December 2011
4 posts
Your "Thing" (follow-up post)
This is a follow up to the “living in default” thought from last week. I think most of us would say we’re not satisfied living in default. So why does it happen, and what can we do to change it?
I can be sitting across from someone who has the potential to be a huge light in this dark world. To challenge the status quo and actually change it because of their influence. To do...
Living in Default
I’m afraid most of us are doomed to live and die in default.
Living in default means all incoming requests impact your path. Consequently, your path leads nowhere. Lots of activity. No real progress in any certain direction. You never really lived your life, but on the bright side, you helped a lot of other people live theirs. I guess you have to be sure that tradeoff is really what you...
Specific Positive Feedback - Harder Than It Sounds
“You did a great job. Everything was very good. Except this one thing…” Then you go into amazing in-depth detail describing the one mistake they made.
This translates to: “You didn’t do anything good worth remembering.”
You may actually mean that they did a great job, and the mistake you bring up may actually not be a big deal to you. But that’s not what...
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What About the Church of 175? (a follow up to my...
A pastor and friend brought up a great question in response to last week’s post:
“93% of churches in America are under 350 people in size. Most of those do not have the budget or the pool of volunteers to use a “professionally trained” sound tech. They simply are looking for a warm body and don’t have the money to invest in training or hiring someone outside of the...