What you call this season will define this season! Is the dream delayed…you need to hear this!

Are in a period of delay right now?

You may have been there for a long time in the period between when you conceived the idea, the dream the goal and actually being able to deliver on it; to see it become a reality.

If you’re in that period the delay then let me encourage you because it’s very easy to become discouraged. The delay can breed uncertainty and the unknown can lead to doubt.

It can be so easy to draw conclusions that ‘this is just never going to happen’, ‘it will never become a reality’. If we stay agree with this conclusion then it can lead us exiting prematurely.

Let’s face it, sometimes the pain of delay can be so great that the immediate thought of relieving that pain by exiting convinces us that the sense of immediate relief would be for the best.

The biblical proverb says

…hope deferred makes the heart sick…

…and when we are in that deferred period and we don't belie...

As I went to get my coffee this morning I saw a middle aged man who was wilting in the autumn sunshine holding a beer can.

I decided to ask him if he wanted me to get him a coffee. He declined but thanked me and we then engaged in a conversation that gave an explanation to his predicament. It didn’t take long to realise I was talking to an extremely bright and intelligent human being who had clearly fallen on desperate times. As his story unfolded I discovered that he had reached the top echelons of our educational system, worked some of the top jobs you could imagine and yet here he was a dim reflection of such a promising pathway. 

My heart was breaking as I saw his unlimited potential battered and bruised by his journey. He was clearly a casualty of cut throat competitive environments that had either failed to see his struggle or did not know what to do to help. I have seen it all before. The competitive bandwagon must keep moving at all costs. Results are prioritised and the very...