Comments on: Are Time-Limits Limiting You?

By: Michelle | When I Grow Up

Michelle | When I Grow Up — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:25 +0000

You are so right - again! Stop doing that. Geez Louise Louise. I'm starting coaching with a life/balance coach next week, & she asked in her Welcome Packet, "What accomplishments do you think must occur during your lifetime so that you will look back when you are old and consider your life to have been satisfying and well lived—a life of few or no regrets?" And that's what it boils down to. Maybe you give yourself a time limit, and when the ringer goes off you're able to walk away - no regrets. Then that's OK for that person. Another person might hear the "ding" and think, "It's not enough time!" That's OK too. So I guess it's not about having a time limit or not having a time limit, but about having regrets or not. Yeah. Michelle | When I Grow Up’s last blog post..Yay, Bribery!

By: Nicole J. Butler

Nicole J. Butler — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:41:28 +0000

Thanks Gina. I believe we each have our own path, and we don’t always know what the next step will be until we extend our foot to take it. As long as your vision/ dream is alive in you, not following it will do a disservice to you and to others.

By: Gina Covello

Gina Covello — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:28:46 +0000

I agree with the above perspectives, but I am single and God spoke to me about starting my own business. I believed I would be profitable that first year. Then, I started learning about God and His own timeline. I know I will make a living at it, but it may not be as soon as I thought or hoped.

I have been learning a great deal from my pastor at http://www.alcf.net. He was called to start a church in CA and had to move across the country. God had told him that he would be reaching thousands, but for years, he preached to the original 34 and just grew a little bit each year. He had a family to support, but God got them through.

Then, according to God’s timing, more and more people started to accept the pastor’s call to follow Jesus. He now preaches to a church of 6,000 members that is growing by about a thousand a year. He also has a radio station that reaches all across the country. If he had put a deadline on the vision, he would have missed out on the blessing. I have to keep this in mind as I plug away at my business. Keep on keeping on, and God bless.

By: Nicole J. Butler

Nicole J. Butler — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:38:24 +0000

Thanks, Sis Ivd! I had someone email me directly to say the same thing, and I do appreciate different perspectives. For those dependent on other individuals (or those with other individuals dependent on them) as they follow their “dream” I still say “no time limit on your dream.” Instead I suggest finding a way to eliminate or reduce the amount of infringement. Obviously the children have to get fed, and most of us can’t live off of other people forever (if at all) – there is a way to make it all work, it just requires elbow grease and creative thinking. People do it every day, so it is has already been proven possible.

By: Sis Ivd

Sis Ivd — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:09:48 +0000

I believe certain people SHOULD set time limits when their dream infringes on others depending on them, (a house full of kids, for example or using other peoples money,for another example). Others who are not tied down to anyone or anything should go for it and not look back. When you know that you know that you know you’re going to make it or die trying, then there are no other options until you have done all thing possible and necessary and left no stone unturned and if it still isn’t happening for you, THEN it’s time to re-evaluate that ‘dream’ and you’ll know within your own heart that it’s time to say ‘when’.