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It’s been a busy day in the Church tech world.
Here’s a quick sampling of what’s going on around the world this April 1st…
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[Editor’s Note: This post was part of our April Fool’s 2014 lineup. Have fun, enjoy!]
It’s been a busy day in the Church tech world.
Here’s a quick sampling of what’s going on around the world this April 1st…
[Editor’s Note: This post was part of our April Fool’s 2014 lineup. Have fun, enjoy!]
Best-selling author Jon Acuff is getting a taste of his own medicine this week in the form a legal punch to the face: Acuff is being sued for libel, slander, and defamation of character regarding his most recent book, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters. Fear, the most primal of human emotional responses, has apparently had enough of Acuff’s metaphorical abuse and is setting out to prove that it swings pretty hard itself.
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I don’t generally put too much stock into articles on the Huffington Post, but I really like this one — “18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently.” My wife sent it to me, essentially stating that this article could have been “18 Characteristics of Kaitlyn,” and she was right. My wife, in case you don’t know, is a crafting master. She learns a new a craft every other hour…well, maybe every three hours. Regardless, she’s creative, crafty, and amazingly talented, and so it was upon my knowledge of her that I consider this article to be valid.
You can (and should) read the article for yourself, but here are a few of the habits that I’d like to point out. Consider it a “crash course” in creativity, if you will.
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I am an accomplished artist…in the field of stick figure art.
I can draw a man, a tall man, and a distant cottage with smoke rising elegantly rising from the chimney.
However, despite my clearly amazing skills, I’m in awe of this invert art by Brian Lai:
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Alfred Pennyworth, The Dark Knight:
“Things were always going to get worse before they got better.”
Progress is not always a straightforward thing. In fact, it rarely is. Progress, where it depends on human effort, acceptance, and/or understanding, will always be chaotic.
I love the above quote from the second of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. I think it is the perfect framing for how things function in church setting. Any changes, any forward movement, is going to result in some backlash from people or equipment (Murphy’s Law, anyone?). Progress is going to force you to take three steps forward and one or two steps back.
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I’ve written quite often about the various apps and methods that I’ve tried to use to get things done. Currently, I’m still trying to find a flow, and I’m flirting with a paper to-do list. However, I did finally realize something quite important:
Half of my to-do’s aren’t really to-do’s. They’re habits that I want to start.
Things like “Read a book” or “Write” or “Read the Bible,” etc. have been clogging up my to-do list, but that’s not where they belong. They’re not things “to do;” they are life-giving activities that I need to make a part of my life, part of me. I don’t need to cross these things off my list; I need to write them on my heart.
That’s where Habit List came in.