LEADERS ARE PLANNERS
“What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have
planned, that will I do” (Isa. 46:11).
- If you don’t plan ahead, you’ll get behind.^6
- Planning puts you in charge of your energies and activities.
It gives you an organized approach to your work. It helps you
move with purpose and determination.^7
- Plan your work, and work your plan.^8
- (Charles Kettering) I plan to spend the rest of my life in the
future, so I want to know what it will be. That’s why I plan.^9
- By contrast, we read in Scripture, “Any enterprise is built by wise
planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profi ts
wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts” (Prov. 24:3-4
LB).^10
2. DILIGENCE:
- If there’s no gardener, there’s no garden!...Most of us think it
would be great if we could just put our gardens – or our lives
- on automatic and somehow get the quality-of-life results that
comes from careful, consistent nurturing of the things that
create it. But life doesn’t work that way. We can’t just toss out
a few seeds, go ahead and do whatever we want to do and then
expect to come back to find a beautiful, well-groomed garden
ready to drop a bountiful harvest of beans, corn, potatoes,
carrots, and peas in our basket. We have to water, cultivate,
and weed on a regular basis if we’re going to enjoy the harvest.
Our lives will bring forth anyway. Things will grow. But the
difference between our own active involvement as gardeners and
neglect is the difference between a beautiful garden and a weed
patch.^11
- GOALS:
- It’s a dream until you write it down. Then it’s a goal...all
great leaders have been persons of vision who established
