⏱️ The Best Minute: Don’t believe the lie
💡 1 IDEA FROM ME
You've been lied to. And you've been told the lie for as long as you can remember.
I get it, you're frustrated by the lack of results. You've been putting in the effort and not seeing much, if any, change.
But before you quit, just know you've been lied to. And if you knew the truth, you might not quit.
So first, the lie. Then the solution. Here's the lie: practice makes perfect.
And so, as long as you are practicing, or giving an effort towards improvement, you should just improve. You should automatically see results. But you're not seeing results. So you should just give up, right?
Wrong.
Here's the truth: practice makes permanent.
If you practice wrong, you will perform wrong.
You will play how you practice. If you're not improving or seeing results, it likely isn't your effort but your practice.
In the areas of life where you are "practicing" to improve, make sure you are practicing correctly. Reflect on these questions to see whether or not your practice is leading you in the right direction:
Am I getting the proper (or any) feedback?
Am I taking the time to learn and research, or am I only trying to figure it out as I go?
Am I practicing things that are detrimental to improvement?
Now that you know the truth, reflect on how you are practicing.
Because practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent.
💬 1 HELPFUL QUOTE
I. Erik Naggum on how to feel great about yourself:
“The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company.”
📖 1 BRIEF BOOK REVIEW
Desizing The Church by Karl Vaters
A book about why bigness should not be the goal for churches. I appreciated the humility the author had and even his own vulnerability in sharing his own tensions.
I also liked the emphasis that there is no best church size. In fact, numbers really have nothing to do with whether a not a church is healthy.
This book gives encouragement and relief to pastors who wrestle with the phrase "healthy things grow" (as it is not only unhelpful but often not even true). A church can grow and be unhealthy, and a healthy church may not be numerically growing at all.
Because it is such a niche topic, it is hard for me to rate this book (so I won't). I'll say to my ministry friends that I found this helpful and would recommend it. I wish there was a little more to this book than there was, but I can't put my finger on what exactly that would be.
Still, glad to have read it and was encouraged.
🤔 1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
Your life will not exceed the standards you have for yourself. If you want something more out of your life, what standards do you need to change?
