BECOMING A LEADER
WORTH FOLLOWING
FINDING BALANCE
• Life without balance can cost you. Mark 8:36 What
good is it for someone to gain the whole world, but
lose your own soul.
• Balancing your personal life with your professional
life is KEY to sustaining your motivation. If you loose
your balance, you loose your motivation.
IT CAN COST YOU YOUR:
• Your Relationships
• Your Health
• Your Spirituality
• Your Wealth
• Your Happiness
FULLER SEMINARY DID A
10 YEAR STUDY AND FOUND:
• 100% had a friend who had left the ministry because of
burnout
• 90% stated they are frequently fatigued on weekly and
even daily basis
• 89% had considered leaving ministry at one time
• 77% felt they did not have a good marriage
• 71% stated they were burned out and battle depression
beyond fatigue
• 38% were divorced
• 30% had been in an ongoing affair or had a sexual
encounter with a church member
FINDING BALANCE IS A DISCIPLINE
WE MUST LEARN, BALANCE BETWEEN:
• Work hard and Play hard
• Quiet & Loud
• Solitude & People
• Technology & Simplicity (TURN YOUR PHONE OFF)
• Learn to be STRONG but not IMPOLITE
• Learn to be KIND but not WEAK
• Learn to be BOLD but not BULLY
• Learn to be HUMBLE but not TIMID
• Learn to be PROUD but not ARROGANT
• Learn to develop HUMOR without FOLLY
BECOMING A LEADER WORTH FOLLOWING
MEANS DEVELOPING YOURSELF
• If you want to be a leader who attracts quality
people, the key is to become a person of quality
yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone
to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as a
leader.
• Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
• We don’t get paid for the number of hours we work,
we get paid for our value. BECOME more valuable.
• SUCCESS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU PURSUE, SUCCESS
IS SOMETHING YOU ATTRACT BECAUSE OF THE
PERSON YOU BECOME.
• The question is NOT What am I getting here, the
question is What am I becoming here?
• How are you becoming better person?
• If you SEEK you will FIND, but it’s important to know
that finding is reserved for the seekers. We don’t
find what we need…we find what we search for.
• Being a LEADER is Being a READER. Words nourish
the mind, words nourish the soul
• Positive reinforcement: learning that there are
rewards for doing something good, worthwhile and
of value. The better you do the better your reward.
BE WHERE YOU ARE AND
CHOOSE WHERE TO BE
• Learn to spend 80% of your time as a leader
with the 20% who deserve it.
• Spend individual time with 20% and Group
time with 80%
• YOUR time is as valuable as you CHOOSE to
make it - Col 3:23 Whatsoever you do, do it
heartily, as unto the Lord, and not just for man.
• It is so important to know what a good use of your
time, and what is a waste of your time. Focusing on
the negative is a waste of time. In fact it is often a
massive error in judgment. DON’T CHASE THE BIRDS,
IT’S MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO STAY IN THE FIELD.
• If we are not careful, we can become problem
solvers instead of leaders.
• Nehemiah was tested by others to come down from
building to explain things to them. He refused and
said ,”I cannot leave the task at hand to argue and
explain to you.”
SETTING COMPELLING GOALS
• We take more time in planning a vacation
than we do for our life.
• What are your goals?
• Any goal is a powerful motivator if there is a
powerful reason behind it.
ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:
• What do you want to do?
• Who do I want to be?
• What do I want to see?
• What do I want to have?
• Where do I want to go?
SKILLS INVOLVED IN BUILDING A SOLID
STAFF/FAMILY
• Communication – Everybody needs to be
heard, and everyone has to
acknowledge that everyone’s voice
counts
• Activity – purposeful, visionary
• Spiritual Connection
BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU
BECOME IN PURSUIT
OF WHAT YOU WANT