You Can Be Great in 2008!

Happy New Year!
Are you ready to achieve greatness in your life? Do you truly want to be the Head and not the Tail? If so, then hopefully you have taken the first step I outlined yesterday (see December 31, 2007 post) and have given yourself and others a forgiveness treatment. Let the past be the past. It’s gone like 2007- there is absolutely nothing you can do to bring it back. It is time to forgive yourself and others. Let go of the emotional drama and baggage of the past that causes you to feel depressed, lonely, an underachiever, etc.

You are made for greatness because you are made in the image and likeness of God. Look around, do you see any junk that God has made? Everything has a purpose and an interrelationship in the universe. We as co-creators of God are charged to be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth.

Because we have the gift of imagination, we can visualize good as well as evil. The problem most of us have is that we sometimes choose to see ourselves through negative lens that diminish our self-esteem. Our greatest enemy is often ourselves! During the early 1900s Madame C. J. Walker became a millionaire because she took an idea, a dream, and relentlessly pursued it until her passion became her miracle.

Today is the only day you have. Write your vision down now and next to it write what steps you will take today to achieve it. If your vision is to lose weight, write down the healthy foods you will eat today. Visualize yourself saying “no” to that second piece of cheesecake and eating an apple instead. As you make it a normal part of your routine with daily exercise you will become stronger. Soon you will find that you don’t crave the cheesecake any longer and will choose an apple without any thought or reservation. This is a way of loving yourself and treating yourself like the king and queen you were created to be.

As God found Jacob in a desert land, he will find and keep you as the apple of his eye (Deuteronomy 32:10). Know that you are loved! I guarantee that if you draw near to God He will draw near to you (James 4:8). The sun arose today because you are loved. It was not a coincidence.

Stay Blessed!
Joyce

P. S.
I came across this video (“ebufford” youtube.com) that hopefully inspires you to greatness and to accomplish things of enduring value.