What Is The Purpose You’re Pruning Toward? – Define what you are shooting for, and then prune against that standard.Gut Check – Reality sometimes makes us face things that hurt, and that can be a very good thing.Pruning Your Business And Your Life – The areas of your business and life that require your limited resources – your time, energy, talent, emotions, money – but are not achieving the vision you have for them should be pruned.Necessary Ending Type 1 – healthy buds or branches that are not the best ones not sick but not best Necessary Ending Type 2 – sick branches that are not going to get well Necessary Ending Type 3 – dead branches that are taking up space needed for the healthy ones to thrive The Real Reason – Something about the leaders’ personal makeup gets in their way.Ĭhapter 2 Pruning: Growth depends on getting rid of the unwanted or the superfluous.Why We Avoid Endings – We hang on too long when we should end something now.The Universality of Endings – Endings are crucial, but we rarely like them.Since I don’t own this book (don’t want to spend money on another book), I will outline the chapters here so I’ll remember and quote on line from each.Ĭhapter 1 Endings: The good cannot begin until the bad ends
There are many good principles I want to remember. I borrowed this book from the library after Bill Hybels referred to it at GLS (Global Leadership Summit 2017). In your business and perhaps your life, the tomorrow that you desire and envision may never come to pass if you do not end some things that you are doing today. If you prefer a quick overview, these six-minute interviews with Henry Cloud by Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church provide a helpful summary.Preface of the book: Today may be the enemy of your tomorrow. I recommend Necessary Endings for anyone who leads anything. What necessary endings are you avoiding?.What needs to be pruned out of your life in order for you to be fully engaged in the callings God has given you?.What church programs in your church fall into each of the three categories (healthy but not the best, sick and not going to get well, dead)?.
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The book unpacks how to identify necessary endings and why we avoid them.
Pruning your business, your church, and your life is necessary to direct limited resources (time, money, energy, talent, emotions) toward the things that help achieve your vision most. Life always produces more branches than it can sustain. In business and in life, we must execute the three types of necessary endings described above if we are to flourish. Dead branches that are taking up space needed for the healthy ones to thrive. Sick branches that are not going to get well, andģ. Healthy buds or branches that are not the best ones,Ģ. The gardener intentionally and purposefully cuts off branches and buds that fall into any of three categories:ġ.
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It turns out that a rosebush, like many other plants, cannot reach its full potential without a systematic process of pruning. Pruning is a process of proactive endings.
A healthy, vibrant, blooming rosebush is beautiful, but does not come into being without immense effort. Cloud’s key metaphor comes from the world of gardening. In order to move an organization forward, sometimes employers have to let an employee go.ĭr. Individuals must be able to let go of certain relationships, practices, and phases to create a sustainable rhythm of life. Church leaders must be able to end yesteryear’s good ideas or involvements in order to create space for today’s strategies. Businesses must sometimes let go of old product lines or even entire areas of business whose day has passed. Cloud says that endings are a necessary part of life. I thought I might have trouble adjusting to a paperless book, but I have become a Kindle convert.) Dr. (By the way, it was the first book I ever read electronically on a Kindle. I found multiple applications for me personally and professionally. Henry Cloud’s new book, Necessary Endings.
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