Spirit of Leadership

THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP

Passion is a deep certainty that you need to do some thing. Your convictions have to do with your beliefs. If you believe that you have discovered what you’re supposed to do, this creates passion. It makes you stand against and overcome opposition, resistance, criticism, and all other obstacles.

A LEADER IS A PERSON OF STRONG CONVICTION .

A Revelation of the Future Passion is ignited from a revelation of where you want to go with your life. The Creator’s vision for you is so vivid that you can see it in your mind’s eye, and this picture cre ates a passion to arrive there. Most people will criticize your passion because they don’t see what you see. A leader usu ally moves toward things that can’t yet be seen but will be manifested in the future. An Understanding of Providence When you understand that the Creator’s providential hand is on your life, then you know that you are not just an experiment but part of a larger program, orchestrated by God, and that you have a role to play. This causes your pas sion to come alive. You’re not living just for yourself anymore but for all those in the past and future to whom you’re tied through a common purpose. Again, a true leader always thinks in terms of both yesterday and tomorrow—he builds on the past, and he builds for the future. A Deep Resolution A person with passion is determined to accomplish what he was born to do. This is not for his own sake alone, but

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