Sandra Hubbard

Have you set your 2025 goals? I do this each January.

I’ve selected 3 goals that excite me (and no goals I should or ought to do.)

But for years I would get to mid February and those goals were just wishes taken over by discouragement or distractions.

My focus turns from the feeling that achieving the goal would give me to all the reasons accomplishing it just isn’t happening.

It’s what I call having a grapes vs giants mindset. A great example of this is found in Numbers 13.

12 men are sent to scope out the land God has promised to them.

Their goal is to inspect it and bring back a full report on their findings.

Their assessment of what they saw determined what they experienced!

You see, 12 of those men saw an environment with “milk and honey and this (grapes) is its fruit” along with men of “great size” giants who made them look and feel like “grasshoppers.”

2 of those 12 saw the same exact thing. Grapes and giants.

10 men focused on the giants and never enjoyed the grapes.

2 focused on the grapes and trusted God to help them defeat the giants standing in their way.

Joshua and Caleb were the only 2 who experienced a promise meant for thousands.

Caleb’s mindset is yes there are giants but “we should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.”

We all need a Caleb in our inner circle!!!

And that is the power of possessing a grapes focused mindset.

You will always get what you focus on – where you direct your attention, energy and intentions.

Whatever your goals are: lose 20 pounds, pay off debt, double your sales, declutter every square foot of your home until resembles a sanctuary and not a storage room, start a business, learn a new skill, travel to your dream city/country, buy a vacation home – whatever it is – the grapes will exist with giants – all the obstacles, detours, moods, feelings and reasons why you can’t achieve your goal.

If you focus on those giants you will never enjoy your grapes (the results and feelings that come with the fulfillment of a goal).

You and I have a choice today.

We can focus on our goals and be willingly to confront and overcome our giants.

Or let those giants keep us stuck and never dining on the grapes.

Focus requires intention and discipline to defeat the giants and enjoy the grapes!

Wishing you all the success you seek in 2025!!