At 212 degrees water boils.  At 211* it’s just hot.  It doesn’t matter if it is 211.1* or 211.9*, until it reaches 212* it is only hot water.  Let us reach our full potential, let us turn up the heat, and reach our boiling point in life.  Let us reach our goals and dreams.  Let us reach the point where we are at full potential.

A steam train doesn’t run at 211.5, at that point the water is just hot.  The water has to reach its boiling point of 212 degrees in order to make steam, and then the steam works to move the train. 

So many years we never reach our full potential, we get complacent, we let life circumstances, get in our way, or we just give up.  But if we set our eyes on what is true, we can accomplish all things.  We have to have a plan and set goals for our life. 

So what do we have to do to reach our goals and dreams, our boiling point, our 212 degrees?

Reaching our 212 degrees is becoming what we are ordained to be since the beginning of time.  It is reaching our purpose in life, becoming what we are supposed to be.

Five Keys To Reaching Our 212 Degrees and Accomplishing Our Dreams

(Side note) To get what we never had, we must do what we never done.  So many times we want different results, but we keep on doing the same things.  Most doctors call that insanity.  Doing the same exact things, and yet looking for different results.

1.  Great attitude-

        a. Having a great navigation system. (we have to have a plan)

b. Wise men pray for deliverance from fear, so they can go through the situation. 

        c. Most of the time we won’t step out and try because of fear.  God has given us a sound mind, not a spirit of fear.  We must and we have to step out on faith and believe.

d. The storm in me is the thing that’s my biggest problem.

e. In life, we will always be our biggest hurdle, our biggest obstacle, so we must defeat our self in order to win.

f. We must have a great attitude; we must have our priorities, our passion, our purpose all lined up.  We must have a great attitude, we must have a plan.

(Proverbs 14:30)

-A relaxed attitude lengthens life; jealously rots it away. (NLT)

-A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. (NIV)

2.  Don’t fight with your eyes closed-

a. You can only correct/change what you are willing to confront.

        b. If you know you have problems and issues, you need to hit them head on, and not always push them to the side.  You have to open your eyes and fight with your eyes open.

c. You have to realize what you are, and then change your mindset.  If you don’t like who you are, you have to make a change, if that means doing a 360* degree turn and go the other way.

d. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Whatever you want in life, whatever you want to achieve, if you want it, you will fight for it. 

        e. Martin Luther King Jr. fought that all creeds, cultures, and races could walk on equal grounds; his legacy is still standing today.  What will you fight for in your life?

(Proverbs 20:12-13),m

If you love sleep, you will end in poverty.  Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat.

3.  Understand that success is intentional-

a. No one trips over the finish line and says “oops I won”.

No one wins a championship or a big event and look back and says, “How did that happen”. 

b. Success, winning is intentional; it takes hard work and dedication to come out victorious. 

Before the race it takes weeks, months, and even years of practice, training, and dedication before that moment of victory comes.  We have to be dedicated, we have to have a passion, we have to strive to get where we want to go. 

c. Developing your success is on purpose, so if you want success you have to do it.  

d. At times we want supernatural blessings in our life, but we have to bring the natural to the table, so God can bring the super.

(Proverbs 13:4)

Lazy people (sluggish) want much but get little, but those who work (diligent) will prosper and be satisfied.

4.  Choose fate over state-

a. When things happen don’t just accept them. 

Only accept your problems as a temporary state, but not your permanent fate. It’s not my fate to be broke, sick, depressed and down.  You got to realize that the situation that you are in is only temporary. 

b. You can accept it as only being a temporary state, or you can accept it as being your fate, what do you choose?

c. You must and you have to shake off the drama, shake off the negative way of thinking, you have to shake off the old way of thinking.  You have to shake it off and step up, and claim and speak the life you truly want. 

(Mark 11:24)

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

d. We serve a God that can raise the dead.  Whatever is dead in our life, we have to call it and speak that it lives, we have to change our mindset and speak the word, not speak what the naysayers say. 

5.  Stop listening to unqualified people-

a. You need to stop listening to people that’s unqualified.

Family and friends, momma nem, and everyone else may mean well, but at times they do not have the right message for you.  It may be the right message, but not the correct advice for you.  If it’s not the word of God, if it’s not from the bible or have a foundation in the truth, then you are getting the wrong information. 

So many times we listen to family and generation secrets and we incorporate them into our life, but we should only live by the word of God. 

b. We need to stop listening to people that’s not qualified; some people don’t have our same dreams and visions, so they aren’t going to have the same aspirations that we have.

c. Don’t seek advice from people that’s less qualified than you.

“Famous success quotes”

-“Success is discovering your purpose and achieving it.”

-“The idea of success is to get the things you see on the inside (dreams) to happen on the outside (reality).  

-“You will know you have it when, there is no difference between what you see when you dream and what you see when you are awake“.

-“You dream while you are sleep, when you are awake it’s time to make those dreams your reality. Gideon Russell

Whatever you do, whatever your profession is, you should strive to be the best.  Failure shouldn’t be an option, success should be mandatory. 

Before you get started on your goals and dreams, you need to face it with a plan.  Questions you should ask yourself;

What pushes me, what is my driving force, what is the determining factor that won’t allow me to quit or give up? 

For some people it’s their children, some it’s the fact that they don’t want to be a failure, don’t want to be broke, or whatever the situation might be.  You have to decide what is going to keep you going and accomplishing your goals.  What is going to make me fight to stay on track with these resolutions? 

You can reach your 212, but it is all up to you. It’s already spring, so let us all spring forward with accomplishing our goals and dreams, with reaching our 212 degree temperature in life.