Pay attention to these three risks and continue to spend time thinking about the influence you have with each member of your team. Without influence, you are not truly leading your team.

James Allen shares, “they who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are indications of weakness.”

Here are three things that help me as a leader to prepare for and execute my thinking time most effectively.

Attending to your marriage and practicing covenant love matters most above all else in your home

As a business leader, here are three keystone habits I currently commit to that help lead myself, my teams, and my businesses more effectively.

A leader who surrounds themselves with followers actually desires power and control, rather than true leadership.

“The quickest path to innovation is through discovery. The only way to discover is to constantly try new things. The more you try, the more you discover.”

Savannah Bananas are the proof-of-concept of the idea that attention is more important than marketing.

Remember: the word retreat is not a negative word. It is rather a tactical thing you can deploy in your day-to-day operations to achieve a tactical advantage.

The head coach of an NFL football team is responsible for vision, both for the team and for individuals. The team might break up into focus areas so they can improve as individuals, but they also come back together as a team.

Life is full of challenges and you would be a fool to think that professional challenges are the only types of challenges ailing your team at work.

Don’t rally around being busy; rally around doing what is most important in the present.

“Instead of trying to accomplish it all – and all at once – and flaring out, the Essentialist starts small and celebrates progress.”

-Greg McKeown, Essentialism

"Essentialists accept the reality that we can never fully anticipate or prepare for every scenario or eventuality; the future is simply too unpredictable."

-Greg McKeown, Essentialism

If we carry that same level of discernment into our professional lives, we will experience how less (but more thinking) is one of the most important things we could do as a leader.

We talk about leadership as a responsibility to grow the lives of other people; it is furthermore your responsibility to grow the business. And if you are not motivated enough to do that, you need to move yourself out of the leadership role and put someone in that position who is willing and able to do that.

3 ways to exercise self-control during chaos

Three different types of work days you need to build into your weekly schedule.

A challenge could be an opportunity that forces you to reset, or to change directions, or to ante-up and go “all in.”

But the reality of it is that when someone achieves mastery, they are living out their life’s purpose and are doing the work God has given them the unique gifts to do.