National Simplicity Day honors author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who was born on July 12, 1817 (see last year’s post here). In his book, Walden, he reflected upon simple living in natural surroundings, “In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
Today, let’s simplify our lives as leaders and turn to Bill Farrel’s book The 10 Best Decisions a Leader Can Make.
The biblical view of leadership says that your influence is an extension of who you are, not just what you do.
As Jesus put it in Matthew 7:16-17, “By their fruit you will recognize them…every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.” Our leadership influence is the evidence of who we have become.
As Howard Hendricks says, “We cannot pass on what we do not possess.”
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