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:

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground." Stephen Covey

What does this stir up? Either write me HERE or comment at the end of the blog post HERE.

A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:

This idea of GROWTH is interesting to me. We're going to spend a few weeks talking about it, but personally I'm being challenged to not simply "be content" with where I'm at today. I want to always be growing and developing. What about you? To see past themes, visit my blog HERE.

Covey's quote here really resonated with me today. In fact there's another line to this quote that simply says: "There's no greater investment."

Covey has impacted my growth since my early days of graduate school through his book and work on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. When I first read that book, I realized that as a young leader, I needed to grow. That started me on the journey of being a life-long learner, however as I get older, I find that it's easy to stop learning and just be content with where I'm at.

Today, as I contemplate this quote, these words are true: "self-growth is tender; it's holy ground."

I believe for each of us, this might mean something different.

I think in my younger days, I attacked personal growth with a vengeance, trying to consume as much as possible, working to build my resume, my portfolio and my toolbox. It was all about learning so I could leverage that into success in some way.

I think today, it's about being purposeful and identifying things that I still want to grow in, but also being very selective into where I'm spending my time, energy and resources.

I want my growth to count! This is why it's "tender & holy".

I don't want to waste my time, but I want to be always growing.

What does personal growth look like for you?

DEEPER STILL:

This past weekend, we had some friends of ours hanging out at our house, and I entered into a deep conversation with an 11 year-old and an 8 year-old about my phone.

We were just sitting and hanging out, and these 2 girls began asking me questions about why I had certain things on my phone, and then they showed me some tricks. We quickly dove into a 30-minute lesson, and I learned a bunch of stuff in those minutes from these 2 kids, and as they wanted to show me more things, I finally had to just say "That's Enough For Today!".I had hit my "growth limit".

Basically, I was overwhelmed, and I needed to process all that they had taught me in those few short minutes.

Why don't I grow more?

  • I don't have the time, because I'm too busy

  • I'm not able to focus, because I'm already doing too many things

  • I can't slow down my pace, because there are too many demands on me.

  • I don't know where to start, because there is so much I want to do.

  • I just don't have the capacity for something new, because I'm full!

I want to grow, and continually grow in my life, my leadership, my relationship with Christ, my relationships with others, my skills, my interests... everything! I want to continually be growing, but I need to be patient and know that I can't do everything today!

This month of April, identify ONE THING that you want to grow in, and create a plan and a process to do that. I'm working on one that I'll share next week.

 

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

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