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“When we focus on what something can become, we come alive.”

A thought by Ray Johnston (2014-05-13) from his book, The Hope Quotient:  Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same. (p.75). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Here is that word again, the word focus.   Keep reading if you want to come alive.

Earlier Ray said, “Show me a person who wishes he was in better shape physically but is focused on what his life is like right now, and he is probably discouraged. Yet all kinds of possibilities emerge the minute he focuses on what he could become in the future. Everything changes when we ask the question, ‘Am I able to see things not as they are right now but in terms of what they can become?’

“’I will make you become fishers of men,’ Jesus said, and by following through on His word, He changed, is changing, and will change the world. Forever.”

Ray later says, “It is never sudden or easy, but the road away from destructive directions always starts by getting someone liberated from what they are like right now.

“’What can this become?’ is the only question that leads a person to catch fresh vision. If you want people to have a better future, then help them focus on what things can become, not on what they are now. Fresh vision comes by asking, What can I become? What can this become? What can he or she become? What can our marriage become?

“Fresh vision leads to encouragement. Encouragement leads to hope. Hope leads to change. Change leads to better days ahead.”


And that is what we want and need, isn’t it?
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