Have you ever sat there and just wanted a different life so badly?
It’s not that you’re looking around at other people’s lives, wanting theirs. It’s not sin.
And it’s not that you’re not grateful and content with the life that you have, because you are, it’s just that there’s this nagging, pounding, gut-wrenching feeling in your gut, in your soul that says, “I know there’s more to life than this.”
I know there’s more out there.
I know there’s a different way.
I know there’s a better way than…fill in the blank.
…Struggling every month for my bills.
…Trying to get somewhere online, only to keep having a billion doors slam in my face.
…I know there’s a better way than trying every option out there, trying every training out there and it just…doesn’t…work.
It works for THEM, but for some odd reason, it never works for ME. 🤔 And I’m left with less money trying to better my family and go after my dreams.
…I know there’s a better way than working my guts out all the time just to MAKE ends meet, or worse, making great money and it all flies out the window. Bill here, bill there, everyone’s hand is out collecting for SOMEthing.
…I know there’s a better way than constantly feeling like I’m in a rat race. Constantly feeling like I’ll never be good enough to get ahead. Never be ENOUGH to do ANYTHING.
Never fast enough, someone beats me to an idea.
Never strong enough. I lose patience when they’re all still running.
I know how you feel.
Wanting something that feels like I’ll never get it. It’ll never come. I work my buns off, I sow my seeds for the right things, but it just never seems to come and I keep waiting and waiting and waiting. Obeying God, being patient, and it just drags on forever. I know what it’s like. I’ve been there.
I bought a house there. 😂 I planted a vineyard there. I made a home there for a long time. 💯 But still in the back of my mind, this nagging force to propel me forward and the idea that my dreams WEREN’T dead spurred me on.
At times, I would be running toward my dreams. Other times, crawling. Sometimes, laying flat on my belly not able to move but still FACING the right direction. That counts right?! 😁
I kept trying. I kept taking more steps, one after the other. Kept trying different things. I’d work a business for a year, see how it was going then decide if I would continue or not, but never seeming to find the right one.
I’ll never forget the time where in the business previous to my starting a blog, I was making the most sales on my team. I was selling the biggest packages right and left and everyone was wondering how I was doing it. I had cracked the code, so to speak, and my upline was so impressed with me.
One of my biggest upline people, a guy making $14k/month at the time, I dreamed of being able to have one THIRD of what he was doing. Just a little bit. I don’t need it all, just a little bit. A portion. So I could pay my bills and not have to worry about money as a single lady. To be able to BREATHE!
Not feeling like any minute a bill collector was gonna come and the other shoe would drop and I’d lose everything. Just peace. Stability. A future.
He pulled me aside and told me that I was headed for great things and I was so excited. If a man like THAT saw MY potential, surely I’d win, right???
And I did. I did win. I make a good living and life has far exceeded what ANYONE ever thought I could do in my entire life. 💯
But here’s the thing.
It wasn’t in HIS business.
Wait…what?! 🤔
I tried in his business and I feel like I reached the top of what I could do. I was making good money yes, but, it just wasn’t ME. It wasn’t a good fit for ME. I was doing well, successful by their standards. But, it just didn’t feel like it FIT.
Do you know what I mean?
Are you in a situation now where you just feel like it’s not the right fit? Like when you try on a dress and it looks beautiful on someone else but it just doesn’t look good on YOU. It’s not the right fit.
👉 Listen, God has a purpose for us all. A place in which we DO FIT. A place in which we feel comfortable, we feel at home. At peace. A place where we can be ourselves and be who He purposed us to be.
I can’t fit in their place and they can’t fit in mine. This place is only meant for me. Your place is only meant for you.
Where IS your place? Have you prayed about it? Have you sought God’s will and just got on the ground and BEGGED Him to show you where He wants you? Before you laugh, I do this almost DAILY!
Everyone else gets to see the top of my desk in my home, but I see the cords more than the top!
Why? Because I’m flat on the ground in humility, no pillow, no bed, just carpet, flat on my face asking God to show me what to do next.
And you know what?
He DOES!!!
He’s not a shy God. He’s not a quiet God you can stick in some closet and pull out when you want. He wants to be part of every inch of our lives. He wants to be…your best friend. How often do you talk to your best friend? Now…how often do you talk to God? It should be the same. 🥰
He will lead you. He will guide you. He will show you the way! Proverbs 16:1