Benefits of a Break

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Speaker B: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of do you love leading? Are you, are you, are you just so pumped about leading? I don't know. I don't always feel that way. Uh, I'm not always like, God, just love being a leader. I know you don't maybe always love it, but I want to say once again, thank you for your leadership. Thank you for being a leader. You are a leader. Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. And you are using your influence. You are weaponizing it for the good. So thank you, thank you, thank you for being a leader. This is leadership Lean in episode whatever and we're jumping in. Come on, let's go. I hope that you are well today. We love you. We've been talking about this subject. The reason why I'm passionate about talking about leadership is because I believe everything rises and falls on leadership. Usually if things are going bad, it's because the leader is not doing a good job. And usually when things are going good, it's because of decisions the leader made six to nine months ago. And now you're seeing the fruit or the harvest, those decisions. So let's keep trying our best. If you've got problems, welcome to the club. We are going to solve them because that's at the end of the day, what leaders do. Leaders solve problems. So we're going to get better. Our, our value around here is we cannot promise perfection. Finish the rest. Um, I hear you. I know you're saying that you're on your jog, you're walking, you're, you're driving your car. I know you're saying it, but we can promise progress. We are going to get a little bit better every day around here. We're trying to get a little bit better. We are like so into James clear atomic habits. It is the compound of consistency. We're trying to get just a little bit better. Remember, great leaders do consistently what weak leaders do occasionally. We're not weak. We're, um, we're, we're, we're trying to get to the top. We're trying to be the best of the best, the sharpest of the sharpest. By the way, make plans on, uh, not mailing things in. We're not mailing it in. We're not just coasting and just showing up and just seeing what happens. Did you hear my son, Winston Charles Veach, on the last episode? He, he was saying, every day we attack the day. We're trying to win the day. So all that to say this is the last episode before I go on summer break. I'm so pumped. I'm taking a break this summer. LLI will be back probably about mid August is what we've got slated. But I say maybe because I might come back a little bit earlier. We'll see. But this is the last episode before the break, and I just want to talk to you today about why you need to take a break. Taking a break from all of your problems sure would help a lot. That's the Cheers intro. Did you get it right away? You didn't? Okay, sorry. Not a singer. Um, why is it so important that you take a break? As a leader, I want to give you the benefits, and then I want to contrast. I always like to look at the law of opposite and look at the damages of what would happen to you if you don't take a break. So let's look at the positives. Why do we take breaks? Why do you need to take a break? Here's the first reason. Number one, breaks bring clarity. They bring great clarity to your mindset. I heard someone say recently, you don't need more clarity, you need more courage. Sure, that might apply to some situations. I can see why. That is a mic drop, by the way. My son, last day of school, my 10 year old, is in front of his class, says a funny joke, the whole class erupts in laughter, drops the mic. We get an email from his teacher. Maverick dropped the mic again. We know it's very funny, the joke, but you're going to need. Here's the bill for that microphone. So I know that people like to say these jokes or these sayings. It's like you don't need more clarity, you need more courage. Well, you know, tomato, tomato, sometimes you need more clarity. You got to see things more clear. When I take a break, I get a better picture, a greater understanding. It's kind of like when you watch, uh, you know, a TV on a bad wi Fi and everything's kind of blurry and it's not. You could kind of make out the players playing USA versus Australia. We won. Yes. To the Aussie mates. Then all of a sudden, it comes back into clarity, and you're like, ooh, that's 4K. Breaks bring everything back into 4K. Breaks bring clarity. Here's the second reason breaks bring joy. Because when you're just in it and you're going and you are working and you're grinding, of course, like, we want to have good rhythms and good rest and all that, but, like, man, there's something about taking a good vacation, a good break from the monotony of it all and getting an ice cream, getting out of town, taking a nap, doing fun stuff with your family. It brings such joy. And I just think we only got one life to live. I'm not trying to be Eminem, and, you know, your arms are sweaty, knees are heavy, all mom's