I Challenge You

How do you react when faced with a challenge? Do you put off the task and hope it goes away? Do you jump in feet first, tackling every obstacle, knowing that you will overcome?
I recently came across a passage in a book I am currently reading that I believed was full of truth and reward concerning challenges. It says, in part:

"The challenges you are willing to face will rise in proportion to the character you are willing to develop. It is in this process of transformation (of building character) that we find the fuel to engage with confidence the opportunities placed before us." -Erwin McManus, Chasing Daylight

I've often heard, "the greater the challenge, the greater the reward." How do we face these great challenges, and how do we achieve these great rewards? We must be willing to engage in personal growth in order to build character, credibility, and integrity. As we grow as a person, the challenges we faced yesterday will be routine in the future. In comparison, the challenges that await for us tomorrow will lead to greater reward.

How do we experience personal growth? How do we strengthen our character to face the great challenges that reap the rewards we dream of? For many of us, we have to reprogram the way we think. We have to feed on the wisdom of the experience of others. More specifically, we have to be mentored by those that have had the success that we want to mimic.

We live in a time that we can be mentored by some of the greates leaders of all time as well as the most successful people of our time. We have to read! Don't like to read, download an audiobook or get the CD and listen to it in your car. There's a lot of wisdom available to us. You don't have to agree with everything you read, but I challenge you to continuously learn and better yourself.

A great place to start reading is the Bible! Who better to be mentored by than our Creator and Savior!? I have added a list to this blog of books I am currently reading, and books I have recently read and recommend. Please share with me your recomendations as well.

I encourage you to rise up to the challenges of everyday, to make todays challenge routine for tomorrow. I hope that you will find great reward in overcoming those challenges, but most of all, I hope that you find great confidence, wisdom, and character as you take on the opportunities that lie ahead.