Craig Groeschel

And it's important to maintain altitude often, not all the time.

But if you can stay above it, what's going to happen is you're going to get a different perspective on it.

And you're going to start to see trends that are forming.

You're going to see patterns that are emerging, either positive patterns or negative patterns.

You're going to start to see opportunities that are coming.

Leaders need to do this.

You should be seeing things first.

first and more often than most people.

And the only way you do that is to get above it.

In the book, it's an old book, if you haven't read it, please do.

It's called The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber.

One of the many valuable principles, he talks about scaling and systems.

He says, in your business or in your nonprofit,

Most people just are working in it.

But what you have to do is you want to work on it, not just in it.

Work on it, not just in it.

To work on it, you have to get above it.

And it's so important.

And this is where I got it wrong.

Early and in the maturing season, in the beginning years, I stayed too low for too long.