Overcoming Social Pressures and Academy/Rashea@LLO2 Academy
Effective leadership is about learning the lesson, doing better and creating new healthy habits. Avoid repeating the same mistakes or bad decisions when all possible. Learn the lesson. Apply better habits.
Leaders must not give into peer pressure or social pressure. Walk in integrity, be honest and be bold. Leaders must stand up to and rise above social pressures and stigmas that can hinder the effectiveness and efficiency of their leadership.
The Apostle Peter learned the lesson. He learned how to valiantly stand up to and rise above social pressures and stigmas. The pressure from the crowd and those who antagonized his faith no longer timid him away from faithfully proclaiming his faith in Jesus or from being a pillar in leadership or a leader of the Christian faith.
Leaders are imperfect. They are human like everyone else, apt to have moments of being human like everyone else. However, leaders must still carry themselves in a higher regard and with a greater level of maturity because of the responsibilities they bear. The Bible is clear, "The greater the responsibility, the greater the requirements are to meet that level of responsibility," even in our humanity.
When you have been entrusted with a greater level of responsibility, you must meet every endeavor, victory and challenge with the level of responsibility and character that it will take to fulfill your duties and your role. Sometimes this is achieved through knowledge and the proper training and other times through trial and error.
Learn the lesson. Build healthy habits.
Just like every endeavor or tasks is different, so will your approach be different from time to time. How you are use to doing things will not always be suffice for every endeavor or tasks. Adjust your mindset and will to change, in order to get the job done properly effectively and smoothly.
Time is money but so is effort or the lack of it. The longer you spend on something beyond the time initially planned the more time, effort and resources it will require. Stay on task, and get the job done. Finishing an endeavor is always more rewarding than starting an endeavor. You just feel more accomplished when you finish something of importance.
It's the same with improving yourself in areas of your life. Working on you and seeing the results makes you feel accomplished! From start to finish, I encourage you to stay on task, finish what you start and rise above all obstacles of resistance to you improving yourself and your life as a leader and as a person.
Rashea@LLO2
