Sometimes, I just need to boil it down, simplify it, dust off the complication, narrow the focus...so I can magnify the core, the center, the really important, the reason, the essence for being. In leadership, sales, resourcing, ministry...we can emphasis the processes and strategy over the profound few essentials that keep these roles and responsibilities relevant to start with. In other words, we can get going so fast on the agenda at hand or even distracted by the peripheral that we lose sight of what it's all about.I've narrowed it down for me: PURPOSE, PEOPLE SKILLS, PASSION. If we don't know what we are called to do, who we are called to, and how we are to get "that" done, we aren't going to be successful in what really defines "success". Or, if these essentials get blurred for us, we miss the real impact in life. I don't know about you, but I've tried the "going through the motions" and missing all together the mission, living from role and responsibility and not from personal relationships. What drives those "things" we do? What keeps our responsibilities alive? I've been in leadership long enough to know that if I don't keep these few "main things" at the forefront of my daily thinking, I dull my effectiveness by leading from my head and not my heart.
We'll break it down further in the next post.
3 comments:
Why is it so hard to keep our vision simple? It just seems to easy to work. :)
I love resources! My daily intake of podcasts, book-reading, web-browsing, etc., probably nears the saturation point at times. It's this love for information and examining how others do what we do that can also be somewhat of a detriment. More formulas and how-to's can really cloud things for us. Our ability to stay focused and keep it simple is the challenge but the essential!
I think as Pastors we believe that in order for a church to be considered sucessful it has to be busy.
I believe that if we want to work in the areas we are passionate about, then we have to release the control of the items we are not passionate about. Just as God has given us passions, or a call. He has also called those in the fellowship. I believe our number one Job is to empower those in attendence to grow in the areas of their passion. When we learn to keep our focus simple, we will strive in the area God has placed us.
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