Can't tell you how many times I've pulled my boys in a wagon far from the house on a hot day... only to have them refuse to ride back home.
On good days, I can convince them I'm not a pack-mule and satisfy them with a lollipop. On bad days, I have to conjure up super-human strength to lug these pumpkins home... dragging the wagon behind me.
Okay, I confess this is actually a gripe couched in a personal story. Let me shoot straight. More and more, I find myself trying to convince people to stay with projects.
No less than three people have bailed on me this week when I was "miles from home."
John Maxwell is famous for saying, "We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
We don't get promoted into greatness. We have to go through the fires of commitment and hard work and struggle and follow-through to become a person of integrity. To become better than we are.