THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE GRIND OF MAN (PART 2)

QUESTION:

What makes a leader effective in an organization (business or church)?

QUESTION:

Are you leading yourself this way?

Everyone leads themselves the question is this: is it good leadership or bad.

THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE GRIND OF MAN - “The Leadership of SELF”-

I. Brand YOU Renewed

A. You are your own brand

1. Your brand is your story

2. Your story is your why

3. Your why is your obituary

“To write a great book, you must first become the book.” (Naval Ravikant)

B. The goals you have are not ends but springboards to your why

C. Your brand’s success is dependent on the quality and consistency of your leadership

D. If the brand fails and never succeeds it’s the leader’s fault.

E. QUESTION: How did your brand do last year?

II. The Priority of Self Leadership

A. Self-Leadership Principles:

1. Principle 1: You will never achieve your goals if you cannot first conquer the first obstacle: yourself

a. The major challenges to our growth is one or more of these:

i. Ignorance

ii. Unwillingness

iii. Lack of skill – in leading oneself.

2. Principle 2: If you cannot lead yourself to invest in yourself in order to be focused on your goal you will never reach your goal.

3. Principle 3: Self-leadership is about self- imposed boundaries that ensure the intentional and undistracted movement towards your goal

B. Self-Leadership Begins with Self-Awareness

1. What it is

a. Being personally knowledgeable and honest about weaknesses

b. The truth of my history + the truth of my present is who I am

i. Think about who you were last year

1) You had no goals – or

2) You had goals but did not execute – or

3) You had goals but half-executed

4) You have little or nothing to show from last year but

a) Frustration

b) Waste of time

c) Waste of a year of your entire life

i. 12 months

ii. 52 weeks

iii. 365 days

d) 8760 hours

2. Questions:

a. What have you done with the last-

i. Half- month

ii. 2 weeks

iii. 16 days

iv. 384 hours

b. Is your activity in 2021 aiming at who you want to be in 2021?

3. Principles of Self Awareness

a. Principle 1: Self-awareness is only achieved when I am clear about who I am but who I am is only seen when I know who I want to be

b. Principle 2: Self-awareness gives you a clear picture of how you need to fight you.

III. The Power of Self Leadership

A. The Power of Routines (Habits)

1. Habits are those consistent, intentional and tiny routines you do everyday to become that person who achieves the desired ending to your story.

“To write a great book, you must first become the book.” (Naval Ravikant)

2. Some quotes about habits

a. “Success is the product of daily habits - not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.” – pg. 18

b. “You get what you repeat.” Pg.18

c. “Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.” Pg 18

3. The Bible and the Power of Habits to Achieve Your Why

a. Jesus

i. Mark 1:35-39-

Mark 1:35 ESV

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Mark 1:36 ESV

And Simon and those who were with him searched for him,

Mark 1:37 ESV

and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.”

Mark 1:38 ESV

And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”

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Mark 1:35 ESV

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Mark 1:36 ESV

And Simon and those who were with him searched for him,

Mark 1:37 ESV

and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.”

Mark 1:38 ESV

And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”

ii. His routine (v35) was centered around His why (v38) and because of this he was not derailed by the demands of others (v37) that was inconsistent with His why

b. Paul

i. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27-

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

1 Corinthians 9:26 ESV

So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

1 Corinthians 9:26 ESV

So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

i. Principles of routines:

His why: Obtaining the prize (v24)

His Boundaries (25b-26)

His Self-awareness (v27a)

His Self-control (27b)

4. Habits of successful people

a. Warren Buffett was once asked: What is the key to your success? He said, routine, routine, routine!

B. Developing A Morning Routine

1. BEAsT the Morning

“Your day is your life in miniature. The way you develop an extraordinary life is to string together many extraordinary days and these start with the morning

“Hitting the snooze button is not saying yes to a little more sleep. It is resisting life; it is saying no to the day!”

“How you deal with your morning sets the tone for how you live your day.”

2. Component of your routine

a. A Spiritual Component

b. An Intellectual Component

c. A Physical Component

d. A Professional Component

All of your components are developed and determined around your WHY

3. “You Are”- Daily affirmations

a. These remind you of the YOU you are investing in