Get Clarity

This morning as I reflected on the podcasts I listened to, something powerful settled into my spirit. The first message was about the mindset of nobody cares. Not in a cold or dismissive way, but in a freeing way. It reminded me that instead of spending my mental energy retelling my story or looking for sympathy about the adversity, the challenges, and the obstacles, my responsibility is simply to do the best I can with what I have.

The story they used was about Bill Parcells in the NFL. He had several star players injured and he called his CEO venting, asking how he was supposed to win with all his best players gone. The CEO responded with a truth that cuts right to the heart. He said nobody cares. Just coach your team.

When I heard that, something clicked. Everybody has adversity. Everybody has a story. Everybody has obstacles. And while my story matters, spending my time retelling the hardship does not move me forward. What moves me forward is stewarding what I do have. Showing up. Coaching the team in front of me. Using the tools available right now. That is where the growth is.

Then the second podcast shifted me toward goals and the magic of writing things down. The story was about a man who wrote his goals on a whiteboard before leaving home for work. Five years later he returned and realized that almost everything he had written had come true. Just the act of writing them down planted seeds that continued to grow. When he came back and saw them again, he could see how far he had traveled. There is something powerful about writing down what you stand for and then reflecting on it years later.

The last podcast brought it all together. It reminded me that in life everyone is influencing someone. We are all selling something in the way we communicate, in the way we show up, in the way we live. They focused on three principles. Attunement. Buoyancy. Clarity.

Attunement means tuning in to the people I am trying to help, trying to serve, trying to influence. Buoyancy means staying afloat even when objections and obstacles show up and try to sink me. And clarity means being able to clearly communicate what I stand for, what I believe in, and where I am going.

When I put all of that together this morning, I realized something important. I need to continue writing down what I stand for, who I am, and how I want to serve the world. I need to tune in. I need to stay afloat. I need to get clear.

And as I move forward, I want to keep my identity, my culture, and my principles in front of me. I want to write them down so that years from now I can look back and say look how far God has brought me. Look how much has grown. Look how I stayed in the fight. Look how the seed was planted and became something beautiful.