If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

Vision is a picture of a desired future; a picture of something that I don't possess right now, but it is something I want to see and experience, and something I want the people I am leading to experience.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership of it. They get their identity, purpose, and energy from the unique place their church is to be in that community.