Oct
7
Written by:
ctaylor
10/7/2009 10:05 AM
Every once in a while it's worth while to stop and reflect on what you've been learning. This month I wanted to share a few things I've been learning in hopes that you will consider doing the same for a few reasons.
What Are You Learning?
Every once in a while it's worth while to stop and reflect on what you've been learning. This month I wanted to share a few things I've been learning in hopes that you will consider doing the same for a few reasons. First of all, reflecting on what you're learning will remind you how God has been at work in your life more recently. Secondly, it will give you an opportunity to make adjustments so as to live your life with greater focus and more on purpose. Thirdly, the more you are aware of what you've learned, the easier it will be to pass on that learning to others.
Learning comes from many different places. It comes from the books we read, the people we listen to, the experiences we have, the situations we find ourselves in. We learn at home, at prayer, at play and at work. As I take a look around and reflect with you, may you do the same and be enriched in your life as you move that learning into action.
10 Things I'm Learning (present tense)
1. Treating people as resourceful and creative brings out the best in them and creates leaders not just followers.
2. Working with those who want to grow and learn is way more effective than working with those who don't.
3. Staying focused on doing what I love doing (my passion and my purpose) brings the greatest fruit.
4. Joining a running club has proven to be one of the best choices I've made to get the coaching and support I need to reach my running goals.
5. You don't have to solve everyone's problems. Sometimes people need to live with their problem long enough so they get more desperate and ready to solve it.
6. Having meetings to announce decisions that leaders have made does not equal buy in or ownership of that decision.
7. Initiativing a small accountability group with a two other men from my home church was one of the best decisions I made this past week.
8. Being too optimistic without being realistic "enough" has cost me more than I'd like to admit. I'm learning to balance my optimism by looking more carefully at the brutal facts.
9. If I need help, there are people out there who will help me if I only ask. I'm learning to swallow my need to figure things out on my own.
10. Life is a marathon not a sprint. Sometimes I find myself getting so preoccupied with the short term that I forget where I'm going.
So there you have it. A few things I'm learning as I run the race God has given me to run. May you who lead, coach and care for others be life long learners who out of the overflow of your heart, make a difference in your world.
My challenge now to you is to TAKE ACTION!
Take Action
1. Set aside 15-20 minutes in the next couple of days to reflect on some of the things you've been learning lately. Write them down in a journal or on a piece of paper.
2. Now look over that list and determine 2 or 3 ways you want to move that learning into action in your life.
3. Share what you've been learning with someone else this week and ask them what they are learning as well.
Quoteable Quotes
To know and not to do, is really not to know. To learn and not to do is not to learn. -- Stephen R. Covey
It only takes one person to change your life - you. -- Ruth Casey
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile. -- Mary Beard, historian
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. – Robert Collier
If you don’t like the way something looks, change the way you look at it. -- Wayne Dyer
1 comment(s) so far...
Re: What are you learning?
I'm learning that rather than a marathon; life is a series of sprints. You get another chance and time to train and react differently.
By Michael Johnson on
10/7/2009 12:57 PM
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