Ministry often reinforces inattentiveness to Christ.

Want to know the top 5 behaviors of high potential leaders?

The Eblin Group suggests these:

1. Proper pacing by building in regular breaks from work.

2. Less time using personal functional skills; more time encouraging team members to use theirs.

3. Manage workload so there’s time for unexpected problems or issues.

4. Focus less on day to day issues and more on strategic opportunities.

5. Regularly steps back to define or redefine what needs to be done.

I don’t know if I’m a high potential leader or not. But I do know that I need to adhere to these principles.

Good pacing, encourage others, margins, big picture and redefinition.

Listen to this advice from The Message:

God helping you: take your everyday ordinary life, your sleeping, eating, going to work and walking around life and place if before God as an offering.

God has a reason...and a plan.

"God works all things for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28

Oswald Chambers says: "The circumstances of a saint's life are ordained of God. All your circumstances are in the hand of God.”

I like that because many times a leader is faced with a situation where you want to say “Why?”

But, I really understand that God has a plan. Many times we see the reasons for the plan in the rear view mirror.

And we experience God’s plan day by day as we follow Him. So what does that mean for a leader?

One: start your day intentionally committing to follow God’s lead.

Second: understand that the people you encounter are brought into your day by God.

And third: live in the confidence that God has the solution for anything you face today.