Be a PACESETTER

By definition, a “pacesetter” is a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated. Each of us can become a Pacesetter! In the late '70s I became acquainted with a former Naval Aviator by the name of Hartman Rector, Jr. He shared some great advice on this process.
Let's add to the definition above...
*P.A.C.E. is an acronym for Positive Attitude Controls Everything!

Here are five principles on becoming a "PaceSetter"...

*Believe you can do it! This is the first important principle. All things are possible to them that believe. This principle also includes believing in yourself. Self-esteem is vitally important to successful performance. Self-esteem is different than conceit—conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. It is immensely important that you feel good about yourself. I am sure that you can only feel good about yourself if you are on the way to reaching your potential.

*Perform positively! Eliminate all negative words and phrases from your vocabulary. Refuse to think negatively, for as a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7). Refuse also to speak negatively. Now you have become an optimist rather than a pessimist. There is a big difference between an optimist and a pessimist—one is positive, a believer; the other is negative, a doubter. The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he’s back on his feet. The pessimist says, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” The optimist says, “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

*Pray always, and be believing! Faith begins with belief. What man can conceive, he can achieve. Believe you can do it.

*Look to the Lord for your blessings! Some wise counsel share with me as I was growing up was...“There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated, and when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated”

*Make the sacrifice! There is no such thing as “something for nothing”. This is where the concept of the "second mile" is applied! We do what's expected for the pay we receive (that's the First Mile). But to be a PaceSetter, we must exceed the expectations of those we serve! “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” (Luke 6:38.)