If you want to walk, your legs have to move in the same direction to get you to walk.

If you want to eat, your jaw requires up and down motion to chew the food so it can nourish you.

If you want to write a book, you have to put words together to make sentences that carry a thought all the way through.

If you want to sleep, you need to close your eyes to fall asleep.

The results you search for require a team of actions, that may or may not include others, to accomplish the goal.

But of course, when push comes to shove, you still must stay on your toes to keep moving forward. Time doesn’t stand still and neither do goals wait. If you desire to be great, you want to play as a team.

The K.I.S.S. ~ Play as a T.E.A.M.!

Whether your team includes you and your dream, or many players with a defined goal, playing as a T.E.A.M. helps to eliminate the mess and the stress. No more gaps between your time and mind. That check up from the neck up starts when you play as a T.E.A.M.!

1. TRANSCEND – Go or be beyond limits; or range of; surpass; excel. Don’t hold yourself back. Get out of your own way. See the possibilities and go make it happen.
2. EDIFY – Build or construct; encourage, improve, or teach (especially intellectually, morally, or spiritually); benefit; favor; persuade; convince. Keep the building process going as it moves you forward. Change your thoughts, change your mind. Encouragement goes a long way. Don’t think about persuading others. Lean into what God has designed specifically for you!
3. ABIDE – To bear patiently; to tolerate; to endure; to sustain; to submit to; to remain or continue in a state. Life is going to get rough more than it will be easy. You are going to have to endure. And that endurance will come from the strength of your failures. So abide. Be patient and sustain what God is doing in and through you.
4. MASTER – To overcome the difficulties successfully; to become master, expert, or highly skilled. Think of this as becoming the master of your trade; fulfilling your destiny using the gifts and talents God gave you. But that means to be highly skilled, you have to work at it. Nothing happens by chance; it’s a choice.

CHALLENGE: How is your mind? Are you working against your thoughts? Or are your thoughts serving you?

CAUTION: As you go through the motions, don’t make assumptions. You have a choice. Choose wisely.

CELEBRATE: And always make room to celebrate your ups and downs. Because what goes down eventually has to come back up. Life is an adventure. Have fun in the midst of it all.

Don’t let time be another excuse to keep you from being who you are becoming.

“Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!“