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December 23 - December 30, 2020
Cynicism begins not because you don’t care but because you do care.
Cynicism melts under the relentless hope of the gospel.
hope is anchored in resurrection,
incredibly effective antidote to cynicism is curiosity.
Schedule Thinking Time
Busyness is the enemy of wonder,
If you listen longer than most people listen, you’ll hear things most people never hear.
your character is your lid.
character, not competency, determines capacity.
“I want the people who know me the best to love me the most.”
No matter how hard you try, you can’t escape you.
we judge ourselves by our intentions and other people by their actions.
who’s pushing you to be a better you?
“The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”1
work twice as hard on your character as you do on your competency.
He didn’t define maturity by how much you know. He defined it by how much you love.6
technology is like money: it makes a terrible master but a wonderful servant.
Questions are the turning points for great conversation and intriguing connections among people.
you can see a reason as a justification that leads to stagnation or as an explanation that can lead to transformation.
you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you can’t make both.
people are starved for real conversation.
a hurried life leads to an unexamined and disconnected life.
Hurry kills intimacy
what would it take for you to really slow down?
Irrelevance costs you more—far more—when it permeates what you do, how you communicate, and whom you influence.
Rick Warren said it well: “When the speed of change around an organization is faster than the speed of change inside the organization, the organization becomes irrelevant.”
change is the only thing that bridges the gap between who you are and who you need to be.
You’re ready to change because the pain associated with the status quo just became greater than the pain associated with change.
irrelevance causes us to lose the ability to speak into a culture.
What if leaders started thinking of themselves as a digital organization with a physical presence, instead of a physical organization with a digital presence?
Change happens in two ways: it is externally imposed or internally driven.
If you’re missing the goals you have for your mission, change your methods.
transformed person no longer wants to go back to the way things were.
the change you don’t implement often becomes something none of us wants—regret.
comparrogance. It’s the arrogance born of comparison.
One sure sign of insecurity is that your opinion of yourself rises and falls with how you perform
“When work is your identity, success goes to your head, and failure goes to your heart.”
there’s a big difference between taking things seriously and taking things personally.
the lies we tell, the ones we tell ourselves are the deadliest.
When nobody energizes you, they’re not the problem. You are.
Cynicism never finds a home in a healthy heart.
People who are burning out almost always choose self-medication over self-care.
Your unresolved past will sink your future unless you deal with it.
ministry is a series of ungrieved losses.1
it’s easier to find relief from the pace than from the weight.
what many people turn to for reconstruction ends up bringing more destruction.
What do I need to do (or not do) so I can live today in a way that will help me thrive tomorrow?
If you want to beat emptiness, find a mission that’s bigger than you.
Prayer is not a button to be pushed; it’s a relationship to be pursued.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
