My mom recently forwarded me an e-mail sent from my Great Uncle titled, “Why Go To Church?” Whether or not you are religious I encourage you to continue reading this post. You’ll still get something out of it whether it’s related to your religion, your spirituality, your career, your workouts, or you belief in yourself and your team.
The story goes like this…
A churchgoer wrote a letter to an editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
He wrote,
“I’ve gone for 30 years now, and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons, but for the life of me, I can’t remember a single one of them. So, I think I’m wasting my time, and the preachers and priests are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.”
This started a real controversy in the “Letters to the Editor” column until someone ended it with this clutch response,
“I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.
But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.
If my wife had not given me those meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today.”
When you are DOWN to nothing, God is UP to something!
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.
If you have a religious and God-based faith, you know what I mean. Lets go beyond that though for those who need faith in other areas in their life.
Do you have faith in yourself? Do you see the invisible possibilities, believe that you can reach incredible goals, and receive what you believe is impossible?
Just like many of us stray away from our faith with the Lord at times, we also stray away from our faith in ourselves. As performers, athletes, and co-workers we also stray away from faith in our teams.
How can we change that?
Well for starters we can be more like the man who responded with the clutch response. Even though at times we may not believe that the lift we are performing is making us stronger, the speed drills not making us faster, the trainings or readings may not be informative, the team meetings not making a difference, writing our goals not mattering, and that the little things not adding up to change things in the end, but they do. They will. Be patient.
Have faith and be patient in the process. Trust that everything you do will make a difference, even if we don’t remember the lifting regimen, the team meeting content, plans towards a goal, a book we read, or the food we ate for our nutrition plan. Each and every single thing nourished you in some form and provided you the strength you needed to move forward.
Believe in yourself, your team, and everything you do that will move you closer to your goals. There will be days that it seems like it won’t make a difference and we will doubt why we do it, but do it anyways. Have FAITH and BELIEVE it will make a difference somehow, even if you can’t see it at the time.
Get that last rep in, follow your nutrition plan, get up with your alarm, write that blog, read that book, go to that meeting or training, and look yourself in the mirror and tell yourself,
“I believe and have faith that it’s worth it.”
Love this post! Just like we talked about tonight, you are standing up for your faith and weaving it into the fabric of your career, inspiring others and creating new ways of thinking.