08/13/2023
LEADING
I need to lead
I am a born leader… I’ve been told that my entire life, and I’ve demonstrated that through out my life.
I don’t say this to sound cocky or arrogant, I say that because I believe we are all here with a devine purpose, and God gave each of us unique tools and abilities, as well as personalities to go with them… and any abilities I have at all, are all a gift from the good Lord and I will spend the second half of my life using these gifts for His glory, and His purpose!
I don’t feel good when I am not actively leading… being in my professional life or my personal, with anything in my life really…
Today you hear so much of this toxic masculinity BS, and then on the other side of that there lives all the High Value Man stuff.
I say that because I believe the world needs more of the “High Value Men” or Alphas, or Leaders or even the full on “toxic masculinity” thing, whatever you would like to call them, we need more of them to step up right now and Lead, or be Alpha…
We need a new example to take the lead in this world.
RIGHT NOW!
I am going to share with ya’ll that I have allowed myself to lower my expectations, or lower the level of accountability I have had with myself lately.
I have bought into this bu****it we are getting feed constantly, and even though it is on a very minor scale, it is there and I will not deny it anymore.
Ever since I got clean, I have held one promise to myself that I had tried to for years prior.
To be bluntly honest. (when at one point you were the biggest liar you know, it eats at you and becomes a priority to right that wrong if you will)
I am bluntly honest now… at times too honest.
with myself too… and most of the time I hold myself above my excuses. It’s not always easy, and I fail often… but I don’t quit and I don’t stop.
So I am going to share this in hopes that maybe this has happened to one of you as well.
Maybe you’ve taken your foot off the gas a little bit on something, or slacked in your workouts or the ol diet is off track a bit, or maybe gotten a little too comfortable with where you are in life.
Comfort kills…
it kills more dreams than anything, and it does it every single day.
Doesn’t have to be terrible, or drastic at all, but just enough for you to lower your bar even an inch.
Me, and the people I am around or my people… we don’t lower bars, we raise them!
I have never in my life felt more of a purpose than I do right now.
I am exactly where I am supposed to be, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.
But I have taken my foot of the gas a little bit more than usual lately.
…a little too comfortable with taking a nap, or pushing “something” off until tomorrow.
…using an injury as an excuse to have a half ass work out.
…being okay not posting when I should be nor how I know I am supposed to… even though I know the lives I have touched by doing it.
…letting my feelings get in the way of my purpose.
…allowing comfort to slowly creep in and slowly start taking the wind out of my sail.
I could list a million of my short comings and faults, but I share these specific ones, because I think others might be dealing with these as well.
I take this personal.
It pi**es me off as I sit here and type this knowing that I am these things, have done these things…
Even though I know better…
This hurts me because I know this goes deeper than me just being lazy or giving in to comfort.
Im using comfort words to relate to people… but make no mistake about it…. this is a spiritual battle… no, this is an all out war. And this war has nothing to do with the bu****it prizes we get in this world.
This fight is over souls…
-AND IT IS FOR KEEPS!
This isn’t a joke, this isn’t a game…
I am no-one to take my foot of the gas that I have been tasked with stepping on so to speak…
-who do I think I am to even do that…
I am on a mission to show anyone and everyone what God can do in your life if you let him.
not by my words…
not by these writings…
not by my gym posts…
not by anything I do at all…
….. but what I allow Him to do through me.
So this is a call out to everyone who maybe felt like they were meant for little more…
That they maybe had a greater purpose…
-I higher calling.
That there was just a little more to this life…
This is your wake up call!
This is to let you know that there is more, you are meant for a purpose, that you have greatness inside you when you allow Him to use you for His purpose for your life.
DONT WAIT!
Start right now…
I don’t think we’ve got a whole lot of time left…
Humbly,
Kyle J. Stark
