Isaiah 54:2-3 (NKJV) “Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes. 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
Every acorn doesn’t become an oak tree, but every acorn does have the potential to become an oak tree, and what it’ll take for this transformation to occur has to be cultivated. Although every acorn has the potential to be an oak tree, to most people it’s seen just as an acorn. We all have potential to grow and reach our full potential, but as with the acorn, we will never reach our potential if we’re not cultivating what will make this happen. How do we cultivate our potential?
Frist of all you must start. Decide today what must be done. – Job 22:28 (NIV) “What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.”
Start small. – Zechariah 4:10 (NLT) “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin”
Matthew 13:31-33 (NLT) “Here is another illustration Jesus used: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed planted in a field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but it becomes the largest of garden plants; it grows into a tree, and birds come and make nests in its branches.”
The key is in doing it every day. – The truth is that most of the significant things in life aren’t standalone events but rather the sum of all the moments when we chose to do things 1 percent better or 1 percent worse. Aggregating these marginal gains makes a difference. There is power in small wins and slow gains. Aggregation of Marginal Gains? It means the identification of several areas in which you can make small gains, which all add up to something much greater. While most people look for a few big improvements, usually without success, a wise person will look for a lot of small, even seemingly insignificant, areas of life to act and improve on. A small change can result into a big change. In the beginning, there is basically no difference between making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse. But as time goes on, these small improvements or declines compound and you suddenly find a very big gap between people who make slightly better decisions daily and those who don’t. For example, if you decided to write a book and write one page per day over a period of year, you would have written 365 pages. If you decided to read one chapter of the Bible per day, over a year, you would have red 365 chapters. By reading four chapters of the Bible per day, you will read through the whole Bible in 365 days.
When we look at what research says about becoming better at something, two pieces of evidence stand out. Firstly, we must have clarity on what our goals are, and where we want to go or what we want to become. Secondly, it is deliberate practice. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good practice and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent. This can be a difficult concept to appreciate in daily life. We often dismiss small changes because they don’t seem to matter very much in the moment.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gough