The Power of the Pattern
How to determine the patterns that dictates the direction of our lives and is it possible to change them.
We have been doing our life normally in a pattern that has gotten some of us some amount of
success. We have come up with ways to
manage our work and play to be consistent in how we do things. But are we going in the direction we are wanting to go in.
For the most part these patterns seem
to work fine, but what if we want to grow. What patterns do we need to change or add to
move us further ahead.
You cannot believe your way out of problems that were created by patterns of behavior. Patterns that seem to worked so well in the past that do not seem to be working today.
One pattern that is so important is the way we think. Do we still have old thinking in how to do something. We live in a world that seems to be flying by pretty fast now with all the technology improvements. And yet we seem to still have some old thinking about things. I am not talking about good standards that are tried and true but just in general ways we do things such as:
The faith to step out is worthless without the faith to stick it out. What holds us back from stepping into something new and then staying there when some little set back may occur. We do have to have something to stand on when we step out. There will always be a little "pain" in stepping out of our comfort zone, but it has a purpose. When pain has a purpose it will produce something new in us.
To produce something new we may have to be pruned a little. And I know NO one wants to be pruned. LOL This may come through circumstances or times of waiting. We may be tested and tried to see if we have the faith to stick it out.
Life sometimes seems to be random but there is a pattern. The pattern is not chasing after every little thing that comes to us, but being consistent with what we know is true. We may have to change the way we think about things such as how we do business or how we relate to people.
Is our thinking about things keeping us in that old way of doing things. This reminds me of a tape I listened to years ago about change. It talked about farmers in past days that farmed pretty much the way their fathers farmed. Then one day they saw some of their fellow neighbor farmers were putting lights on their tractors so they could plow at night. "That is not the way I will do that" they said. Why would I want to work when it is dark. So they did not embrace the change and later on their neighbors were producing huge crops and making much more money, and they were still struggling to get by.
This also reminds me of a time when I was talking to a lady that had a printing business. I was sharing about how people were getting their printing done on the web and being able to do more business by making that option available. She pretty much told me she was not going to learn how to do things on the internet and it would never work. Well we know how that story ended.
to be continued.............
