Spirit of Leadership

THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP

A leader understands how to set the right goals. This is a vital attitude to cultivate because your future and your life depend on the goals you set—either consciously or sub consciously. Where you end up in life is a result of the goals that you set or did not set for your life. E VERYONE IS A GOAL SETTER ; A LEADER UNDERSTANDS HOW TO SET THE RIGHT GOALS . What should determine the goals that we set and the plans that we make? Our purpose and vision in life. Success comes from the discipline of goal setting according to one’s purpose. I have set goals for my life for the past thirty-five years, and I have goals written out for the next thirty years, because I’ve seen how success follows goal setting.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PURPOSE AND PLANS

The book of Proverbs says, “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” According to the wisdom of this statement, we can under stand three things about the relationship between purpose and plans (goal setting):

1. Purpose is more important than plans. 2. Purpose is more powerful than plans.

3. Purpose precedes plans because the Creator established our purposes even before we were born. We have to know and focus on our purposes before we can begin planning, because plans that don’t get you to your

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