You Can’t Fry Everything

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I love fried food….too much.

When Melissa and I got a fryer a couple of Christmas’s ago, we immediately began to fry EVERYTHING.

After a week or two, we started to think about how easy it is to fry something instead of cooking it the right way and the healthy way.

In leadership, we can’t always fry everything…

  • Developing people takes time and patience.
  • Culture change takes time and patience.
  • Seeing God’s vision fulfilled in our organization/church takes time.
  • Seeing God’s vision fulfilled in our lives takes time.

Don’t try to fry what has to cook.

Sure, we can take shortcuts and give the appearance of progress, but in the end, it’s not healthy.

Sometimes we have to pray hard, listen intently, get our hands dirty, and show some patience.

You can’t fry everything!


Comments

14 responses to “You Can’t Fry Everything”

  1. Oh man, this is really good stuff today.

    1. Thanks bro. I’ve missed your blog while I was gone!

  2. Whoa, needed to read that this morning. Cultivating patience can be tough for me sometimes!

    1. Right there with you my man!

    2. I have seen that being patience is hard for leaders. Because leaders want to go and do. They don’t want to stand around and wait. (Even when God might be telling them to wait)

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  4. Really good stuff! It seems it’s almost built in to our nature to take the shortcuts or the easy way out.

  5. I am often given shortcut directions by people who claim to know a better way. Sometimes it works, but when it doesn’t work the consequences are terrible.

    1. Good stuff. Not worth the risk most of the time!

  6. Wow…great analogy, and definitely something I needed to hear. I’m not the most patient person in the world, but taking the time to “cook” (as you put it) instead of fry is always better. Thanks for this!

  7. This is definitely something we’ve tried to instill into our children re: life stuff.

    For cooking, I learned a long time ago that quick doesn’t always = good, and it’s quite the contrary.

  8. What a powerful and true post. in this frying world leaders need to know the importance of cooking (That what we do takes time and patience). Keep serving and leading.

    Dan

  9. Good post!! It is sad how we always want to take a short cut….In His Time!

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