The Best Minute: Doing what you want, making the most, and how to grow
1 IDEA FROM ME
You have the time to do what you want to do, it’s just a matter of prioritizing if you actually want to do it.
Recently I was talking to a friend and he asked about my church leadership podcast. He then remarked that he too wished he could do something like that, but he is just too busy with X, Y, and Z, and that he wished he had the time.
However, if he really wanted to do a podcast, he could alter X, Y, or Z, or stop doing one of those things altogether. In his mind, he had no choice, but some of the things he was doing were non-work related and could be changed if he wanted to.
Here’s the point: we have the time to do the things we want to do. But we can’t do everything we want to do. Don’t fall into the trap of blaming “busyness” when we choose what makes us “busy.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. Georgia O’Keeffe on making the most of what you have:
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”
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II. Gail Sheehy on how to grow:
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning.
As Dostoevsky put it, “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” The real fear should be of the opposite course.”
THIS WEEK ON THE CHURCH LEADERSHIP PODCAST
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1 INTERESTING FACT
Lego makes more tires a year than Michele, Bridgestone, and all other tire manufacturers.
While Lego tires are much smaller and wouldn’t work on normal vehicles, they produce around 306 million rubber tires a year on average for their toy sets.
Sure, it’s easier to make tires that are smaller. But, the Guinness World Records office claims that LEGO tires “do fit all descriptions of a standard tire” and adds that the “rubber compound used for the LEGO products would not be out of place on a domestic car.”
1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
If I could change one thing about my daily routine, what would it be? What is stopping me from changing it?
