Who are you becoming? Now most of us have become all of these things by sheer circumstance, but what if I told you that before the world changed over night, we were all becoming something.
My life has changed drastically, has yours? I think we all have BECOME something we didn’t think we would have become 2 months ago.
Now most of us have BECOME all of these things by sheer circumstance, but what if I told you that BEFORE the world changed over night, we were all BECOMING something.
I don’t know about you, but when I think of the areas in my life I want to become better at, there are significant challenges, roadblocks, that keep me from where I am to where I want to be. What are the challenges?
Here are a few: Distraction, inability to focus on what’s most important, some struggle with getting motivated, impatience on the process of becoming, (Why am I not seeing results quicker), excuses, failure, the list could go on and on.
Name your challenge. Of the list I just read, or maybe for you it’s something else. I want you to name it.
Craig Groeschel, Who is the Pastor of Life.Church based out of OKC has a great quote. He says “ You can’t defeat what you don’t define.” DEFINE IT. DECLARE IT, and then YOU WILL DEFEAT IT.
For me, my challenge is focusing on the most important. I’m in many ways an Entrepreneur. Started something from scratch and there are SO many plates spinning. Early on in the organization I was jumping from thing to thing. I was working 3 days a week delivering kitchen cabinets just to help provide for my family and then in the evenings or spare time I would work on getting our church started. Starting a non-profit or any company has a ton of challenges. Meeting with people, we hosted many people at our house, training leaders, casting vision, developing a website, creating logos, we did a 4th of July parade before the church started and handed out koozies to promote the church, canvased neighborhood, raising funds, determining what equipment we needed, ordering that equipment, finding a location to meet. So many different plates just to name a few. Wow just saying that all gives me a little anxiety. haha
What is it for you? What is your biggest challenge? Name it. You can’t defeat what you don’t define.
So in this first episode I want to give you what I call the
3 D’s of Becoming
Here’s the first D.
Think about this: “The starting point to becoming, is desire.” -Zack Harris
We start here because you can’t become what you don’t desire. Without desire, there is no motivation, no goal, no passion, no purpose.
When I was young all I wanted was to BECOME the best basketball player I could become. I had desire and it drove me to practice a lot. I mean my friends and I had jock jams playing outside, lower that rim to 6ft maybe 5ft and emulate our best MJ dunk with our tongue sticking out. Some of you are laughing right now because you know you did the same thing.
Fast forward to adulthood, I know I have a desire to be a great husband to my wife Nicole, an influential, loving father to my son Layton, to become a friend who cares, and become a leader that makes a difference in others lives.
I got into ministry because I had a desire to use my musical gifts in church and lead people in worship. I studied organizational leadership in college but once I started working in a church I realized wow, I really need to grow as a leader. So I had a desire to become a better leader. To this day I have a deep desire to become a leader who can help people know God and discover that He has a purpose for their lives. Desire led me to start a church, desire led me to grow, desire is still leading me to become.
“The starting point to becoming, is desire.”
My guess is if you are listening to this podcast you have desire. So what do you desire to become? You want to become a better version of yourself, become a better leader, a better spouse, friend, dad, mom, become a business owner, become better at a particular skill? How’s your desire?
I don’t think you would be listening to this if you didn’t have some desire to grow. Congratulations. “The starting point to becoming, is desire.”
That is the first step. But let’s not stop there.
What is discipline?
It is choosing between what I want now and what I want most.
For example, I may be trying to decide between if I want to workout OR do I want to sit on my comfy cozy couch, eat oreos with milk and watch my favorite show on Netflix. What I want NOW is to sit on that comfy cozy couch. BUT, What do I want most? I want to be healthy, active, disciplined, and stay alive to watch my son grow up, so instead of choosing between what I want NOW, I choose what I want MOST and I do a crossfit workout and get my butt kicked for an hour. Can’t tell you how terrible it is at the time, but my feeling of being disciplined is really high.
Discipline is choosing between what I want now and what I want most.
