DISCIPLINE AND DILIGENCE - KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP PART 2

 DISCIPLINE AND DILIGENCE - KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP PART 2

-WHY POSSESS THE TWO CHARACTERS?

Earlier this week, we started out on understanding Discipline and Diligence as two very important keys to a successful leadership. Today, we will look into why they are both necessary for us as leaders.

01. Discipline: As defined, discipline means controlled behaviour. A leader must be able to control  himself, to bring himself  into core values, visions or missions. A man who can't control himself ( Discipline) won't be a template for others to learn from. We ooze only out what we carry. Besides, Leadership is continuous and it is not something that is done for a day and dropped. It is continuous therefore there has to be a consistency in controlling self ALWAYS. Until we have disciplined ourselves in certain things, we might not be able to find fulfillment in the path we have chosen.

As kingdom leaders, there are disciplines that we need to cultivate,  some of which include;

✓Prayer : A leader should  always communicate with his father (God) the husbandman and vine in order to communicate with others i.e bearing fruits.

✓Fasting : These helps us in focus and relieves us from distractions and noises.

✓ Meditation/ Quiet time : A leader must have a quiet time; where it's only him and his thoughts; thinking on how best to affect his world; how to effect changes in his environment. Great men are great thinkers, they say. Deep and positive thinking i.e. meditation must be cultivated in us as leaders.

✓Obedience: Leaders must always obey the master leader (God) and that is the way to show that we love him (John 15:10)

✓Submission : Who we submit to determines who submits to us, the same way what we submit to determines what submits to us.

Proverbs 22:6; 1 Corinthians 14:26-28, 1 Corinthians 7:8-10

 02. Diligence 

The second very vital tool is Diligence.

Most leaders are rich and prosperous because they are ahead of everyone they lead (Proverbs 12:24). Diligence is the personal trait that makes a person have ideas that leads to abundance (Proverbs 21:5 ) Diligence is a personal trait that leads to promotion (Proverbs 22:29).Kingdom leaders are not complacent, kingdom leaders do not settle for less, kingdom leaders know where they are going and they continue to move in that direction. A diligent leader never agrees with the negative, he or she is consistently looking for a headway and this is what makes us truly successful leaders. Kingdom leaders move and only get better. As we have said, they don't settle with the less. A diligent leader is never tossed here and there by situations that come his path; at every point, he rises above them.

Diligence helps facilitate us to develop a good attitude as well as confidence, patience, forgiveness, values, loyalty and integrity 

(Proverbs 6:6-11; Ruth 2:1-13, Mark 13: 32-36, Acts 9:36-39).

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