What to do When Life Becomes a Train Wreck

What do you do when life becomes a train wreck? Today I want to share with you the five secrets to advance your vision. Do you feel stuck in your own calling? Do you often think that you'd like to be more successful and more influential, but something's in the way our circumstances keeping you from achieving your life goals? If so, this week's podcast is for you.

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Hey guys, and welcome to our podcast this week. This week we're going to do two podcasts because we've got some special things going on this week. So today's podcast is talking about what happens when there's a train wreck in your life. And I'm going to share with you a few secrets that I learned when I had a train wreck of my life and hopefully it's going to be helpful to you. Now. Over the years I've discovered that most people are in one of three places. Life is good. You're really doing well, you're making lots of money, you're having great impact. I hope that's where you are. Uh, others are, you know, not so lucky. They're not in that place of blessing. They're having struggles, but it's not too bad. But they reason that, well, everybody has those kinds of struggles. And so, you know, I just deal with it.
And then there's a third category of people and that is, they're in a very difficult crisis and they need some help in understanding what God is doing in their life so that God can take them through that and really help them fulfill God's purposes in your life through that train wreck. And so that's what I want to talk to you. A, what I'm sharing today is going to be helpful no matter whether you're in one, two, or three stage. And so I hope that you'll stay tuned. I'm also going to give a free resource at the end. If you want to stay with me at the end, there'll be a tool that you can use that can help you again, no matter where you are in that phase of your journey. So I want to do something a little different than I normally do today.
I want to take you through some some principles as we start this. The question I have for you is, What’s your story? You know, we all have a story and that story often tells us where we are and what we need to do as it relates to that story. So, you know, the best way for me to communicate this is kinda share a little bit with my story and, and you've probably heard my story many times, but I've never gone to the depth that I'm going to go with you today. Uh, because I think by going to the depth, you get a better understanding of how what I learned is applicable to your own life and how you can navigate and no matter what circumstance you find yourself in, that you can be successful. And, you know, God takes us through these and some of them are very difficult and some of them are seasons of prosperity. And so it's important to understand how to relate in each of those stages.
So let us be down and let's talk about your dream and what you had hoped
your life would be like. You know, uh, my dream was to be a professional golfer that didn't work out. You know, I worked hard at it and not early twenties, but it didn't work out. And so, but it did use, uh, God you that failure in a good way. He allowed me to come to Christ through that failure. And, uh, gosh, I'd probably not be where I am today if I'd had not had that failure. And so the important thing is to fail forward and understand how to use those failures to take us to a different place. And a different calling. And that's exactly what happened to me. So I ended up going into business and ultimately would end up in advertising and had my own advertising agency. And, uh, you know, we'd had a run for about