What is YOUR Propellant? Fuel your Future

📍 📍 Morning, everybody. This is our flying formation for today. I want to talk about something called Propellant.

What is Propellant?

If I were to define it, I would say it's the thing that makes you keep going when you are OUT of juice. It's the thing that says, you know what? We are going. It's a thing that supersedes effort and emotion. It's something that supersedes feelings. It's something that goes far beyond your mission and vision.

What is My Personal Propellant?

An example of my propellant, and I've shared this story before, goes back to a story of some friends of ours Chris and Leah and their two kids.

I produced a record for Chris and Michael Sweet from Stryper. They were friends of ours, co workers, fantastic people and about 16 or 17 years ago they had moved to Las Vegas and something horrible happened. They were in their Honda Element and somebody hit them from behind and really a worst case scenario happened. Their gas tank exploded.

Their family was burned alive, Chris, Leah, and their two kids, and I'm not saying this to shock anybody or to manipulate anybody, but this to me is my personal propellant. It very simply PROPELS me. Whenever I think about complaining, whenever I think about having a pity party, I think about Chris and Leah, and I think about how they would LOVE to be here to have my problems.

Why it Works?

It frames the context in a very different way. It frames it in gratitude really. Chris and Leah would not be complaining about this. They would love to trade places with us right now and because of that, we're gonna live and DO THIS on behalf of Chris and Leah.

We're going to not complain. We're gonna not have a pity party. We're gonna keep going. We're gonna keep achieving and completing the things, the great things we're called to.

So it's a personal connection to loss, gratitude, and doing things on behalf of somebody else. So that's what propellant is, that's my personal propellant. I do things, not just to selfishly do something. I do them because Chris and Leah. They would love to be in a position to do these things and they're not able to because of what happened to them many years ago. That's an example of my propellant and I want to put that in your pipe to smoke.

• You can work on EFFORT.

• You can work on PASSION.

• You can work on FEELINGS.

• You can work on TALENT.

• You can work on BEING A NICE PERSON.

• All these will get you out of the gate they will work for a season.

Finding Your Personal Propellant

But to really go the distance, as they say, and to really run the race with perseverance, you need your OWN personal propellant. You need something. That is yours. A story, a connection something similar to Chris and Leah. To Own it, digest it and fall in love with that story.

That's our flying in formation today. Your propellant, what is it, how to use it, and why it works. Love you guys and I will see you inside the community today.