The Biggest Achievement And Mistake Of 2010
My biggest achievement in 2010 was recording and releasing my first major label album while transitioning to become a full time touring artist.
My biggest mistake of 2010 was gazing at my circumstances and glancing at God instead of gazing at God and glancing at my circumstances…
Your turn.
Your Biggest Achievement And Mistake Of 2010…
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
Achievement: Surviving 12 months of grad school
Mistake: not managing my non-homework time better to spend it w/ my 8 yr-old son.
Biggest achievement – graduating from seminary, getting married and moving to Texas.
Biggest mistake – trying to figure everything out by myself and not trusting God.
Biggest Achievement – Still being sane after our second child being born and writing a monthly devo for our church newsletter.
Biggest Mistake – Not giving God more time….15-20 minutes a day is hardly a strong relationship
Biggest Achievement – Helping my kids see and walk with Jesus. (17yr Son and 5yr Daughter)
Biggest Mistake – Being divorced officially and at times letting what my human eyes see and ears hear try to draw me in to doubt of the Hope He has shown me and promises made to restore.
Biggest Achievement-I didn’t give up. I kept trying, even when I didn’t feel like it, even when everything looked really bleak.
Biggest Mistake-Even though I think I tried more to connect with God in 2010 than I have in a long time, maybe ever, I was still incredibly passive. I didn’t give it everything I had.
Achievement – focusing on God despite horrible circumstances and walking forward…
Mistake – the times I didn’t and let fear overcome me…
But God….
Achievement: Ability to lead UP, has never been better.
Mistake: Ability to lead horizontally and down suffered because of to much attention on leading UP.
Biggest achievement: Winning at home w my fam (being all there & stepping up my game as a husband & dad, e.i. Life Balance).
Biggest mistake: Working too much alongside of peers and not seizing the opportunity to share life w them.
Great post Los.
Reading these just show me how what we think are our biggest mistakes are not mistakes at all. It should just be encouragement of what we can do better and learn from to be stronger in our weak area. I love this community. Lots of real people following after God.
Achievement: Moving to a new city to do ministry
Mistake: Thinking it was about me, not God.
Achievement: Following God in the rollar coaster of a year that I’ve had. My wife got pregnant (we weren’t trying) and we had a baby, I excelled in my freelance career, and then worked through being dropped due to budget reasons to where I am returning to employee-ship next week…I don’t know where He’s leading us but it’s been a insane ride.
Mistake: Questioning Him the whole way. Pulling a “David” several times, (God where are you; what are you doing; have you forgotten me, etc.) Knowing He is in control, I stupidly felt like He’d given up…and then it would end with Him coming through like always.
Achievement ~ Surviving the craziness of 4 kids
Mistake ~ Letting the craziness stress me out and not always taking the time to enjoy the craziness.
Achievement: Proposing to my girlfriend.
Mistake: Total lack of spiritual discipline.
Achievement: finally finishing my Medical Coding course
Mistake-Apparently, listening to my supervisor when she told me it was ok to take a deposit when the acct the check was FROM would be overdrawn. She still works there. I don’t.
Biggest Achievement: Trusting God with doctors & nurses who were doing the brain surgery on me.
Biggest Mistake: Not seeking God’s face as much as I should have before the surgery, especially as the date approached for it. I allowed more work and things at home to get to me and not have time to seek Him.
biggest achievement was launching a parenting website
biggest failure was forgetting that pain should be a catalyst
Achievement: Getting my Master’s in Counseling and getting a job as a high school guidance counselor. I begin my career in 2011.
Mistake: In my comfort, I missed a lot of opportunities to meet with God. I used Him when I needed comfort or peace. I know that I missed out on some intimacy because of that. It makes me sad but I know that we can redeem this in the coming days.
Biggest Achievement: Taking a step of faith to ask my girlfriend to marry me after being hurt big time in past relationship
Biggest Failure: In ministry relying too much on my strengths and talents instead of God
Biggest Achievement: Initiated and implemented a new outreach movement for our church, called it ONE love, and set it on the way to incorporate as a non-profit that will change the world.
Biggest Mistake: Too much attention to tension.
Biggest Achievement: jumping in head first w/ God’s grace and launching rentmychurch.com
Biggest Mistake: we’ve made many this past year but the one that sticks out the most is not finding our current web designers sooner in the planning stages. They came in when God needed them to help us make our dream a reality! amdesign.com
Biggest achievement would have to be that i finally pulled the finger out and got myself a job and my biggest mistake was not getting one sooner!!
Congrats on the album btw!
Biggest Achievement:
Moving to Nashville/Making money on my own through free lance work
Biggest Mistake:
Viewing God how I view others
Biggest Achievement: becoming a dad!
Biggest Mistake: overlooking my wife.
Achievement: Recording my first EP in Nashville with some crazy-talented musicians playing on my songs.
Mistake: wasted a lot of time doubting and stressing. A LOT.
Achievement: Finishing seminary after 6 years – squee!
Mistake: Thinking we could not make it to Africa twice in one year
achievement: first marathon. 3:34:16. raised $1700 for xxxchurch.com!
Mistake: not taking enough risks
Positives: Going back to school to finish my degree. Leading our church for the past few months while we search for a new sr pastor.
NEGATIVES: waiting for some imaginary person to give me permission for everything I feel I should do. it ends with me procrastinating and rationalizing.
I’ve been thinking about this post and the responses to it. Being the word geek I am, it has led me to contemplate – what is an “achievement” and what is a “mistake”? Is releasing my book an achievement? If it is, is that achievement even mine when I can take no credit for the conversion story it represents? Can my ongoing struggle with gluttony, control, anger and other character defects/shortcomings be characterized as “mistakes”? Can “I didn’t give enough time to God” be an honest answer and not lead me to stop in my tracks in deep, forlorn repentance rather than hitting “submit comment” and going on with my day? All this to say, I still don’t have a solid answer, but you got me thinking…
Biggest achievement: starting Modern Reject and somehow sticking with it, being overwhelmingly blessed in the process.
Biggest mistake: Thinking God was out to get me, when in fact all He wants to do is pour out His grace.
I given this a lot of thought, too much perhaps because I have no clue. I suppose graduating, I mean actually receiving in the mail a piece of paper that says I am now a degreed citizen by all forms of management says the Oklahoma Christian University degree board may be a acknowledgement. I fear that it may just be a 100k dollar piece of paper that at any time they are going to call me and request it back telling me that I am missing some credits – it has happened, to me.
That being said my years mistake – doing nothing with said degree. I am not working, tried to work, failed, or rather never got hired. So… giving up on said degree perhaps?!
Biggest achievement: 1) Finishing the unabridged (English translation) of Les Misérables and 2) continuing to have lots of time for my family, even though work was super busy.
Biggest mistake: trying to solve all my problems on my own rather than bringing them to God first.
Achievement: giving up college baseball for the calling of ministry on my life
Mistake: waiting so long to do so
Achievment: Realizing, confessing and correcting that I was living above my means.
Mistake: Spending too much time looking backwards instead of forwards.