Category: Principles of Trust, Hope, and Reliability

What you focus on has a tremendous affect on the outcome of your day and future.  In the world that we all live in, there are undercurrents of thought that would bring you into negativity and defeat.

You could call this a haze of ground fog that tries to suck you into its level of thinking.  Of course, when you walk around in a fog, your ability to see in front of you is highly limited.

Walking in such a haze can cause your feelings to be affected about where you are and what you are accomplishing in your life.

It is a very limiting perspective.  When you are in such a haze, you mainly are focusing on the here and now versus what is possible for the future.

Things look dim and discouragement may even set in.  Really, this is a vision problem more than anything else.

If you have the desire to succeed in life then you must have an inspiring vision that will pull you above the hazy fog of your current circumstances.

Without a better perspective about where you are going, you really can get stuck in the fog.

What you need to do to overcome this problem is to think about what is good in life.

It is altogether too easy to complain about the circumstances that are affecting you right now, but if you want to soar above the fog, then you must be willing to adjust your focus on a positive vision of the future that is healthy and productive in its nature.

Without an inspiring vision of good things that are possible, you naturally descend into the visionless views of a hazy ground fog that capture your thoughts with chains of hopelessness.

You really don’t want to hang out in the hazy ground fog for too long or it will affect your feelings and potential for a better tomorrow.

Really, it is imperative that you visualize good things for your heart to overcome the temporary difficulties that you are encountering.

If you count your blessings and turn away from the pain of the moment, then your feelings will adjust to better ones.

Operating in a spirit of gratitude will also help you to overcome your temporary condition of only seeing a few feet in front of your face.

Things will improve!  You simply need to focus on a better future with positive outcomes.

Maybe you need a heavenly vision.  History is full of examples of people who were at their wit’s end and prayed for a better future and God gave them a vision of what they needed.

Inspired vision has the affect of pulling you out of a low mindset and into a picture of what is positively possible.

Turning aside from the hazy ground fog of mediocrity and focusing on a super positive inspired vision of greatness, exceptionalism, and success will super-charge your heart into a place where all you see is the sky above you!

This vision of greatness will draw you out of your visionless future, which is ultimately blocking your success with pain, complaining, selfishness, discouragement, depression, and the death of a better tomorrow.

Turning from darkness to light is the only way you can escape the fog.

Get into positive thinking and focus on good things as you remove yourself from the fog of negativity.

Live for what is right and do a 180 degree turn away from the difficulties that encompass you in the visionless hazy ground fog, so that you can rise above mediocrity and soar with great vision with the eagles.

God bless you and have a tremendous day – here’s to escaping the fog!

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Paul J. Eberhardt – Author

A Paul J. Eberhardt Weekly Illuminator Original

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In a world of ever-competing focuses, there are many diversions and deceptions that can easily sidetrack us from our main goals.

If your faith is grounded in truth and you have a very strong mind to accomplish something of great value, then you must focus very strongly on it in order to make it come to pass.

Another way of looking at this is that you must believe something is possible before you can endeavor to achieve it.

You must have an overcoming attitude about the problems that will inevitably challenge your progress and your faith as you move toward your goals.

If you have counter-competing goals, “Plan B, C, D, Etc. goals,” then it is imperative that you either set them aside or eliminate them completely from the equation of your main focus.

If you do not set these competing goals aside or eliminate them, then you will likely have problems with confusing thoughts about your main goal and will not have the drive to continue with it.

Ultimately, Plan B, C, D, Etc. will get in the way and cause you not to go as far or get anywhere with your Plan A Main Goal.

But you say that you can multi-task and are an expert multi-tasker.  That may be true, but it may also muddy the water of your main goal and take the focus and energy away from it that you need to make it come to pass.

This does, of course, have to do with the value that you place on your main goal.  If Plan B, C, D, Etc. counter the focus of the main goal and you don’t have the intensity of faith (confidence and courage) to achieve the main goal, then you will certainly need to set the countering plans aside so you can keep the main goal, the main goal.

Priority is king when it comes to achieving the main goal over the countering and competing goals.

If you want your hopes and dreams to come to pass, then you must have a plan to achieve them, one by one, that focuses on the value, priority, and ultimately the intensity of your focus on the goal.

Working the plan of each goal will take real work and will ultimately be the deciding factor of whether or not you will bring the dream to pass from your mind to the physical realm.

Continuing to focus on the dream as if you already have it is imperative to getting what you want, because it keeps you inspired to move ahead with the plan that you are working, even when times get tough and everything seems to be going in the wrong direction.

Having a hot burning desire in your heart to get what you are focusing on, based on a picture or dream of what you want to come to pass is what you need to get what you want.

This may be as important to you achieving your goal as having the basic faith, courage, and dream to get your goal to manifest in the future.

