Craig Groeschel

And I used to think like, if I'm not sure, how can I lead?

And so what did I do?

Sometimes I just honestly pretended to be sure, and I acted more confidently.

than I felt, but leadership is more complicated today than it was a couple of decades ago.

And what I've learned is that so many times in leadership, you aren't choosing between right and wrong.

You're choosing between uncertain and more uncertain.

It's not like this is clearly right and this is the wrong thing.

It's like, no, this is, I'm not sure about this and I'm even less sure about that.

And so if you're waiting to always be sure, you'll never lead.

You have to learn to lead in the gray and in the uncertainties.

And what's funny as I look back over my leadership is that

Some of the worst decisions that I ever made were the ones that I was most certain that were right.

I thought this is a good decision and it wasn't.

And then some of the best decisions that I made were the times where I wasn't sure at all.

And what I hope you'll hear is this, is that you will rarely build something great on certainty.

You're gonna build something great on a hunch, on an idea, on a vision, on intuition, on a whisper.

You build something significant with courage.

It takes courage to lead with faith into the unknown.

And it takes courage to risk.

It takes courage to fail.