The Momentous Gaining Zone prt. 1

We all differ when it comes to our growth strategies.  I tend to take the “Muscle Confusion” perspective.  I constantly shock my daily life by pushing for more… and more… and more.  This keeps me almost always in a driven, frustrated,  even agitated and confused state.  It’s so much fun and oh so tiring most times.  This year I’m taking on the challenge of some personal growth like never before.  But does it need to be confusing, baffling, perplexing, puzzling, bewildering, disconcerting or befuddling to my spirit?

No.

I’m so driven though.  I don’t want to waste anymore time than necessary.  There is too much to do, so much more to learn, so many people to touch.  So I run and I run hard. Pushing, pulling, stretching, reaching to do more – to go farther.

Because of this, there is a mistake I’ve made all too often.  I’ve increased the volume of exercises or tools to create change so much so that I’ve neglected to increase the intensity of the use of the basic tools like using my confession cards and my Bible.  I’ve found so many times that my spirit becomes overloaded.

Longer and harder most often brings me to a place where I lack control.  I lose that “sweet spot” because I end up drowning myself in the intensity -  In the drive.

When training muscles in this manner, this practice can actually cause a decrease in strength and size.  So, it’s time I start working smarter, to learn  to flow in God’s timing more. And this simple act will allow me to accumulate enough feedback to tweak my strategies, putting them into what is described in the muscle training world as – “the momentous gaining zone”.

~ by Jen Chappell on January 9, 2009.