Thoughts to arm myself to face the day...
Monday Morning Mindset:
- Too much is made of beauty, smarts, and talent...the lasting attraction to a human is their ability to be a generative friend.
- When I'm prone to feel insignificant it helps to remember that the significant life is the accumulating combination of faithfully doing the right insignificant things over and over again.
- I'm not sure where this pressure comes from to be happy, helpful, and hopeful ALL the time is...but the real pursuit of my soul should be to remain humble, hungry, and human. The former begins to feel daunting and I become too fake in attempting to maintain those products for consumers.
- What it takes to attract people, it takes to keep them. So make sure you're appeal to others is something true to yourself, something sustainable because it's really, truly you.
- I need to put the oxygen mask on myself first when the plane is going down if I have any hope of helping anyone else. Often the things that feel most selfish are the most healthy and helpful to the ones I'm seeking to save.
- That nagging feeling that I'm disqualified when I have a string of bad days or what I would consider flops in ministry is so myopic. I need to always set my heart on the long game.
- I overestimate how good people are probably doing which causes me to underestimate how much encouragement they need. No one has ever suffered from too much encouragement.
- When Jesus said to not worry about what you wear or eat, but to let tomorrow worry about it's own stuff, he's seems to be onto something there. This worry thing isn't new...we are worry-warts by nature.
- In the end, my treatment of my family will define my success. It will either come out at an awards ceremony or a funeral ceremony...one day, people will ask, "But what did his family think about him? Was he close to his wife and children?"
- I can't be vexed with thoughts about how other leaders are doing things better than I am...we can learn from each other, but we can't copy each other. My ambition must remain being a good and faithful servant where I'm at.
- I need to stop trying to get people "looking up" to me and focus my attention on "showing up" for them. The former is often motivated by "grinding", the latter is more often driven by "gracing".
- It seems to me that I can either have a hidden life or a healing life. The more I hide, the less I heal, myself and others. By our wounds people are healed. I need to live authentically and vulnerably..
- I've noticed that when I'm missing the mark at home, my fulfillment in other areas of my life is drastically reduced. I'm glad God wired this warning light into our internal dashboard.
- I can't be at my best without getting good rest. Pushing my limits is the fasted way to abruptly encounter them.
- "Who told you that?" I find that I'm asking people that after they share a conclusion about themselves that is anything but what I've noticed in them myself. We still believe that persuasive Snake in the Garden over the calm and calming Voice of God for some reason.
- God is so much more gracious with me that I am with myself. My stringent and strict expectations turn me into a slave to my own self-harm. Self-laothing never leads to healthy growth even if it modifies my behavior temporarily.
- I'm more loved than I know, more gifted that I appreciate, more blessed than I could ever imagine. As I embrace these truths, lies lose their strangleholds and the enemy loses his strongholds.
Just some thoughts this morning as I "arm myself to face the day"....
- Too much is made of beauty, smarts, and talent...the lasting attraction to a human is their ability to be a generative friend.
- When I'm prone to feel insignificant it helps to remember that the significant life is the accumulating combination of faithfully doing the right insignificant things over and over again.
- I'm not sure where this pressure comes from to be happy, helpful, and hopeful ALL the time is...but the real pursuit of my soul should be to remain humble, hungry, and human. The former begins to feel daunting and I become too fake in attempting to maintain those products for consumers.
- What it takes to attract people, it takes to keep them. So make sure you're appeal to others is something true to yourself, something sustainable because it's really, truly you.
- I need to put the oxygen mask on myself first when the plane is going down if I have any hope of helping anyone else. Often the things that feel most selfish are the most healthy and helpful to the ones I'm seeking to save.
- That nagging feeling that I'm disqualified when I have a string of bad days or what I would consider flops in ministry is so myopic. I need to always set my heart on the long game.
- I overestimate how good people are probably doing which causes me to underestimate how much encouragement they need. No one has ever suffered from too much encouragement.
- When Jesus said to not worry about what you wear or eat, but to let tomorrow worry about it's own stuff, he's seems to be onto something there. This worry thing isn't new...we are worry-warts by nature.
- In the end, my treatment of my family will define my success. It will either come out at an awards ceremony or a funeral ceremony...one day, people will ask, "But what did his family think about him? Was he close to his wife and children?"
- I can't be vexed with thoughts about how other leaders are doing things better than I am...we can learn from each other, but we can't copy each other. My ambition must remain being a good and faithful servant where I'm at.
- I need to stop trying to get people "looking up" to me and focus my attention on "showing up" for them. The former is often motivated by "grinding", the latter is more often driven by "gracing".
- It seems to me that I can either have a hidden life or a healing life. The more I hide, the less I heal, myself and others. By our wounds people are healed. I need to live authentically and vulnerably..
- I've noticed that when I'm missing the mark at home, my fulfillment in other areas of my life is drastically reduced. I'm glad God wired this warning light into our internal dashboard.
- I can't be at my best without getting good rest. Pushing my limits is the fasted way to abruptly encounter them.
- "Who told you that?" I find that I'm asking people that after they share a conclusion about themselves that is anything but what I've noticed in them myself. We still believe that persuasive Snake in the Garden over the calm and calming Voice of God for some reason.
- God is so much more gracious with me that I am with myself. My stringent and strict expectations turn me into a slave to my own self-harm. Self-laothing never leads to healthy growth even if it modifies my behavior temporarily.
- I'm more loved than I know, more gifted that I appreciate, more blessed than I could ever imagine. As I embrace these truths, lies lose their strangleholds and the enemy loses his strongholds.
Just some thoughts this morning as I "arm myself to face the day"....
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