SPARTAN SERIES #272: “HUSTLE IN SILENCE AND LET YOUR SUCCESS MAKE THE NOISE!”

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“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.” I Cor. 13:1. This is where we start. To be real and truly authentic we have to be that very thing we profess to be……

I’m of the opinion that too often we spend tons of time trying to tell others that we are great rather than allowing them discover that we are much more than what meets the eye. When you impose yourself on others with a sense of how great we are, you have lost your audience…..We become proverbially the “sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.” As a friend told me in my early Christian days, “you are so loud I cant see you or understand you.”

A little more: Be who you are right now. Determine what you want to become. Begin moving in that direction and do it smartly but silently. Work so hard that others will ask you how you do it. Silence in the pursuit of excellence always bears superb results because the results will be real and undeniable.

Arnold Scharzzeneggar one wrote an article he called loosely, “My struggle –Alone.” Hinting that what you see before you was forged by his own will and effort and ultimately –alone…They gym is an unforgiving crucible that demands our full attention as we labor alone. When we are alone we do not have the great friends and colleagues screaming in our ears to keep going, higher, harder, and faster. We retreat to a place that belongs only to us. I read someplace that Kevin Levrone who is an accomplished pianist plugs in Vivaldi or other great masters and he allows the workout to flow around him as he trains. The whole thought of his personal space driving him forward was an amazing motivator to me. I’m no Vivaldi but there are some great tracks to listen to.

Working in Silence strengthens the character and demands only that we are true to our efforts and our goals…Always remember, “People never judge us by our effort. They judge us by our results. So, let me admonish all of you/us to ‘SHUT UP, TRAIN HARD, EXPECT THE BEST FROM OURSELVES,—-AND THE WORLD WILL BEAT A PATH TO OUR DOOR!” Winning is everything but the silent refiners fire is that which prepares us for success.

Bottom Line: You are the love of your life and others. You are the Silent Champion that the world will judge by what we produce….in Silence, Alone, and Determination to be our manifest best.