Podcast

Jeff Goins tells a compelling story.

Wrecked isn’t the story of a life destroyed by drug abuse or immoral living. It’s not a prodigal son story. It’s the story of self-discovery by seeing outside oneself.

Jeff walks us through occasions when his comfortable life crashed into a broken world. It will provoke you to think of those times when your comfortable life has been disrupted by somebody else’s broken world.

Right off the bat I was reminded of a website that I faithfully followed for a few years. The Snowsuit Effort. It was an interesting photoblog by Ryan Keberly. Ryan took photos of homeless people living on the streets of Detroit. The last image was posted back in February of 2007. It was a unique project, not because the photos were of the homeless…but because the photos were so personal. Ryan got up close to these people. He talked with them and posted brief quotes or comments about them. These pictures weren’t taken with a long-range lens from a comfortable distance. Neither are the stories Jeff tells in Wrecked. That’s how a broken world slams into your comfortable life. It happens up close and personal. It’s macro lens work.

Buy the book. If you purchase the audio version (ChristianAudio.com) you’ll get to hear Jeff read his own story. Subscribe to his blog, too. You’ll be rewarded with well-crafted writing.

Problems give us opportunities to grow stronger. Determination, not retaliation, is what’s needed. Keep asking yourself, “What can I do to gain my goal?”

You should. You absolutely should.

It’s there. In the back of your mind.

That idea. That urge. That gnawing feeling.

Answer the call. Right now.

Turn your idea into action. So what if it’s not the perfect? It doesn’t even matter if it works out very well or not…as long as you’re not betting the farm.

It’s Fall. Time to change colors. Time to leave the comfort of the past and embrace that chill of uncomfortableness.

Here’s the challenge. There are 3 weeks left in November. Why not use the next 3 weeks (you’ve heard it takes 21 days to form a new habit…let’s see if that’s for real) to do something extraordinarily different.

What would happen if – for the next 3 weeks – you did things just the opposite of what you’ve been doing? If what you’ve been doing is working out with awesome success, forget this challenge. Keep the momentum going. Oh, that’s not happening for you? Then, what have you got to lose?

Me? I’m going to make some major changes in the next 3 weeks. I recorded it in this week’s video to the folks Inside The Yellow Studio.

What are you going to do with the rest of November?