Irrational Kindness! by Kevin Williams

Author:Kevin Williams [Kevin Williams]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

“I am keeping my iPhone 6 and you can’t stop me.”

“I am going to drive my car another year just as it is, and you just have to deal with it.”

“Suck on this thought buttercup: I am brewing my own cup of coffee for small group.”

“I’ll have water instead of soda because I choose to drink from the source of life.”

Freestyling is available to anyone and everyone, which serves as a nice reminder that the decisions and paths of other people don’t have to look like ours. As a matter of fact, we don’t even want them to! We don’t want to be the one who steals the joy from another person’s journey of self-discovery. Sometimes we stifle people, keeping them in a box and these are folks who need to color outside the lines. What would happen if we all expanded our thinking to allow people to freestyle and be original?

I love the example of when a franchisee presented a problem that he was experiencing in our organization to one of the well-respected executive leaders in our business. The executive leader listened to the franchisee and responded by saying, “Who are you working with on that issue?” After the franchisee explained who he was working with and where they were in the process, the executive simply said, “You’re in great hands.” That was it. The executive still served as a resource, but he decided not to rob the franchisee of the learning experience or the joy of solving the problem himself. He understood how boundaries can serve as bumpers for growth, and he wanted the franchisee to walk through that experience. Also, he was not going to allow the franchisee’s problem to distract him from the important things he was working on.

Similar to setting boundaries, setting up systems in life can create space for our minds to freestyle. You can simplify an activity that feels complicated by building a system to help you understand it and flow through it with more ease. Likewise, creating a structure for a seemingly large or complicated thing gives you space, mentally and organizationally, to examine what it means to you. These one-time actions allow more freedom to explore your hopes and dreams in the process.

Early-morning journaling to investigate what the writers of the Bible are telling me, instead of relying on what someone else thinks they are telling me, is a system I have come to utilize regularly in my personal life. Interpreting the readings, however, can feel like a complicated and daunting task. So the structured routine I set up to tackle this challenge resembles some smaller steps: I take a daily walk through the Bible, during which I read a very small section of scripture (I prefer one book at a time and only one to-five verses per day); I then open a document and write the date and verses; and lastly, I simply write how I interpret those few verses and what they mean in my life at that moment. Getting to be vulnerable to yourself is a blast as you record your take on these pages of wisdom.

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