Most people avoid changes in their routine or lifestyle. Change is typically only embraced only after a major event or crisis. In other words, change only comes when it has to, when the norm becomes unbearable.
The same goes with becoming a Christian. Most people will not just become a Christian out of the blue. It takes a major revelation to occur. Something must happen that opens ones eyes to God’s nature, or something must happen that lets one know that they are living life on the wrong path and there must be a change to live a life that is more pleasing to God.
No matter what the reason is that is bringing you to the Lord, please come to the table with an open mind and open heart and welcome God’s love into your life.
To become a Christian, there are six steps that can be taken to be saved. It is arguable that there are more steps and that this is over simplifying things, but these steps get down to the nitty gritty of the situation.
1, Acknowledge or admit that you need a Savior.
2, Accept Christ’s work on the cross as being worthy of being your Savior.
3, Repent the sins that you’ve committed and reject the sin in your life.
4, Pray to God. This is simply talking to God or calling upon Him. A conversation.
5, Share your Good News with others.
6, Acknowledge or admit that you need a savior
Once you accept Jesus Christ as your savior, your life will forever be changed. You will realize that there is more to life than material things and pleasures of the flesh. We are here as part of God’s plan. Each of us has a role to play in God’s kingdom. It is also important that you bring others to the Lord. You can do this directly by talking about God with others, or as passively as simply wearing Christian T-Shirts. What is important is that you share God’s love with others.
If you do what you’re expected to do, don’t expect an outstanding result.
Study successful people and you’ll sure to discover one thing that many of them would have in common- they live by that words of “always do more than what is expected of you.”
It could be sleeping an hour less everyday to have more time to build your wealth or whatsoever.
Whether you are mowing people’s lawn or someone is mowing your lawn, when you are teaching a seminar or being a participant, when sharing your knowledge or giving advice to others, always do or give more than what people expect. Then they will flock around you, lining up to meet you and support you in whatever thing that you want to do next.
If you’re training to be a champion, don’t just train like an average player. Train more than you’re expected to train.
If you’re building a multi-level marketing business, increase the numbers of prospects you would like to meet everyday. If it used to be 10, now you would have at least 12. By just increasing your effort 20%, you’ll now get 60 new prospects a month. Now, that’s what I called exponential growth.
Trying to court a girl? I’m not surprise that you could be “competing” with five other guys for the same girl. And you can only win if you’re giving more than all of them (if everyone’s equal). I’m not saying giving more money or buying stuff- give love, time or whatever that she appreciates.
Whenever you are interacting with people or in a relationship, treat extremely well.
Whatever is expected of you in that relationship, be it with your girlfriend, wife/husband, business partner or client or your friend, always do or give more than what is expected of you in that relationship because that is the secret of making it a success.
Don’t be mistaken that it you need to give a whole lot more; you have to do just a little bit more than the rest. That’s it.
To do this, it’s not difficult. But most people are just too lazy to put in the effort. I’m one of them but I’ll always keep reminding myself this- winner takes all. There is no second place, my friend. I would rather strive with the extra effort to get #1 because the pay off is many times greater than #2.
Do you remember who the second best basketball player is? Nope. You can remember Michael Jordan because he’s #1. In fact, as far as I know, there’s no such place as the ‘the second best basketball player’.
Who’s the second fastest runner in the world? Who knows. I just know the #1.
Others have called this ‘more than expected attitude’ as ‘going for the extra mile’. Notice that they don’t say the extra 10 miles.
How come?
Because the average persons doesn’t bother to do more than what is expected of them and that’s the awful truth.
To most people, “always do more than what is expected of you” are mere words and they don’t put substance to it.
And guess what… successful people are never your average people.
To be generous and to treat others extremely well, you must come from the perspective of abundance thinking. Then only “always doing more than what is expected of you” will come easy and naturally.
So the next time you are with somebody, in a business negotiation, or just interacting with another person, ask how can I help you… without even expecting any return.
As the other saying goes, commonly heard in personal improvement — you have to give, in order to get. In fact, if you want to gather riches you have to be as generous as you can. Touch people’s lives profoundly in ways that they would never forget. Give it forward- help another and that person will help another. Always do more than what is expected of you. Do this and the reward will come in 10 folds or 100 folds when you are least expecting it.
Do you think you can do more than what you’re doing right now? Of course you can. The question is… DO YOU WANT OR NOT? You’ll have to decide for your own future on that.
Note: This article is written by Patric Chan who shares his experience about achieving success and wealth at his personal improvement blog. You can also join his self help forum for free and meet like-minded positive people.
