Monday, June 25, 2012
Late Night thoughts....
Watched an interview tonight of Nathan Fillion. He made a comment that he was well aware that he was a part of a machine. That taking one person out of the close to 100 people that work on the set of Castle and it starts to unravel. He pointed out to complete the scene where they were freezing, they could act cold, but then there is the person that makes your hair look cold and people that make your skin look cold and your clothes look cold and other that make the environment around you look cold...yet it was never actually cold.
I remember watching that episode. This was significant picture for me of life. No matter what our "role" is we can not achieve anything without the other people in our life that help us be/do the things we do. This is true for everyone, it's just sad that so many don't understand that. It is far better to be a part of a working cohesive team than to be a lone wolf. I've been both and had much more success as a team member than I did on my own.
There's a leadership book that talks about this too. "Good to Great". It references making sure you have the right people on your bus before you decide where the bus is going. That you pick your destination based on the great team of people you have around you and their strengths.
Right now, where I'm at in my life, I feel like the kid in the gym class that was not really picked, they were just the last one there, so by default, you end up on a team that doesn't want you or appreciate what you can do, doesn't really want you to do what you're good at, they just want you to let them play the game and you set back and let them. The message series this month at church has been on Trusting God. I am definitely having to do that right now.
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I think that's one way that living in the West kind of messes with our heads. Individualism and accomplishment are so important that it's easy to forget that no one is an island and no one succeeds without outside help.
I've been that last kid that no one wanted on their team! It contributed to my tendency to have to prove myself in everything. Trusting God is definitely a better path.
so sorry that you feel that you are the last kid to be picked. I always was the last one to be picked and in life sometimes feel that way too. Right now I kinda feel like second string or that I am sitting on the bench. love you..pray for you.
Good for me to hear. A week or so I got so frustrated I wished I could just do all the pieces of video project myself (lone wolf!) but even as I wished it I knew I'm overworked as it is and I need to accept that the team isn't always going to function at the level I wish for. My team - different from the leadership book -- is picked based on the random people that show up at our ministry. We have to drive the bus and hope we get near our destination. It's funny your post is my real life (video production, who will make the caaniites look poor?) and my emotional life! I never got picked either -- too small so I like Dust would work obsessively hard trying to prove I could do (fill in the blank). Ahhh, life's lessons!
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