Craig Groeschel

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.

this was a problem.

I stayed too low for too long.

I was overly involved in details that I should have been delegating and trusting others.

Then later on, when I learned, okay, I need to rise above it, then later on, I made the opposite mistake, and I stayed too high or too removed for too long.

So early on, it was too involved for too long.

Later on, it was too uninvolved for too long.

Both created problems.