Soul Care, Leadership Pressure, and Sustainable Rhythms

It's interesting how you described yourself as a, a workaholic maybe might be the easy overture, uh, thing.

I, I think anyone listening to this, you don't get to this thing by not working hard, um, or not working a lot.

And so I think everybody's like, "Sure, yeah." That's like the ticket to, um, entrepreneurship, the ticket into leadership is usually hard work.

Uh, and then, um, volume is how we became successful.

A lot of times we don't know how to transition that.

Okay.

So let's define something before we get into kind of the-Uh, uh, how do we help and notice and see things? What's your definition of soul?

I like the way you asked that, Dan.

Uh-huh.

That was very inquisitive.

All right.

Well, we al- we often ask folks, uh, whenever you hear the word soul, what do you first of all think of? And, um, a lot of folks think of, you know, when you die, there's this wispy thing that floats out of you, and that would be an inaccurate way of defining the soul.

Best way to define the soul is to go to the Bible.

Bible says when God created, uh, man, He breathed in him the breath of life, and he became a living soul or a living being or a living creature.

And my favorite place to go to is Psalm 103 verse one.

It's, uh, [clears throat] I'll, I'll give your guys a little, uh, hermeneutic study of a phrase.

Um, Psalm 103 verse one says this: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name." So that's called a parallelism in Hebrew poetry.

And so the psalmist says, "Bless the Lord, O my soul," and right underneath it, he gives the parallel phrase that defines it, "and all that is within me." So you could say that your soul is your operating system.

You could say it's the, it's the integrated, uh...

It's your integrated self, taking your will, your spirit, your emotions, your mind.

Uh, and, um, that would be, that would be a way to describe it.

So often debated in Acumen, uh, we do something called the battle assessment.

Where are you in the battle that is this life and your business and all those things? And, uh, something that we have ill-defined purposefully is a soul score.

So when you get it, you have to put a score on it.

Uh, my favorite answer so far is purple.

It's interesting how you described yourself as a, a workaholic maybe might be the easy overture, uh, thing.

I, I think anyone listening to this, you don't get to this thing by not working hard, um, or not working a lot.

And so I think everybody's like, "Sure, yeah." That's like the ticket to, um, entrepreneurship, the ticket into leadership is usually hard work.

Uh, and then, um, volume is how we became successful.

A lot of times we don't know how to transition that.

Okay.

So let's define something before we get into kind of the-Uh, uh, how do we help and notice and see things? What's your definition of soul?

I like the way you asked that, Dan.

Uh-huh.

That was very inquisitive.

All right.

Well, we al- we often ask folks, uh, whenever you hear the word soul, what do you first of all think of? And, um, a lot of folks think of, you know, when you die, there's this wispy thing that floats out of you, and that would be an inaccurate way of defining the soul.

Best way to define the soul is to go to the Bible.

Bible says when God created, uh, man, He breathed in him the breath of life, and he became a living soul or a living being or a living creature.

And my favorite place to go to is Psalm 103 verse one.

It's, uh, [clears throat] I'll, I'll give your guys a little, uh, hermeneutic study of a phrase.

Um, Psalm 103 verse one says this: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name." So that's called a parallelism in Hebrew poetry.

And so the psalmist says, "Bless the Lord, O my soul," and right underneath it, he gives the parallel phrase that defines it, "and all that is within me." So you could say that your soul is your operating system.

You could say it's the, it's the integrated, uh...

It's your integrated self, taking your will, your spirit, your emotions, your mind.

Uh, and, um, that would be, that would be a way to describe it.

So often debated in Acumen, uh, we do something called the battle assessment.

Where are you in the battle that is this life and your business and all those things? And, uh, something that we have ill-defined purposefully is a soul score.

So when you get it, you have to put a score on it.

Uh, my favorite answer so far is purple.