LEADERSHIP LEAN IN | BUILDING SOMETHING GREAT

[Music] what's going on everybody happy 2020 we are ecstatic to have you back with us or for the first time joining us here on the leadership lean in podcast we are leaning in to the subject of leadership just to get a little bit better i hope you had a fantastic break we around these parts took a fantastic break and we are now back and ready to engage this year with our leadership leaning community thank you for subscribing thank you for posting about it thank you for leaving comments thank you for being a part of the process and the journey we are going to provide in 2021 great content for you let me give you uh the commitment and the rundown of what we're going to do this year we're going to twice a month two episodes a month and we're gonna do it in three different seasons this year january february march season one we're gonna take april off may june july season number two take august off and then september october and november we'll wrap up season number three this year we're committing we have so many guests joining us in 2021 so let me just give you my commitment to you i'm going to bring my very best to the table some will be just teachings other times we're going to have great guests we've got a whole plan we've got a whole list we're in contact we're going to have some of the best leadership minds thinkers communicators in the world we're going to grow together in 2021 i know this is a time first month of the year you're probably making your goals and your resolutions can i just encourage you 2021 this year is more about who you are becoming than what you are doing make a greater commitment and a greater emphasis on your list of the kind of person you want to be more than the accomplishments you want to make okay so let's just start there so here we go uh by the way also subscribe to our leadership email we'll be doing that uh along the same schedule uh every other week and so we're gonna provide notes and content there as well okay i'm jumping right in here we go first episode 2021 are you ready to do this i can hear you i can hear you screaming with your pen and your paper and you're you're at your plasma you're in your kitchen you're in your room right are you ready to go okay you're on a run right now you can do this you can do this keep going keep going one foot in front another okay i want to talk today what it takes to build something great i want to convince you today that you are building a great name a great legacy and a great future what's in front of you is better than what's behind you the best is yet to come and what you're building promise you this you are building something that is so massive something so impactful that you don't even believe it if somebody whispered in your ear right now who you are and what you're about to do you wouldn't even believe them because that's how great the plan is on your life so i just want to give you a heads up jesus talked about this the greatest leader of all time talk about counting the cost if we're going to build a great house how much is this thing going to cost i got a friend uh that text me yesterday he said i'm moving from la out to the ie in our parts that's called inland empire we're building a brand new house that's gonna have this many bedrooms and this many bathrooms and this many square footage all things that are completely unrealistic in l.a but are totally realistic in the inland empire he's counting the cost when you're building your life before you start the mountain you're about to climb in 2021 let's just count the cost of what it's going to require give you six things in the first episode this year number one it's going to require a pace that will last a long time our hope for you is that you're not around for 5 years or 10 years or even 20 years but you are around for the long haul you are in it till the end you are starting with the end in mind so my question to you is are you running at a pace that is sustainable are you living in the rhythm of grace the i heard someone say the pace of grace what is the pace that is a perfect grace a sweet spot for your family for your future for your building what's in your hand i want to encourage you to run not too fast and definitely not too slow but in the perfect pace remember money if you don't tell it where to go money is like water if you don't give it barriers it just goes wherever it wants time if you don't give it barriers it just goes wherever it wants you've got to set parameters boundaries time stamps on your schedule you need to live within a weekly rhythm and a weekly pace i just love god god's like i'm gonna work six days seventh day is a day of rest i don't know a leader that rests too much most leaders work too hard they go too fast they're trying to climb they're trying to build that's fine i love that you got drive you got you're listening this podcast because you are an inspired driven leader but we need you around for the long haul so lead this year at a pace that is sustainable number two an obsession with improvement you building what's on your life you will you it will re require of you to be obsessed with improvement not perfection there is no perfect leader there is no perfect system there is no perfect business there is listen there's mistakes all over the place why because we're all human and there's the element of human error and we're all learning we're all trying to grow i do not want you to be obsessed with perfection if you're a perfectionist that means you are going to be mean cruel to yourself and mean cruel to others because your demand on yourself is too high it is not reasonable you need to have not an obsession with perfection but an obsession with improvement we do a thing within our organization every monday by noon every staff member turns in a swat from church strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats i gotta be honest i don't really live in the strengths and the opportunities are awesome the threats i'm interested in but i i kind of camp out in the weaknesses because that is where i learn and that is where i see opportunities for improvement be obsessed with just making little adjustments if you're a leader today and you need to make 180 improvements that's a big degree of change don't be in this situation where it's like if we make this change it's going to change everything why did you get yourself in a position where you're making decisions that change everything no no get yourself in a place where you're just making this is going to change this thing this is going to change this habit this is going to change this communication this is going to change this spending just make little tweaks and little adjustments all year long number three a commitment to address what needs to be addressed if you're going to build something great you have to make a commitment now i will address the things that need to be addressed you know like we use imagery and leadership like eggshells the elephant in the middle of the room one of my favorite leaders is patrick lincione i mean just death by meeting uh what about the five dysfunctions of a team the advantage i mean the list goes on one of the most prolific communicators and authors of leadership one of my favorite truths that he gives is that a team cannot excel without confrontation you have to confront the person or the