Leadership Excellence

Good day, good people! Remember a leader is a servant. Leadership is about helping those that are doing poorly to become excellent. Once you become excellent at serving then you will become a natural, excellent leader. You are a leader. 

Positive word of the day- excellence- the quality of being outstanding or extremely good.

an outstanding feature or quality.

leadership- the action of leading a group of people or an organization.

Quote of the day- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis

Scripture of the day- Hebrews 12:3- Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Success Starts with Your Thoughts

Adapted from the resource Trusting God Day by Day - by Joyce Meyer

Nobody is successful in any venture just by wishing they would be. Successful people make a plan and talk to themselves about that plan constantly. You can think things on purpose, and if you make what you think about match what you actually want to do, your feelings may not like it, but they will go along.

I slept great last night, and when I woke up at 5:00 a.m., I didn't feel like getting up. It was so cozy under the fluffy cover, and I felt like staying right there. But I had a plan. I had decided how many hours I would write today, and in order to do that I had to get up. I thought, I am going to get up now, and I got up!

Do you make an effort to choose your thoughts, or do you just meditate on whatever falls into your head, even if it is in total disagreement with what you have said you want out of life? When your thoughts are going in a wrong direction, do you capture them and submit them to Christ as the Bible instructs (see 2 Cor. 10:5)?

I want to encourage you today—the good news is you can change. As I have said for years, we are in a war and the mind is the battlefield. We either win or lose our battles based on winning or losing the war in our minds. Learn to think according to the Word of God, and your emotions will start lining up with your thoughts.

If you have had years of experiencing wrong thinking and letting your emotions lead you as I did, making the change may not be easy, and it will definitely require a commitment of study, time, and effort. But the results will be worth it. Don't say, "I am just an emotional person, and I can't help the way I feel." Take control. You can do it!

Keep your thoughts in line with the plan God has for your life—a plan to prosper you, and not to harm you (see Jer. 29:11). Take control of your thoughts by trusting them to Him.

Prayer Starter: Lord, help me take control of my thoughts and trust You completely, amen.