As a leader, whether you are guiding a family, a team at work, or a church ministry, it’s easy to get lost in planning. We think about the next project, the next family goal, or the next ministry event, and we focus on how to measure success. These things are useful, but they are not where we find our purpose. If we base our leadership on our plans, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. Plans change, kids grow up, projects fail. If our purpose is tied to these thing

There’s a saying many of us have heard: “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” This idea makes sense to us. We want to do a good job, and it feels easier to just do it all ourselves. As leaders, we can fall into the trap of thinking we have to be involved in every single decision. We try to solve every problem for our family, our team, or our church. We mean well, but we end up becoming a roadblock where everyone has to wait for us. But what if this c

My growing up experience shaped my understanding of leadership in a very specific way. I saw a model based mostly on position rather than on example. Being a leader brought a sense of accomplishment and prominence in the society around me. Leaders were often appointed as a reward for loyalty rather than their capacity to serve. This was because loyalty to the system and to the higher leadership in the hierarchical structure of the socialist/communist system of Eastern Europe