{"id":1602,"date":"2010-03-07T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2010-03-07T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:33:16","slug":"today-the-gathering-%e2%80%93-accept-no-mediocre-life-i-will-seize-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-%e2%80%93-accept-no-mediocre-life-i-will-seize-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering \u2013 Accept No Mediocre Life: I Will Seize Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"For those who think that the Scriptures are antiquated, out of touch, and too hard to understand, how about this one: \u201cIf you wait for perfect conditions, you\u2019ll never get anything done.\u201d\u00a0 How much more practical can you get than that?<\/p>\n

Today at The Gathering<\/a> we talked about how to see and seize opportunities, understanding that all possibilities come cloaked as problems worth solving.\u00a0 We talked about the ways in which you find opportunities using the story of David out of the Old Testament.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing how these historical references and stories so accurately describe life in the real world.<\/p>\n

For example, for there to be an opportunity there has to be crisis<\/strong>; a huge crisis.\u00a0 David had his Goliath.\u00a0 You might say there would\u2019ve been no David without Goliath.\u00a0 You could even say that Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard successful people whose names you would know say, \u201cThat bankruptcy was the best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThat firing was the best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because in the midst of a crisis is an opportunity <\/strong>to re-enter life at a different place.<\/p>\n

The second part of opportunity is understanding your<\/strong> unique serving proposition<\/strong>.\u00a0 In other words, how are you able to bring something different and unique to the table in the form of a solution?\u00a0 We also talked about the importance of the third step.\u00a0 And that is, being prepared.\u00a0 When I was a kid, I was a Cub Scout. \u00a0Their motto is, \u201cBe prepared.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that really brought me to the main point of our talk today and that is, trying is woefully overrated, and training is woefully under used.<\/strong> Trying is one thing, but training is altogether another thing.<\/p>\n

Trying to be happily married is one thing.\u00a0 Knowing how to be happily married is totally another. That\u2019s the motivation behind our live event coming up April 30th<\/sup> called \u201cMaking Marriage Fun Again.\u201d <\/a> It\u2019s to provide concentrated, practical, real-world training to good people who are trying to grow amazing marriages<\/p>\n

Without training things become hard and difficult.\u00a0 Good people fail, not because they\u2019re not motivated;they just simply don\u2019t know how.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know how to be married, all the good intentions in the world won\u2019t make you happily married.<\/p>\n

Much like anything else in our culture, we focus so much more on the hunt and the acquisition rather than the possession of a thing.\u00a0 This is true in marriage.\u00a0 The average marriage in America costs between $30,000 and $45,000.\u00a0 I see it over and over again: renting tuxes, limo\u2019s, cakes, flowers, receptions; all this focus and all this money on getting<\/em> married and no money, focus, or training on how to be<\/em> married.\u00a0 And don\u2019t forget.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be married a whole lot longer than it takes to get married, believe it or not.<\/p>\n

Here is the point I tried to drive home today: the will to win at anything \u2013 marriage, life, relationships, or a career \u2013 must be preceded by the will to prepare to win.\u00a0 So how are you training and preparing yourself for the challenges in your life? <\/strong> Maybe your marriage is close to ending.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019ve even thought about divorce.\u00a0 How about trying some training before you give up on the most important relationship in your life?\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019re ready to quit your job and walk away because the fruit just hasn\u2019t been there.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been trying really hard, but how about training?\u00a0 Are you getting smarter?\u00a0 Are you looking at life any differently?\u00a0 Are you engaging new technologies?<\/p>\n

This could be your day of breakthrough.\u00a0 But you\u2019re going to have to stop trying, and start training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who think that the Scriptures are antiquated, out of touch, and too hard to understand, how about this one: \u201cIf you wait for perfect conditions, you\u2019ll never get anything done.\u201d\u00a0 How much more practical can you get than that? Today at The Gathering we talked about how to see and seize opportunities, understanding … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering \u2013 Accept No Mediocre Life: I Will Seize Opportunities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}