Forty Days on Being a Two Quotes

“If someone can do something 80 percent as well as you can, bless them to do it.” The facilitator was referring to ways that we avoid delegating and releasing things that really should be delegated and released because we tell ourselves that no one can do the thing as well as we can.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“How can I manage what I give emotionally and physically so that I don’t give everything to the crowd, but instead leave some good stuff for the people at home who deserve my intention and attention?”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“How can I take the time to re-center myself so that when I engage with my loved ones, I have a healthy, refreshed self to give them rather than a worn-out, burned-out self?”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“The problem with my Sunday blues is that the people I love the most get the worst version of me. The people to whom I want to give my best get the tired me. Too often, I give my best to the crowd and then am left with my extra-sensitive, needy, and melancholy self by the time I get to the ones that I long to connect with the most.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“excess has an antidote, and it’s only a two-letter word: no.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“God gives us gifts because God is faithful, not because we are faithful.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“every yes has an accompanying no.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“a present orientation to time—which is shared by all Ones, Twos, and Sixes—is more about responding to stimuli in the present than connecting to the spiritual presence of the now. Having a present orientation to time for me means that all my plans are written in pencil, ready to be edited or erased if someone needs something from me (or appears to need something from me). I am a responder. I react to people, to feelings, to moments, to needs. And all my responding and reacting gets me off course from my goals.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“a present orientation to time—which is shared by all Ones, Twos, and Sixes—is more about responding to stimuli in the present than connecting to the spiritual presence of the now.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“What can be mentioned can be managed.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“Am I a centerpiece in a way that blesses everyone in the community to belong and be free, or am I a centerpiece in a manipulative way that requires people’s place in the community to be dependent on me?”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“God, into my resentments and hiding, come. Help me to free myself and others by being honest about my true needs. Amen.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“One problem, among many, with messiah-making is that we also make martyrs of ourselves. We hang ourselves on crosses of our own making and hope that the world will pass by and see how much we have given and how greatly we have sacrificed. When I do this, I can almost hear people thinking, Get off the cross; we need the nails! I am learning to find a consistent identity that is not tied to whomever or wherever I am serving.”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“There is a Messiah and I’m not him!”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two

“When we, like Ruth, make great sacrifices to be in relationship with someone else, is it born from a true desire to build a mutual friendship, or is it born from a need to become someone’s rescuer so that we can be the heroes who save the day?”
― Hunter Mobley, Forty Days on Being a Two