Faith is the ability to see what is unseen. This concept can be applied to many areas of life whether it is personal or professional. In my business as a fitness trainer, I deal with many overweight individuals who want to lose weight potentially for the first time in decades. Faith becomes a very integral part of their weight loss program. They are working to lose weight and have no idea how long it will take, or if it can even happen. These clients, my clients need faith in their weight loss program as much as they need to know which foods to eat. The reason for them needing faith is that they need someone to believe in them until they can believe in themselves. This is very important because these clients, most of the time, cannot remember the last time that they were at their ideal weight.
Like my clients, we all want someone to believe in us and our ideas, but how do we stay true to our goals even if we have a support team. The answer is faith. Faith allows us to see what is unseen. When I was starting out in business, I had no money, no investors, no location, no clients, and no equipment. It was very easy to look around and assume that I was not going to have a successful business. In fact, most people thought that I was more than a wee bit crazy. I heard comments like, “How are you going to be a successful trainer without clients or a location.”
Faith allowed me to achieve all of this. Because with faith, it did not matter whether or not I had clients to train at the time, I would find clients. Faith allowed me to see what I wanted my business to be like. I could see the clients and I could see the location. What this did for me was to free my mind and creativity. Without creativity and imagination, without faith, a freeze is put on the creative process. Any label tends to serve as a shortcut and reduces thinking and awareness. The tendency is to believe that once we have labeled something or someone, we understand it. However, faith serves to challenge our assumptions and behaviors, and it opens our minds and hearts to new possibilities. Faith allows us to take failure as feedback instead of defeat, and faith becomes the key to success.
Faith is similar to watching a basketball game. If you taped your favorite team’s basketball game that you haven’t watched but already know the score. Then, even if your team appears to be losing with no chance of victory, you are not fazed because you know the score and how the game will end. Faith allows you to do the same thing. Faith allows you to see the bigger picture even when others cannot. The rest is really just a matter of desire; that is how bad do you want to do what is necessary to realize your dreams and goals. After all, sometimes success is not easily attained; yet we have this consolation, that the harder the conflict; the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives things its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
