Lots of good stuff in the book Why Business People Speak Like Idiots if you are trying to improve your personal or ministry/corporate communications; however, I want to highlight a paragraph that really made me chuckle. In a section titled "Romancing the Dull," the writers talked about our pursuit of cool jobs, but acknowledged that most of us end up doing stuff like this:

"We get e-mail, send e-mail, detach things from e-mail, save those things, read them, and make some edits. Sometimes we file them or make copies of them so we don’t lose them. We share them with other people who change the format of these things and show them to groups of other people. We stow things away for a while. Then we retrieve them and take little parts of them and put them into bigger files, where they become part of what we call ‘intellectual capital’ (because we don’t want to call them ‘bigger files’)."

Why do parts of that sound painfully real? Could be why I find it so hard some days to explain to Emily what I’ve accomplished. I guess I can just tell her I created "intellectual capital" for Jesus.

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