Leading Hope with Kevin Jack

Virtues like ambition, courage, vision, work-ethic have become highly distorted by our current state of struggle.

The baseline has fallen and is now significantly burdened.

Virtue is now met with skepticism.

Courage is now met with cynicism.

A desire to be healthy is viewed as over the top.

A desire to make an impact is viewed as over the top, why aren’t we good enough.

A message for the person who is ambitious and driven:

For all the criticism you’ve received on your ambition, your courage and drive, it’s still too low. As the baseline keeps falling, what you previously thought you could do is still lower than what you can actually do!

The conversation doesn’t mean that you’ll accomplish what you set out to do, but the absence of that conversation ensures that you won’t.

Great Leadership:

1. Great Leaders can identify which outside inputs enhance and distract from the most important conversation.

2. Great Leaders can engage in the outside conversation without bringing it into the culture.

Application:

1. Quit saying, “Oh, we’re just talking”!

2. Be aware of the conversation

3. View conversation as the most powerful culture shaping tool you have.

The Price of Impact is criticism.

Sociopath: no regard for others’ rights or feelings, lack empathy and remorse, will lead to exploiting and manipulating others for personal gain.

Key Tips:

– Know You’re Going to Get Hit

– Anticipate the Reasonable Response

– Stay Connected to the Struggle

God will take you through a process.

3 Things Cyclically

1. Collect

2. Discern

3. Pray

You just keep going through that over and over again.

Prioritize the perspective that is aligned with your purpose, not your perspective.

Everyone will tell you what they think you should do. Accept it, and then do what you need to do.

The Trap of Experience is to universalize what is unique.

To universalize what is unique is to dismiss all other data other than what you have experienced personally.

We sometimes underestimate the level of our ignorance.

This Is dangerous because you’re:

1. Wrong

2. Stuck

The greatest source of your wisdom is your awareness of your ignorance.

There is nothing that exists that is all bad. Don’t turn it into a game.

Burnout:

State of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress.

Burnout isn’t a medical diagnosis (Mayo Clinic), could be a number of factors like depression coming together that creates what we call burnout.

The difference between burnout and stress is that burnout is extended stress that can’t be lifted. Even when the stressors are all gone, the stress is the same.

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Brave is Reactive, Bold is Proactive.

When you have the title, you must value the impact more than the title.

Bold Leadership

1. Intentionally challenges the Status Quo.

2. Is more focused on opportunity than obstacles.

3. Is willing to be wrong.

Leader Notes:

John Maxwell, “Trust is change in your pocket.”

Non-Leaders define themselves by their authority not by the permission of the people.

There is a world of difference between “I can do this because I have the right to,” and “I know some people won’t like it, but I still believe it’s worth it because this is for the best.”

The goal is not credibility, the goal is impact.

Applications for Development

1. Gain an awareness of the change in your pocket: How do people respond when you propose change? Are they pushing back on the change, or are they pushing back on you.

2. If you have a staff, have this conversation.

3. Pick your battles.

Who you are is more important than what you accomplish. Leaders will not change their identity for the sake of a short-term gain.

Leaders view financial profitability as one factor, among many factors, that contribute to ultimate success.

Think Pony’s.

View Culture as Fluid & Fixed.