spaghetti. I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to say, we're only going to get to do this once. Live your life and lead well out of a joyful spirit, out of a joyful heart. Taking a break just brings back the joy. Man, I love my life. I love what I get to do. I love sometimes when it's just. We're just going to working and serving, you lose some of that novelty of how great life is and how good you've got it. So breaks bring joy. Here's the third thing I love about a break, is that breaks make me better. They make me think better, listen better, lead better. Every time I come back from a break, I come back roaring, ready, rested, feeling like, all right, we can do this. We got this. And I don't ever want to limp into my break. I don't ever want to feel like, oh, just. Just need a break so bad. Uh, I don't want to get there. But I will say that no matter how I go into my break, I. I always come back feeling the same, ready to go, charged up, feeling like I got fresh vision. I got my mindset back. I got my clarity back. I got my joy back. Not that I went in going like, oh, I don't have any joy. I don't have any clarity. I, uh, don't have anything to offer. That's not what I'm saying. But, you know, it's the same thing. I think about church. I say this a lot on Sundays. I don't know how you came in today. I don't know what you walked in carrying, but I know how you're leaving. You're going to leave filled with joy. Filled with hope, filled with faith, so on and so forth. Same thing about a break. I don't know how you're going into your break, but I know how you're coming back. You're coming back with a soulful. You're coming back with some ideas, some clarity, some joy, some rest, some rejuvenation. You need to take a break. And so I just first want to say it's kind of like, you know, when you play, uh, we play a lot of board games. We play a lot of card games in our house. We play a ton of. We're in Monopoly phase right now. When someone gives you that card that allows you to buy property or allows you to do something that you strategically want to do. Let me give you a card to play. Put down the break card. Take a break. One of the things I love about taking a break is not just the ice cream that we eat and the sunsets that we watch and the, uh, fun that we create. I love that. It reminds me the world can operate without me. It doesn't rise and fall on me. Um, I am, um, of course, a willing vessel. I am a servant leader. I'm ready to go, but everything keeps going even without me. What a concept. So let me give you a pass. Take a break. Get to, uh, where do they love to go now? The 30A. Go to 30A. Go to the Bahamas. Where you want to go? Cabo San Lucas.

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Speaker B: Go to, uh, Cabo Wabo. Go to Palm Springs. I don't care where you go. Go somewhere. Go to Zion National Park. Get out of town and get some rest. Now let's look at the opposite damages of not taking a break. You might be like, well, I can't take a break. I. Because, you know, it all fall apart without me. And I. I don't know what. What they do without me. And I. I'm so needed. Well, that's a sign of poor leadership. First of all, you've got to get better at empowering. Remember, empowerment has nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with you. So here are the damages of not taking a break. Number one is that it takes a toll on you mentally, physically, and emotionally when you just power through and you just keep going. All that that's on your mind constantly, all the pressure and the bills and the organization, the communication, all that. The mental load, the physical load. I don't think that you're convinced enough of the amount of virtue you're giving away. One of my favorite stories, and you've heard every preacher Preach this text. The woman slides through the crowd and grabs the hem of his garment. And of course, Jesus asked the question, who touched me? And here's where preachers take the liberty. And they ask him, who. Who touched you? Come on, Jesus. We're amongst crowds. And Jesus knows somebody touched me. And why does he know? Because virtue left his life. I don't think. I'm m not trying to be mean, not trying to put you down. Uh, I say this lovingly. I don't think you realize how much virtue you're giving away. I don't know if you're aware of how much life you give away a week. And I'm happy to give away life. But it goes with the next point. You cannot give away what you don't have. Virtue out requires virtue in. So you got to sleep and you got to rest. What did. What did God say to Elijah? Take a nap, eat a meal. He gets up, do it again, take another nap, eat another meal. There is a spiritual rhythm here to this monster prophet who is coming from victory and going to victory. The nap and the meal. The two times. It's for emphasis. That you've got to take a break. Break. Mentally, physically, emotionally, you know, uh, let's just be honest. You're a leader, which means you're under attack, scrutiny. You are the man in the arena. You're not on the