:34-05:00 Andy Gill

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Rising Above an Imposed Culture of Negativity…

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You know the difference between you and a professional athlete?

It’s mindset.

Belief.

Discipline.

It’s a certain level of control and adapting to what we can’t control. It’s intentionally curating a life of “Flow“… How do we get enough energy to then have enough clarity to know how to maintain enough energy in order to live a life that’s of quality?

But, also, maybe it’s a certain level of intelligence to recognize the fact that the glass-ceilings have always been figurative.

It’s not just “the power of believing” that I’m encouraging here… David was trained (however unconventionally); he’d fought giants before, just in the form of lions. David mapped out a plan instead of walking into the fight blindly. He understood his weaknesses and knew his strengths. And, most importantly, he ignored his detractors in the sense that he was able to not internalize their words and opinions of him.

28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.” – 1 Samuel 17:28

For me, the stage of life I’m in is the beginning stages of “reconstruction.”

Believing in God, for me, has never been about being confined by a set of rules, morals, and laws… Yet, the church has created a faith that does the opposite of setting us free. It’s a faith, that I discovered to be holding me back.

It’s being unafraid of pain to the point of which I don’t cower away from experiencing it. It’s the conscious choice to feel and care once again; to notice when I begin to retract and resist this desire to isolate.

Everybody has a capacity to how far they’re willing to allow themselves to dream. Find those who dare to dream big. Those who understand “impossible” is relative; it’s something humanity has just yet to figure out.

A few examples:

“The sound barrier. Pilots didn’t think it was possible to fly faster than 768 miles an hour (the speed of sound at sea level). Then Chuck Yeager officially broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947.
The four-minute mile. Runners didn’t think it was possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Then, in 1954, Roger Bannister ran it in 3:59.4.
The two-hour marathon. Endurance athletes didn’t think it was possible to run a marathon in less than two hours. Now several athletes are on the verge of breaking Geoffrey Mutai’s world-record of 2:03.02 [3].”

It’s the questions I’ll leave you here today with: First, what is that you want out of this life? And, secondly, what then, do you need to do in order to rise above whatever it is you’re facing and come out on the other end like a modern day version of David?

[1] How Much Time Will the Average Person Spend on Social Media During Their Life? (Infographic)

[2] Here’s How Happy Americans Are Right Now

[3] The One Thing You Must Do to Achieve Break-Through Results by Michael Hyatt

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