1) Don’t Be a Duck
“Don’t be willing to work harder than they are.”
If things aren’t going well or your team isn’t healthy…it’s not always on you.
Let things roll off of your back (like a duck). But don’t paddle frantically underneath the surface.
2) Initiation Means Maintenance
“Everything you initiate, by default you must add to your maintenance list.”
Don’t always be the one to take new things on. Delegate and empower.
3) Know When to Ride the Wave and When to Get Off
When you are surfing there are coral reefs and things that will get in the way. It’s not always soft sand and bikini tans. Waves never last forever.
4) Fatigue is Normal
“The ministry is a matter which wears the brain and strains the heart, and drains out the life of a man if he attends to it as he should.” – Charles surgeon
5) Leaders Are Under a Microscope
“They become the culprit of choice and the spapegoat to blame.”
When you live above reproach you are able to find rest in different ways. There will always be critics. But a little bit of integrity goes a long way.
6) Silence and Solitude Renew and Replenish
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”
7) Invest your Energy, Don’t Use It
The bible directs us to take our concerns to the feet of Jesus and leave them there, while we invest our time and emotional energy in the things that are truly our responsibilities.
Be willing to say no. Make sure you are operating out of a place of fullness
8) The 5% Rule
85 percent of what we do, anyone can do. 10 percent of what we do, someone with training should be able to accomplish it. But 5 percent of what you do, only you can do.
9) Take a Mulligan
God gives us a do-over every day. We can give ourselves one in leadership too.
10) Develop a Dashboard
Grade areas of your life (like school). Faith, relationships with your team, role as Team leader, ministry life, life back home, financial life, physical life, etc.
Do it at the end of every month and evaluate where you are weak and how you can improve next month where you didn’t do as well.
11) Hunger is Renewable
Michael Jordan quit basketball to play baseball because he had lost his hunger for the sport. In this transition however he renewed his hunger for basketball and came back to win 3 more championships
