BLUEPRINT

BLUEPRINT

What’s your blueprint for the life you live/planning to live?

Blueprints are two-dimensional drawings containing the details needed to construct a building. Construction workers must know how to read blueprints to build properly. Not knowing is the first step to failure.

We recently completed a home improvement project. The project was completed in a timely manner with no appreciable hiccups because of the firm we chose. The company representatives accessed what existed, asked what we wanted, and drew up plans accordingly with their artistic flair, producing our unique blueprint.

No one will ever do you the way you are equipped to do you. The time to build or renovate you is now, but first you need to know who you are and who you want to be. Therefore, it is wise to know, to excavate, and to shape, the expression of you that authentically represents you. Not knowing means you run the risk of constructing an addition (making changes) to yourself that does not fit your ultimate purpose, looks unpleasing or worse – imitates someone else. This is messy stuff, don’t let hiccups stop you from starting.

Possible hiccups? You-- your lack of intentionality, not believing in yourself (beliefs have consequences), your lack of curiosity (satisfaction with you as you are), your impatience (lack of patient attentiveness and energetic pursuit) and listening to others (everybody is not interested in you being the best you).

We certainly didn’t possess the skills to draw the blueprint for our project, but we knew what we wanted. We sought out help. Know that your design is within you. It has not been outsourced to someone or something else. An outside source can help you identify and refine your design (purpose), but it is within. Declare that it exist even if you don’t know what it is and begin to investigate yourself and seek other’s help. The company that we used was chosen after talking to a lot of acquaintances and companies.

Diligently scrutinizing where you have been, what you have experienced, how you reacted, and how you felt is a valuable tool to aid in your design. Our designer asked a cogent question before beginning the design, “how do you envision using the space?” We answered out of our experiences in similar spaces, adding our own specific tweaks. I ask you, “how do you envision using your space?”

We started with a blueprint of what the final product could be, but end products often don’t match concept. We did everything we were capable of doing to make our design become reality. Ultimately, we had to rely on others under our watchful eyes to execute the plan. Your design – blueprint and who you are and who you are becoming is never going to be a solo venture. The African Proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” is true. It takes a village to design and construct the best you that you can be.

Jeremiah 29:11

PONDER THIS THOUGHT---Personal development is more than knowing. It is doing.