2. Peace Over Anxiety
Anxiety is a subject I write and talk about frequently, primarily because it’s often a topic of honest conversations.
I’m referring to anxiety that is not a clinical, can’t function, debilitating anxiety. It’s what I call (my non-medical term) a “low-grade anxiousness.” On a busy day, you don’t even notice it.
A low-grade anxiousness is when you are quiet and alone with your thoughts and don’t sense a soul-level peace. The remedy begins with slowing down in a regular rhythm to sense God’s presence, power, and peace.
Yes, God is with us when we are on the run, but He ministers to us when we sit quietly with Him.
My new book, Leadership Alone Isn’t Enough: 40 Devotions to Strengthen Your Soul, may be helpful to you.
3. Connected Over Distant
Leadership was never intended to be a solo endeavor. Instead, we are designed for community and are responsible for building that community.
How is the team you lead doing?
Do you perceive a strong sense of connectedness among your team, and are you personally connected at a heart level to your team? This is vital to the success of your ministry in the near future.
You can assess connectedness from the experience of closeness, trust, honesty, laughter, and productivity.
This is obviously the opposite of an awareness of distance from your team.
When you are connected at a heart level with your team, you’ll sense a spirit of alignment and moving together in the right direction.
If this is missing…
Here’s where you start.
What one relationship needs your attention this week?
4. Focused and Energized Over Distracted
Here’s an example of what I mean.
Your physical condition always intersects with your leadership focus and energy.
Like your physical energy impacts your ability to engage with your family when you get home from work, your physical condition sets the level of your vitality to engage in your leadership fully.
I recently re-injured my right foot. So many miles jogging over many, many years. It’s a major distraction that steals my focus. Pain occupies our thoughts.
