3rd Down and 8 Players

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3rd and 8 Player

In the sporting world - specifically the game of football, football is played on “downs” (tries / attempts). When a team has the ball, they've got four downs to get 10 yards - and that's called a first down. So if you move the chains, as they say, on first down and second down and third down, you “move the chains” (advance down the field toward the goal).  Eventually you move the chains enough, you're going to get the ball in the end zone and score a touchdown! You want points...you want touchdowns... you want a lot of touchdowns for your team! 

In the game of football, it's back and forth. It's the battle on the “Gridiron” (field) and many times “pivot point” moments in a game happen on what is called third down.  On third down and two yards to go, you might be able to run the ball and get the first down.

“Third and Long”

On third down and eight yards to go, also known as “Third and Long”.

That's kinda challenging. The data says in the game of football that third down and eight or more, is a kind of tough down to move the chains. 

• I like to get those eight or nine yards that you need to get the first down. 

• It’s not as easy as when it's third and one or third and two or third and three. 

So what does that mean? Today I want to encourage you and encourage me. 

Let's be a “third down and eight” kind of player so that when our business, our organization, our team that we work with, our coworkers, maybe our family, maybe our children... whatever it is that we're striving to be great at - when it's third down and eight (so to speak), and the game's on the line - people can count on us!

Be dependable when it's “third down and eight”.

• You're the person that the quarterback wants to throw the ball to

• You’re the person that coach says “Yeah, get the ball to them because they're going to get the first down!” 

• In business when things are going wrong in your company...be the kind of person that on third and eight you're like, you can count on me. 

“Third and Eight” Players are the kind of people that “make a difference” and impact lives.  People that change organizations, change businesses, churches, and take them to the next level.  Be dependable, be flexible, and be ready to make the big play when the opportunity comes your way!

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Success Defined

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Success Defined

If we were to sit in a room with 10 people…(definitely a hundred people or more)...and passed out sheets of paper and asked everyone to write down (even on a small 3 X 5 card) a couple of sentences of what “success looks like”. I'd be willing to bet that we would get many different types of answers. In fact, I dare say that there would not necessarily be one answer that looks the same. 

Why is that? 

I think that we all have our own different definition of what success is. 

• For some people, success is a simply status. It's “I worked my way up through this university. I got this degree and then I entered this job entry level and I attained these things. I was promoted and I moved up and I earned this title.”

That title may be attached to a certain level of income, (sometimes a little bit, and sometimes a lot). And so we go through the process of defining our success. 

• Maybe through our bank account 

• Maybe what possessions we have, 

• Maybe what we drive that's in the garage 

• Maybe the square footage of our home 

• Maybe the area in which we live. 

• Maybe for us, success is lived through our spouse. If we're married or through that significant other that we cherish. Maybe, if we have someone like that...then we're successful 

• Maybe, (those of us that have children) if our child attains this and gets that badge or that trophy, then I'm successful. 

I believe all of these things in and of themselves can be really great and positive things.

These are “Benchmarks”, valued relationships or accomplishments in and of our life we aspire to attain and accomplish. Adding a digit to the bank account is not necessarily a bad thing, but my question for us today is “At what cost?”

When we look at defining success, I would encourage you to write it down. 

Success for me looks like _________________ (write it down) 

I would encourage you not to just define success in one small area of your life, but I would submit for your consideration that your relationships matter. People matter. Yes. What you do to impact others through the workforce and the workplace. It matters. I think who we are matters. I believe how we treat others matters. I would encourage you to kind of just step back from the “rat race” (if you're in that) or maybe building that blueprint in that plan and you say, “Hey, in two years I want to do this... in five years I want to do this.”

All of that is good. We do that, but I want to make sure that today you and I possibly look at what is true success. 

Let's define that. And then based on that definition, let's start to walk that out and build that out. 

And anything that interferes with that or potentially could sabotage the true meaning and true definition of success...we possibly have to move that to the side and even say “no” to good things. 

And so for you today (and for me), let's write down what success looks like. 

• Let's define it. 

• Let's work toward it. 

• And let's have others in our life that can speak in such a way - where maybe if we step out of bounds from time to time - they can nudge us back...or maybe kick us back, uh, toward reaching our goals the right way. 

Let’s define success in such a way that impacts others and makes a difference in this world.

No Fear →

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No Fear

How many of you know that that fear, for many people, is a real, raw emotion? 

Fear

• A fear of what's coming next 

• A fear of whether or not I am going to get that job promotion

• A fear of what's going to happen with my family? 

• A fear of what's going on with the health of someone I love and care about 

• A fear of maybe myself...anxious thoughts...can trap the heart of man inside the four walls. 

Sometimes a few of the thoughts that come our way can almost paralyze us. And I want to encourage each of us today to, to put one foot in front of the other and make a decision that we're NOT going to have fear.  I'm not talking about a healthy respect for things that we probably should have some concern about.  

• I'm not gonna go play with rattlesnakes.  

• I'm not gonna go wrestle a bear. 

• I'm personally not going to jump out of an airplane (although some of you might with a parachute by the way). 

“No Fear”

Many years ago there was a slogan “No Fear”.  A brand was created, a t-shirt company and all of these things labele “No Fear”.  It's amazing when you look at things that people are afraid of. Some studies have shown that the number one fear that most people have is a fear of public speaking. Whatever your fear might be, I want to encourage you to identify it and start to surround your thoughts and your actions to not allow those things to paralyze you. 

• You can take those thoughts captive. 

• You capture those fears and you combat those negative, fearful thoughts.  

• Find someone in your circle group, your friends that can encourage you.

Replace them with Faith filled thoughts.

Maybe you're going to have to seek out some additional help or counseling...if you’re struggling - find someone who has walked the path you're walking, had to face some of the trials trials that you might be facing and find out what they did. Take them out to lunch and say, Hey, what did you do that helped you walk through that valley, through that anxiety, or through that thing that you fear?

We're not meant to walk this alone. So if there's something you fear I want to encourage you to lean into it and face it.  

• Face your giants

• Face your fears

On the other side of that step of faith...when we face it, there's growth. 

And while those concerns may not ever completely go away, they don't have to paralyze you and they don't have to paralyze me. So whether your fear is public speaking or jumping out of an airplane with a parachute, or a high dive or whatever your fear might be...let's not let those things paralyze us from living the life that we were intended to live.  I hope that encourages you today.