{"id":31,"date":"2014-02-06T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becominggreat\/?p=31"},"modified":"2014-02-06T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:31:15","slug":"greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becominggreat\/2014\/02\/greatness.html","title":{"rendered":"Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning with a thought,&#8221;every person is born with a dream.&#8221; It&#8217;s true.\u00a0 No matter where you may find yourself presently, there is a dream inside of you.\u00a0 See, the tendency is to think that our circumstances become our identity.\u00a0 You have to be certain that you are here on purpose and for a purpose.\u00a0 This is the truth.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not blowing smoke or trying to make you feel good!\u00a0 If you had any idea of how much you are loved and how much faith it took for you to exist, you would know how great\u00a0 you are.\u00a0 See regardless of what your faith may be, there is something to be said that you were born and some didn&#8217;t make it to full term.\u00a0 Receive this truth!!! You are not the failures of your life.\u00a0 You are not what others have spoken over you.\u00a0 You are great and cut from a cloth of perfection.\u00a0 Part of what brings clarity to your life is embracing that there is more for your life.\u00a0 My biggest breakthrough with clarity came when I realized that what so many spoke over my life was a LIE.\u00a0 I then began to say to myself &#8220;God didn&#8217;t bring me to this place to leave like this.&#8221; I kept repeating this to myself, through tears and the shooting pains as the lies left my body.<\/p>\n<p>I began to see clearly for the first time in my life.\u00a0 Knowing that there is more for you helps you shift your internal focus towards the dream that you may have neglected.\u00a0 Every successful-dream-attaining-great person goes through a time where nothing in their life makes sense and they go through a very dry, confusing and lonely season.\u00a0 But, what makes them truly successful is that though no one is there to cheer them on, they themselves become their own cheerleader.\u00a0 They begin to say to themselves &#8220;there is more than this.&#8221;\u00a0 I teach principles.\u00a0 One that you MUST incorporate into your life if you want clarity is:\u00a0 <strong>In all your getting, get understanding (Proverbs 4:7). <\/strong>In<strong> <\/strong>other words whatever you do get clarity.\u00a0 As I stated in an earlier post, you must be intentional about getting clear about your life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the only way you ever begin to walk into your destiny of greatness.\u00a0 Remember you have the ability to not only change your world, but the world as a whole.\u00a0 Be Great!<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until Next Time,<\/p>\n<p>Pervis<\/p>\n<p><em>Pervis Taylor, III is an Author, Life Coach, Speaker and Contributor. His books Pervis Principles Volume 1 and 2 are available exclusively on his website: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pervistaylor.com\/author\" target=\"_blank\">www.pervistaylor.com\/author<\/a><\/em><em>. He resides in New York City. 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