Tuesday at 2:00pm with Russ

It's Tuesday at 2:00pm! (PST Time: I live and work from Southern California)

Greetings to you!

Each week I send out a short leadership blog that's called "Tuesday at 2:00pm". The purpose of this is simply to provide a brief thought on leadership that you can read and think about in just a few minutes. I send it out every week at 2:00pm (PST) and encourage you to make an appointment with yourself to pause and think about the thing I'm writing about.

Russ...

LEADERSHIP QUOTE:

"The first and toughest person to influence is yourself." Chris Richardson

What does this stir up? Either write me HERE or comment at the end of the blog post HERE.

A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:

This Month we're going to explore some quotes on the theme of INFLUENCE. Click Here to see last weeks post.

This quote from Chris Richardson just caused me to reflect on the idea that I have to influence myself, FIRST. This is called Self-Leadership, and it's really important.

Years ago, I learned from a huge influence in my life, Jim Burns, that I had to manage myself so that I could impact others.

As a 21 year old, this was a foreign concept. I was used to running hard, not having many margins in my life, and I didn't understand what rest and replenishment was for. Of course I was 21 years old! Do you remember those days?

I think the biggest deficit I had was my spiritual life. I was a young youth pastor, and I was responsible to "influence" all of these students, but I was spiritually empty, simply because I didn't realize that I needed to prioritize this area of my life.

I justified that I was in the Word regularly, that I was serving God and that I was doing spiritual things all the time, but this was all part of my job, it wasn't fruit from my life.

Jim taught me the importance of self-leadership, and it started in my spiritual life and then spread to every area of my life.

Do you agree with Richardson's quote above? Why or why not?

DEEPER STILL:

John Maxwell, in an article called "Leading a Life of Intentional Influence" (see below) finishes with these thoughts:

There are Three Basic Truths about Influence:

  1. Everyone has Influence.

  2. We Choose the Nature of our Influence.

  3. We Have to Work to Earn the Influence we Desire to Have.

And Five Ways to Gain the Influence You Want to Have:

  1. Know What's Important.

  2. Live What's Important.

  3. Use All Possible Avenues to Leverage Your Influence.

  4. Choose Those Who Can Best Multiply Your Influence to Others.

  5. Teach Them to Reproduce Your Influence.

What a great place to start..... Know and Live What's Important!

Do you have influence? Do you want to have more? Do you BELIEVE you can be an influence into others lives?

 

Things I'm Reading, Listening To and Watching This Week:

Source: www.leadermundial.org