“A fifty-year-old man approached a musician and asked, ‘Can you teach me to play the trombone so I can play in the town civic band and in parades and other things?”
‘Sure,’ the musician said.
‘How long will it take?’ the aspiring trombonist asked.
‘Well,’ the musician said, ‘I could teach almost anybody to play anything he wanted to play in five years’ time.’
‘Five years!’ the would-be student said. ‘I’ll be fifty-five years old by then!’
‘Yes, you will,’ the musician returned. ‘And how old will you be in five years if you don’t learn how to play the trombone?’” (Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay, pp. 101)
Sometimes I think there are things in life we really want to do. A hobby. A new career.
Maybe you want to play guitar…I’ve been saying, and attempting that since I was 19. Man I wish I had just started.
Maybe you want to write a book.
Maybe you want to take a trip.
I’m not sure what it is for you. But sometimes I think there are things really want to invest in, but we want it to happen immediately, therefore, we forfeit it because of what it would require from us.
We are like the man who wanted to be able to play the trombone today, rather than five years from now. So we just quit, or we don’t even start.
Do you have something like that in your life?
Memorize more scripture.
that’s a good one John….I wish I did that more also.
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I hear you on the guitar aspect. We live in a world of instant gratification and it takes time and discipline to overcome our fears of starting something new. For me personally finishing my MS MFT was a launching pad into many new adventures. I am doing my first sprint triathlon in a few weeks and I have been patiently picking up the guitar everyday. Thanks for your words on your blog, just came across via church crunch. Look forward to reading.
Lantz,
Sounds like we have a lot in common, except you are ahead of me on the guitar. I have run a couple of marathons and am running in one in December. I really want to get into sprint triathlons soon. And we have the MFT connection. What are you currently doing in the MFT world?
Thanks for reading the blog, and let me know how the sprint triathlon goes. Which one are you doing?
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Hi Rhett,
I kinda feel that way about my blog and how I can effectively build it for the long term.
Because my site is more of a “How To” site a lot of my current articles are based on teaching the person who has absolutely no knowledge of getting started online.
So I kinda get the feeling at times I may be wasting my time with the lessons I create.
I need to just stop and remind myself that my goal is a long term goal and not worry about how long it seems to be taking to build the site before I can start writing more advanced articles about building an Online ministry.
Thanks for the post, I actually had some prayer about this very thing on my way to the office this morning.
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