Are You Three Inches From Your Best…
Last Thursday, as I was soaking up the wisdom from the speakers at the Global Leadership Summit, I was struck by one speaker’s challenge to the audience. Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ, asked the crowd the to do something, and I would like for you, Readers, to do what is about to be written.
“Raise your hand as high as you can…”
Did you do it?
Don’t just sit there, actually “Raise your hand as high as you can!”
Now that your hand is in the air…
Raise it THREE MORE INCHES…
Were you able to raise it three more inches?
I bet you were able to make that extra THREE inches.
See, Mayor Booker, was trying to show us that we settle for mediocre. We do the minimum to get by without knowing it at times. What holds us back from reaching our best, that extra three inches that we all can execute?
I think it is partially the culture we are surrounded by. We stop at our mental barriers that keep us from getting that extra three inches. A lot of times, we stop when we think we reached a satisfactory “best”, and believe in our minds that it is our best. But when you stop and say, can I get three inches higher, we push ourselves to truly reach that “best” factor.
If you want to stay mediocre, don’t worry about those three little inches. But if you want to allow God to take you to the next level, ask for Him to help you reach and stretch those three inches.
May we push ourselves and each other to reach those three extra inches, and see where God takes us from there.
