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Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Ryan Leak podcast where we love to keep things short and sweet because you got things to do and so do I. But each and every week always want to give you something short and sweet that I believe can add value to your week. Your meetings, your homes, your dinners. And I believe this episode is going to absolutely do that. Today's episode is entitled Right on Time. Yeah, Right on time. Allow me to introduce you to a word that I believe can add tremendous value to your life, your day, your week. And that word is Kairos. Kairos. It's a Greek word. It's spelled K A I R O S. Kairos. Some people say kairos. I like kairos. And the reason that it's important is, well one, it's a Greek word, so you have that. And it's a word that has a very, very interesting meaning. The meaning of the word kairos is the opportune or decisive moment. And the reason that this matters is because in Greek there are two words for time. The other one is Kronos. That's the one we're all used to. Kronos is the ticking clock. Kronos is your calendar, your 9 o' clock meeting, your 2:30 pickup time in the carpool line at your kid's school. Chronos is your deadline, your alarm going off way too early. Chronos, my friends, is measurable. It's predictable, it's scheduled. But kairos, Kairos is different. Kairos is the moment inside the moment. It's the kind of time that you cannot schedule. You can't force it, you can't automate it. You can only recognize it or miss it. If you've ever heard someone reference the Bible, talking about the right time or the appointed time, you may have heard this before. The word that they're talking about in that moment is Kairos time. Not just time passing, but time that matters. Here's how I'd say it. Kronos is the tick of the clock. Kairos is the weight of the, of the moment. And if you're anything like me, you are drowning in Kronos. Oh yes, you've got a full calendar, a full inbox, a full plate, meetings stacked on meetings, kids schedules, practices, drop offs, pickups, deadlines, travel responsibilities. Kronos is very loud in my life and I am sure it is loud in yours. But kairos, kairos is slow motion. Kairos whispers. Kairos is never going to send a calendar invite. It does not come with a notification. Kairos will never say hey, in three minutes Something meaningful is about to happen. Get ready. That's not how kairos works. No, Kairos just shows up. It's your toddler climbing into your lap when you didn't ask for it. It's your kid asking a question at bedtime that's deeper than you expected. And it takes a 10 minute bedtime routine and perhaps turns it into a 30 minute bedtime routine. Kairos is the moment in a meeting where someone says something vulnerable and everything in you knows this is your chance to lead. Well, Kairos is the split second where you can either respond with frustration or you can respond with patience. And what I've realized is this is most of us don't need more time than we think we do. I fall asleep often with wishing that there were more hours in the day so that I could spend more time with clients and spend more time with my wife and spend more time with my kids. And I just think if I only had more time. But more time is not our actual biggest challenge. We don't need more time. We need to stop missing the moment. And I can tell you this right now. The reason I'm doing this podcast, doing this particular episode, is because I need this message the most. I have missed so many moments because of my busyness moving on to the next thing. I don't need more Kronos time. I need to stop missing the kairos. Because here's the trap. We think the problem is time management. Again, we think if we just had more hours, more margin, more flexibility, and we'd be the parent we want to be, the leader we want to be, the spouse we want to be. But I don't think that's true. I think the real issue is moment awareness, because you can have all the time in the world and still miss the moment that mattered most. And you can have a packed schedule and still catch the exact moment that changes everything. Do you know how many times I have had days where I spent hours with my kids, but I still missed the moment? And I've also had days where I've only had five minutes with my family and somehow I was fully there and it was enough. That's the difference. Kairos moments are not about quantity. They're about quality. They're about presence. They're about being aware enough to recognize this right here, this matters. But I think what makes this hard is that Kairos moments don't feel big when you're in them. They don't feel big when you're in them. They feel ordinary. They can even feel interruptive. If you're a busy person like me, for sure, they can feel like they're almost like getting in the way of your schedule. Because you're like, you know, you're trying to send one more email and your kid walks in, you're trying to wrap up a meeting and someone asks a question that could take things deeper, you're trying to get out the door and your spouse starts a conversation and everything in you wants to say, really, right now? But what if. What if right now is the moment? What if right now is the Kairos moment? What if the thing you're trying to move past is actually the thing that matters the most? What if that moment is right on time, not early, not late? I know it might be an inconvenience to your schedule, but what if it's supposed to inconvenience your schedule? Kairos moments don't operate on your schedule, but they always show up exactly when they're supposed to. The question for you and for me is, are we paying attention? Because missing a kairos moment doesn't feel like missing something big. It feels like moving on too quickly. It feels like brushing something off. It feels like saying, yeah, we'll talk later. But later doesn't always come back around the same way. That question your kid asked, that might have been the moment that they were actually ready to open up. That pause in that meeting, that might have been the moment the trust could have been built, the tension in a conversation, that might have been the moment that growth was available. And I think we miss it. I know I do. Not because we're bad people, but because we're busy people. Kronos time. The ticking of the talk. Man, it just trains us to move fast. Kairos Woo. It invites us to slow down. So here's my challenge for us this week. It's not to clear our schedule. It's not to find more time. My challenge for this week is to become more aware, to start asking myself throughout the day, is this a Kairos moment? What if this interruption is actually an invitation? What if this conversation is more important than I think? What if this small moment is carrying more weight than I realize? Because the truth is, the moments that shape your relationships and your leadership and, dare I say, your legacy, they're not always the big moments that are planned, the highlighted ones. No, the things that really shape, the things that matter the most are those quiet moments. They're subtle, they don't announce themselves. And if you're not paying attention, you'll miss them. So today, as you go through your schedule, your meetings, your responsibilities. I want you to hold on to this. You don't need more Kronos. You need to stop missing the Kairos. Because the life you're trying to build isn't just found in how you spend your time. And it's found in how you see your time in the people who make a difference in the lives of other people. The people who build the strongest relationships, who lead the best. They're not just good with time. They're good with moments. So, my friend, I'm going to invite you not to miss it this week. Don't miss that conversation. Don't miss that pause. Don't miss that unexpected opportunity to lean in when you could just rush past. Might not look like much, but I have to wonder if that interruption is right on time. My friends, thank you so much for listening to the Ryan League Podcast. If today's episode added value to your life, you already know what to do. Share it with a friend. Subscribe rate, Leave a comment. And just so you know, whenever you do those things, your support of this podcast helps us reach even more people with these short and sweet nuggets of inspiration. Until next time, my friends, have a phenomenal week.