Category Archives: Leadership

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Eight Ways To Build Rest Into Your Life

Leadership is hard.

And too many leaders burn out.

One of the main reasons for this is that we don’t rest.

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Making sure we get enough rest is crucial to staying a healthy leader.

I’m not just referring to getting enough sleep at night. I’m talking about the slowing down, allowing a breather into your life, preventing you from draining yourself before it’s too late kind of rest. I’m talking about taking the time to refuel and refill yourself so that you can continue to be the leader you need to be.

Deep rest is critical. Without it we will drain ourselves, preventing effective leadership, and open ourselves up to failure, temptation, and more.

While rest is critical, most of us don’t know how to do it. Here are eight ways to build rest into your life.

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Invisible Children: Speak Out Without Speaking

Human trafficking is a growing crisis in our world.

And many of us aren’t even aware that the problem exists.

Human trafficking occurs in three main forms:  sex slavery, forced labor, and child soldiers.  Many of you may know that our church and youth ministry are supporters of Rapha House, an organization that strives to end sex trafficking in Cambodia and other Asian countries.

But what about the other forms of slavery?  How do we combat those?

One opportunity is by partnering with Invisible Children.

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Invisible Children was founded by three young filmmakers after a trip to Africa.  While there, they learned about the longest running war on the entire continent.  It is a conflict started by one man, Joseph Kony, who now terrorizes four countries with his LRA, the Lord’s Resistance Army.

It is the longest running conflict on the continent, and the soldiers are children abducted from their homes and forced to fight.

We are a movement seeking to end this conflict and bring them home. We seek to rebuild schools, educate leaders, and provide jobs in Northern Uganda. We are the motivated misfits and masses redefining what it means to be an activist.

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Contest Giveaway! Win A Copy of Leadership 101 by John C. Maxwell

Recently I’ve written a blog series called The Secret To Growing As A Leader.

In this series, I identified fourteen things I’ve discovered to be true as I strive to grow in my leadership abilities.

You can read all three of the posts in the series here:

The Secret To Growing As A Leader – Part 1
The Secret To Growing As A Leader – Part 2
The Secret To Growing As A Leader – Part 3

In order to wrap up this series, I’m giving away a copy of Leadership 101, by John C. Maxwell.  Maxwell has been a tremendous source of encouragement for me, and has taught me a lot through his books, his InJoy Life Club lessons, and at the conferences where I’ve seen him.

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John’s material has been a significant influence in my leadership development.  You can follow John on Twitter, or through his website.  You can also find tons of John’s leadership resources through his company website, Giant Impact.

Because John has been so influential in my life, I’m going to give away a copy of one of his books.  In order to be eligible to win, you need to take the following two actions:

Leave a comment below. Tell me what leadership book or resource you’ve found most helpful.

Tweet a link to this post. If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can use FaceBook.

The winner will be selected at random from the comments section of this post using an automated generator, such as Random.org.  Multiple comments will not increase your chances of winning.

The comments must appear on this post at The Randleman Review, and not on the copy of this post that is posted on my FaceBook account.  Comments on the FaceBook note are appreciated, but will not be considered as entries into the contest.

The contest will end at midnight on Thursday, March 17th.  The winner will be announced on Friday, March 18th.

 

Comment away!

 

If you are interested in reading Leadership 101, and are not the winner of this contest, you can purchase it at Amazon.com.

 

Disclosure of Material Connection:
Some of the links in the post above are ìaffiliate links.î This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commissionís 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.“

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The Secret To Growing As A Leader – Part 3

Growing yourself as a leader is never easy.  It takes work.  It takes continuous work.  But the effort is well worth it, because when you develop your leadership skills, you open up whole new avenues of influence.

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Last month, I posted the first two parts in a series that can help you lay a foundation for personal growth in your life.  Read the first five ideas here, and the second set of five ideas here.

In this post, I want to warp up this series with four more ideas.

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Why AT&T Is Better Than Verizon

I’ve been having problems recently with the browser on my BlackBerry Torch.  I kept getting a dead end, telling me that my phone “cannot find the requested browser.”

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This has been going on pretty much since I got the device in January.  But, with my busy schedule, it’s hard to find the time to call in and get this figured out.  I did call AT&T in late January or early February; and they fixed the problem for a few days.  But it came back.

Earlier this week, I was sitting in the hospital waiting room with my mom.  Her husband, my step-dad, was in the ICU, and we were in the waiting room.  As a lot of people do when they’re bored, I was messing with my phone:  playing games, reading email, FaceBooking.  I tried unsuccessfully to browse onto several different websites, getting the dead end dialogue box every time.

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The Secret To Growing As A Leader – Part 2

One of my goals for 2011 is to grow myself more as a leader. This is an area I read in extensively, and I am continually finding plenty of ways to grow.

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Not too long ago, I posted the first part in a series to help you lay a foundation for personal growth in your life. You can read the first five ideas here.

In this post, I want to give you five more ideas.

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The Secret To Growing As A Leader

It seems as if everyone is talking about growing as a leader this week. The leader’s personal growth has been a topic within the last few days on several blogs I frequently visit. I find it very interesting that so many are discussing this idea.

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Here is something that I’ve discovered to be very true, even though it sounds overly simple: It takes effort to grow. I know it sounds cliché, but it’s true. If you want to grow as a leader, you have to put in some effort. A lot of effort. Otherwise you’ll drift down the stream of complacency, opposite of the direction you want to go.

I’ve identified over a dozen different observations about personal growth. So, instead of overwhelming you with all of them at once, I’ll post a few at a time, over the next couple of weeks.

Here are the first five ideas to help you lay the foundation for personal growth in your life.