issue together because if you just ignore it remember you always make the bed that you lie in and what you are willing to tolerate that means you are willing to live with so if you're gonna build something great that means we gotta address what needs to be addressed if it's a conversation that's worth having it's a conversation that needs to happen so we've got to just address these things it's not personal we're building something we're going somewhere maybe it's a character flaw within me i gotta address or a staff member or a volunteer that needs to be addressed it's always worth it to have the conversation i don't know anybody that's like man i'm so glad that we let this little snare in the carpet uh you know just stay there and then it developed this huge rip and now we have this eyesore in our carpet no no most people go man i wish we would have just nipped that thing in the butt and just got it before it just unraveled and got out of control now we've got this eyesore don't be a leader that is willing to tolerate things that are going to bring an eyesore to your team or organization number four a sacrifice today for what you want tomorrow it's going to require of you a sacrifice today for what you want tomorrow i want to convince you invest the next 10 years invest the next 15 years into your future just just make sacrifices today for what you want to enjoy tomorrow i saw a great post by uh the great andy mineo one of the greatest rappers uh greatest guys i love andy mineo he's unbelievable and a great basketball player by the way he was talking about he posted on instagram and he got me you know sliding through and he was talking about an opportunity he came in with some money and he goes i could have gone and bought sneakers or whatever clothes i sacrificed all that to buy this property by this house i remodeled it with my wife and he showed the kitchen before in the kitchen after and the bedrooms and and all that and he talked about making this sacrifice and now look at what they can enjoy they can enjoy more equity and a greater sale and a greater value a greater income for their home i want to convince you to make a greater sacrifice today for what you want to do tomorrow most of leadership is going you know what i'm okay with doing the things i have to do because i know it will free me up to do the things i want to do most leaders are not willing to give up what they want to do they only focus on that and they neglect the things they have to do it's like my kids with with with desserts okay if you don't eat your carrots and your celery you're not getting the cookie or the brownie leadership is going you know what i'm sacrificing today for what i want to have tomorrow i'm willing to do the things i don't want to do so that i'm freed up to do the things i want to do if you're going to build something great you're going to be involved with things you know what i didn't want to go to all those meetings i didn't want to return all those emails i didn't want to get up early in the morning i didn't want to read books and always be consumed with growth i didn't want but you know what i see a greater tomorrow so i'm willing to sacrifice today for what i'm building in my future number five a protection of what and who you value a protection it's gonna require you a great protection of what and who you value what you value is not always the same as who you value there are people that you value in your life protect them at all costs protect them from offense protect them from knowing things that maybe they can't understand uh in that certain time period of their life of growth and maturation protection protection aren't you grateful that you had parents that protected you from their fighting protected you from going through the budget in in the the financial pnls aren't you grateful for being protected great leaders are great protectors protect what you love and who you love what i love for me i love zoe church i love it with all my heart and so i protect our staff i protect our volunteers i protect our platform i don't just let anybody come in and preach or anybody just come up and talk i gotta protect what we're building together i protect the finances and make sure that it goes to helping people serving people and advancing the gospel i protect what and who i protect my nuggets i protect my wife i protect the people that are valuable in my life you've got to protect what you love how does that play out well i'm not going to prove my loyalty in your presence i'm going to prove my loyalty in your absence so i'm going to protect our relationship more when we're apart than when we're together when we're together i pray you feel protection and i hope that you feel safe but i'll tell you you are safe when i'm not in your presence i refuse to gossip slander or misspeak about your character and your future if i can't say it to you why would i say it about you that is protecting what you love and who you love make it a value for you in the sixth and the final one well we're off to a great start are you excited 2021 i gotta be honest i'm on day nine of a 21 day fast and i am right now in week two of my fast i'm going all liquids it's a little bit of a doozy i got to be honest little i didn't i didn't i didn't anticipate it but nevertheless we're having fun okay last one number six today a love for the journey this gets me excited we just wrapped up 2020 we come to the end of the year we wrap up all of our numbers our stats how we did finances everything all you know we go through all the stats and then i took a break with my family and i got invited to go preach in hawaii anytime you get invited to go preach in hawaii it is an automatic yes it turns into a family vacation so we got away in hawaii got off my phone for over a week and unplugged and i come back to l.a and i get ready i gather myself to climb this mountain again now as i come into 2021 here's what i'm not consumed with i am not obsessed with the numbers i gotta be these social media numbers or youtube numbers or you know fill in the blank connect group numbers what are all the numbers we measure it is not a numbers game that you are playing you are in a journey enjoy not the results enjoy the process the process is where all the pain and the pleasure lives because the number doesn't define you the journey is where the thrill is the journey is the joy the work is the fulfilling thing and so if you're gonna build something great it will not be great by statistics it will be great by impact it will be great by influence it will be great by people's stories of life change you can't measure a life that has changed so please hear me do not give yourself to stats give yourself to people people matter the most impact life change and so enjoy that process you are becoming who you're supposed to become so you can do what you're supposed to do but never neglect the becoming so you can get busy with the doing the doing perils and compare pales in comparison to the becoming so enjoy your year as you become who you're supposed to become i pray i believe you're building something great embrace the process and love the journey i love you i'll see you not next week but in two weeks leadership leaning we out you

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Length: 16min 53sec (1013 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 20 2021