Ever drive home from work, thinking ‘what in the world did I accomplish today? Ever questioned your efforts at the church, thinking you aren’t making a significant difference?  Ever feel like it’s time to get your focus and passion back?

If you’re anything like me – wasted time, money or focus just simply GRATES away at you.  I love investing time into something worthwhile.  I’m not afraid to spend money on someone or something of value.  I treasure opportunities to sow my focus wholeheartedly into something of worth.

I want to be profitable.  In all things.  My time.  My talks.  My talents.  My relationships.  And when I’m not… you better believe I know it.  I feel it.  I’m tormented by it.

The other day I was reading Proverbs 21:5, which tells us;

“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty”

This really spoke to me in a fresh way.  If I want to be profitable in all these things, then I’ve got to have plans, and I’ve got to be diligent in seeing those plans through until completion.

Sitting on a couch daydreaming of a better life won’t do it.  Even having a journal chock full of exciting dreams, but no plans to see them come to life isn’t enough.

I’ve got to be strategic.  And I’ve got to be diligent when I come up against resistance. Tiredness is my enemy.  Negative voices are my adversaries.  Procrastination is my nemesis.  I must push through my natural resistance factors if I’m going to be profitable.

How excited do we get when we are in the zone, kicking butt and taking names?  What if we could translate that passion into the rest of our lives, and let that passion push us to be profitable in ALL things?

Sounds like a good plan to me…