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Dave Ramsey

This video in Dave Ramsey’s “Momentum Theorem” series focuses on how our efforts are multiplied by God (infinitely) when we’re intensely focused over time on doing what He’s called us to do. There are certainly things that are out of an author and writer’s hands. After we finish our story, we leave it in God’s hands to spark a love for our work in an editor or agent as well as readers. We leave it to God to take our humble work and get it into the hands of readers all around the world. These are things we can’t do ourselves. But when we leave it to Him, the formula comes together and creates unstoppable momentum.

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Notes from myself and others who have heard this teaching around the web:

MULTIPLIED BY GOD

• Momentum doesn’t happen without God. We can’t create momentum on our own. We can try; but we will fail. We need God if we are going to accomplish anything of lasting significance. We must plug into Him as our power source. God steps in as we step out.
• If you are quickly successful be very, very scared because you may not have the proper foundation.
• When you multiply your focused intensity over time by God then God gives you the energy and ability needed to win. Get plugged into God as your power source and your momentum will become unstoppable.
• You and I are finite. God is infinite. He is standing with you at the starting line, with you in the middle of the race, at the finish line as you cross, and with you five years before you start–all at the same time. Because He’s God.
• The Lord’s work in your life compounds results.
• “Find out what God is doing and get in on it.” – Henry Blackaby
• Scripture: “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” (Luke 18:27, NIV)

CREATES UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

• Momentum is unstoppable. In 1941, Winston Churchill was invited to give an address at Harrow School, his alma mater. In that brief speech, he said, “Never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
• Get plugged in to Him as a power source, and your momentum will become unstoppable!
• There is a process and you must follow it. Grow it slow, grow it right.

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Dave Ramsey

This video in Dave Ramsey’s “Momentum Theorem” series focuses on intensity. Authors and writers have to be intense in coming up with ideas, writing every day, reading regularly, continuing to learn how to write. But it happens not all at once, but over time. Over time as we write and stay consistent, great things happen!

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See the rest of the videos in the future posts of this series (links above)!

Notes from myself and others who have heard this teaching around the web:

INTENSITY

• Pour intensity into things that really matter.
• Everyone is intense about something. Sports fans will stand in the freezing cold at a football game with no shirt on and their face painted blue. They’re intense!
• Live your life with that same intensity. Be intense at your marriage, your parenting, your calling. You’ve got to be fired up.
• But you cannot be intense without focus or your intensity will be too spread out then.
• Intensity causes things to move. If you’re only focused and intense for a few hours or a few days, nothing will move or change.
• Scripture: “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10, NIV)

OVER TIME

• Momentum builds over time. Reread the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, a great fable about the importance of perseverance. It’s easy to think success happens overnight, but that’s rare. Malcolm Gladwell makes the point in Outliers: The Story of Success that proficiency in anything requires an investment of about 10,000 hours of practice/applied skill. Even if we are slow and ugly—like a tortoise—we will succeed if we just stick with it. Be the focused, intense tortoise and not the ADHD hare. The TORTOISE wins the race every time.
• Years of focused intensity will put you among the best.
• Focused intensity is good, but if it only lasts for three days, it is not going to amount to anything. This is the hardest part of the equation.
• It takes time to be successful. Gladwell says the #1 quality of those who are successful is relational intelligence… the ability to relate to people.
• “If I persist long enough, I will WIN” –Og Mandino
• Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s “focused intensity, OVER TIME…” Don’t quit. Stay on course. Keep moving.
• Scripture: “Run in such a way as to get the prize.” (1 Corinthians 9:24, NIV)