Hot or Cold

I had a couple of conversations in one day that I thought I was the motivating person in the conversation.

It wasn’t until shortly after those conversations that I realized God was laughing at me. It wasn’t that I did anything that was funny, but the things I was saying God was sitting there wondering if I was going to look in the mirror because the things I was saying to someone else I should have been saying to myself.

I was talking about working hard, having the ability to make an impact, to be better than I was, to not quit because if we want to be great at something we need to be able to work at it, to grind, to go get it every day and work towards your goals no matter what that took?

I was driving home last night from a volleyball game with my daughter and immediately God wanted to know why I’d give someone advice when I was facing my own commitment issues to the goal that I wanted.

I grew up playing basketball, it was the game that I loved. No, I didn’t love the game that’s the wrong way to say it….I L-O-V-E-D the game.

Every Motivating Thought

There are days that I find myself wanting to find videos to watch to find that motivating word that someone might put out. Something that resonates with me that helps me get ready for the day or something that fires me up.

That always used to be something that had to do with sports.

It was mostly basketball and baseball growing up and while I’m still a huge baseball guy, the motivation no longer comes from a sport but from a pastor like Robert Morris (Gateway Church), or Steven Furtik (Elevation Church).

Recently I’ve been watching a guy by the name of Inky Johnson.

He’s a former football player at the University of Tennessee, with aspirations of playing professionally, before a freak incident during a play ended that dream altogether. He had every reason to be mad at that dream crashing down around him but what didn’t leave him is his passion for life and the lessons he’s learned that he shares with athletes or while speaking to different groups or churches.

While I can’t relate to completely losing the use of my right arm the way he did, the way he speaks and how he gets fired up is what I relate to the most.

However, those aren’t the only three that I watch and try to learn from or find something motivational within.