Do or Doubt

Life isn’t about doing a bunch of things, it’s doing a few things well and consistently over time.

Some years I was watching Kitchen Nightmares, and the host, Gordon Ramsey, traveled to California to save a struggling pizza restaurant. The owner had lost over six figures (much of which was his wife’s money) trying to make the business work.

The thing I remembered most was that he had a menu of over 100 flavor combinations, which frustrated his chefs and servers because of a lack of focus.

Ramsey focused his menu on offering coal-fired pizza, which was an initial hit, until the owner returned to the old menu, ultimately leading to the restaurant’s closure.

We can do many things, but how many things can you do well?

It’s the things you can do well that should be your focus.

We attempt to do a lot of things because of an underlying doubt of whether any of them will work. We hedge our bets and pay the law of averages. I believe in the law of averages, but I don’t think we should apply it this way. Doubt is the seed of failure. Most, if not all, failure springs from doubt.

The root word of doubt is the same as double. The scriptures teach that a double-minded person is unstable in all their ways. We can do 100 things, but you are probably good at three things. Double and…