Episode 42 - Redefining Success through Doing Your Inside Job

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“Secret of the spiritual life is to ruthlessly eliminate hurry.”  Dallas Willard

NOTE: We want to thank World Radio for giving us permission to re-air this broadcast on our podcast.

Effective leaders work very hard to succeed, but often at the cost of their own souls. They are challenged to keep themselves emotionally and spiritually healthy in order to survive success to keep their humanity intact. This is the work within the work, and the topic of today’s podcast.

Today we turn the tables as we re-air an interview Steve gave to Warren Smith, publisher of "WORLD "magazine, and producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio program "Listening In." The contents of the interview are timeless and perhaps more compelling now than when it was recorded a few years ago. It's a conversation you won't want to miss!

FOR OUR LISTENERS - A Self-Assessment Exercise on The State of Your Soul: Doing a self-assessment of the State of your Soul requires taking a look in the mirror to see how you are REALLY doing. By “really doing,” I mean in all aspects of your life. By reflecting on these questions, you’ll have an opportunity to survey your life and gain awareness of what is going on and how things are.

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The four chambers of the human/spiritual heart:

1st Quadrant—surface, acquaintance

2nd Quadrant- many friends, social, small group

3rd Quadrant- only a few know this chamber and

for some no one.

4th Quadrant- not even ourselves know what is really “deep within”…this was the area that most concerned Jesus.

The Inner Life:

The Inner life—the great space where we encounter, experience and are embraced by God.

The Inner life—the place of great struggle, torment and reservoir of shame, guilt and pain.

The Inner life—the place of great peace, satisfaction and contentment…the seedbed of the abundant life.

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DOWNLOAD – A Self-Assessment Exercise on The State of Your Soul

Inside Job: Doing the work within the work

Dallas Willard Ministry

Moment to Breathe - Prayer to Welcome the Sabbath

Lord of Creation,
create in us a new rhythm of life
composed of hours that sustain rather than stress,
of days that deliver rather than destroy,
of time that tickles rather than tackles.

Lord of Liberation,
by the rhythm of your truth, set us free
from the bondage and baggage that breaks us,
from the Pharaohs and fellows who fail us,
from the plans and pursuits that prey upon us.

Lord of Resurrection,
may we be raised into rhythms of your new life,
dead to deceitful calendars,
dead to fleeting friend requests,
dead to the empty peace of our accomplishments.

To our packed-full planners, we bid, "Peace!"
To our over-caffeinated consciences, we say, "Cease!"
To our suffocating selves, Lord, grant us release.

Drowning in a sea of deadlines and death chimes,
we rest in you, our lifeline.

By your ever-restful grace,
allow us to enter your Sabbath rest
as your Sabbath rest enters into us.

In the name of our Creator,
our Liberator,
our Resurrection and Life,
we pray.
Amen

Taken from: Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne and  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.

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