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CHAPTER SIX
-Key #3: Intentional growth-
“You are where you are because of who you are. If you want to get somewhere else,
then you gonna have to change something.” -Eric Thomas
What Is Growth?
If you were to look up the word growth you would find this description, “the process of
increasing or the process of gradual increase.”
Watching my kids grow up has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. My oldest
twin son who is 7, constantly makes statements like, “Papi, when I am 16 I am going to
buy myself this car” or “Papi, I want to comb my hair and wear cologne so I can smell
like a man.” Bless his little heart he is in such a hurry to grow up. He is not interested in
gradually growing up he wants to grow up now! I can remember wanting to do the
same when I was his age too. Fortunately, growth is a gradual process requiring a
component known as, “time.”
I believe holding patterns can serve as an incubator where the “process” of gradual
increase can take place and where we will experience our most significant growth.
In the next section I will introduce to you the concept of Intentional Growth.