All Noise…
Bringing clarity to an overwhelmed mind in business and in life…
My noise, your noise, our noise. I clearly can’t talk the exact noise we all might have. But I will say that at some point we deal with The Noise.
Sometimes the noise is a clutter of all the good and bad things we might have placed before us or Its just there. At some point that noise can be a hinderance. Not so much hindering to our progress but our growth during the process. We are trying to simplify the complicated but at times it’s more like we are complicating the simplified. As one of my great friends says:
“We have to find the comfortable in the uncomfortable” (Mr. Dixon)
I love what my friend says and I believe it to be true. “These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33, KVJ). His word says we will face tribulation or troubles. I will have to say that I can understand and relate to troubles. But blocking the noise to find the good cheer in all things wasn’t so simple.
When it came to noise as a child and up until college most of it was full of my parents teaching, yelling, and screaming. Now, in my parent’s defense they are cool, and not so much of yellers and screamers. Unless its sports related, which includes spades and dominions. Most of the yelling and screaming I experienced was because I deserved it, but I will say they taught us a lot. Even until this day many of the lessons my parents taught my siblings and myself is noise that plays in my head. As the years have gone on and I am experiencing life now as a father and as an adult I have moments when All The Noise is just there no matter good or bad. As I am progressing in life, I am understanding that this is a journey I was placed on to glorify God in life through the talent(s) He blessed me with. As life has moved along in this journey, I am aware and accepting The Process.
The Process of having good cheer while business and life was on the rollercoaster ride of their lives was at a point becoming a drag to me. Life and business are both now in the right direction, which is nice. But just a few weeks ago life and business felt like it was hanging on a cliff. But in all I just had All This Noise. Living through life I am coming to the point where I have had some years to collect many thoughts from other people and my past experiences. I am understanding that living through life is needed to help sort All The Noise out. It wasn’t so much what others have said but what I have experienced in life and business that was The Noise that was hindering my growth. Just a few weeks ago business wasn’t looking too good and for a split second, or a few weeks, the past experiences came to thought. All That Noise was there and even though I know we have troubles those past experiences were troublesome. Business wasn’t performing as well as it was projected to do therefore lowering projections. It’s not a matter of having to see it because after some years in whatever industry You dominate. You will know the business trends and will know when numbers are low before the numbers say they are low. Lower projected numbers is that thin line we sometimes walk, and for me that was The Noise. The Noise of the past experiences began to come to thought.
But I knew that I couldn’t afford to visit the past experiences. Now, I know the past experiences happened in business and I acknowledge where I went wrong but I can’t afford to visit and make a place in the past again. But in all I just had All This Noise. “These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall tribulation but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33, KVJ). I simply just didn’t want to no longer complicate this simple life. He says in His word we should be of good cheer because He overcame the world. The past experiences I had in business that had me at some point unemployed happened for good reason. The past experiences of walking that thin line of not even meeting the minimum, the past experiences of having call after call to discuss next steps while everyone is screaming All Hands on Deck. all the noise of the past experiences…But in all its just all this noise that happened but be of good cheer. The past is the past and will stay in the past. But the experiences are something we can be sure is experienced right, and that is with good cheer.
I was complicating a business and life through blood, sweat, and tears. Worrying about All This Noise when He says have good cheer because He already overcame. Why make the trouble time worse by worrying and crying when will I make It through? Why make the great time worse by worrying will I be able to sustain this?
“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing:” (John 15:5, KJV)
