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FOLLOW THE LEADER

Principle:

“If you can’t manage time, you can’t manage people. If

you can’t lead yourself, then you can’t lead others.”

I want to close this chapter with a little anonymous poem that really
captures and summarizes the importance of time in the life of every
person. I first read it in Herman Cain’s book, Leadership is Common Sense.
I have written it in the back of my Bible as a constant reminder of God’s
kairos moments. It reminds us that eternity is calibrated into every moment
of time. The poem is simply entitled “God’s Minute.”

I’ve only just a minute,

Only sixty seconds in it.

Forced upon me, can’t refuse it,

Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it,

But it’s up to me to use it.

I must suffer if I lose it,

Give an account if I abuse it.

Just a tiny little minute,

But eternity is in it.^9