"Do you go with the crowd?"

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A six-year-old friend of mine discovered that I live with horses on our farm and got really excited. She asked our horses’ names and wanted to know what they looked like. I said, "Do you like horses?"

"Yes, I do," she said. "I went to horse camp last summer."

"You did?" I said. "Was it fun?"

"You betcha," she said. "The teacher told me that it’s hard to ride ponies. They’re hard to handle. But they weren’t hard for me. I thought they were easy."

"Why were they easy for you?" I said.

"I didn’t believe the teacher. I just got on and rode," she said.

How many times do you let someone else tell you that something you want to do is hard, or impossible, or a real challenge? And then you believe them? Which of course makes the task hard, impossible, and a real challenge?

Like my six-year-old friend, avoid letting others shape your attitude. You see, the majority—"the crowd"—is usually wrong about what’s hard. I mean, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it, right?

Ask God for guidance and follow that, not the crowd, as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.

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