Here is a short exert taken from my new book coming out next month…called “Life Rules”

Don’t get lazy. Keep yourself growing and exploring in life. Live a life that makes a difference, doing things that make a difference, with people who want to make a difference. Don’t sit around waiting for someone to clear a way for you. Go where others are not willing to go by being the initiator of your purpose. Don’t let procrastination and indecision control your life. Do something everyday that climbs over more obstacles so that you are one step closer to your goals and mission.

An aid group in South Africa sent a message to missionary and explorer David Livingston.  It said, 

“Have you found a good road to where you are?” 

To this, Livingston replied, 

“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all.” 

Never sit on the bus waiting for someone to take you somewhere, pull out the tools God has given you and start to make a path. I used to have a sign on my desk with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that read,

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

God has called us to be trailblazers, who are venturing into uncharted territories. When you are living as a trailblazer there is no time to sit and squander our purpose. We are CALLED to be those that are squeezing out every ounce of LIFE we have been given.

Be careful not to live empty of purpose and die full of unused potential. The goal of life is to live full and then die empty by giving everything we have. While others are sitting around wasting their potential, be someone who is living with purpose. Don’t be a couch zombie watching T.V. all night, live fully alive making a difference with significance.

Always be looking for ways to grow in your purpose. Never think you have arrived and know it all. Those that stop growing, stop going! And when you stop going you stop growing! Surround yourself with opportunities that will stretch you out of your comfort zone. All growth takes place outside the comfort zone. If you never place yourself in situations that are bigger than you, you will never grow into your potential. Coach John Wooden said,

 “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”