Spaciousness: Avoiding the Traps that Steal Our Margin

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

One of the greatest threats to leading with joy is giving into the temptation of overcommitment.

When our lives are crowded, cluttered, and cramped, it is difficult to hear God and live in loving union with Him. The irony is, we can "fit in" regular practices of Sabbath and silence while still being driven by an overscheduled life.

But how do we resist this temptation?

Silence, solitude, and sabbath must become our practices.
AND spaciousness must become our mindset.

In order to live spacious lives, we must avoid the critical traps that keep us settling for an overcommitted life.

What would it feel like to live with breathing room?
How would it feel to limit your "Yes" and claim more margin in your schedule?
What if you could build in time for extended thinking, praying, and being?

On today's podcast, I identify several traps that keep you from the gift of spaciousness and offer wisdom that will help you live with a renewed sense of joy.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:07.5	podcast. Great to be with you. Our topic today is spaciousness, avoiding the traps that steal our
0:15.8	margin. Spaciousness. What a great word. That's why it's our theme today. It refers to having
0:23.9	large or ample room in our lives versus being cramped or restricted or narrow, feeling confined.
0:32.9	Spaciousness is about having a cup, spiritual, relational, emotional, that's full.
0:38.7	That's, we're able to engage in activities externally because we've got an inner reserve
0:44.0	out of which it can flow.
0:46.2	So some of the signals or symptoms that you know that your life is not spacious right now
0:51.0	is you find yourself rushing a lot or you can't shake the pressure that you've
0:54.8	got so much to do in so little time or you're late a lot or perhaps you're saying you're sorry
1:00.3	a lot to people because you're just not able to fulfill everything you're saying you're going to do
1:04.1	or you're just tired physically or emotionally or spiritually your body is often screaming screaming, stress, there's anxiety, there's a tightness.
1:15.3	People close to you are perhaps saying to you things like, like, where are you?
1:18.8	Or you feel like you're not actually growing in Jesus personally because, again, as it says
1:24.1	in Mark 4 and the sow or in the seed parable, there's thorns there.
1:28.0	You've got the, as Jesus talked about, the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things.
1:34.6	You've got so much happening in your own soil.
1:36.8	There's no room for the seeds to take root and actually blossom.
1:40.6	Or perhaps you're finding yourself making decisions quickly, and some of those are actually bad,
1:45.6	and then you have to unravel the consequences of that later.
1:48.3	So the list goes on.
1:49.7	But just ask yourself, on a scale of 1 to 10, how spacious are you feeling?
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