Making A Change

Many of us around the world frustratingly sit in a particular situation in which we feel grounded in mud and unable to move. You are either too afraid to move or you have been in your respective place for so long that you are unsure if you can move. You simply need to "make a change."

Now, imagine being at a job or school or somewhere that you greatly dislike and remaining there year after year but you have done next to nothing to remove yourself from that place. I mean, you continuously complain to anyone who will listen and then you go home and complain to your family, loved ones and friends almost daily as well. So, instead of blaming others for your negative attitude and blatant shortcomings, take a hard look at yourself in the mirror and ask, "Why have I not done anything to remedy my situation?" Once you have done that, I say to you to call on our Mighty God and tell Him what you want because prayer absolutely changes things in life. If you do not believe me, then try it for yourself in a sincere manner and I guarantee you that God will answer your prayers! Always remember, however, that God always operates on His time and not on our time!

Listen, so many of us have gone too many years in the same place and you really want to do what you were born to do. You know better than anyone else where you are supposed to be doing but you again have done nothing to get there. Just step out on faith in Jesus' Name and let His will be done for you and you will get exactly where He intended for you to be. However, if you do not believe the possible when it comes to God's Will then it will simply be impossible for you to receive His Grace and Mercy!

Finally, my challenge to anyone out there who needs to make a change is for you to trust in God's Will, reach for the highest peak and then go and obtain the life that He meant for you to live!

