I have been reading a leadership book by John Maxwell at work entitled Be a People Person. It’s a decent book (so far) with some good leadership concepts, but nothing earth shattering or new to the topic of leadership…mainly some good reminders.
However, there is one quote in the book that doesn’t relate solely to leadership that caught my attention a few weeks ago and I was reminded of it yesterday while listening to the radio and hearing a comedian (who happens to be Christian) talking about emails he gets from well-intentioned people getting on his case for some of the topics he includes in his material (it’s all clean…just pushes the envelope to get you thinking…as it should). Here’s the quote…I hope it gets you thinking as much as it did me…
Too many of us take ourselves too seriously and God not seriously enough.
—John Maxwell, Page 148
I am of the “don’t take yourself too seriously” mindset…sometimes to a fault. Life is too short to be spend our energy on stupid stuff. We spend way too much time worrying about stuff we can’t change and too little time on the things we can change and on the important relationships in our lives (i.e.: with God). Plus, laughing (especially at ourselves) is much more fun…we’re all just a bunch of goofs anyway! 
Post Tags: Book, John Maxwell, Laughter, Quote
