“Jeff hit me up with a twit said what you waiting on? When you gon drop that next [blog] __ you takin long!”
I’ve heard it said that as you get older you start to worry less about what people do. I’m starting to realize how true that is. I spend far less time concerning myself with the little plays people are running around me. I don't want to be at the line of scrimmage adjusting my plans like Peyton Manning. I am tending to focus more on what I’m going to do, rather than what people have done and are doing.
Not too long ago, as my office has been influx. I asked one of the guys that had been around here for the longest what the key to his success is? With people leaving left and right, people worrying about their jobs and contracts etc. After we had finished talking about fishing and about how much I understand my dad and his friends desire to go fishing so often differently now that I’m a father. He told me”….well you know Reg, I just keep a level head. I don’t get too excited about whatever happens. And I give em what they want. When they change their mind and want something different, I just give it em to the way they want it.” Thanks John.
When you are younger you seem to be less aware of the limitations of your locus of control. By that I mean you can only control so much of what goes on around you and what happens to you. What’s yours to control is your response to those happenings.
But this isn’t about what you do, as much as it about what you shouldn’t do; worry. Not to say that you shouldn’t be proactive and create realities but the things that we tend to worry about are usually beyond our control.
And those things we can’t control often come at the intersections of our faith.
But that’s what faith is all about:
• Believing that the things we cannot control are under God’s control.
• Knowing that they will ultimately work out for our betterment.
