Subversive Mobilization: You Can Quit Anything on a Thursday!

The provocative and winsome Bob Goff, author of Love Does, famously asserts that you can quit anything on a Thursday! And he does. Reportedly Bob quits something every Thursday. I wonder what he’s quitting today?

His logic is that you can’t get the really good stuff into your life if your life is already stuffed with other things.

Makes sense to me. So what should I quit today? TV? Writing the Practical Mob column? I considered quitting Facebook, but then I thought maybe I should invite you to be my friend there.

Here’s what I am quitting. First the easy one, then the harder one:

1. I’m quitting the Christmas gift edition of Practical Mobilization that has occupied my December slot for the past five years. Thank you, Thursday!

2. I’m also going to quit thinking and acting like people who think differently from me are dumb. They may be wrong. And heck, they may be dumb, but I don’t want to assume that, and I certainly don’t want to imply that in conversations with others.

So how about you? It’s Thursday. What are you going to quit?

8 thoughts on “Subversive Mobilization: You Can Quit Anything on a Thursday!”

  1. I am going to quit explaining why I haven’t got off the ground and focus on the first thing I have to do when I get home – send my laptop in to get it repaired. This is actually a necessary next step in building my ministry support team. My next step after that will be to reconnect my email accounts and other accounts I must regularly log in to to apps on my newly repaired and wiped laptop. I will stop looking at these as obstacles to my support team development, but as first steps. My prayer is that this will communicate to myself first, and to those I talk with, the idea and vision that I have begun my support team raising process, even though the first dollar hasn’t hit my ministry account yet. I need to move past the paralysis of circumstances that are “preventing me from beginning”, and see that I have already started my journey. It’s just that my initial steps are different than someone else’s, but my journey is just as legitimate, and God will “complete the good work He has begun in me”.

  2. Karen: You go, girl! May God bless your efforts in the next couple of days, giving you a strong sense of momentum!

    1. Robby, here’s another way. I’ve already written the Resource Reviews for October but have space for a “see also.” Can link to this resource in the October 22 edition. Or if, in taking a closer look, it looks like something that would interest a good chunk of our readers, could ask Werner about running an excerpt as a “special feature” for October 29 (when we have nothing else planned).

      Marti

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