How to Get it Back When Vision and Passion Leak

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Wise men store up knowledge [in mind and heart]. Proverbs 10:14, AMP

The problem with vision, passion, and insight is that it leaks. Even if you’ve been leading for decades, everybody’s cup runs low.

My problem isn’t always what I don’t know but what I USED TO KNOW.

So how do we retrieve the inspiriting, motivating, and worship-producing insights that strengthened us in the past?

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Leadership Lesson: Even though you learned it in the past, old manna is not out of date.

Eat it again.

To review material you’ve already known:

Take 30 minutes on your day off and slowly review the highlights of book that really impacted you.
Take a morning with God and pray through your highlights in your Bible (or just a book of the Bible). You’ll find fresh manna in there for sure.
Re-listen to an audiobook that tremendously impacted you.
Old journals (I need to skim the oldest ones because, honestly, I wrote too much down. Now I just write the big ideas from my life and Quiet Time in Evernote and add topical tags so I can find them easily later).

The TOP Books I review with consistency to REFILL on ideas I already knew, but need to know again.

The Emotionally Healthy Leader by Peter Scazzaro
Leading on Empty by Wayne Cordeiro
Studying the Bible systematically (even though I’ve read it all before)
Spiritual Leadership by Oswald Sanders
The Five Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell
Pilgrims Progress (probably several times a year) by John Bunyan
Preaching by Timothy Keller
The Final Quest Trilogy by Rick Joyner
Founding Brothers, Revolutionary Summer and The Quartet by Joseph Ellis (I’m a closet revolutionary war nerd)
Good to Great, Great by Choice, and How The Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

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Leadership Lesson: Even though you learned it in the past, old manna is not out of date.

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