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Let’s face it, trying to accomplish things can be exhausting. Acting upon decisions that we’ve made means spending valuable resource, our time and our energy in pursuit of them. At first this experience can be euphoric, but soon it can turn into burn out. We who are in leadership have engaged in lives that are dedicated to this type of action. What are we supposed to do when we feel burn out? What ...
One thing is for sure: to do anything, you have to start doing it. A lot of people have ideas, ideas that can even change the world, but if they don’t start and actually make things happen nothing will ever get done. The same held true for the lives of the saints like St. Paul. He too had to face many obstacles, and he lived in constant uncertainty, and yet he started things anyway. Starting is an a...
If there’s one thing anybody in charge of anything has in common with each other it’s that leaders of any kind need to know where they’re going. So what do we do when we don’t know where we are going? The situation can even be harder for Christian leaders who are trying to become instruments of God. How do we do something that is entirely beyond our power? St. Paul gives an example of how to walk in...
Vision is certainly one of the greatest challenges to leadership. In many ways leaders are called to stare into the void where nothing seems possible and find a path forward. Already this is a terrific blessing for our world, because it allows for innovation and success. But God wants to do something even more with vision. He wants His leaders to accomplish His will and to work His plan. St. Paul t...
Christian leadership like anything else is an art and a science. Of course, there are many things we can do to increase our influence and to use it at the service of God. But foundationally there is something out of control in Christian leadership. Namely, the fact that God will use us as He desires. This requires that we learn a secret, the secret St. Paul knew so well and that he tells us about in...
When we follow Jesus in our daily life we are faced with many challenges. Rising up to meet those challenges in accordance with his grace means that we will be making an impact changing the world around us. Instead of letting the world take its own course we are leading it in His name. Rising up to meet these challenges gives us a great opportunity to depend more on Jesus. This is something St. Paul...
The life of St. Paul provides Christians with a wonderful example of what it means to lead in Jesus Christ. In fact St. Paul had to face many of the same challenges we do. In my book, Coached by Paul the Apostle, I try to lay out many of these insights into leadership and in this series of podcasts I try and develop those insights in greater depth starting with this particular session where I develop ...
As we bring this series of letters from St. Francis to a close I thought it fitting to finish with some letters in which the Saint references his own soul. What were the spiritual lessons that he himself learned on his journey as a Christian engaged in the affairs of the world? By looking at the themes that he evokes in letters about himself we can find lessons that we can apply to ourselves in our si...
One thing a Christian leader can be sure of is that they will be asked to carry the cross with Jesus. But carrying a cross isn’t easy for anybody and few of us embrace it as we should. St. Francis de Sales, and early master of the 1600’s, knew this very well and he wrote to the leaders of this world with encouragement to carry the cross that God gave them with Jesus. But what does this mean for us to...
The letters written by St. Francis de Sales to persons in the world represent wonderful examples of the application of true spirituality to those living amidst the cares of this world. All of us who carry the mantle of leadership in our families or in our businesses have to find ways to keep our spirituality alive and at the same time deal with the constant pressing needs around us. In this third segm...
In his letter to Persons In The World, St. Francis de Sales writes admirable advice for those whose vocation it is to live in the world but not be of it. For some Christians involving ourselves in the world is a distraction and others disparage the vocation of business as a temptation that could threaten one’s salvation. But it was not so for St. Francis de Sales. On the contrary, he encourages those...
St. Francis de Sales was the Bishop of Geneva in the early 1600’s. He wrote many wonderful texts of spirituality and is considered a Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. He also wrote many letters, especially to people who were in the world, that is, lay faithful who were entrusted with the charges of family, business, and politics. These letters are treasures of wisdom and spirituality, and we begin...
Let’s face it, most of our thoughts about leadership position leaders as folks on the top. People who have pushed the envelope and have succeeded against great odds. Is there anything to say for those who have not gone to the top? People who for one reason or another are in second place. In the life of John the Baptist we can’t help noticing that Jesus did not call him to be an Apostle. In fact, He...
Anyone who leads in today’s world knows how important it is to stay in the middle. After all if we want to have impact in our world we have to belong to it. And yet are there times when witness is necessary? Or at least an invitation to go deeper than our customary ways? In the life of St. John the Baptist we have the example of someone who was extraordinarily successful in his leadership and then p...
The life of St. John the Baptist is a study in detachment. From forsaking the goods of this earth and the relationships of natural human society to going without in his many forms of asceticism to finally letting go to his own claim to glory and his own claim to his disciples. St. John the Baptist was poor in spirit. And yet his influence was extremely powerful. What is the connection between his pov...
Leadership puts us in the spotlight. Like it or not, leaders are out in front. If we follow the ways of the world, the natural prominence of leadership can result in negative consequences like arrogance and self conceit. It was just the opposite, however, for St. John the Baptist. He used his prominence to promote Christ and he learned how to make himself disappear behind the glory of the one who ca...
Most of us know the figure of John the Baptist but not all of us our familiar with his actual message. At the heart of John the Baptist’s proclamation was the phrase “Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” What does it mean to repent and how is this essential to our leadership today? In this third part of our series on the bold leadership of John the Baptist, we explore the meaning and signif...
Like it or not being in a position of leadership means being at the forefront of change. In many ways this can be intimidating, but if we look at it from a point of view of faith and a call from God the prospects given to us by leadership are exhilarating. We can stand for and do amazing things, things that other people only dream of doing. In many ways being a leader calls on us to be like John the ...
Amongst all the history of great leaders inspired by faith surely St. John the Baptist is at the top of the list. Not only was his life recorded in sacred scripture as an example to us all but his leadership provides an amazing model for all of us who seek to serve God by the power and influence He has given us. In this first of our series treating the bold leadership of John the Baptist we look at hi...
Prayer is to the soul what breathing is to the body, therefore, prayer is essential to everybody. But even more so to those who will lead, who play a position that comes to them from God in our world. Without a doubt each of us has their own way to pray and express their hearts to God, but the Catholic tradition holds many devotions which can help us to find discipline and regularity in our prayer. O...
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