Craig Groeschel

We're gonna go a little bit deeper in this episode, and we're gonna talk about five more ideas, but these are challenging lessons that I learned in the last decade, and I wanna go straight into that content to value your time.

The first thing is this.

I used to think, and it was painful to learn this personally, but I used to think that I had to be involved in almost everything organizationally.

And that was just naive.

I learned, number one, is this very important lesson.

You must discern what deserves altitude and what deserves attention.

You have to look at your own leadership, your time, your organization, your people, and discern.

And the answers may change over time.

But what deserves altitude and what deserves attention?

And the reason this is painful is because we as leaders want to believe that we're more important than we really are.

And the truth is, you are important in your leadership.

but you're often important for different reasons than you understand.

And so to be really, really clear, whenever you're starting, you're launching an organization, you're in the early season, you want to be involved in the day-to-day details.

You have to be, because without you, things aren't going to work.

But as your organization grows and matures,

You don't wanna just be in the details.

In fact, oftentimes you have to rise above the details and you actually have to stay out of them.

So let's talk about altitude first.

For our context, altitude means staying above the noise or staying out of the details, staying above the chaos, the smaller problems that are not mission critical.

You're staying out of just the everyday activity.