If you read the article yesterday you will remember that we were looking at the two biggest negative enemies in your life that are capable of destroying your dreams if you allow them to.

Remember these enemies were:
**Lack of forgiveness.
**Fear.

When either of these two enemies are hidden somewhere in your mind they will cloud your vision whenever you face a challenge.

When your vision starts to dim you begin to doubt yourself, your abilities and perhaps even your worthiness of success. If you allow these doubting thoughts to continue you may even lose sight of your dreams completely.

Then your mind will be quick to take you back to other difficult times of your life to show you why you cannot succeed, You failed here, you failed there .. how can you expect this attempt to be different is what your mind will tell you.

What happened? Your vision dimmed, even went out of sight in the pressure and strain of the present challenge and your mind was quick to fill in the gap by replaying your past.

How to prevent this “meltdown” from happening in your life?

Deal with these two big enemies. But how?

1. Forgive, forgive, forgive.
A great part of forgiveness is release. You simply decide to forgive and release the person (or persons) and release them from your life. Now I don’t mean to over simplify something that is often so hard to do, but the reality is this is all that it takes to forgive – a decision and an action that follows through on the decision.

Forgiveness also means you will release the situation and the people involved. That will get rid of quite a burden from your life.

2. Write down the vision you have for your life (your why).
Make a list of your dreams. Illustration them with pictures on words (yes create a vision board).

3 Focus on your vision and your goals every day.
Keep them in front of you, in pictures, in words, in audio and in video.

4. Faith will begin to grow in your heart
When you begin to focus on the positive things such as your vision and your goals, faith will begin to grow in your heart.

Your life vision (or purpose) was planted in your heart from the day you were born. This seed needs to be nurtured and watered by faith for it to grow and become the healthy plant or tree it was destined to be,

5. Faith comes by hearing and hearing …
There is another very interesting verse in the Bible that is found in Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

The foundation of a strong faith in life is a having a living relationship with Jesus Christ (no – not religion, relationship). To find this relationship, simply reach out to God who is already reaching out to you. (John 1:!2).

• Reading the Bible (the Gospel of Mark is a good place to start) is a great way to build your faith.
• As well as the Bible, read at least one non fiction book a month.
• Make sure you spend time writing, dreaming and visualizing your dreams and your focus and faith will strengthen.

Focus is a very active verb. It takes discipline and determination to be able to focus well. Disciplined, determined action will support you in developing the habits in your life that you need to push you forward to the success you are seeking.

In Philippians 3:13 in the Bible, the apostle Paul made this declaration:
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

If you follow these 5 tips you will have a strong advantage over these two big enemies.

Keep your eyes on your vision, don’t let anything or anyone (not even an enemy within) steal your dream.

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