You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Followers are always watching what you do. And people do what people see! If you are a leader seeking to make your vision come alive, then there is no better way to accomplish this than by living it: Modeling your expectations, setting the example by your actions, and showing the way through leading. Your followers, who are watching, will see in you the living picture of the vision, and you will produce the energy, motivation and passion to keep it going.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

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.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.