Leadership is Influence. Everything rises and falls on leadership, everything.
Humility
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- Humility isn’t thinking poorly of yourself; it’s thinking honestly about yourself.
- Humility isn’t a weakness; it’s strength under control.
- It’s a balance of God’s gifts within you, self-awareness, and maturity.
- The intent isn’t merely to embrace humility, but also to resist pride.
- Pride blocks humility and causes us to fall.
- You can intentionally pursue humility, but you’ll struggle if pride is blocking the way.
- Trying to be humble isn’t the goal; that can quickly become less authentic. It’s more about seeing yourself realistically and putting others before yourself.
- Humility sets your soul for God-based confidence.
- Humility leads to gratitude.
Gratitude
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- Humility prepares your heart to be naturally thankful.
- You’re a small part of a big world, you are important and you matter, but you’re not the only person; you are poised to be a much more grateful person.
- An ungrateful soul is an empty soul because it always wants more.
- Remember to focus and to be grateful for what you do have, rather than focusing on what you don’t have.
- Ungrateful leaders are unhappy leaders, and unhappy leaders are only satisfied with more.
- It’s easy to start questioning why God didn’t bless you with more. Instead, tell God daily what you are grateful for.
- Often tell someone why you appreciate them. Thank them and tell them why.
- Gratitude leads to generosity.
Generosity
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- When gratitude is in your soul, you make room for generosity.
- When you possess soul-level generosity, you want more for people than you want from them.
- You become a more giving leader.
- Giving becomes a natural part of your life, and you sense no need to keep score.
- Giving becomes easy, except perhaps, for the times that you need to make discerning choices about how to direct your generosity.
- Generosity is a way of living rather than a specific activity that you practice a few times a month or so.
- Generous leaders look for ways to bless others and find great joy in doing so.
- Generosity leads to personal security.
Security
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- Generosity flows into and strengthens your security.
- When you give easily and naturally, you gain certain freedom to be yourself.
- Secure leaders don’t often get caught up in people-pleasing and performance.
- No one wants to follow an insecure leader.
- All leaders have insecurity, but that’s different than being an insecure person.
- Security comes from knowing who you are in Christ and being self-aware about your gifts and talents.
- Being secure on who you are and confident are difficult to separate.
- People like you best when you are yourself.
- Don’t worry about what people think of you.
- Not everyone will like you, but they like you best when you are the real you.
- Security leads to courage.
Courage
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- When you are secure enough to be yourself, you have the freedom to be courageous.
- Courage always increases confidence.
- You are secure in the person God made you be.
- You can’t jump from humility to courage. The leap is too far, you’ll fall.
- You need to bridge the gap with gratitude, generosity, and security.
- You will have tough conversations
- Make difficult decisions
- Take a stand when needed
- Speak the truth
- Lead into uncertainty
- Courage isn’t always about doing what is big and grand, but more about doing the next right thing even when no one is looking.
- Courage sometimes includes going alone for a short time. There are times when it’s just you, that’s leadership. That’s courage.
Everything rises and falls on leadership. If you can grow your leadership it will help grow your home, job and every area of your life.