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Readjusting Your Focus

How has life been treating you lately? Do you find yourself readjusting your focus often? Keep reading!

Life has changed so much since I posted the last time on this website. My son is now an adult who works. We relocated to another state to start over. I am continuing to balance a 9 to 5 and my expanding business.

All of these things are only a tip of the iceberg, as a change of any kind will push us to review our bearings again. Are we in the right space mentally, emotionally, or even physically? What else do we need to change (aside from what has been changed beyond our control)? What needs to stay the same?

Readjusting your focus includes looking inward, then outward, and reminding yourself of what matters most.

When life is over, what do you want to be able to say?

As a writing coach, I think of my clients’ work often. It’s not just another job to me. I see what I do as a way for people to fulfill a part of their purpose when I help them flesh out their manuscripts for their readers. I help them readjust their focus, because it’s easy for them to feel discouraged, or to think that their message isn’t relevant. Once they are encouraged and they complete what they’ve started, I watch from the sidelines as they step center-stage, share their work, and door after door opens for them. It’s refreshing to know that your work helps others refocus.

What about you? What are you doing now to refocus?

If you are ready now to work with me to complete your book, let’s connect here: bit.ly/authorconsults

Ensuring This Thing is Real…..

1 Corinthians 9:27 (KJV):

“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”

While living as Christians on life’s journey, we may experience moments of praise and admiration from others, especially if our gifts and callings bring us constantly before others and we are good at what we do. There is nothing really wrong with praise and admiration – except that once we get a steady dose of praise we tend to believe our own press. Now we begin feeling entitled to preferential treatment and deference from those in “lower ranks” than ourselves.

We may preach, sing, dance (liturgically), prophesy, speak in tongues (and interpret tongues), dance in the spirit or even lay hands on others and they become delivered. Let us make sure that in all what we do or take part in, we are constantly communicating with God. Constant communication with the King of kings keeps us humble. Studying His Word will cause us to remember that we are flesh and blood who are as vessels being used by the Master. We have no entitlement. Respect is due to those who are in positions of authority and on whom a clear call from God is evident in their lives, but let us remember that what we have, He allowed. What we can do, He endowed. What we see, He permitted.

Let us keep ourselves prostrate before the King of kings. Let us make sure that what we have is real, tried and true. May we allow God to keep us focused, lest we preach Christ to others and we turn out as hypocrites in the end.