E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

In business, as in life, our success depends on having the patience to endure the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can and wisdom to know the difference.

The amazing thing is that the more we change things that we can change, the more things we will be able to change in the future, but the more we focus on things that we cannot change the more things will happen to us and fewer things we will be able to control at all.

So, the starting point is to give up any illusion of control and to realise that there is actually very little we can change at any point in time. Yet, that should not render us powerless, but rather empowered.

We cannot change the past, that’s obvious. But we also, cannot change the future, not directly. We can only change the present in a such a way that the future is impacted.

We cannot change others, not directly. We can only change ourselves and thus change the way others react to us.

The only thing we can control is our own attitude/behavior and even that only right now. Even there we occasionally lose control. This is why we need to learn to apologize quickly, and to move on. Life is to short to be stuck in the past or in the future, it must be lived right now.

Even the Bible calls God: “I AM”, that is ever present. Dwell in the present, that is where God is. That is where the pursuit of happiness is. That’s where all action happens and all history is made. That’s where the foundations for the future are laid.

God gives you the present. Will you accept it.

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