What a privilege it is to be able to run, afford a gym membership, buy healthy food, pay your bills, walk on your own legs, see with your own eyes, think clearly, work every day, and push your body to become stronger.
Never take these blessings for granted.
Take care of what God already gave you. The home, the car, your body, your peace, the little things. Because if you can’t appreciate what you have now, how can God trust you with more? Your next blessing starts with how you handle your current one.
I fully understand why David prayed for God to create in him a clean heart and renew a right spirit within him. Sometimes, the greatest battle is not with the people around us but with what is happening inside us. You can have a good heart and still need God to work on your attitude, your thoughts, your reactions and the things you struggle to control.
Mark Cuban shares his advice for people stuck working a 9 to 5 job and living paycheck to paycheck
“Don't go get the best job because that's the hardest to find. Don't get the perfect job because those are hard to find. Just get a job”
“When you have a job, just work to be really good at it”
“You have to be brutally honest with yourself because nobody looks at the job they're doing and says, ‘I suck.’ They're like, ‘Oh, I'm great at this’”
“When you're really good at something, that's when doors do open up”
“Even in the worst possible job, you could be working at a McDonald's, at a Dairy Queen but there's a path”
“The fact that you can show a future employer that you moved up the line and then when they asked for a reference, they said, ‘Steven was incredibly valuable. We're really sorry that he's leaving. We tried to keep him.’ That's what you need”
“That can happen in 2-3 years. It's just most people don't want to think like that”