outside. You're not the bystander. You're not the critic in the crowd. You're not the one yelling like Wyndham Clark yesterday, winning the US Open with people in Shinnecock over on Long island just shouting against him, rooting against him. I know he did awful things at Oakmont locker room last year. I know we've got a couple sound bites, but Windham's my guy, first of all. I know he's an organ duck, but he's a friend of mine. Shout out to Wyndham. Congratulations. Another won the US Open two of the last three years. So let's just. Let's chill out. Long Island W. Clark. Congratulations. Congratulations. You just did it amongst the booze in the crowd, a whole place against him. You're not the critic in the crowd. You are a leader. You're the man in the arena, and you're leading. And you've got people that are against you. You got people that are critics. You got people that have left you. You've gone through a lot. You're telling me that your emotions don't need a break, so you can kind of take inventory and you can kind of reassess how you're doing, what's going on, where you at emotionally? Where you at physically? Where you at spiritually? Where you at mentally? You got, uh, you got, you got to check in sometimes as a leader, you got to check your circle. But when I take a break, I check myself. You know, I love old rap music. Come on, leaners, you know how we roll you. You got to check yourself before you. I heard you. I heard you better check yourself. Take a break. How am I doing? Sometimes you need people to check in on you. Other times, you got to get good on checking in on yourself. How am I doing? How's my pma? My positive mental attitude? How's my soul? Great book, Pastor Judah. Pick it up. Read on a vacation. How's my soul? Beloved, I pray your soul may prosper in all things. How's my soul? Okay. How am I doing? How am I doing in my relationships? Am I stewarding them well? Am I being a good friend, being a good son, being a good brother, being a good husband, being a good father? Got a lot of relationships. Being a good boss, being a good teammate? How am I doing? You don't take a break. You don't ever take inventory. So you need the damages of not taking a break is that you don't ever get to get right mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. And that affects you relationally. So that is a great damage. And then if you don't take a break, here's the last one. You become more of what you despise. Watch this. If you don't take a break, here's what happens. You become more controlling, more defensive, more irritable, more self reliant, and more overwhelmed by the circumstance that you're leading through. Did you hear that list? You just become more of what you despise. I'm more irritable, I'm more defensive. I'm more under the pressure of my circumstance. I just become more of what I don't want to be. And so I'm just here to tell you, here's the pass, here's the card. Lay it down. You need a break, you got to take a break. You can't keep going. I remember years ago, this one leader was telling me that an old mentor came to visit him. And when they got done with the day, he said, how do you think I'm doing? And the man said to him, well, I kind of see you like this, like this NASCAR race car driver and the speed in which you're driving your life, or in this illustration car, it's Inevitable. You're gonna, you're gonna crash, you're going too fast. And I think that's, that's always a, A, uh, good reminder that if you want to go fast, don't take a break. If you want to go far, learn the rhythm of rest. This is, this is Jesus's great promise, by the way, one of my favorite favorite scriptures in all the Bible. If you're, if you're heavy burdened, if you're heavy laden, if you're message translation goes, are you, are you tired? Are you worn out, burnt out? Come to me and he goes, and I'll give you a real rest. So the rest to me is not just the Cabo or Bahamas. The rest is a very spiritual dynamic. Come to me and I'll give you a real rest. And watch this and I'll teach you the unforced, uh, rhythms of grace. Because when you're in grace, it's an un. It's the rhythm of God. Everything about God is in rhythm. The calendar is in rhythm, the days, the weeks, the months, the seasons, the breath, everything, uh, God is a rhythm God. He says, I'll teach you the unforced rhythms of grace, the unforced rhythms of rest. And I'm telling you, you are one great break away from getting your mojo swag strength. Let's get, let's get friendly with the kids. Aura. Uh, back. So I'm going on break. I'm gone. What's that old song? I'll be gone till November. I'll be gone till August. I'm going on break. I'm taking a break. Hit the cheers music. I'm taking a break and I'll be back. I'm going to be back better. I'm m going to be back stronger. I'm going to be back with clarity. I'm going to be back with vision. I'm coming back with a few creative ideas. Just a heads up. I'm kind of aware of how I'm going into break, but I can't wait to see how I come back. We love you and we'll see you next time.