Preservation

My focus is on progressing me, my dreams, and my vision.  Quite honestly, I have encountered a drastic change since the beginning of my journey.  Daily I indulge in some sort of self-encouragement and daily I immerse myself in the battle of overcoming the mind.  The mind is where the battle is won, long before the flesh.  It is where we decide our capability and our future.  The mind is where we develop motivation, self-confidence, and a dream.  But we have to overcome the bad in order to achieve the good.

Tonight I was talking to my husband (who has been in Special Forces training) and he was explaining that when your mind comes against progress, it is actually a way of self preservation.  If we were still in the wild, battling off the elements, it would be in our best interest to find safety and quit far before we are out of energy.  It is this design that motivates us to find shelter and safety in the heat of the hunt. 

 Another perfect example of this is the cell phone alerting as it nears a dead battery.  You could have an entire hour left of power, yet it notifies you frequently of the coming end.  Interestingly enough, most phones are designed to have a feature that saves a tiny bit of power even after it shuts off in case you need to dial 911.    

This is self-preservation.  We desire to give up, we are told to give up, long before we meet our necessary end.  In order to reach our full potential we need to push beyond our panicky mind and realize our capability is more than our brain wants us to think.  We are no longer living in a survival world, we are living in an information world.  In order to succeed here we need to push beyond the fear and misperceived capability to our true potential.  It is there we will find our intended greatness.  It is in our weakness we will be strong.

"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak." Isaiah 40:29