The Journal of a Champion

SEEING YOURSELF AS CHAMPION TO ADJUST YOUR LIFESTYLE You are already made a champion and awarded a first place medal as a winner just by being born. Your mindset as a champion should be a reflection of who you are through visualization, engagement and an evolving perspective of the world upon analysis. Your vision is a gateway from the outside world and you must magnify and guard it. By design, your view of life can be distorted from your angle given that you are never at 360 degree. A champion should be aware of his or her longitudinal and latitudinal limitations to have an open mind of other’s viewpoints to attain growth. A successful champion is an archivist who digs into the past for pertinent facts, issues and events for root causes for methodology and improvements. The world has experienced hardship, floods, natural disasters and global economical melt down for meaningful use. Hence, wisdom demands that a champion learns from the past, present into the future by adoption to stay a winner. Many present and past presidents of countries, top CEO’s, leaders and entertainers have expressed how they were inspired by other champions and have followed, studied and read their profiles to also become a champion. Thus, you are not limited by your geographical location, finance and parental background to learn your championship walk. You could be adopted by a champion after pertinent years of service. You could adopt the life style of your favorable champion to become. The adoption process of walking like a champion is a boast to our young generation practiced by shows like the American Idols. Lots of people have become professional singers and entertainers using this principle of engagement in church choirs, junior league football and baseball to groom their young minds. Our world needs more champions in various fields to contribute towards improvement. Our world is also full of pollution, corruption, poverty, crime, injustices and vision loss that can all become detriment in your journey of life. This may come as temporary suffering to build you up. Your negative experiences in your walk are the immunizations for the cutting words, attitudes, ways, struggles, problems, rise and fall of others to better serve them. Thus, you may belong to your potential audience/clients by race, affiliations, gender, experiencing similar issue as a champion to birth vision and for your promotion. A champion is of no promotional value with a tarnished, distorted image of self and the world. Distorted pictures can incriminate or make you look bad in front of others. External and internal images which do not add value to your life should not be harbored by a champion. A champion is able to move forward by willfully getting rid of some of these negative images like hate, bias, offences and old wounds. However, it is impossible to root out issues in your bloodline without the knowledge of God’s words and how to use them offensively and defensively. God’s words provide you with the unfolding views about people, situations, purpose and affirmative power of your voice. The focal points, vision, speed, parameters of a champion should align with God’s view to remove those hindering distorted images. Potential millionaires are homeless and living on the streets as drug addicts because of the pictures they have carried of themselves. Negative pictures have caused many people to drink and generate drug habits that have cost them their jobs, homes, relationships, children, health and dignity. We are all a work in progress like a shabby construction site with cones and signs “work in progress”. A “championship walk” takes time with moments of ugly, dusty and frustrating appearance to be encouraged by God’s words during this phase to remind them not to give up. There are too many abandoned projects, individuals, hope, dreams, field of studies because people were discouraged to continue by the negative displays and comments during the work in progress phase. The truth is that God cannot give you a project you are unable to handle. He has made provision for every champion according to his/her field. There are keyboards, keynotes, patterns, telescopes, microscopes, hoes, paints, brushes, words, pens, papers, brooms, etc in the puzzle tray. There is something in the tray for everybody. It takes you as a champion, who has seen your finished product by faith, to pick your tools in God’s tray to assemble a finished product. God has already seen you as a champion. It is your responsibility to see yourself as God sees. He wants you to take pride in your creativity by not assembling the product for you. RELIABLE INFORMATION AND MEANINGFUL UPDATES SUSTAIN A CHAMPION Having reliable information in our changing world and adopting them to reform your life is key to staying a champion. Reliable information to counteract every storm, fight every fire and withstand kingdoms on earth comes from God’s words. ( Revelation 19: 11-13) The knowledge of God’s words and using them will protect you from living a destructive and defeated life. ( Hosea 4:6) The most vital information you need to know is that you are created in the image of God to do something too big to handle. However, you need details from God on how to proceed with that task. You are also created by design to relate to God who will in return show you how to relate to others. These two entities will satisfy your inert need to love and give love. Genuine love enables you to see others as co-champions on earth to accomplish purposes, to value and esteem as important sources of your own achievements. This is why the feeling of not contributing makes so many people unhappy. The cutting edge information you need to know is that you are on earth to build healthy relationships using your influences to influence others positively. Your failure to do both no matter how influential you thought you are will result in doing other things to fill in the vacuum.( 1 Samuel 19) However, you can never do any of the two without having genuine love which only comes from knowing God. Knowing God enables you to see yourself as a Champion; an image of God created to use every imagination in your heart to become creative. Your lifestyle also changes as you adopt godly principles in dealing with people, situations and the environment. A champion sees into the future by visualization and puts down in writing what he or she sees to then plan with faith. (Habakkuk 2: 2-3) A champion is not pre-occupied with the present conditions of things which are usually the opposite in developing plans, networking with others and trusting God. Abraham used the same godly principle to focus on God’s promise of being the father of many nations when his natural state was the opposite. God also painted a picture of not looking at those who are presently misinformed, misguided and full of mistakes. But He looks into our hearts, faith and He has deposited into us to give amnesty. (Luke 22:32) Your present painful or struggling beginning should not pollute your earnest intentions to turn around to become the champion God has designed you to be. Abraham was a layback, ignorant man in the beginning who turned around to become wealthy and influential upon knowing God. ( Genesis 12) The knowledge of God enabled him to renew his mindset to relate to both God and people to become victorious. The plan God has for every champion is big for any one to accomplish without Him. God created every champion to relate and connect with Him to fulfill relationship and achievement goals. The champion of the past had their dreams and visions from God with obedience until fruition.( Genesis 37: 5-7; 45) Secondly, God puts burdens on champions to accomplish purposes which manifest in their lives as passions. These passions come with a special grace and interest.