Do you ever get the sense that you’re not living up to all that you could be? That you’re not reaching your full potential? Or are you obsessed with helping your child or grandchild reach their full potential, and you're worried that they're not there?
That’s important to me – especially now that I have reached the half-century mark in life. I want to be the kind of person who lives to my full potential and inspires and equips others to do the same.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
His point was that it doesn’t matter where I came from, what circumstances I was born into, what my parents or grandparents did or didn’t do. It is up to me to be the best me that I can be.
Do you or someone you know feel stuck in the past – past decisions that they’ve made, or past decisions that others have made for them? The good news is that you can be free from all of that!
Lincoln became President at the age of 52; and at the age of 56, he died. When I think about his age, and what he accomplished as President, his words at the age of 40 are so profound – “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
I’ll be 50 in January 2011, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how much “life” I’ve enjoyed in my years so far. I feel really great about the life God has given me – about the family I’ve been blessed with and the work that I love to do. But I know I haven’t lived up to my full potential yet. I’m on a journey to live my life’s purpose, achieve my dreams, and live up to my full potential. I hope you’ll come along with me. We don’t know how many years we have left, do we? So, we’ve got to make the rest of our years count, regardless of what they may be… and in so doing, we can make the most difference in our world today!!!
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