The David Lee Martin Show - Holy Ghost Encouragement For Christian Creatives

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Why produce more if it only multiplies your misery?

Money is an amplifier, not the music.

The music is the tune that plays in your heart.

Scripture does not teach that money is evil. It highlights that the love of money opens the door to all kinds of trouble. However, the Good Book does point to the unredeemed and unhealed heart being evil and prone to deception. That is where the music plays, for good or for bad. All issues of life flow from the heart and the boundaries we choose are first drawn inwardly.

Work on your heart.

Work on developing your inner man or woman, not just your income.

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Fruitfulness and multiplication rest on the command of mastery. If we fail to subdue our propensity to excuse ourselves (“it’s not my fault, the woman told me to do it”, “It’s not my responsibility, the serpent told me to do it”) we’ll continue as we always were. Worse still, we’ll diminish in our own eyes and hide away in a fig leaf life.

Purposeful productivity is really the mastery of time and energy in positive productive ways that bless mankind.

At base, I think it boils down to simply saying yes to the things you know you need to say yes to, and no to the things you don’t.

It comes down to the mastery of that moment of decision.

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It is not the quantity of tasks that you accomplish that will set you apart.

It is not even doing many things right that will stand you before kings.

It is doing the right things with exceptional excellence that makes you remarkable.

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You have two choices today. Multiply your efforts or multiply your excuses. Generally, you will do one or the other.

Despite what the marketers might like to tell you, real results take real work, and making a dent in the world with your creativity takes work, sometimes a lot of it.

There are a million reasons, “why not”, but an even bigger reason why you MUST!

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We all have good days, and we have not so good. Occasionally we have something that could rightly be described as a bad day!

Our measure of good and bad are relative of course, and we could say much about perspective when discussing how we see and respond to the challenges we face.

However, this is not a discussion about perspective.

What I want to tackle here is how to wrestle a ‘bad’ day to the floor. A day when you feel zero motivation to makes forward strides. Even crawling an inch toward your goals may feel painful.

On those days, when inspiration is in short supply, and motivation is meh, I have my own palette of positive responses I choose from, depending how in-a-funk I feel...

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The creative life is not one that resides in the world of ideas, it lives and breathes in the realm of action. Application is where the rubber meets the road and visions become reality. It is no use to have a notion roll around in your skull endlessly without it somehow finding a vent of expression. Only in its outing can an idea find an audience. And with an audience it takes form.

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In the past, I would have equated creativity to many things. But simplicity and minimalism would not have been one of them.

The idea that somehow doing less and curtailing my creative impulses was foreign to me.

If it was there to do, I would do it. Every idea was somehow equal in my estimation as a route to explore.

I would never want to discourage your own exploration, but I have discovered one key truth that has multiplied my effectiveness and my own peace of mind.

Although every idea may be good, they are not all good for me right now...

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The tendency to be “ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth” (2Timothy 3:7) is a human condition not confined to Paul’s experience with early churchgoers.

How often are we looking for the next key to our breakthrough or the next word from God when we have not applied the previous one that was handed to us?

Or how often are we looking for the BIG thing that will rock our world, instead of taking a small step that nudges us toward completion?

Jim Rohn, a grandaddy of the self-development movement, defines success in this way:

Success is making steady progress toward your own personal goals.

Not necessarily glamorous, but true...

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How do you measure success?

That’s a brilliant question because the world is fiercely pursuing you, seeking to force its own elastic rules into your thinking.

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If only I was actually able to do seventeen things at once. So said the nutcase looking for an early grave.

Only one thing is needful. Only one thing, at one time, with all your heart and mind focussed upon it.

It can be personal, loving your wife or husband in tangible ways. It can be spending time with your kids and not two-timing them with your devices.

It can be a business related task.

Prayer of course. Wholehearted and unhindered by worries about ten other issues.

There’s a right time for everything, and when the time comes the gates should be locked to everything else so you can focus on ONE THING AT A TIME.