Batch Batchelder

Consistency compounds while occasional brilliance fades.

You don’t need more time. You need more focus.

Time isn’t the constraint. Your choices are.

Great outcomes aren’t built on great days, but on consistent ones.

You can’t just count the days when it’s easy. Each day moves you closer to the goal. No day is a hero; no day is a villain.

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If you weren't allowed to complain about this thing anymore, what action would you have to take?

Buechner says it like this: The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers. Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

"You've had success in life if you have lived decently, laughed frequently, and loved a lot; won the respect of clever men and the love of children; filled out your place and accomplished your tasks.

If you have left the world a better place than you found it, perhaps in the form of an improved strain of poppy, a perfect poem, or a saved soul.

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Colin Powell once said, "If you don't fire people who are not doing the job, after you have counseled them and after you have brought them along, then you are hurting the whole organization."

Lord Jesus, Shepherd and Warrior, carry me as your lamb.

Break me where I am proud like a king.

Teach me to shepherd those entrusted to me — gently, patiently, faithfully.

Teach me to fight as your warrior — resisting idols, confronting injustice, laying down comfort for your kingdom.

Let my small strength foreshadow your great justice,

until the day

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the Author of life writes Himself into the story. In a world where people aspire to be a god, no one expects God to become a person.

You can’t recover until you know what you’re recovering from.” – Izzy Letts