a learning process - who will help you separate the wheat from the chaff?
Whatever you think your timeline is to build a successful youth ministry, add 3 years.
Whatever you think your timeline is to build a successful career, add 10 years.
Random Thoughts On Success and Process
Success (whatever you think that is) always come later than you think, doesn't look like you thought it would and, when it does arrive, you'll never enjoy it as much as you thought you would or should.
Success doesn't come until you've been through the process of trying, failing and succeeding. Be patient with God, yourself and the journey, over all.
Success, is a by-product of faithfulness, showing up, giving your best, dying to self and not quitting.
Stop worrying about what others are saying about where you are and where should be and by some subjective timetable and stick with the process God has you in.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward - Amelia Earhart
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