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Tyranny of expectations

  

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"Let other people live small lives, not you."  Jim Rohn

Most of us learn by watching others.  Without knowing how to do something, we resort to mimicking how someone else is seen to have done it.  Often this is helpful, but there are occasions when it becomes detrimental.  What is most of the people you observe are living below their highest potential?  What is those you mimic are on the wrong track and headed no where? What if the way they live, the habits you are shadowing, are going to lead them to an unhealthy and difficult season in their life?  

Who you choose to learn from matters.  Others can choose to live in crisis, stress, sickness, and anger.  You choose to go another way.  People may choose not to dream big, but instead decide to try to simply survive.  You decide to go for it, to shoot for your biggest dreams.  

There is a tyranny of expectations, a pressure to live up to what the group is doing.  If the group is headed nowhere, cut loose from the pack and head for the mountaintop.

What keeps you tied to others expectations?  

David Curry

Help Us Tell Our Story - The Power of Words

  

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Those of you around the Rescue Mission will begin to see this logo on posters and suggestion boxes, as we refocus on telling more of the great stories that we are a part of each day.

Words are powerful, allowing us to give life to people through the telling of stories of transformation, service, love and encouragement.  Unfortunately, we too often move from problem to problem, not adequately celebrating the great victories, and even miracles, that we are seeing on a daily basis. 

So Help Us Tell Our Story. Volunteers, team members, clients, students, donors, are encouraged to share a story of an inspiring interaction, a life changed, a life saved, or of a meal served in love.  Tell us something great that happened to you at the Rescue Mission, it will multiply the blessing to others.  Don't let your story die, keep it alive.

David Curry

Every Non-Profit Leaders Challenge

  

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The world is trying to make you and just like everybody else.  To fit us into a mold that fits someones preconceived notion of what a leader or individual should be.  With the proliferation of advise on the internet and in books, you could very likely be getting opposite advise from well-meaning experts on the same subject, within moments of one another.

Even more likely is that you are working hard to try to please competing constituents, balancing what you think you believe, with what your donors, staff, and clients feel you should be doing.  

What is the answer the challenge of leaders and individuals who are pulled in multiple directions?  

Set yourself free from the good-opinion of others and do the right thing in love.

The poet e.e. cummings said this: "to be nobody but yourself--in a world that is doing its best day and night to make you somebody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting"

 Have faith that God has a plan and a purpose for your life and that you are the right person in the right place at just the right time.

David Curry

My Favorite Quotes

  

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Here’s a quote from the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran that I’ve always loved.  It is all about what perspective we parents should have in raising our children.  I think of it often when raising my two boys.  It’s been a great encouragement to me:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

for they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,

and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for Gladness;