Honest About Your Limits

Gen X leaders were forged in self-sufficiency. We figured out how to handle things ourselves because we had to, starting young — and we brought that capability into our professional and leadership lives with a badge of honor attached to it. We handle it. We don't ask for help. The result, after enough years, is leaders who are carrying far more than they should and wondering why they're exhausted. This episode is the Jethro conversation most Gen X leaders need.Exodus 18 records one of the most practical leadership lessons in Scripture: Moses' father-in-law watches him sit in judgment from morning until evening for an entire nation, and says plainly that what Moses is doing is not good. The work is too heavy. He cannot handle it alone. The episode unpacks why that's not an insult to Moses' capability — it's a structural truth about the limits God built into human beings — and asks specifically what Gen X leaders are still carrying that someone else could do, and why."Moses' father-in-law replied, 'What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.'" (Exodus 18:17–18, NIV) Today's challenge: list three things you're currently carrying that someone else could do, choose one, and make the delegation conversation happen this week.