I admit that I was super excited when I saw the word anxiety. I immediately thought, “finally something I know something about”. I quickly changed my view as the author reminded the reader that this was not a book about traditional anxiety. It still sparked my interest. At some part I felt as if this author had met me. I knew it was not possible but then I started to highlight pages and screen shot them because this book fooled me once and I didn’t want to be fooled again.<\/p>\n
The author caught my attention when he spoke about risk taking. The word risk could be my middle name. I immediately compared risk taking to walking by faith. I understood as a christian that having faith was something we use lightly. I believe in God, we say as christians but when circumstances arise do we believe that same God will sustain us? Do you actually believe that you can start a business, get a doctorate, raise a child that’s not yours, beat Lupus, run a charity, and your existing business. Do you believe that you can take that risk? I was definitely replying … yes, yes, yes.<\/p>\n
Slightly after being led down the of road thinking that this was the book for me, my opinion changed. The author begin to sound as if it was a “you against the world leadership”. I was somewhat disappointed in the fact that there is a leadership that still exist that feels that they don’t need to consider others. I begin to compare this type leadership to local school systems in my state. Although it is a known fact that there is a direct correlation between the way the system operates and the probability of that system leading to the incarceration for students, little has changed. My thoughts are that there might be a level of leadership that is choosing to lead without regard.<\/p>\n
I am not an expert in leading and I am not a popular published author but I am a human being. As a human there is a natural need for other human interaction. There is a need to have support. How could we live or thrive in this world alone and what purpose would it serve. If we operated in this sense would we as christians be operating in the leadership of the Lord.<\/p>\n
With every intention, I want to follow and lead by what is instructed of God. Though the author does a good job of describing how he believes that leadership would be effective, his principle are not congruent to the works of an effective christian leader. My carnal mind was slightly disappointed that at first I compared myself to this work. My spiritual mind thought about how easily it was to be fooled. When trying to gain knowledge, become more efficient and lead others you can be led in the wrong direction. The christian, then the leader in you must be vigilant at all times for what may stop you from carrying out Gods work. I myself will admit it did fool me once, but I won’t let it happen again.<\/p>\n
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