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Hey, hey, what's up out there again, everybody? I'm your host, Greg Mac of the You Better Plan on It Podcast. You can catch me every Tuesday at 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. You can also go live and catch me on YouTube as well, or go to www.youbetterplan on it podcast.budsprout.com and check me out on one of your favorite apps. And I'd like to thank Bud Sprout again for being the source of podcasting in my career. Now with that said, let's go ahead and move on into the topic of the day. I'm going to talk about making a change. Making a change. So making a change. You know, my podcast deals with planning, having an effective daily plan. That gets you from point A to point B, like I always say, and back to where you need to be safely and efficiently. You know, and obviously things don't always happen accordingly, but if you have an effective daily plan, or you plan in place for something that you need to do, and not just doing everything on the fly, then you stand a great chance of getting to where you need to be. Otherwise, things just go fall apart or just end up up in the air, and then you're trying to do things off the cuff. So, you know, listen. Think about where you are in life, what you do in life, who you are in life, and why you are who you are in life, and ask yourself, am I exactly where I want to be? Or do I need to make a change? Because, you know, it gets tiresome for anyone, to include myself, to be sitting at a job or sitting at a school or in a situation where you don't want to be there. You're at a point where you start to build a little anger, distrust, and the word hate, a lot of times, most of the time comes into play, and I don't like that word because of what it symbolizes. It's a disgusting word to me. I just wish it could be removed, but hey, we use it anyway. I've used it too, so I'm no no different than anyone else, but I do not use it today. Well, at least I try to the best of my ability to just leave the word out. But you get to a point where you're at a place and you don't want to be there. So why not make a change? The world is chaotic, lots of things are going on, and then you'll sit at a job for year after year after year, and you don't want to be there. And I know some people, I got people in my family, friends, close ones, loved ones, you know, they are still to this day displeased with where they are in their career, within their family, within their homes, that type of thing. So make a change. And in order for you to make a change, first of all, you need to sit down with yourself first. Take a look in the mirror, have a conversation with yourself about, you know, I really can't stand my job, and I should have moved on. That's what we always say. That's that's the crazy part, is that we say it to ourselves, but do you really mean it in a sincere, extensive way to say, okay, I have to get, I gotta do something different? Or do you just say it and then there's no action behind it? Because that's usually what happens. There's no action. So take the opportunity to find a way. And I'm gonna tell you first and foremost, if you're not spiritual, if you lack spirituality, if you do not believe in the man upstairs, then first of all, you're starting off, in my opinion, that I believe is a fact, you're starting off in a bad way already. Prayer changes things. Belief and faith in God changes things. And that is the one thing you can do. You sit down and talk to God about it. Talk to yourself about it, and then see where it goes from there. Because I'm telling you, when you really buckle down and make a decision on what you're doing in life, because you don't want to be at that job, you don't want to be at that school. And one thing I like in it too is I really admire kids in college. If they say, you know, I'm not happy with this particular major, and they might change it once or twice. Yeah, it's stressful, but they're making a decision, and then they go ahead and do it, they make that change. I have a grandson that did it, and you know what? He is blessed to be in the position he is in right now, and he enjoys it. He switched from one major to another, but he made a decision, he was decisive. Now it took him a little while to figure it out, a couple years, but now he decisively made a decision, and then he went on ahead with it, and now that's what he's doing as he moves further into his collegiate career. So why can't you? Those of you sitting at your jobs right now, and you just look at people and you be like, oh man, I don't feel like talking to him or her today. Uh, I can't stand my boss. I wish I was in another job. You keep saying that, but then you don't do anything about it. You just sit there, and yeah, the money maybe is good. Maybe the money's great, but you're unhappy, you're displeased. Now, here is the kicker. Look at the amount of people who are in jobs or quit jobs or been fired from jobs that they hate it, or they get that idea that you know what, I can't stand being here, and I can't stand this particular person. They go home in this devious plan, they hatch it, and that plan ends up being a mass shooting at the work location because somebody has so much hatred for others that they are willing to kill because they can't stand being there, they can't stand that person. Maybe the supervisor or the manager or the boss talks down to you, and then you get in your head that you don't want to be there. But instead of removing yourself from that particular situation, you devise a plan that I'm going to get even. And it's vengeful. And we don't need that. God is in the blessing business, He will move you wherever you want to go if you trust and believe in Him. All you need to do is ask. But you got to believe. Can't just ask and not believe. You gotta really dig deep and believe. And prayer changes things. It has done wonders for me. Now, I'll tell you about me. I did not want to be a United States Marine initially. I had other ideas, other intentions. But when I first got into the core, I realized, okay, I'm in Okinawa, Japan. I do not want to be here. How do I get out of this mess that I'm in? What do I do? Do I get myself in trouble? Do I do something ridiculous and get kicked out, and then I can go back home and be around my boys? You know, and an old Master Guns told me, and some other young Marines, that, hey, realize that you graduated boot camp, the hardest boot camp on the planet. Then you went through basic warrior training, a school of infantry. And then you went to your military occupational specialty school, and you graduated from that. You've done all the hard parts. Now you are a fleet marine. You're in the fleet marine force, you're active duty, or even reservist or whatever. But mainly active duty, which is what I was, you know, and I thought about it. Wow, I've accomplished the three big things, and now I'm in the fleet. I even got a maritourist promotion in the first couple of years of my career. But at the same time, I still was kind of like, I just don't want to be in Japan. But after a couple of months and getting a chance to settle in and listen to myself the right way and throwing some prayer in there. Because I grew up in the church, I grew up spiritual, so hey, I love God. It is amazing, He is amazing with what He can do for you, you, and you. So if you're in a position that you don't want to be, go home, take a private moment with yourself, look in that mirror, make a decision. Now, obviously, there are things out there that you may have wanted to do when you were younger that are not applicable to you when you get older, but there's always something else. You don't need to have just one particular plan. That's why it's called your better plan on it. Because things will change and you need to be able to adapt and overcome. I just want people to do better in life. Trust God, trust in Him, and allow Him to move you to where you're supposed to be. I'm doing that right now. I had no intentions of podcasting, even though I thought about it over the years, over the years, over the years. I'm in my 50s, several years away from being a 60-year-old, and I'm just now getting into podcasting, something I could have been doing 10, 15 years ago when I retired. And I just didn't. I kept thinking about it and talking about it, but I didn't. I didn't take any action other than listening to different podcasts and enjoying those, but I didn't do anything to regulate myself the right way. I pointed fingers at myself. And I listened to people tell me, hey man, you be good at it. Just do it and see what happens. And I was like, nah, I'm good. And now that I've tried it, I enjoy it. And I always got things to work on. There's always things to improve. But you know, I prayed about it, and now I'm podcasting. So if you're out there, do something about your situation and don't just sit there. You know, there's books out there that can help you. You can go on the internet and check things out. There's so many different ways to figure out what you want to do. And you know what's interesting? Those of us that are older, you understand what you want to do. You know what you want to do, what you have in mind. So do a little research. But do me a favor wherever you are now, if it's working for you, don't just quit without that plan in place. That effective daily plan that can lead you to the ultimate plan to get where you want to be. Make sure you have a fallback. Even a second and third option works great. Because not everything that you want to get to is where you're going to end up. But as long as you believe in the man upstairs, he will get you where you need to be and where you want to be. So take the opportunity to get out of the rut that you're in. Quit blaming others for what you're not doing. Stop standing around, sitting around staring at the wall, and hating and disliking and distrusting others because you don't want to be with them. Imagine just being at work and you don't want to talk to people, or only a select few. You have your little click, and then all of you are complaining about not wanting to be there. There are jobs that are just miserable for people. And I've seen it, witnessed it, been around it. I was a part of it, did things that I just didn't want to do. But you know what? I took the opportunity to get out of it. It took me a little while, but I did get out of some of the things that I didn't want to do and did what I wanted to do. And all you have to do is do the same thing. Get down on your knees, have a little prayer about it. It's not that difficult. Do something about who you're supposed to be. Because everybody has a mission in life. And there are so many of us, millions and millions of millions of people sitting at a job, sitting at a school, or sitting in a situation that they do not want to be in. And you know what? Five years, ten years, fifteen years have passed, and they have just sat there and dealt with it. Yeah, you got promoted along the way, and the money is good and things like that, but you are unhappy, but you're unwilling to move forward because you're afraid. Don't be afraid. Be steadfast and immovable, always abiding in his word, and you'll be alright. I just want us to all do better, get where you want to be, do what you need to do to get there. A little prayer along the way goes a long way. And think about it. You're at points in life right now, we all are where you know what you want to do and why you want to do it. So give God a chance if you haven't. Give yourself a chance if you haven't. And you'll be just fine. I promise you. You'll be just fine. And with that said, I want to thank you for your time and this opportunity to talk to you about making a change because anyone out there can do that if you really put your mind to it and you put some prayer behind it. Again, you can catch me every Tuesday at 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. You can catch me live on YouTube at that same time or go to www.ybetterplan on the podcast.budsprout.com. Follow me. Check me out. I got plenty more to come. With that said, thank you. Love you. God bless you. And always remember a plan that succeeds is a plan that can fulfill one's needs. Have a good one. Hurrah Simplify.