If you've read my posts from May-June, 2008 (you probably haven't), then you know that growing up I always wanted to be "the natural" at everything in which I invested myself. Along the way, I quit a lot of things...
I have learned to have a high toleration for failure that has come to balance my enthusiasm for strategic experiments. Whether it be my renaisssance period in which I would set up a weekly environment for my own creative artistic expressions through painting (FAIL), or the majority of my get-fit plans (FAIL), or my Stephen Covey Planner days (FAIL); I continue to work to find myself, my rhythm, my way.
In ministry, I have had incredible opportunities to work with groups who loved experimentation with new ways to "be rooted and built up" in Christ's ways. Often times, we have failed, accepted failure, and moved on to find the right things...which I will call "wins". You can never win if you are so afraid of losing that you don't play.
I have also found that often, just because something works, doesn't mean that it is working at it's full potential (I have a low toleration for mediocrity). As you calculate your steps now, you must always look behind and ahead; learning and experimenting, trying and testing, failing and winning. Realize that failure isn't a loss, rather, it should be a step in the path to winning. You will lose some; learn from your failure and move on. (and you thought I couldn't be optimistic!)
I have learned to have a high toleration for failure that has come to balance my enthusiasm for strategic experiments. Whether it be my renaisssance period in which I would set up a weekly environment for my own creative artistic expressions through painting (FAIL), or the majority of my get-fit plans (FAIL), or my Stephen Covey Planner days (FAIL); I continue to work to find myself, my rhythm, my way.
In ministry, I have had incredible opportunities to work with groups who loved experimentation with new ways to "be rooted and built up" in Christ's ways. Often times, we have failed, accepted failure, and moved on to find the right things...which I will call "wins". You can never win if you are so afraid of losing that you don't play.
I have also found that often, just because something works, doesn't mean that it is working at it's full potential (I have a low toleration for mediocrity). As you calculate your steps now, you must always look behind and ahead; learning and experimenting, trying and testing, failing and winning. Realize that failure isn't a loss, rather, it should be a step in the path to winning. You will lose some; learn from your failure and move on. (and you thought I couldn't be optimistic!)
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