One of the most practical examples I can give you is to do 1 thing at the start of the day that makes you feel disciplined. Make your bed, run around the block one time, floss your teeth, read your bible, write down something you are thankful for, cross something off your to do list, accomplish something early and you will feel more disciplined throughout the day.
I like to think of it this way:
“Desire gets you going, but discipline keeps you becoming.”
-Zack Harris
Discipline says “I’m committed to it.”
The last D is
“Determination is doing what needs to be done,
even when you don’t feel like it.”
Right now I’m loving Sunday nights because on ESPN is the Michael Jordan documentary “The Last Dance.” Tells the story of the 1998 season of the Chicago bulls 6th championship. I was in middle school during this time.
In the documentary before the Bulls won their first championship in 1991 they couldn’t beat the bad boy Detroit pistons. They were more physical, more mature, smarter, and a better team. But Jordan was DETERMINED to figure out how to beat them. Started trusting his team more, went to the weight room, got stronger.
Listen, you are going to get knocked down, you will fail, you will lose, you will miss a day, but don’t miss two. To truly see progress you must keep going. Determination says “I won’t give up.” I used to say this to myself “Don’t miss Monday.” I was determined to start my week off right.
Determination says “I won’t give up.”
So let’s recap and then I’ll give you a couple questions to contemplate or discuss with someone:
We are all becoming someone or something. Who are you becoming?
What challenge or obstacle is getting in your way. You can’t defeat what you don’t define.
Remember the three D’s of BECOMING.
Questions to consider
Well I hope this was helpful to you. Since we are just getting this podcast started it would mean so much if you gave this podcast a review or if this is really valuable to you, I’d really appreciate you sharing this on your social media that would mean so much to me.
Listen, you have what it takes, you were meant to thrive.
In the word of George Elliot, It’s never too late to be what you might have been. So let’s declare “I AM BECOMING.
See ya next time
Welcome to the Becoming podcast. A podcast focused on helping you BECOME the person you’ve always wanted to be in this ever changing, and ever distracting world. We all want to become better and yet we’re all juggling so much. Family, work, friendships, expectations, and it can feel like we never have time for personal growth. We want to honor your time so this will be great, practical content for you. My name is Zack Harris, and I’ll be your host today. WELL …...
My life has changed drastically, has yours? I think we all have BECOME something we didn’t think we would have become 2 months ago.
Now most of us have BECOME all of these things by sheer circumstance, but what if I told you that BEFORE the world changed over night, we were all BECOMING something.
I don’t know about you, but when I think of the areas in my life I want to become better at, there are significant challenges, roadblocks, that keep me from where I am to where I want to be. What are the challenges?
Here are a few: Distraction, inability to focus on what’s most important, some struggle with getting motivated, impatience on the process of becoming, (Why am I not seeing results quicker), excuses, failure, the list could go on and on.
Name your challenge. Of the list I just read, or maybe for you it’s something else. I want you to name it.
Craig Groeschel, Who is the Pastor of Life.Church based out of OKC has a great quote. He says “ You can’t defeat what you don’t define.” DEFINE IT. DECLARE IT, and then YOU WILL DEFEAT IT.
For me, my challenge is focusing on the most important. I’m in many ways an Entrepreneur. Started something from scratch and there are SO many plates spinning. Early on in the organization I was jumping from thing to thing. I was working 3 days a week delivering kitchen cabinets just to help provide for my family and then in the evenings or spare time I would work on getting our church started. Starting a non-profit or any company has a ton of challenges. Meeting with people, we hosted many people at our house, training leaders, casting vision, developing a website, creating logos, we did a 4th of July parade before the church started and handed out koozies to promote the church, canvased neighborhood, raising funds, determining what equipment we needed, ordering that equipment, finding a location to meet. So many different plates just to name a few. Wow just saying that all gives me a little anxiety. haha
What is it for you? What is your biggest challenge? Name it. You can’t defeat what you don’t define.
So in this first episode I want to give you what I call the
3 D’s of Becoming
Here’s the first D.
