Craig Groeschel

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.

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.