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Although you may never have heard of Millard Fuller, you have probably heard about his work. He’s the founder of Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization started in 1976 to build homes for impoverished people. Millard is also the founder of The Fuller Center for Housing, which was started in 2006.

Unlike many charitable organizations, Habitat for Humanity doesn’t simply give away hand-outs. People who qualify for housing assistance are required to help build their own home. Since 1976, Habitat for Humanity has built over 200,000 homes reaching over a million people in more than 100 countries around the world.

Millard himself is a man who loves the Lord God. He was a self-made millionaire who decided to give up his money to help others in a way that he thought would express God’s love to others. As a result, he has been called one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th Century, and he was awarded the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Habitat for Humanity was founded to help people in third world countries and in poor communities of the rural South in the United States. It has become something far greater than that, though. Habitat for Humanity can be found across Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia, and today boasts approximately 30,000 new houses each year.

Millard Fuller doesn’t change the world by challenging the world. He changes it by challenging individual neighborhoods. The first affiliate was a neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas called “The Devil’s Triangle”. Today, it’s a proud community with no trace of its former downfalls.

Today, there are approximately 1,700 cities across the United States alone that have local affiliates with Habitat for Humanity. Each does what it can, whether it’s one house per year or 100 houses per year. In some cases, homes are simply renovated. In most cases, though, the homes are torn down and replaced completely.

Habitat for Humanity helps eliminate crime and helps children do better in school simply by giving people a neighborhood they can be proud to call home. A great example of this was seen in Americus, Georgia in 2000. A challenge was issued in 1992 to eliminate all substandard housing by the year 2000, and it was accomplished with great results.

Maybe you’ve seen rough times when it comes to your dreams? You’re not alone. Millard Fuller has seen every up and down that the rest of us face. Through everything, he has put his passion first and never given up. If you are truly passionate about something, life can’t stand in your way. Rise to the challenge!

Overcoming Insecurities, and Not Sure What You Should Do?

Are you overcoming insecurities and unsure of what to do?

First step, stop being so unsure.

When you are overcoming your insecurities, it may get really difficult and it can seem more overwhelming and may make us even more insecure than we were to start. Does it sound like we’re acting in vain here?

Well, no, not at all.

When you are working on overcoming all of your insecurities, it’s similar to cleaning out a very cluttered garage.

When you start, you feel overwhelmed when you come to terms with what you must deal with and clear out.

You start throwing things around (realizing your insecurities) and feel like you’ll never get through all of the stuff.

You start feeling like you should quit, but you continue on.

Eventually, stuff gets even messier in there, and you feel like you’re worse off than you were when you began!

In reality, you are close to tossing out the trash (overcoming insecurities), and you just need a little more clearing out. You must give yourself time to sort out the rest of the trash, and put everything where it needs to be.

You notice you have a lot of amazing things hidden in that unnecessary debris and clutter, but it was all buried because you had not yet taken on the mission of overcoming your insecurities.

Overcoming insecurities will take you on a journey that will end in the place that you are at now.

You’ll just be a stronger, more confident person.

The first step to overcoming insecurities is knowing what those insecurities truly are.

Do you think you aren’t the type of person that deserves a good paying job?

Do you have a problem imagining your ideal person being interested in someone like you?

What insecurities must you get over before you know it is alright to feel great about who you are?

Ask that question of yourself, and really listen for the answer. No reason to worry. I can wait.

Once you acknowledge that insecurity, decide to yourself at that moment that you will be plowing right through it.

Overcoming insecurities is a good thing, but completely facing them and admitting that they don’t have an ounce of power over you is a force a million times stronger.

You don’t have to do anything crazy, but you’ll have to get slightly uncomfortable.

If you are comfortable, you are not growing, and you aren’t overcoming insecurities in the least bit.

Overcoming insecurities is like a baby walking for the first time.

When have you seen a baby quit walking because things were difficult?

How many times does the baby fail before it succeeds?

A lot right?

And yet they continue trying until they have it down perfectly, then they talk, then they learn, and then….they overcome insecurities.

Insecurities are a giant part of your ego.

And I don’t like to believe that the ego is a part of me…or you.

I wonder if the ego is some sort of toxic by product of people that have yet to overcome their own insecurities, and they somehow whisper their foul suggestions to us.

What do I mean exactly?

Suppose you want a car. If it’s a car because you genuinely want that car, that’s you, wanting a car.

If you want that car because “It’ll be so damn cool,” that’s your ego.

If you want someone of the opposite sex, not because that person is beautiful in your eyes, but because your friends will be absolutely jealous, that’s your ego.

Overcoming insecurities isn’t hard, but it is not easy.

It’s like tossing out the debris that useless a-hole “Ego” left for you in your garage.

You’ll sweat, you’ll cuss, and it might be very uncomfortable at times, but you can do it.

That debris isn’t yours, so don’t act like it is.

Take the red pill, and see me in the morning.