Christians are having just as hard a time dealing with all the toxic stress living in the church scattered as everyone else. Leadership trains us to work on the things we can change and pray about everything else. It becomes extremely important to know where your stress is coming from and develop a daily strategy to reduce toxic inputs and then make the deposits that build up spiritual, emotional and physical margins.
The Church Scattered Network believes that leadership best practice has never been more aligned with biblical truth and this HBR post will help you accomplish both goals:
“We all have days when we go home exhausted, fall into bed, turn off the light, and drift into a fitful sleep. For some of us, that happens almost every day. You might chalk it up to a difficult project, client, or boss stressing you out. But what you might not realize is that there is much more contributing to that exhaustion. Stress comes to us all in tiny little assaults throughout our day — what we call “micro-stresses.” And it’s coming from sources you might never have considered. The volume, diversity, and velocity of relational touch points (the way we routinely communicate and collaborate with others) we all experience in a typical day is beyond anything we have seen in history, and cumulatively they are taking an enormous toll on our health and our productivity at work.”