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Good morning, gentlemen. In my insight video for this week, I want to share with you the takeaway from this morning’s meeting that I had with the guys in the Padre Pio group. The degree to which we are specific about, obsessive about, particular about our goals and our processes and our achievements as it regards our spiritual life is probably proportionate to the odds that we have of reaching heaven.
When we track these things every day, when we’re following just how well we’re doing (or how not well we’re doing), it’s a little bit like the way we track things in sports. If you’re learning to play a sport, there’s a very particular way to play every position, a right way and a wrong way, and you practice it over and over again.If you practice poorly, you’re going to play poor and poorly, and if you practice well, you’ll play well.
We take the same kind of precision and obsessiveness if we’re cooking, right? You don’t want to put any more hot pepper or salt or any other ingredient in that dish than really needs to be there, or else it’s just not going to come out right. Of course, we do the same thing, those of us that are in business. We have metrics and all the rest of it that we follow very specifically.
If we take the same kind of approach to our spiritual life, our odds of making it to heaven and our chances of having a lasting peace here on earth go up dramatically. And if you’re anything like me, Christopher can be kind of annoying with all of his requirements- and sometimes demands- that you do it, you fill in the blanks, you record it, you’re precise, you’re meaningful about all of your feedback. The truth is, of course, that he’s really doing us an act of charity by helping us to elevate our sights, perfect our intention, and take that next step in our spiritual life.
I hope this moment has been valuable to you, and I look forward to seeing your insight videos.