There are few things in life that will make a greater difference or affect change like thanksgiving and gratitude.

If you want to change a relationship, a conversation, an atmosphere or environment, or even your own outlook on a situation, express love and gratitude!

It’s Thanksgiving here, and today, I want to challenge you to shift your life and your leadership. Ready to see what I mean?

Thanksgiving: It really is a formula for a better world!

• Daily Journal!

• What 10 things are you grateful for each day?

7 Categories In Which To Focus On Being Grateful:

• Relationship with God

Use This As A Starting Place:

(Psalm 103)

1. I am thankful FIRST to God because He is God

Sharing a few nuggets of wisdom (from experience) during this special week, and special edition of our Monday Mastery. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

So many people find themselves stuck, disillusioned, unmotivated, and prematurely giving up on their dreams.

Why is this?

Think about this before we answer that: do you measure your success against the progress you’ve made, or against the perfect ideal you have in mind for it to eventually be? Your answer could be your hurdle.

It is all about staying out of the GAP! That’s what we’re talking about in this week’s episode.

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IDEAL:

• PICTURE or VISION of a possible future

ACTUALS:

• These represent our actual achievements, accomplishments, and state in life

Here is where the breakdown happens

• I leave my starting point with specific goals in mind

This thrusts us into a deeply negative attitude and mindset: 

• Failure

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A BETTER WAY

• What if you measured yourself against PROGRESS instead?

• Success

How Do We Do This?

• You become intentional about having a positive focus

Retrain your brain, and get out of the GAP, once and for all.

You’ve heard it said “practice makes perfect”, but is that only true in the world of entertainment? Let’s take a look at how rehearsing our vision and giving performance life to the dreams we hold may be the one step we’ve been missing in connecting to our future. Tune in today and find out more about what it really means to rehearse in preparation for your big break.

We’re continuing our discussion on The Lens of Grace with my dear friend, Scott Prickett. He’s back in the studio this week as we close out our second part of this two-part interview.

I am so grateful to have Scott in the studio for this timely and powerful topic of discussion.

We are talking about his newest book, and how you can begin seeing life through the lens of grace.

I’m honored to have you with us – let’s get started!

About Scott:

Scott sometimes says he went from practicing law to practicing grace, but that’s too simple to describe the journey. Scott has been a middle manager, tank commander, business owner and practicing attorney. He often says the education he picked up along the way was better than any of the degrees he earned.

Scott seeks to invest in people to facilitate their Kingdom purpose beyond the walls of a church. He wants to equip and release people in their identity, purpose and ability to raise others to do the same.

Scott will tell you he is likely one of the more non-traditional pastors you will come across but not for the sake of being edgy. He deeply believes the relationship God wants with us and for us with each other is real and raw and completely transparent. That means the polite, religious veil we sometimes opt for is sacrificed for the life that is available in authentic relationship.

Scott was raised in church, rebelled and raised “a bunch of hell” for many years, then was ruined by the love and grace of Jesus Christ. Scott says about his relationship with Jesus, “He wrecked me and I have never been the same since.”

Currently, Scott serves as the Executive Director of Fellowship Of The Sword and as an elder and pastor at Heritage Community Church.

In last week’s Monday Mastery, we discussed the importance of writing down your goals. This critical practice, however, cannot stop there. In order for us to seal our commitment to our dreams, we must also – daily – read and review them. Consistently reminding ourselves of our possibility and potential consistently pushes us to make it happen. By reviewing our goals (morning and night) and making it a solidified part of our routine, I promise you, it will change your life.

How do you see yourself? How you see YOU is a really big deal. How you view others in your life determines the quality of relationships and outcomes you have.

Today, I am incredibly excited to introduce you to one of my closest friends: Scott Prickett.

We are talking about his newest book, and how you can begin seeing life through the lens of grace.

I’m honored to have you with us – now let’s get started!

About Scott:

Scott sometimes says he went from practicing law to practicing grace, but that’s too simple to describe the journey. Scott has been a middle manager, tank commander, business owner and practicing attorney. He often says the education he picked up along the way was better than any of the degrees he earned.

Scott seeks to invest in people to facilitate their Kingdom purpose beyond the walls of a church. He wants to equip and release people in their identity, purpose and ability to raise others to do the same.

Scott will tell you he is likely one of the more non-traditional pastors you will come across but not for the sake of being edgy. He deeply believes the relationship God wants with us and for us with each other is real and raw and completely transparent. That means the polite, religious veil we sometimes opt for is sacrificed for the life that is available in authentic relationship.

Scott was raised in church, rebelled and raised “a bunch of hell” for many years, then was ruined by the love and grace of Jesus Christ. Scott says about his relationship with Jesus, “He wrecked me and I have never been the same since.”

Currently, Scott serves as the Executive Director of Fellowship Of The Sword and as an elder and pastor at Heritage Community Church.

Write the vision and make it plain… Do those words sound familiar? Even in today’s digital age, there is tremendous and effective power in physically writing down our dreams, visions, goals, and ideas. The power of writing it down is so often untapped, and today I’m going to explain the importance of taking that extra step. Put your ideas and goals on paper, and see how it transforms the process of making it happen.

Are you comfortable? If your answer was yes, I want you to pay close attention to the program today. We’re going to challenge you to really look at your life, potential, and progress.

There is no doubt life deals circumstances and situations we did not ask for or deserve.

If you’ve lived any length of time, you’ve no doubt experienced one or more things that set you back, brought you great pain, or at the very least, slowed you down for a bit.

There are times in our lives when we are presented with opportunities to overcome, to reset, to re-evaluate.

STUFF will happen. The question is, “How Will You Respond”?

I want you to find encouragement and hope as we talk about not settling for something meant to be temporary.

Speed Dial 2

Have you ever thought, “I wish there was some way for me to have an app-like dashboard for my most frequently visited websites”?

Enter SPEED DIAL 2.

I open my browser and instantly see graphical dashboard with ALL my most important websites.

This is a crazy time saver, and a real joy to use.

If you spend any time online, and if you use Google Chrome Browser, check out SpeedDial2 at https://speeddial2.com/

Things to Consider:

• Nothing is final

Whether you’re reading books, newspapers, or magazines, watching television or videos, or listening to radio or other programs, what you’re taking in is going to set the gravitational pull to which you develop a mindset and focus in. Take control of your focus, take control of your attitude and your thought process, and start steering yourself toward the positively possible. Tune in today to find out more.