Ultimately, achieving your goal-based-dreams comes down to an ingredients list:

1. You need truth-based faith  – the belief that you can get what you want – whatever it is that you desire.  This faith will make you strong and courageous about what you want.  You have to eliminate fear, doubt, and unbelief (lies about what is possible) in order to keep your truth-based faith strong.
2. This faith will stir a hot burning desire in you once you have a dream or vision for what you want.  It is important that you have an inspired dream that comes from a good source – preferably not a selfish one.
3. You should have friends who agree with you and back you up in your dream.
4. You should be generous with people in need and operate in rejoicing toward God about what He has given you already in a vision or dream.  He will repay you exponentially more with greater faith over your generosity and help you with more opportunities to get ahead as you work your plan to achieve the goal that you are focusing on.
5. You must operate in gratitude along the way to achieving your main goal as whiners don’t go very far – too many complaints.
6. You must strengthen your faith as you move ahead, because drawbacks or  problems will happen.  They are a normal part of the process to fulfilling life’s goals and dreams and this is especially true when you begin to not only focus, but work your plan to achieving your goal.  You must have an overcoming attitude when drawbacks start coming your way.
7. You must keep your chin up and have a attitude that you already have what you want and that it is only a matter of time before you have what you have already been given in a dream.  This must be accompanied by that hot burning desire in your heart to keep moving forward – perseverance is the key!
8. Keep going and push with gratitude until you get what you want – you got it and it is in your hand – don’t give up until you get it!

All in all, it can be summed up in one 3 word phrase:  FAITH, HOPE, LOVE.

If you have the belief and courage to face and overcome challenges and problems with unwavering boldness (FAITH) — arising from the inspiration of positive, inspired faith (anchored in a dream, vision, or mental picture that drives you toward your main goal ) (HOPE) — then you are undeniably an official “GO-GETTER!”

Your love for life-inspired goals will come to you as you proclaim what you want and move ahead with the right plan.  It is the action or working of your main plan that is the most important part of the equation to help you achieve the main goal that you are presently focusing on (LOVE).

Don’t let the problems of the plan trip you up, but keep focusing on what it is that you want, and move forward in gratitude and you will get what you want.

Desires and dreams come from the heart and God-inspired ones are the best ones – so focus on them and you will not be disappointed with the fruitfulness that comes from the reward of good applied faith.

Peace and Prosperity to You!

Take Care of Yourself and Have A Great Time Achieving Your Goals  – God Bless You!

Sincerely,

 

Paul J. Eberhardt – Author

A Paul J. Eberhardt Weekly Illuminator Original

The Weekly Illuminator.com © Copyright 2025

When you go to the grocery store and buy something you need, do you ever consider the deeper transactions that are going on lawfully or monetarily in front of your eyes or behind the scenes?

If you never thought this way, allow me the pleasure of helping you to understand things from my perspective!

Let’s take look at just what happens when you purchase something from a store.

First, you must give a monetary unit of equal exchange value to the store so that you can possess the item you want.  Since most people aren’t involved in the literal bartering of goods for goods (commodities), they use money.

• Money usually comes in two different forms, at least in our modern civilized day:  a. cash and coins  b. credit or debits from an account – i.e.:  digits.  Years ago people used coins (silver, gold, & metals of other types), but some countries used other things, like sheep skins, sea shells, beads or other easily traded and highly valued commodities.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money

• When you finish the financial transaction, you get a receipt.

• A receipt is a not only a piece of paper – oh no, it is a dated financial instrument that is commonly known as a proof of purchase and plays the part of a title deed to your newly purchased item!

• Without your receipt you could literally be accused of theft if you leave the store without one.

• The money that you have purchased your product with in today’s day is based upon a contract either directly with your bank or with the Federal government whose cash you are using.

• The bank must transfer funds (digits) to the bank of your merchant whom you have purchased a product from.

• If you have used cash, then the store is paid already.

• The store then takes the cash and deposits it into a bank and gets a digit in exchange.
• The store goes on to make more sales do it a multitude of these transaction which hopefully results in very good profits for the store, having compiled a large number of digits!

Now the question you need to ask yourself is this:  How valuable is a digit?

Digits can be compared to words.  Words, like digits (money) must be obtained through work (education / investing – your gain the right knowledge – i.e.;  your word bank grows) and should be wisely spent and invested in yourself and the lives of others.

As you grow in knowledge, your vocabulary increases and so does the amount of spending (speaking and writing) that you can afford to do.

If you are a wise investor and spender of words, then you will be considered wise.  Investing in the right words will only make you a more intelligent person and learning how to properly speak them (spending) will cause you to be seen as wise by others.

Be a blessing with your words and you will be planting seeds of love that will come back to you. If you are a good investor – placing your words wisely into the lives of others, you might just be surprised at how many opportunities to make digits come your way!

Take care to invest wisely and may your life be filled with many friends and a wallet full of digits!

(I’m investing here…)

Blessings to you and may you have a life full of digits – Sincerely,

 

Paul J. Eberhardt – Author

 

A Paul J. Eberhardt Weekly Illuminator Original

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