Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton with Dynamite Productions, coming at you with your dynamite tip of the day.
I recently read a book that was recommended to me by one of my dearest friends that I absolutely, positively loved so very much. It’s called Loving What Is by Byron Katie. And one of my biggest takeaways from that book, there is that there are only three kinds of business in the world, there is my business, there is other people’s business, and there is God’s business. And when I play in any other sandbox besides my own business, if I try and play in other people’s business or in God’s business, that’s where I get myself into trouble. The more time I can spend in my own sandbox, what is my business, what can I control to you, to use Stephen Covey’s, what is in my circle of influence and my circle of control? What can I actually affect and what is someone else’s to affect and what is not mine to affect at all? The happier I am when I play in my own sandbox.
I realized that that is easier said than done. And unless than and until you listen to her whole book … By the time I was done with that, I felt really pretty solidly clear on what is my own business, what is other people’s business, and what is God’s business. Clearly drawing those boundaries and letting other things go and stop trying to make decisions for other people, or even judge what is happening, or decisions other people are making. I can’t love people if I’m judging them. So playing in my own sandbox helps me to be more efficient and more effective in the way that I present to you, the way that I serve my audiences, and I ultimately am able to get so much more done. So there you go. There is your dynamite tip of the day.