Tuesday at 2:00pm with Russ

It's Tuesday at 2:00pm! (PST Time: I live and work from Southern California)

Greetings to you!

Each week I send out a short leadership blog that's called "Tuesday at 2:00pm". The purpose of this is simply to provide a brief thought on leadership that you can read and think about in just a few minutes. I send it out every week at 2:00pm (PST) and encourage you to make an appointment with yourself to pause and think about the thing I'm writing about.

Russ...

LEADERSHIP QUOTE:

"I succeed because I keep going and going and going." Sylvester Stallone

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A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:

It's summer and I thought I would go a little "lighter" with some quotes over the next few months, and I'll continue with some thoughts from Rocky Balboa aka Sylvester Stallone this month. I have 2 more quotes to share then we'll move on to something else in August.

This week I read a couple of articles on habits, and when I saw these words from Stallone I connected the dots.

Stallone often talks about the discipline of hard work, his ability to learn from failure and to keep going, and then there are all the boxing metaphors of getting up when you're knocked down, "going the distance" and learning to hit hard.

There's even a story of he and his wife filing for divorce after being married for 25 years, then they decide to call off the divorce and address the issues in their marriage.

I'm not trying to validate all of Stallone's life choices and career, but the idea of "I keep going and going and going" is something to think about.

In a recent podcast that I listen to, the hosts talk about "mid-year resolutions" and they talked about how it's not good to just make resolutions at the beginning of the year, because once you've given up, you have to wait until the following year to try again. They were encouraging people to continually be identifying things they want to work on and address in their lives.

I guess the question I am asking myself is this: "What keeps me going?" Is it motivation, is it discipline, is it habit, is it pressure? What is it that keeps me going and going and going?

So I'll turn that question to you? What is it that keeps you going?

DEEPER STILL:

Here are some things that keep me going:

  • My Family. I'm driven to "show up" for my family, In both big and small ways. I want to serve them, to love them, to encourage them and to be available to them.

  • My Wife and my Marriage. We are celebrating 37 years of marriage in a couple of weeks and I want to honor her, love her, serve her and I want our marriage to be constantly growing and getting better and better.

  • My Calling. I believe that God has called me and created me for a specific role in this world and I take that very seriously. Today my focus in on the Barnabas Community that I manage here in Orange County and on the Leader Mundial Community around the world that I have the opportunity to coach and lead. I believe that my job is to serve these people, to pray for these people and to lead these Communities.

  • My Walk with Jesus. My motivation comes from my desire to be not only obedient to what he has called me into, but to be passionate about the difference He has made in my life. I want to simply be a witness to the world of what He has done and is continuing to do in me and through me.

There are many other things that motivate me and compel me to keep moving forward, however when I ask myself, "Why do I get up in the morning?" These are the 4 things that are front and center in my life and in my heart.

I don't know what compels Sylvester Stallone to "keep going", but I do know what compels me.

What compels you?

 

Things I'm Reading, Listening To and Watching This Week:

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