It's the grind that gets you

Your success or failure is not the result of any one specific moment. Rather, it is the result of regular repeated behavior and commitment to that.   This is why it is referred to as the grind!

• To truly grind, it requires that you’re devoting 100% of your time and effort to achieve the desired long-term goal

• Have you heard something to the effect that, ‘who are you when no one is watching’? This is where the rubber meets the road.  This is what is known as unseen effort.  It happens in private away from public view. 

• To continue the grind requires mental toughness to push through fatigue, fear, and the temptation to quit.

• What kind of habits are you developing?  What does your daily routine look like?  It is the daily grind that helps you develop skills and character. 

• To prevent being a casualty to the daily grind—determine what is your desired outcome? What is the goal? What is the purpose? Why are you doing this? If there is no set purpose. No goal. Your commitment will wane – you will lose focus. You will quit.  

• To continue the grind—you must have a target. A destination. 

I started my journey into Lent, because I wanted to try something different.  But now that I am approaching the halfway mark, I’m finding that I am losing steam.  Then this, a phrase from a John Maxwell training I took years ago came to mind— “it’s the grind that get’s them!”  Then it dawns on me—I did not define the purpose of this journey.  I did not set a specific goal.  I had not thought about the desired outcome. 

So, this leads me to this point: What do I want to get out of this?  Just to say that I, did it?  Or do I want to use this to time to really reset my mind, heart and spirit?

I do not want to live out a nominal Christianity. I do not want to be a mediocre believer.  I want to draw as intimately close to Jesus as I possibly can.  I don’t want to live on the fringes. I don’t want to be satisfied with wading in the kiddie pool of the Holy Spirit.  I want to go out into the depths of God’s love.  I want to follow in the footsteps of Jesus so closely that I am covered in his dust.  I want to speak like he speaks, to live like he lived, to do the things that he did.  To have a closeness to the Father like He had.  Will I ever be Jesus? No. But I can grind it out to be like him.  And that is what I want. That is what I am looking for.  That is what will help to keep me on this path day in and day out. 

What about you?  What do you want to see Jesus do in your life? Share in the comments.