Overreach
I’ve had a tendency to get out in front of my skis.
Not just in pace.
In conviction.
I get an idea.
A belief that feels right.
Something that clicks.
And before it has time to settle in me,
I’m trying to hand it to everyone else.
Like it’s finished.
Like it’s proven.
Like it belongs on someone else’s life.
I’ve done it in business.
Rolled out direction before it had roots.
Pushed vision that I hadn’t fully lived yet.
I’ve done it in faith too.
Spoke with certainty
on things I was still learning in real time.
It feels productive.
It feels like leadership.
But sometimes it’s just overreach.
One thing I’ve noticed
is that the older I get,
the less rigid I become.
Not because truth changes.
Because I do.
Experience has a way of sanding down certainty.
Of showing you how much you don’t see yet.
Because not everything needs to be shared immediately.
Some things need to be tested.
Lived.
Refined.
Not every thought deserves a platform.
Some need a process.
I’m learning that just because something is true
doesn’t mean it’s ready.
And just because I see it
doesn’t mean it’s mine to hand out yet.
James 1:19 comes to mind.
Quick to listen.
Slow to speak.
I’ve been the opposite more times than I’d like to admit.
There’s a difference between insight
and ownership.
Between discovering something
and becoming it.
Lately, I’ve been trying to let things sit longer.
To carry them before I communicate them.
To live them before I lead with them.
Because the things that last
usually take time to take hold.
And the truth I rush to share
often says more about me
than it does about what’s actually true.
That made me think...
How much of my certainty
was just me getting there too soon?
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