Yesterday, a close friend read a passage from a book to me. Immediately after hearing it, I purchased the book, and I suggest you purchase it, too, if you’re struggling with too much to-do-do.
In Bill Hybels’ Simplify: Ten Habits To Unclutter Your Soul, he writes:
I’ve raced a lot of stuff with engines in my life—boats, cars, motorcycles. Most things with engines have a tachometer, which is a little meter that tells you just how high your engine is revving. The higher the revs, the faster you go, and the higher your tachometer needle climbs. Every tachometer includes a danger zone, usually indicated by a red line. In a close race, you can rev your motor up past the red line for short bursts of time—maybe six or seven seconds. But if you keep your RPMs in the danger zone for too long, something will blow up. And that’s both expensive and dangerous.
It’s the same way at work. You can’t run past the red line for very long there either. Something will blow. In the end, the gains you thought you made by pushing it too hard for too long will come crashing down, either personally or at your job—or both.
Hybels, Bill (2014-08-19). Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul (pp. 98-99). Tyndale Momentum. Kindle Edition.
Thanks, Mr. Hybels. Thanks, Friend.