Its September 17th are you still on track with your goals?

JanMags, Thank you. Most days I am. I've come to the relization that if I spend too much time at my own (pity) parties I may as well curl up and die. And I'm not ready for that yet. I just have this gut feeling that I'm not finished on this earth yet. I came through a storm, literally. I may tell that story one of these days. I read this "story" you can call it, yesterday about a boy who swears that he literally wills things to himself. It is along the smae lines of that "Secret" phenomena that has hit in the last year so. I read the story straight through and I asked myself if I believed it. The way they hyped it, I would say no I don't believe it but I wonder if we're not repelling money, success, love, whatever, by how we view these things. I haven't come to a conclusion in my mind yet but I think there may be some truth to the hype but I don't think it is the "hype" that makes things "come" to us. What I mean is, I don't think things just "come" to us because we will it to happen or by visualizing it. I think that there is a certain amount of "luck" but mostly I think it has a lot to do with how we work for the things we desire. I don't even know if I'm making any sense here. I do thing that we have to believe that things the we desire we will receive if we work for it and believe that we can get it. I think we have to be positive. I guess that is what it all boils down to. Thomas Edison was quoted as saying, "nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's NOT the place to become discourages." He was also quoted as joking when questioned about the numbr of times he "failed" at inventing the light bulb: "I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won't work." And my favorite: "Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." I said something similar to someone just the other day. To tell you the God's honest truth...I'm AFRAID to give up. I say all that to say, don't give up. You can't give up. You're NOT ALLOWED to give up!

wow. thank you for this. to be honest i have been wanting to give up on my dreams for some time. i needed this reminder today. you know what, it's funny, every time i want to give up, i get messages like this. kind of like telling me that the road will be long and hard but you'll get there. and for several days now, every time i feel like throwing everything out of the window, the song in the animated version of Joseph the Dreamer (you know better than i) starts to play. gudness, God is sending me a clear message here. i'm just really weak sometimes. but really, thank you for this message today. maybe these messages are what i need everyday to juet pull through.

Jan, You're welcome! :-) I'm reading this book right now for a Bible study course that I'm taking at my Church called, "The Bait of Satan" by John Bevere. I'm only at chapter 4 but ever so often I notice that the author writes at the end of a paragraph..."Hear what the Spirit is saying." Now I say to you, "hear what the Spirit is saying." Lorna(lcecelia)

Then maybe you had a 2 month goal or even a 6 month goal...or longer. Don't lose site of your objective...to be debt free!! The important thing is to not give up AND to not be too hard on yourself for miscalculating how much time you needed to accomplish a certain task.

And that does happen. Then as you are doing, you are finding ways to work around the road blocks. I know it gets frustrating, but then again it wouldn't be as sweet if it were easy.

These things do happen. We just have to deal with it and get right back on track. I did that when I specifically took a week off work to get organized and figure out what I need to do to finally succeed on the internet. However my brother was in the hospital and I spent some time visiting him. So that plan more or less went out the door. What can we do?