PULL Must Follow Every PUSH to Reach Your Goal
This morning I read this retweet “PUSH- Pray Until Something Happens”. I have nothing against prayer but I do have something against the way that statement is too often interpreted. Whether you are praying to or any other higher power you believe in, that can’t be only thing you.
Too often we don’t take enough initiative after we pray or mediate. Ask and you shall receive does not mean that everything that is requested will be brought to your front door at the desired time. More often than not these requests are granted in the form of opportunities that can be used to attain the desired result.
The power to perform is always within you. The higher power you pray to will provide you with tools but the action is really up to you. It’s funny how much thought and effort we put into some of the most basic things in our lives, but when it comes to the things that matter many some people tend to back off. When you order that beautiful bedroom set from IKEA they don’t deliver a bedroom- They give you a box of pieces. Before delivering that box of pieces, IKEA made sure to carve out all the necessary detail, provided you the instructions and the tools to make the change from pieces to furniture. Still at the end of the day all they gave you was a bunch of pieces. The onus is on you to turn those pieces into that picture that made you whip out your credit card. Everyone seems to get that and work accordingly. Whether you do it yourself, pay for installation or call a few friends you get it done. No one bad mouths the company for not delivering a 10 piece bedroom set to them.
That same method is what we should be doing with other parts of life. You don’t just pray and wait. Action must always be a part of the plan if anything is to be achieved. When you want that career, that education or any other goal, yes you can pray on it. But as you pray you must act. If you pray for a healthier body and the next day a friend invites you to the gym that is the answer to your prayer even if the gym is out of the way. That seemingly inconvenient gym may be an opportunity to start off with a nice walk or bike ride. When the supervisor comes up and tells you about an educational opportunity, that may be the answer to your prayer for career advancement; but if you are too busy looking at why you can’t do that with this job, you’ll miss the opportunity to get the next job.
It’s time for us to stop putting everything into PUSH and make more of an investment in PULL- Pick Up & Live Life (PULL). With prayer comes opportunity and it’s up to us to PULL them in. As individuals, it is our responsibility to pick up the pieces and live the lives we want. If prayer is going to work, action has to be its power source. The power to act- the power to create change- the power to succeed- have always been within us and remain dormant until activated through our choices.
If IKEA takes the care to not give you a task greater than your skills can complete, do you really believe that the higher power you pray to would not at minimum do that for you too? Remember a PUSH works best when paired with a PULL.
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Dream Big… Live Bigger…
DrJudiC
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