My spirit is gentler, my mind sharper and my input more helpful if I show up rested and ready.
There are some people who cultivate wisdom that makes everything they contribute to better. If you can bring this to the table on the majority of your days, you will bring more than most people.
The leader who leads by intimidating others can hinder personal growth and innovation. It limits creativity, stunts personal development, and impedes originality. True leaders must strike a balance between learning from others and developing their own unique voice and ideas.
Maintaining long-term passion in leadership can often be a challenge. Initial passion may come from first experiences and new endeavors, but substitutes like caffeine, overscheduling, hype, time off, and new interests can't sustain it.
Saying no is crucial in leadership growth to focus on what truly matters. Embracing "no" can lead to better results and personal development.
Most of us spend a lot of time trying to figure out whether we think God is trustworthy. Maybe the only question isn’t whether we can trust God.
Are some people just a waste of time? Are there people you need to cut out of your life now?
Every once in a while when I read the Bible stuff pops up that I just plain never noticed before.
More and more I’m seeing at the end of the day all we’ve got is our relationship with God and with people. Not the idea of a relationship, but the reality of a relationship.
Everything has its season. And the season of the cool church is, in many ways, coming to an end.
Every leader has a choice between self-care and self-medication, and subconsciously, many choose the ‘polite’ version of self-medication.
So, what do you do if you want things to change and pretty much no one else does?
Is there anything you or I do–as regular, average pastors–that hurts rather than helps the cause of the local church?
We’re all gifted at something. Sometimes in the name of false modesty we pretend we’re not really that gifted. But that’s just not true. You’re gifted at something.
One of the biggest challenges you will face as a leader is figuring out how to treat people.
My suspicion is that most of us are not nearly as grateful as we should be.
Focus on the why. Not on the what and the how. What and how are inherently divisive. Why unites people.
When you welcome people to your church during your in-person services, do you still behave like it's 1999?
So you'd love to see more volunteers serve in your church or organization. Who wouldn't? And yet when it comes to volunteers, a surprising number of leaders struggle.
Ever catch yourself saying, "It's not my fault"? Maybe you say it but with different words. Find out how to move away from this mentality and into better leadership.
