Leadership: Doing What You Don’t Feel Like Doing … When It Needs to Be Done

Leadership and maturity go hand in hand. You know you are maturing when you do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, how it needs to be done.

Leaders don’t feel their way into action they act their way into a feeling. You are leading yourself when you don’t feel like doing what you know needs to be done, but you do it anyway. I can tell you that I never feel like working out – ever! But I believe God has given me my body to serve Him. I believe my body is the temple of God. I work it out when I say, not when it says. I will not give in to my body’s cravings and desires. My feelings are subject to what I think. My body is subject to what I choose to do with it.

I don’t believe the myth of following your heart. Leaders lead with their values and their hearts follow. Our bodies are the same way. We have to lead the feel, not feel the lead.