The Fanatic vs. The Faithful: Ways of Change

When you get excited about making change in your life do you 

tend to become a fanatic or faithful? 

Fanatics are those people who hear something new and immediately begin to implement it in their lives regardless of how it impacts other things. Those who are faithful hear something new, chew on it for a little while, & develop a plan to incrementally implement it in their lives.

Both the fanatic & the faithful have great strengths. When you’re a fanatic you’re willing to jump without looking, trail blaze, take great risks, & endure scorn for the sake of drastic change. When you’re faithful you are consistent, calculated, intentional, & see things through to the end.

However, along with the strengths, both have great weaknesses. Fanatics tend to: start well, but finish poorly, don’t always calculate how the risk of drastic change effects others, & get extremely excited about implementing something, but quickly lose interest when no progress immediately occurs. The faithful tend to: not be willing to move unless they have everything figured out, see risk as liability so they don’t venture out, & don’t like changing directions when something is started.

If you want to see powerful change 

in your life you need to be willing to be both 

a FANATIC & FAITHFUL. 

Some changes need to happen drastically & immediately, others need to happen slowly & incrementally. In some areas of your life you need to become fanatical. You need to be willing to do things you have never done fast in order to see results you have never seen. However, in order to apply certain changes you need to take the time to think through their effects on your life, your spouse, your kids, your family, your team, etc. & patiently implement them.

You can’t be afraid of change. If you are not changing you are not growing. However, if you try to change too fast it can lead to sabotage & if you try to change too slowly it may be too late! Don’t let fear paralyze you any longer. It’s time to learn how to make necessary, fanatical determinations in your heart & faithfully walk them out, step by step. You’re going to do it, today is the day!

Let’s Do This Together

When it comes to change, are you more of a fanatic or faithful? How do you need to grow in both areas in order to see impactful & lasting change?