This weekend was such an amazing experience. Usually if I’m at a conference, I’m working. Either speaking, vendoring (yep that’s a word), executing a plan I’d been a part of, or just working behind the scene.

Rarely am I a participant but this weekend I was just that. One of the thousands of attendees for Pastor Taffi Dollar’s Radical Unfiltered Women’s Conference. If you are not familiar with her; her and her husband, Pastor Creflo Dollar are the head pastors of a mega church in Atlanta, GA. And mega it was. It was literally a campus.

If you’ve never visited one, it’s something to see as far as it’s size and sanctuary being set up like an auditorium. I know I know…many would never visit a mega church if they are one to “hate” them for some reason unknown to me. I’ll never understand why a Christian would hate a church with thousands of them. I thought the goal was to follow Christ. Ole well…anywho.

Well for me, attending this conference was definitely needed and necessary to my own journey. Often times, as a speaker or someone setting up events, afterwards I feel depleted and exhausted from the mental preparation and execution of it all. It is at that time that I’m also my weakest and most vulnerable.

Since I’m currently planning for our 2nd annual marriage retreat this summer, attending this one was the best decision. I was reminded how important it is to stay focused on His promise instead of the problem that I’m currently facing. It’s a process that we all have to endure to reach our dreams and fulfill our goals.

I just mentioned to someone today that when God shows us something, it’s ALREADY done. Once He’s revealed it, it’s done. All He needs us to do is to see the vision as He revealed it, hold it in our heart and mind, and execute it.

Yes! Things will happen to through you off track. That’s just life by design. Your confidence will waver. Your efforts will be chastised, degraded, and belittled. Your character will be attacked and ridiculed. You will incur some bumps and bruises. These things are guaranteed. Trust I know.

The key is to stay in the fight. Take a licking and keep on ticking! Don’t give up. Don’t give in. You will never know just how close you are to success. And even if you try something and it doesn’t work. I’m reminded by Bishop Jakes, “if it ain’t the thing, it may lead to the thing.”

Listen. If you are ever at a point of giving up, matter of fact, find that person before you get to that point. Lean on that person and let them know what you are dealing with. Be open and honest. And who ever you chose, needs to be able to snap you out of your feelings and push you back out the door to face your issue head on.

I can remember being picked on as a kid by a couple of sisters. Well it didn’t last long. The first time one of them punched me and I went into the house crying, my mom met me at the door. I told her what happened. And what do you think she said? She pushed me out the door, told me to go back outside, and fight. After the door closed, she locked it. What choice did I have, but to fight.

And that’s what you have to do. Get out of your feelings and FIGHT. Get your head back in the game and handle your business. Don’t give yourself an option. There are no options! Well you can have options if you want options baby (imagine me pacifying you). Listen! You only have two options, ever. And that’s to win or to win. Period!

Put your blinders on and stay focused on the prize.

Thanks for your attention. Remember you are your own competition.

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