Category: Leadership Skills

How’s Your lifeFocus?

LifeFocus Book

About 10 years ago, Jennifer and I attended Focus on the Family’s “Weekend to Remember.” Ironically, I can’t recall exactly when that was…but I did pick up a book from one of the session leaders. Jerry Foster even personalized my book when he wrote, “Brady, Enjoy your personal journey of ‘Influence.’ God Bless, Jerry Foster (Romans 12:1-2).”

Ten years later, I picked up the book and reviewed the highlights. There are many good reminders here, so I figured you might appreciate a summary of the book as well.

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Are you practicing the Law of Priorities?

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good. - Stephen Covey

Leaders never grow to the point where they no longer need to prioritize. Take some time to assess your leadership priorities. Are you spread out all over the place? Or are you focused on the few things that bring the highest reward? I’ve heard it said that the best way to assess your priorities is to evaluate your calendar and your checkbook. Are you pleased with what they reveal about your priorities?

Hopefully, your priorities are aligned with your passions. Nothing energizes a person the way passion does. Tim Redmund put it this way, “There are many things that will catch my eye, but there are only a few things that will catch my heart.”

John Maxwell’s 17th Law of Leadership (Law of Priorities) says that leaders understand that activity is not necessarily accomplishment.

Click here to learn more about that law from the life of Peter in Acts 6.