Quoting: C. S. Lewis. December 5, 2008
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“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already” – C. S. Lewis
This quote by C. S. Lewis has been consuming me for a few weeks now. The idea of living in manner that produces a quality in the world that you wish was a reality, is so simple that it can mind boggling. If you examine this in very simple situation the accuracy of this quote is evident.
Suppose I want a quality of exercise and fitness in my life, if I were to to start acting and living as an athlete and exercising daily then I would obtain a quality of exercise. By exercising and making it a habit my life I create the very quality of life that I desire. When we start living out the reality we long to see, that which previously did not exist, immediately has an opportunity to thrive in our daily lives. 
I want to know your thoughts on this. What qualities do you want to see become manifest in the earth, or in your life? If you, one person, started living your life as though your longings and dreams were realities, would you create a tipping point in the world that shift culture into a reality that has never existed before?
Maybe a better question would be, are your dreams the kind of dreams that could transform, reform, revolutionize, and bring life to humanity on a global level?
coffee with . . . Dan Craig November 8, 2008
Posted by Lucas Skrobot in Coffee, life, The Burn 24-7.Tags: Coffee, dreams, Focus, Music, The Burn 24-7
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Wednesday morning I got coffee with Dan Craig. Dan Craig is wonderfully skilled musician who all of you should know . . . well you should at least think about checking out his music.
In the midst of our conversation this particular thought came up: “if you are going to do something or be something, be the best at what you do. Put everything that you have into it. Never do anything halfway.” Often times committing to something and putting our all into it mean cutting other things out of our life. We so often try to hang on to two separate worlds, having our hands in many different pies, but there comes a day where you have to choose. Pumpkin or Apple pie? Left or right? Stay or go? It is not until we give out all and put everything we have into one of two dreams that our dreams are able to become a reality.
Dan Craig was going to med school and doing music on the side, but he had to make a choice between which one he wanted to pursue. He couldn’t have both worlds. He decided a year two ago that he was going to take a year and pursue music—his passion and dream. After a year he had another choice: back to school or stick with music. Dan kept school on the back burner as a back up plan. As I understand it, he chose to return to school. Now, after going back to school for year he is now taking another year off to chase this dream that pulls at the strings of his heart. At the end of this year he must decide once and for all whether he will return to medical school or take the plunge into music.
We are a generation that has our hands in so many different things that we do many different things fairly, but nothing excellently. We can function, but we don’t excel. We don’t excel because we don’t give ourselves fully over to one dream.
We essentially don’t commit to marry any one passion or dream—rather, we date around. Because of this we are left with mediocre lives full of greedy lustful desire for many dream, whoring our selves out to all of them, instead of having an abundantly life of excellence through marrying ourselves to one dream—one focus. We will not flourish until we choose which dream to pursue.
When we set our face, focus, and goal on one object so that we might be able to become the best there is we are able to break out the pull of gravity and we begin to not only excel but we begin to discover things that we never knew existed. Only once we dedicate our lives to one dream that our vision can grow and expand.
I have been holding onto multiple “dreams”. Excel as an assistant to a CEO of an up and coming Real Estate investment company ( investorloft.com )–which is anything but a dead end job—or turn the Nations of the world up through vertical worship, prayer, and the presence of God. Now, many Christians are called to transform their work places. But I have a choice. At the moment I work and only do a mediocre job because I’m taking all sorts of days off and short days for meetings, and BURNs, and taking weeks to almost entire months off to travel and contend for nations; by doing this I’m only giving 35% to my vision and dream that God has placed upon my heart—and there by failing to excel in either area. I need to choose one dream in order for either dream to survive.
Like Dan I have had a choice to make: a safe and respectable career, or a crazy and stupid dream. I have chosen the foolish thing, and I’m confident that Dan is going to ultimately choose his dream and calling of music over medical school.
Choose one dream and one focus. Be great at what you do.
