A Word for the Last Stretch: #BreakTheTape

Here we are in the final 40-plus days of 2013. You have gone the distance this year. By Gods grace you have invested a massive amount of time, energy, effort, sacrifice and dedication to put yourself here in this position. But it will be this last leg that will determine if your entire year ends strong as a success or as you hobble across the finish line at the back of the pack. That difference will be determined NOW, right now in this moment. Lose another week or two and you will be too far behind to recover. Will you dig deep, double down and put in that last kick to finish strong and achieve your goals? To do so here is what you want to fixate on: “Breaking the tape. Lessons about the race:
1) The race is won or lost in the final push. All your hard work all year can get flushed down the drain in the last two months and two weeks.
2) During that final push focus only one thing, breaking the tape. Don’t let the crowd; the circumstance or the critics at your back fracture your focus. Your body will follow your eyes. Keep your focus on breaking the tape.
13Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus Philippians 3:13-14 excerpts from my message#finishingstrongbreakingthetape