Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't it's almost certain you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!