Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

We can set our eyes on a prize. In life we tend to struggle doing this because it seems that a bigger prize is always offered, a different reward. We want to see what is over the next mountain, or around the next corner. We struggle to keep the prize in our view and as soon as we take our eyes from the prize, we become a wanderer.

Wanderers tend to go from one feeling to another, forgetting what the prize originally was, because they where offered something different. They thought that the new model had more bells and whistles, that it had an upgrade that the old model didn't have. Or maybe the destination looked better, at first our hearts were set on the first destination, but then the other one has a bigger pool, or something different. A wanderer is lost and thinks there is no way out of this.

In our marriages, our relationships are like this as well. We get into our relationship, we set our eyes on being with our partner for the rest of our lives. We have struggles and what is the first thing we do? We begin to look around and see the beautiful flowers around us, we wonder if that flower smells better. We have made the first mistake, we have diverted our gaze from the prize and we have looked away. In a split second our heart pounds for another feeling, maybe it is better, maybe it will offer something different.

Have you ever had this happen to you? Now that our gaze is off the prize, we tend to see other things around us as well, because no longer is our focus on the one we are with for the rest of our lives, it is on the other things. Our heart looks from this way to another and soon we have lost all direction, we are lost and wandering from one point to another and wondering how to get our heart to line back up. We have given into the doubts that surrounded us before, but our focus was on the prize so the doubts and fears didn't attack us. We saw only the prize, how do we get back to the prize? How do we forget all that we have seen and how do we lead our hearts back?

All those questions are tough, they are going to be with you for the rest of your journey through life, but we need to make choices. What is the bottom line to those choices, what prize do you want? Do you want to wander from one point to another, lost in your own misery, or do you want to be stable. A wanderer lives in fear, doubt and pain, yes their are high points, but lows will be the new area's to walk in.

Today you make a choice to set your eyes on the prize that not always the prettiest, but is the original prize. Stop looking for reasons why you can't, start looking for reasons you can. Stop looking for the excuses, because today their is a way to get back to the original destination. Anything is possible. Impossible = I'm Possible, the only place impossible is, is in the dictionary. Today make the choice that you want to set your gaze on the prize and walk that way. Stop looking at the flowers, the other models and start focusing on the prize.

Where we put our time and money, is where we tend to focus. If we focus completely on someone else, or on porn, our minds will go their. Focus on the prize and each day you will win a prize.