“Ideas are not truly alive if they remain locked in a single mind. Our need to transfer them to others focuses us to consider why and where we want them to go, and how we want them to get there.” — Henry M. Boettinger
Are you someone who has a brilliant idea, a vision, but still doesn’t know how to effectively present your “intellectual property” to the millions of fallen, imperfect people you hope and pray will benefit from your “Big Dream?” Are you an “introvert?” Does the thought of public speaking buckle your knees? Here’s something to think about. Why not sit down and write a book? Gee, why not? Think about it.
C’mon Manchild! You’re kidding right? Me, write a book. I’m not qualified to write a book worth reading. I don’t have a Ph.D, nor do I have a Masters degree. Why I didn’t even go to college. I barely graduated from high school. Besides, I don’t even know where to begin writing a book that anybody would honestly believe is worth reading.
I hear you. But despite the excuses you’ve raised, do it anyway. Difficult? Most definitely! Impossible? Not!
Why not start writing your book, your daily column, your magazine article, your screen play, or your stage play today, right here, right now? Writer’s block huh? Fear of Failure huh? Maybe you’re not hungry enough yet. Maybe you still don’t think you have what it takes to excel and succeed as a writer, huh? That’s okay. I’ll still love you anyway. In the meantime, here’s something to think about that, hopefully, will challenge you to overcome your Moses complex.
Remember what Moses told God when the Most High called him into a position of leadership and challenged him to confront Pharoh? Did you hear his fear of Failure? How do you respond to the challenges that show up to test your faith in God and yourself? How will you ever know what’s possible if you never try to do the impossible? Hmmmm. You have nothing to lose but your fears and inhibitions and everything to gain. Besides, who told you that you couldn’t write a book worth reading? probably the same people who told me to give up and walk away from my Big Dream.
Had I listened to the skeptics, cynics, and pundits who kept telling me “no, never, impossible, and can’t,” I’d still be singing the “woulda, coulda, shoulda blues.” My faith in God and myself would have never been tested. But I refused to let those to whom much appears given tie me up in the “nots.” Are you still tied up in the “nots” because you simple refuse to honestly believe you can achieve your Big Dream(s)?
If I could beat impossible odds with God’s help and finish writing the vision that has evolved over the past 10+ years into Come Morning, you can do the same. But you must honestly believe it’s possible for a humbled beginner like you to do so. Because my faith in God and myself has been severely tested over the past 10 years, I can honestly say that I can trust God today absent any reservations whatsoever. I honestly believe that nothing is impossible to God. Do you? Gee, why not?
After the great fall I survived, I refused to believe “the greatest lie ever told and sold.” Ridicule and Rejection haunted me daily. Setbacks and Failure stalked me relentlessly. Nevertheless, I kept getting up, showing up, and doing what it would take to make my Big Dream come true.
Why? I believed in me because God created me to do something nobody else would choose to do. I refused to remain hopelessly lost in a deceptive spiritual darkness so thick that it makes one too many talented people too sick to care whether they lived or died. It’s what Adversity taught me, not what Success bought me, that inspired me write Come Morning.
Okay. Okay. I got it Manchild. Look, I’m a busy person. Gotta chase that cheese before it moves again. I’ve got places to go and people to see despite all the frozen snow that’s still covering the city. So what’s the real reason why writers write?
“Love.” Surprised? Don’t be. How many of you still think “Money” is the real reason why successful writers write the books voracious readers read? Not! Love inspires writers to write the books that choose us because we honestly believe we do have an idea to share that will improve the human condition and make the world a better, and hopefully, a safer place to live. God’s love inspires writers to pen the books the next generation of leaders believe are worth reading. Love is the reason why “Talent Alone Is Not Enough™” to achieve “Greatness.”
Successfully writing the ever evolving book that chose me challenged me to share in the light what I learned in the dark about achieving Greatness has changed my life forever. God always does the unexpected when we least expect it. Why? Our Father loves fallen, imperfect people like us with good intentions, bad habits, and great weaknesses like ours.
In closing, do you know what Greatness is and where it begins? How would you choose to define Greatness if given the opportunity to so for the next generation of servant leaders? For those of you who don’t know, please check out “Can Greatness Be Measured.”
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