Extraordinary
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth
We all surrender to the tyranny of the urgent. One of the ways we bring value to our clients is to help pull them out of those weeds. We help them discuss the bigger issues, determine solutions, and then walk them through the execution of those newly formed plans. Sometimes those challenges have implications that play out over years. And sometimes they have a generational impact.
Seven Simple Steps for Making Decisions with Generational Impact
Get somewhere beautiful, evocative, and stirring. If you need to make extraordinary decisions, get out of the ordinary. The office and conference room where you wrestle with the day-to-day won’t allow room for the more imaginative thinking required for this kind of exercise.
Gather with some like-hearted kings or queens, trusted advisors, or coaches that you engage. Hopefully, you’ve got someone that identifies as all three of those.
Benevolently detach, consecrate, and set aside all the things that distract you and keep you from thinking clearly and being open to new and extraordinary ideas.
Give yourself the room to remind yourself of who you really are. Remember what being a co-heir of a Kingdom is all about and reclaim the unique aspects of the Divine’s glory you were created to offer.
Align yourself with the rhythm of heaven. Ask for God’s direction, clarity, and understanding. Intersect with the wisdom of eternity to transcend the confusion of the days.
Discuss the issue at hand. Excavate to uncover the deeper reason. Chase the root of that reason until you find the root. Pull the thread that unravels all the rest.
Allow the benefit of third party perspectives, the clear air provided by distance, and the spiritual cleaning out of the environment to create clear, simple, and inspired solutions.
This isn’t a frequent thing that pops up regularly on our calendar. But for good kings and queens who we really love that are living in the same direction, for the very few that are honest, vulnerable, and open to the inspiration of their creator and the experience/discernment of others, we always make time for this incredibly rare occasion.
Most recently we drove deep into the hill country and gathered at a small ranch. What felt confusing, unclear, and anxious at the beginning of the day dissolved into the process of those other steps. We left clear, invigorated, and certain of the path forward. The decisions we arrived out at will have generational implications. We took the uncertainty and fear of a really good king and replaced it with the easy burden and light yolk promised by the scriptures.
We were humbled, honored, and thirsty for more time with like-hearted kings and aligning with the rhythm of heaven.
Consider
What are you doing with the really big challenges facing you and your future?
What kind of advisors have you surrounded yourself with?
Is it time for you to get away from the ordinary and find extraordinary solutions to those challenges?