Happy Monday!
This weekend I received a lesson on today’s word-of-the-week…
Flexibility
I’ve got sort of a single-track mind. I want to get an idea, develop it, and move forward. I’m not opposed to looking at alternatives—at the beginning. But I want to decide, and then get on with it.
That’s not all bad. Some folks never decide. They see nothing but options, and endless buffet of ideas and possibilities. That’s great for creativity, but not much actually gets accomplished.
But occasionally us single-track guys get derailed. Someone clearly points out that you’re on the wrong road, and it’s simply necessary to stop, back up, and go a different direction.
That’s where the flexibility comes in.
I’ve been using the title Journey4Hope for my crazy bike ride project. I’ve used it enough that it’s become familiar. I’m pretty attached to it. This weekend I had the opportunity to sit with a guy who knows a lot about branding and marketing. He listened to my vision and my dreams, looked at my ideas, and very kindly challenged me to reconsider.
Journey4Hope is kind of nice and generic and impersonal and nonprofit-sounding. He said the ride needs to be more about me.
But I don’t WANT it to be about me! So we talked about goals and connections, about the importance of relationships, about why it HAS to be about me.
I guess the writer of Ecclesiastes was right—there is a time for everything. There’s a time to decide, to be all-in and move forward with resolve. But there’s also a time to listen, to reconsider, to be flexible.
The new suggested title: Rich’sRide. It has me thinking of my friend Clark Osborn’s Forrest Gump reference: Ride Rich Ride.
Is there something about which you might need to be a bit more flexible this week?