Whatever your hustle is, aka “purpose, vision, passion, and determined plan,” let nothing get in the way of making that happen. Be respectful, repetitious and responsive to every challenge that gets in the way as you seek and press towards what you want.
Visions don’t have limitations, but to the common man, your vision can look like a distraction or obstruction to the company agenda. When you’re working, balancing, and maintaining a 9-to-5 life while pursuing a vision that’s outside the defined lines given for you to color in, you have to steal time and manage resources while not appearing rude to the world around you.
Stealing? What do I mean?
I mean using your 24 hours of God-given resources and working around the box of the job. What about the 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., how about 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.? Yes, crazy as it may seem, that’s part of coloring outside the lines. That’s managing your resources on your own clock. Visions don’t kill you; they feed you until they (and you) are fulfilled.
Although hard, I’ve managed my own for years while allowing God to manage and lead me from one place to the next. While not easy, the reality is simple; it’s yours and nobody else’s. It’s going to take everything out of you but you were appointed to lead this mission. Your vision is what history was written for. Search the Bible and look upon all those that were given an appointment by God. Maybe to the common man, they were just ordinary people, “regular Joes” as I’ve heard someone say.
I’m definitely hard headed (as my father said I was), but my vision and call is so redundant in my head that it keeps me from conforming to what many deem as normal. I am not normal and never have been. I color way outside the lines and see my own lines and boundaries on the paper. If I’m not normal, then if your reading this, you most likely aren’t either.
Remember this scripture when you are battling daily while working on the vision you keep being sent to pursue.
Habakkuk 2:2-3
2 Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
As you continue to live, trust in the vision God has granted. Keep writing down the plan and do not get distracted. Continue to “pace yourself” forward knowing that His plan is greater than man’s criticism of your pursuit. Yes, I said “pace yourself.” I sincerely mean move forward but sometimes that pace will be that of a marathon runner, not a sprinter. You will get there because the vision is ordained by God. Others will laugh and they’ll talk but because what you’ve so dearly wanted and have been diligent at came from God, it’ll all reveal itself into a beautiful masterpiece.
KEEP COLORING OUTSIDE OF THE WORLD’S PREDETERMINED LINES!