On the Go Leadership – 4 – 24/7 Success

 

Welcome – Chris Fluitt | Redemption Church Plano, TX

 

Your career, calling, and cause

 

Case study: 120 people… no degrees, no capital backing, no government grants

 

Grow organization to over 2 Billion.

This is the Church of Jesus.

 

Week 1: You are a leader & leadership is INFLUENCE.

Week 2: Develop your message, and stay on message. Mission, Vision, Values.

 

Week 3: Your promotion playbook is adding value… ALWAYS BE SERVING.

Today – 24/7 Success

 

What if we could win every day?

Not the like the cringe Charlie Sheen interview where he talks about “Tiger Blood” and “Winning.”

 

24/7 Success

Real success.

Real victories.
New heights.
Breakthroughs and Achievements.

 

Not occasionally… but every day.

 

My Problem
I have small windows of time where I do really good work.

 

-Creative work – inspiration… fleeting
-Physical health – temporary achievement

-Spiritual life – Seasons where I am engaged… seasons not

-School work – small windows of good work

 

I can be exceptional sometimes… but not all the time.

 

You can relate…
-Some days you feel it… some days you don’t.

-You make plans to be better… but…
-Projects started but not completed.
-Days where you accomplish and days where you barely start

 

How can we experience success every day and not just occasionally?

 

The ultra short version of my sermon…

Consistently working in love, yields consistent reward.

 

-Consistency
-Work in love
-Recognizing the reward

Acts 2:41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Acts 2 – Birth of the Church (Born Again)
3000 people!
Mission accomplished.
Becomes an annual Church conference…

Acts 2:42-46 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.43Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.44All the believers were together and had everything in common.45They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

Acts 2 was an amazing MOMENT.
They did not let it become a MEMORY.

They continued… They devoted…
They turned a moment into MOMENTUM.

How do you do that? What does that look like for you?

-Pre-Decide TODAY, what you will do TOMORROW.
-Follow up.
-Do not allow success and breakthrough to be an outlier. MAKE IT A HABIT!

Work in Love

“Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life.”

“Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.” –John C. Maxwell

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 After looking at the way things are on this earth, here’s what I’ve decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that’s about it. That’s the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work. It’s God’s gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now.It’s useless to brood over how long we might live.

“Delighting in the work.”
The work is God given.

But I hate my job… my boss… my coworkers…

In order to succeed – find delight in YOUR work.

 

Consider Michaelanglo

Grueling 4 years.
Painted ceiling on his back.
WHY do such hard work – Love.

DELIGHT IN THE WORK.
DELIGHT IN YOUR GOD GIVEN ABILITY.

-Love using your gifts and skills.
-Love seeing your ideas come to life.
-Love teaching and communicating.
-Love organizing and efficiency.

No job is perfect… But find delight in work.

-dislike 12 hour shifts, but LOVE what I do.
-Coworkers are knuckleheads, but…

-My pay is not what I want, but it supports my family I love.             

 

Consistently working in love, yields consistent reward.

Consistent work (Not Continual Work)

Not continual…

Do not be a work-a-holic.
WORK/LIFE Balance – Future series

You must CLOCK OUT!
You must REST – Sabbath

Consistent work

-A schedule.

-Tailor your schedule to you.

-Protect your schedule.

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” – John Maxwell

“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.” – John Maxwell

Galatians 6:9 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Work today.
John Wooden – Lack of effort today cannot be made up for tomorrow… You can’t give 110% tomorrow to make up for the deficit of today.

Slight edge
Grow by 1% every month = 12% yearly
Grow by 1% every week = 52% yearly
Grow by 1% daily = 365% yearly

DO NOT compare yourself to others.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday.

You, yesterday, is your greatest competition.
Gain a slight edge today.

Consistently working in love, yields consistent reward.

-Consistency
-Work in love

 

Recognize the rewards

Momentum is big deal!

Imagine Momentum…
Personally
Organizationally
Education
Your family…
Our Church…

Instant momentum – Turn around and look how far you have come.

Instant energy in celebrating what you have already accomplished.

Leaders – celebrate the accomplishments of the people you lead. INSTANT MOMENTUM

You must learn to celebrate your wins… you already dwell to much on your defeats.

This requires you to RECOGNIZE THE REWARDS of effort.

I gave you a lot today… Here is what I want you to do with it.

Ready to go!
#1 Work in Love

-Rediscover your delight (rethink work)

-Discover your gifts in NEXT STEPS

#2 Consistent Slight Edge Schedule

-Make a goal
-become 1% better today

#3 Thank God for a recognized reward

-Have a moment today – turn it into momentum tomorrow.

-Come pray over your career and calling.