By Steven Kay
When I look at where I am today and who I’ve become, I quickly realize how blessed I have been. I have the pleasure of doing what I love, in a career that I purposely chose, and have been able to maintain a living doing so. Please understand that does not mean my life is easy, far from it. I work very hard through the ups and downs of striving to achieve the goals and dreams that God has placed in my heart. However, this was not my first dream. I had other ventures I had worked toward before this. Why didn’t any of those work out?
I remember when I bought my first real business. It was a hockey rink, and my wife and I sank everything we had into it. After successfully tripling the revenues within 18 months we were closing the doors, up to our eyeballs in debt and practically bankrupt. In hindsight, there were countless mistakes I had made that today I would just know better, enough to say that I probably could have kept that business running, but it was this very experience that gave me the lessons I would not have learned otherwise. Yet if that was the result, if I never had to close that business, would I be living the life I have now?
Sometimes we fight very hard for our current goals and they still don’t work out. We’re not sure why, and we don’t know what to do or how to handle it, so we just act (or should I say react). We think we need to MAKE something happen, so we try anything that comes to mind, even the wrong things, and if we’re not careful that can lead us down a dark path and it just seems harder and harder to find our way out again.
That’s when we need to stand back and allow the moment to take place. That’s when we need to let go of the past and stand in faith, knowing there is something greater waiting for us than where we are right now. Something better than what we could have ever imagined for ourselves.
If I hadn’t had to close that hockey business, I would have not gone into the insurance business, where I got my introduction to talk radio, and I would have never had the broadcast media career that I have now. I was lead down a path where if I was not willing to let go and move beyond the previous steps I had taken I would not have been able to experience what was still ahead for me.
Each day I awake, always curious about and open to what God has in store for me next, and He continuously amazes me more and more throughout my life.
1 Corinthians 2:9 – “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
What dreams have been placed in your heart? What are you excited about and look forward to?
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Steven Kay, Talk Show Host & Producer / Media Buyer & Consultant, Steven Kay Media LLC, 713-STEVEN-K (713-783-8365), me@StevenKayLive.com, www.StevenKayLive.com.
