In A Nutshell

Posted by Shadz

A recent lesson Dad gave me deals with my scatterbrain weakness. “You should know how to accomplish one goal in one seamless move,” he said.

I am indeed full of movements. If I use a GPS pen to trace them, I will end up with round sketches.

Raise your right pinky toe if you do not have an inherent set of weaknesses. You cannot, so you have. One of mine is I tend to run a lot in circles.

I liken my life to a race, specifically to cross-country running. Two things: 1) I run my own race with others doing the same; and 2) it is participatory—how you finish matters, and whether you finish at all.

Races are actually short, life takes time longer and weaknesses surface by surprise. I run on mud, across a forest, up the hill, and here it comes. 

Scatterbrain.

I stop, dog-tired, and look down the other side where I see olive-green grass, and say hi to a team-mate passing me by, and forget to run linear. What in creation can tame this weakness?

Nothing. Just counterbalance. Think about your strength that can supersede the effects of a particular weakness. Mine is I should accomplish one goal in one seamless move. This works for me because even if I fail to simultask, I succeed in executing compartmentalized activities.

Let me diagram it:

GOAL (Finish the race to win)

-> SUB-GOAL 1 (Know the bigger picture)

-> SUB-GOAL 2 (Run my own race)

-> SUB-GOAL 3 (Run my best for the team)

-> SUB-GOAL 4 (Keep running to the finish)

I give my strength only as an example. Sort out your own set of inherent strengths. Yours may be different. Identify them. Use them in your life.

This is an entry about intentionality. What do you intend to do with your weaknesses? As for me, I intend not to bother anyone with them. I intend to not get distracted by them. I intend to live according to THE PLAN in spite of them. And I pray that the Lord blesses my steps.

Are you doing something about your weaknesses?

The intentional leader Mike Hyatt, folks. And music.

Leaders are not boring, much less bored. They make the most out of their gifting and skills.

Posted by Shadz

Intentional Leadership - Michael Hyatt

This Tumblr, which by the way stacks semester notes on three courses (please see the blurb below the title), has Michael Hyatt’s blog for its debut topic.

Most of what I intended to say about Intentional Leadership I have said in my first entry. Only one thing, this is one best leadership blog for me because 1) the writer is not about himself, 2) he delivers each message clearly and avoids the frills, and 3) his posts are effective, influential, and substantial.

Lurking here is no waste of time.

PS It is from Mike Hyatt that I got the idea of ruling out the ramblings, the rants and raves, the random stuff to focus on three important matters in my life. (Social media? I know. I will talk about this another time.)

What leadership blogs can you recommend?

Posted by Shadz

I stumbled about three weeks ago on the personal blog of Michael Hyatt, the CEO and Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers. I found his focus clearly written within the blog title and across every post.

Intentional Leadership.

In a nutshell, he said leadership is not incidental. Leading others has to be intentional. Influence on people, the de facto definition of leadership, does not fall upon an individual as fairy dust. ‘Fits only the good guys’. ‘Slim chance’. ‘Not true’. Not exactly.

Leadership is a call, which sounds so reverent, even patriotic. But leadership as a choice, does it not sound so radical, even barbaric?

And this choice can only be made with-IN the TENT (the hearts of the people).

IN + TENT = INTENT

Are you a leader? Was it your choice to become one?