SELDI Podcast with Tony Williams
Join Tony Williams as he empowers leaders worldwide to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, build life and career resilience, enhance personal attributes, and experience success God's way - a life and career filled with impact, purpose, joy, and fulfillment.
They will be like "a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers." Psalm 1:3
Tony Williams
Founder & CEO
The SELDI Company, Inc.
SELDI Podcast with Tony Williams
"Reflection Brings Refreshing for The Journey!"
"Reflection Brings Refreshing for The Journey!"
Today, I found encouragement in time spent reflecting on my journey.
I want to share an exciting insight. Explore how intentional reflection—ten minutes with a notebook, a planner, and honest questions like 'What am I grateful for today?' or 'What did I learn from this experience?'—can turn scattered memories into a time of refreshing and confidence for your next season.
Instead of being overloaded with more input, I took time to walk through a year-in-review that highlights key moments, timely people, and the subtle ways guidance showed up right when we needed it.
I am sharing how flipping back through your days reveals more than nostalgia. It shows cause-and-effect: a nudge you obeyed becomes a door that opens months later; a risk you take before you know how attracts the right partners at the right time.
Gratitude is not just a feel-good emotion. It's a powerful tool that can calm your mind, lift your mood, and restore your energy, enabling bold yet wise action.
We also address hard seasons without glossing over pain. Reflection integrates loss by seeing the care that carried you, the strength that emerged, and the lessons that now shape your choices.
By sharing your journey and the practical steps that have refreshed you, you're not just growing yourself; you're helping others do the same. You're also inspiring and supporting those around you, from your family to your circle and the people you serve.
Many of us want trade noise for clarity and anxiety for expectancy.
Try the reflection exercise, notice the benefits, and tell us what surprised you most.
Share the encouragement with a friend who needs encouragement.
Encouragement given is encouragement multiplied!
Tony
Greetings, my friends. Tony Williams here. I thank God for you. I thank God that we're on this journey together in life and career. The purpose of every message is to encourage you and share with you an insight that will help you on your life and career journey. Some of these insights I've experienced firsthand, and I share from an experience what it's meant for me. And today I want to share with you something that God brought to my attention this morning. And I pray and I believe it will be a beautiful blessing for you. It's called Reflection Brings Refreshing. Reflection brings refreshing. Reflection. What do I mean? I mean taking the time to just get quiet and allow God to bring to your remembrance key moments on your life and career journey. And then reflect on what those moments meant to you at the time. Reflect how supernaturally God intervened in a circumstance that changed the outcome radically, that placed you where you are today. Think about the assignments that God has given you and how He has provided everything that you've needed all along the way. These moments of reflections turn into insights about how God has been operating in your life, even though you may not call on him at this point. He providentially provides for us supernaturally. Why would he do that? Especially for someone who has not called on him. Because he loves us and his love is unconditional, and he wants to make himself known to people all around the world. But for those of us who have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ as our Savior and our Lord, we have a supernatural guide called the Holy Spirit to bring to our remembrance and to help us to see things the way God wants us to see them through the events that He brings to our remembrance. This is one of the prayers that I've been praying recently. Father God, give me a discerning spirit to see things the way you see them, to see the situation and circumstances the way you see them. And when you do that and pause and just get quiet, God will supernaturally give you a perspective that otherwise you would not get. So reflection is an opportunity for us to be alone with our Father in heaven. And through that quietness, He begins to show us how He's blessing us, how He's leading and guiding us. Think about this past year. I took time today to sit down and just go through my daily planner. I have a physical daily planner. I'm sort of old school in this way, but I write down what I sense God is telling me to do that day. And starting in January, I went back to January and I just began to thumb through the pages from January all the way up to today. And it was a fantastic experience. As I did it, certain things just jumped off the page. They were just illuminated in my thinking. How at that moment God spoke to me and I obeyed and did what He told me to do. And the outcome, weeks and months later, was fantastic. So this is an exercise that I would encourage you to go through, my friends. Take time to sit alone with notebook and pen and just reflect on what has God done in my life? What are some of the key events that have occurred in my life? And begin to reflect on them. Look at the circumstances in which they occurred. And possibly, if you were praying about them, what did God instruct you to do? And what were the outcomes? As I went through that exercise, I saw significant events that occurred decades ago. But then I came into this year and I saw magnificent events, things that God instructed me to do, and I took the step even though I didn't know how. He brought the right people at the right time and he created the circumstances that the outcome was a tremendous blessing. And so I'm moving forward. I can see there's progress and momentum, and I'm thankful. Here's the other thing that I'm learning. The times of reflection will usually lead to times of thanksgiving, thanking God for doing things that only He could do. Have you been through something that only God could have taken you through this past year? Someone may say, Well, I had some tragedies happen this past year. God understands that. And on the other side of that, you will see that his hand was with you all along. And now you're in this bright place where you're reflecting on the good things of God. What we think about most, we tend to manifest, someone once said to me. When we think about the good things that God has done, what that does, it encourages us. It excites us that, wow, look what God's done for me up until this point. And you know what happens in the process, my friends? There's a time of refreshing. When you reflect on the goodness and the mercy and the kindness and love of God, the good things that He's done, and you take time just to sit and think about them, something happens in your spirit and in your soul, your mind, your will, and your emotions, and then your body even benefits. You have this excitement and enthusiasm and a positive expectation for what God is going to do in the future. Therefore, as you take time to just write down a few things that God brings to your mind of what He's done so far, take time to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Acknowledge Him, because every good thing that we experience comes from God. And so when we say thank you for what you've done so far, thank you for all the goodness that you've done, it refreshes our spirits, it refreshes our bodies, and it gives us excitement and anticipation for the rest of the journey. And that's what this message is all about today, my friend. And each message, it's a time to reflect. Reflection brings refreshing. Be refreshed. Let the Lord refresh you by remembering all the good things he's done. And with that refreshing, begin to look toward the future with optimism. Begin to look toward the future with confidence, assurance that if God has been with me up until this point, I can be assured that he's going to go forward with me for the next phase of the journey. So, my friends, be encouraged, be thankful, and let that reflection lead to your being thankful and grateful for what God has done. And notice the refreshing that takes place. And then as you have that refreshing, look to the future. Look to what God is going to do for you coming forward. And it's not only for you, it's for you, your family, those that He brings in your circle of influence, and those that you've He's called you to serve. Remember, we're placed here to be a blessing to others. God blesses us to be a blessing to others in our words, our conduct, and our conversation. So as God gives you opportunity to be a blessing this season, take advantage of it. Know that He's going to work everything together for good because we love Him and we're called according to His purpose.