The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Great visions are cast one on one.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.

You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.