Unlimited!
What comes to mind when you think about the word unlimited? Infinite potential, limitless possibilities, inexhaustible supply of solutions, boundlessness – those are the things I think of.
“Anything your mind can conceive, it can achieve.”
I have heard this phrase, or something similar, hundreds of times throughout my studies on self-development. I suppose there is some truth in that, but I don’t believe it to be a whole truth. You see, that’s one of the enemy’s greatest tactic; he uses partial truth – just enough to give some validity to the concept – to delude you from the absolute truth. This, in essence is why I failed on the self-development path for far too long.
In my lifetime, I have attempted a couple of paths to financial freedom only to find out they were traps, set by the enemy, to keep me in bondage. If you’re good at being a stockbroker and commodities dealer, there are some fantastic rewards. You meet a variety people from around the country who pay you to handle their investments. If you enjoy these careers, there is great potential to earn a worthwhile income. And, as long as you have your clients’ best interest at heart, you provide a great service.
My experience as a broker was less than fulfilling. I hated calling strangers and asking them to believe in the product I was offering. A deeper truth: I didn’t believe in my ability to choose good stocks, and I’m quite sure those doubts were conveyed over the phone. I hated watching people around me flipping their clients from one stock to another because the broker needed to make a paycheck at the end of the month. The worst part was how I hated myself at the end of the day. I stuck with it far too long, because I kept hearing how practice and persistence would make all the difference. Needless to say, I didn’t go on to become a great investment banker. Instead, I left the industry feeling like a failure, as if I wasn’t good enough, and there was something wrong with me.
Failure As Life Lessons
It took a long time for me to see, but the experience of being a bad stockbroker offered many life lessons. First, I was not created to be good at everything. Second, if I want to have a great investment portfolio, then I need to find someone who enjoys that kind of work and puts my best interest ahead of their own. The third lesson: there are careers more suited to my personal strengths (the talents and skills God gifted me with when He created me, Exodus 31:6). Once I was able to understand the life lessons contained within the experience, that’s when I realized I didn’t fail at being a broker. In essence, what I really failed at was living out my authenticity.
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What comes to mind when you think about the word unlimited? Infinite potential, limitless possibilities, inexhaustible supply of solutions, boundlessness – those are the things I think of.
“Anything your mind can conceive, it can achieve.”
I have heard this phrase, or something similar, hundreds of times throughout my studies on self-development. I suppose there is some truth in that, but I don’t believe it to be a whole truth. You see, that’s one of the enemy’s greatest tactic; he uses partial truth – just enough to give some validity to the concept – to delude you from the absolute truth. This, in essence is why I failed on the self-development path for far too long.
In my lifetime, I have attempted a couple of paths to financial freedom only to find out they were traps, set by the enemy, to keep me in bondage. If you’re good at being a stockbroker and commodities dealer, there are some fantastic rewards. You meet a variety people from around the country who pay you to handle their investments. If you enjoy these careers, there is great potential to earn a worthwhile income. And, as long as you have your clients’ best interest at heart, you provide a great service.
My experience as a broker was less than fulfilling. I hated calling strangers and asking them to believe in the product I was offering. A deeper truth: I didn’t believe in my ability to choose good stocks, and I’m quite sure those doubts were conveyed over the phone. I hated watching people around me flipping their clients from one stock to another because the broker needed to make a paycheck at the end of the month. The worst part was how I hated myself at the end of the day. I stuck with it far too long, because I kept hearing how practice and persistence would make all the difference. Needless to say, I didn’t go on to become a great investment banker. Instead, I left the industry feeling like a failure, as if I wasn’t good enough, and there was something wrong with me.
Failure As Life Lessons
It took a long time for me to see, but the experience of being a bad stockbroker offered many life lessons. First, I was not created to be good at everything. Second, if I want to have a great investment portfolio, then I need to find someone who enjoys that kind of work and puts my best interest ahead of their own. The third lesson: there are careers more suited to my personal strengths (the talents and skills God gifted me with when He created me, Exodus 31:6). Once I was able to understand the life lessons contained within the experience, that’s when I realized I didn’t fail at being a broker. In essence, what I really failed at was living out my authenticity.
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