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Comparing - Gal 6:4 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. Trying to control everything. We exaggerate out problems. We abdicate our dreams.
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Comparing - Gal 6:4 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. Trying to control everything We exaggerate out problems We abdicate our dreams
Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? What distinguishes those who perform exceptionally well in the same unpredictable environment from those who underperform or worse?
Are you an Amundsen or a Scott? Achieved dramatically different outcomes not because they faced dramatically different circumstances.
The 20-Mile March The strain from hitting your performance markers Holding back
Don’t simply copy the goals and plans of others Goals that are imposed by somebody else are decidedly less effective
Builds confidence in your ability to perform well in adverse circumstances Reduces the likelihood of catastrophe This is a way to exert self-control
Heb 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
1-3 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed … he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever… When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
Your battle is not so unique 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. 8 Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
12:4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. Certain things slows your progress. 1 Let us throw off everything that hinders … and let us run with perseverance the race... The sin that so easily entangles us
The example Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecterof faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, … For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. John 17:4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
