Do not lose your enthusiasm

It is easy to get excited when and to suffer from enthusiasm overload when everything is going your way.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win, many are those who gave up the first time round and few are those who refuse to let the current outcome determine their fate, it takes a deeper commitment to get your soul to back you in the next round of the battle.

Just take a moment to read this story about Diana Nyad and to think deeply about her enthusiasm and her positive attitude.

Florida - Diana Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage.

The 64-year-old Nyad stepped ashore in Key West on Monday just before 14:00 EDT, about 53 hours after she began her swim in Havana on Saturday.

As she approached the shore, spectators surrounded her in the water, taking pictures and cheering her on.

She swam within a couple dozen feet of the beach and walked on to dry land. She looked dazed and sunburned.

It was Nyad's fifth try to complete the approximately 110-mile swim. She tried three times in 2011 and 2012. She had also tried in 1978.

Her last attempt was cut short amid boat trouble, storms, unfavourable currents and jellyfish stings that left her face puffy and swollen.

I do not know what your setbacks are but I know if you get your act together and regain your enthusiasm that you will be able to move forward.

As for me I find my strength in Christ, He is the one who always teaches me that I can because He is with me, but I still need to convert the fears and doubts in my mind by responding in faith with enthusiasm and passion .    

Remember fear rules those who surrender to it, you do not have to become another statistic that has to bear the liable called "failure"    

“If I don’t like my today, I need to look into the mirror because I shaped it yesterday.”

For those who choose to move forward rapidly in life's unending challenges; you will not experience a pain free transition, but there is even a greater pain in life and that is staying behind.

Leaders will always be drawn to take up the challenge of advancing rapidly, just like Jesus 12 disciples who where caught up in a storm, the challenge was equal for all the men in the boat, but when Peter saw Christ walking on the water his focus changed from surviving the storm to walking on the water with Christ.

What are you challenged with today, you can allow the storm to hold you down or you can seek to do something that challenges your character

Friends there is a battle inside every living being, we contend with ourselves, we battle with the words of our critics and we are challenged with the content of our dreams, these facts will be there to tease you and even to mock you, but we need to put these opposing voices under our feet, you have to face that desire to conquer and you need to be elevated with courage. You need to know where you find your strength and you need to lean on the place of your strength (In my case the core of my strength is in Christ).

We can not cower behind excuses, but once you have decided to move forward you can no longer be drawn to your rear-view mirror, you must focus on what lies ahead a grow in character so that you can take on the unfamiliar, remember we do not like to be tested by that which is unfamiliar to us, we would rather take on an challenge that we have already conquered, so make up your mind and move on until you have reached the top step of your desired outcome.