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LEADERSHIP QUOTES
We're exploring some great quotes that will help us in our lives and leadership. If you'd like to share your favorite with me, please post on the comments section of the Blog. You can read these past posts HERE.
The format for this season is the following:
#1) LEADERSHIP QUOTE: I'm going to share a quote with you. I'd like to encourage you to think about it, respond to it, process it. You can stop here, or go to Section 2.
#2) A LITTLE BIT DEEPER: I'm going to share a couple of thoughts that come to my mind when I think about the quote. Just a short reaction from me. You can stop here, or go to Section 3.
#3) DEEPER STILL: I'm going to share something I've found from someone else: A quote, some tips, a challenge, a thought....
#4) RUSS' LIST: I'll continue to share some links, ideas, books or products that I think some of you might benefit from.
Russ
LEADERSHIP QUOTE:
“Margin is the space between our load and our limits.” John Mark Comer
What does this stir up? Either write me HERE or comment at the end of the blog post HERE.
A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:
The book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry was given and recommended to me 3 times on the same day at the end of 2019. I don’t know about you, but when it takes 3 people from different parts of the country, different walks of life and each of them prompted on the same day to contact me, I pay attention.
The book was used to rattle me, to cause me to do some deep thinking and contemplating, and was used to help me to deconstruct some habits in my life that needed to be addressed.
I wish I could say that for the past 2 years I’ve learned to master the principles in this book and because of that, I want to teach you, challenge you and encourage you.
Instead, I’m inviting you to join me in revisiting the conversation around PACE.
I’m taking the next 3 days of my life to do an audit, to do some planning and thinking and to work on my plan for the coming year in 3 key areas of my life: Purpose, Pace and Productivity.
I don’t know how you think “forward” into the new year, but I want to challenge you to find some time in the coming weeks to slow down, ask some questions, and begin to work on your plan!
DEEPER STILL:
Comer’s quote from the book really hit me today. Look at it again:
”Margin is the space between our load and our limits”.
Sometimes I use margin to mean "free time" or "unstructured time", but if I really look deeply, it’s more like this quote: There is some margin in my life between a really full and demanding work/life reality and my limit. When I think “limit” I’m thinking of the “end of my limit”, which for me is hitting a wall.
I think that the morsels of margin I carve out for myself somehow renew, replenish and restore me so that I can keep going. The problem is that by the time I’m discovering that margin, I’m already overloaded and moving quickly towards that wall.
How could “margin” be different in my life? When can I find “margin” from a place of health, proactivity and real space to redefine what margin is and can be?
What do you do? What have you discovered about margin? Would you join me on a journey of discovery over the next few weeks and into the New Year? Addressing some of the bad habits that have returned now will help us to move forward in a healthier way!
Things I'm Reading, Listening To and Watching This Week:
We have Michael Bubles Christmas Album playing in our home this week.
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