Sorry I missed the Tuesday installment. Only had a couple of reprimands, though. With all the travel I do, I am never able to achieve a good routine. It was a great day for my professional side, though.
I’m thinking again about the post I wrote from <a href=”http://www.northpoint.org/podcasts”>Andy Stanley’s latest leadership podcast</a>. He was talking about leadership through change in an organization. These ideas also fit us on a personal level.
Remember he talked about having a mission/vision, model and doing or outcome. In our personal life, as well as organizational leadership, we need to cultivate these things.
Do you have a personal mission? A vision of what you want to be when you grow up? As crazy as this may seem, from my youth I had a vision of myself growing old gracefully. Achieving a level of fitness. Keeping mentally sharp and perpetually curious. Add some darn good genes, and few people meet me and suspect my age (which I’m not sharing). I have others. Always wanted to write. I do that. Help others, especially young people and older people. Anyway, you get the idea. What’s yours?
I once heard a story about modeling. Just as I’ve been talking lately about how Paul describes what a good church looks like, we need to describe to ourselves what we should be like in our thoughts and actions. There is a story about a top football (American style) athelete, Herschel Walker. He was a fabulous running back in both college and in the pros. Athletes watch lots of videos. At the high levels–of themselves. Often with coaches criticizing how they performed. In Walker’s case, he watched only his good runs. They were then thoroughly embedded in his mind so that when he was called on to perform, his brain was progammed to do the right thing.
Just so, we need to program our minds and bodies to do the right thing so that when the opportunity arises for us to act, think and talk, we can do so in an appropriate way.
Faith Venture 
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