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What steps can you take to make your life a success? How
should you begin?
In the first three parts of this series we saw the importance of developing a career plan. You shouldn't rely on others to do your planning. In fact, when others chart your course (such as when parents decide a career for a child), your plans often don't fit the circumstances. The person whose life is being micromanaged can end up feeling trapped and unhappy.
It's best if you take the time to take stock of your own assets, then create your plans for a career based on godly spiritual principles—including due consideration of how your life's work can benefit the world in the age to come after Jesus Christ returns.
In this concluding installment we take a look at two final principles to help you along your journey: building a network of support, and not automatically accepting limitations others may place on you.
First we'll consider the advice of Ecclesiastes 4:9-10. The New Revised
Standard Bible translates King Solomon's words this way: "Two are better
than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall,
one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does
not have another to help."
Life is a journey, not a destination. Any long trip holds the potential for surprises, snags, delays and other challenges. So it is with life in general.
Even when we follow an overall strategy as we should, things don't always go our way. The variables are almost endless. They might involve health—your own or that of a family member. They could include finances or involve conflicts with scheduling or problems with a class if your plan includes college or trade school. They might even be psychological, prompting you to lose your focus and slip into a counterproductive frame of mind.
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