Think about this: “The starting point to becoming, is desire.” -Zack Harris
We start here because you can’t become what you don’t desire. Without desire, there is no motivation, no goal, no passion, no purpose.
When I was young all I wanted was to BECOME the best basketball player I could become. I had desire and it drove me to practice a lot. I mean my friends and I had jock james playing outside, lower that rim to 6ft maybe 5ft and emulate our best MJ dunk with our tongue sticking out. Some of you are laughing right now because you know you did the same thing.
Fast forward to adulthood, I know I have a desire to be a great husband to my wife Nicole, an influential, loving father to my son Layton, to become a friend who cares, and become a leader that makes a difference in others lives.
I got into ministry because I had a desire to use my musical gifts in church and lead people in worship. I studied organizational leadership in college but once I started working in a church I realized wow, I really need to grow as a leader. So I had a desire to become a better leader. To this day I have a deep desire to become a leader who can help people know God and discover that He has a purpose for their lives. Desire led me to start a church, desire led me to grow, desire is still leading me to become.
“The starting point to becoming, is desire.”
My guess is if you are listening to this podcast you have desire. So what do you desire to become? You want to become a better version of yourself, become a better leader, a better spouse, friend, dad, mom, become a business owner, become better at a particular skill? How’s your desire?
I don’t think you would be listening to this if you didn’t have some desire to grow. Congratulations. “The starting point to becoming, is desire.”
That is the first step. But let’s not stop there.
What is discipline?
It is choosing between what I want now and what I want most.
For example, I may be trying to decide between if I want to workout OR do I want to sit on my comfy cozy couch, eat oreos with milk and watch my favorite show on Netflix. What I want NOW is to sit on that comfy cozy couch. BUT, What do I want most? I want to be healthy, active, disciplined, and stay alive to watch my son grow up, so instead of choosing between what I want NOW, I choose what I want MOST and I do a crossfit workout and get my butt kicked for an hour. Can’t tell you how terrible it is at the time, but my feeling of being disciplined is really high.
Discipline is choosing between what I want now and what I want most.
One of the most practical examples I can give you is to do 1 thing at the start of the day that makes you feel disciplined. Make your bed, run around the block one time, floss your teeth, read your bible, write down something you are thankful for, cross something off your to do list, accomplish something early and you will feel more disciplined throughout the day.
I like to think of it this way:
“Desire gets you going, but discipline keeps you becoming.”
-Zack Harris
Discipline says “I’m committed to it.”
The last D is
“Determination is doing what needs to be done,
even when you don’t feel like it.”
Right now I’m loving Sunday nights because on ESPN is the Michael Jordan documentary “The Last Dance.” Tells the story of the 1998 season of the Chicago bulls 6th championship. I was in middle school during this time.
In the documentary before the Bulls won their first championship in 1991 they couldn’t beat the bad boy Detroit pistons. They were more physical, more mature, smarter, and a better team. But Jordan was DETERMINED to figure out how to beat them. Started trusting his team more, went to the weight room, got stronger.
Listen, you are going to get knocked down, you will fail, you will lose, you will miss a day, but don’t miss two. To truly see progress you must keep going. Determination says “I won’t give up.” I used to say this to myself “Don’t miss Monday.” I was determined to start my week off right.
Determination says “I won’t give up.”
So let’s recap and then I’ll give you a couple questions to contemplate or discuss with someone:
We are all becoming someone or something. Who are you becoming?
What challenge or obstacle is getting in your way. You can’t defeat what you don’t define.
Remember the three D’s of BECOMING.
Questions to consider
P A U S E
Well I hope this was helpful to you. Since we are just getting this podcast started it would mean so much if you gave this podcast a review or if this is really valuable to you, I’d really appreciate you sharing this on your social media that would mean so much to me.
Listen, you have what it takes, you were meant to thrive.
In the word of George Elliot, It’s never too late to be what you might have been. So let’s declare “I AM BECOMING.
See ya next time