#087 - Small Wins and Small Losses

Today I wanted to talk about small wins and small losses. I recently heard someone talk about this, and I love it because it's something we often share in regards to your writing. So small wins can be sitting down for 15 minutes and writing, whether it's a paragraph or it's several paragraphs or whatever you finish in that 15 minutes, it builds momentum. And those paragraphs linked together form chapters. Those chapters form a book. And so it's just amazing what can happen in a small amount of time. This is called the Compound Effect. There's a book on that, and I highly recommend it. It's a great, great book. But it was interesting because they also talked about small losses. So, for example, we could end up staying up later at night scrolling on social media or watching some random thing on YouTube or Netflix or whatever, and then not get up in the morning to spend that extra time with God because we were tired, right? Or not get up early to spend 15 minutes writing because we got to bed later. So small wins, small losses. You know, it can. It can really make a difference in the trajectory of our lives and the choices that we make every day. Now, we as Christ followers, we have the Holy Spirit indwelling within us that helps us to make decisions, and we. We can start fresh every day. So wherever you've been with your writing projects, with your marketing of your books, I encourage you to take a deep breath in and deep breath out. Breathe out longer than you breathe in. Take a few deep breaths and just say, I can start new again today. And what if for this next month, you devoted 15 minutes at least six days a week or one and a half hours total for the week on your writing or on marketing, your book writing, marketing materials. What could those small wins accomplish over the course of a month? Well, we are going to see in real time what happens as we host our unlock your writing program in Christian Book Academy. So we're hosting this program for free for any of our academy members, and we're challenging you and encouraging you to just have a small win of 15 minutes a day, six days a week, or like I said, a chunk of time, an hour and a half, once a week. And we're gonna have a celebration call at the end of the month, and I cannot wait to hear all that you have accomplished as a result. So if you're a Christian Book Academy member, we hope that you'll join in. You can join in just for one week during the month. You don't have to do the entire month. If you're not a member yet, come join us. ChristianBookAcademy.com we are starting tomorrow June, so you can get started today. You can get in and join us. But wherever you're at, you know, maybe just take some time and ask the Lord, what are the small wins that you have for me this week and what are potentially some areas that have been small losses that you could choose differently with the power of the Holy Spirit, choose differently this week and see it become a small win instead of a small loss. So let me pray for you. So. So, Lord, we just thank you so much that every day is a new day. Your mercies are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. We thank you that you are doing something in and through us, through the gift that you have given us, of writing, through the message that you have given us. And we want to steward that message well, whether it's finishing our book and writing it, whether it's marketing the book that we have written. And so, Lord, we just come to you and we surrender all of this to you. Our writing, our goals, our projects, the things, our books, the things that, that you've given to us. And we ask, Lord, that you reveal to us, show us what is a small win that we could have even today. And then what are the small losses that we've been experiencing? And how could we, you know, with the power of you and your Holy Spirit, turn those around into small wins? And we just thank you for what you're going to do in each of our lives. In Jesus name, amen. All right, thank you, friends. I'm so glad that you're here, and I will talk to you next time. Bye. Bye.