January 26. Just Like Quarterbacks In Football, We Can Fumble and Be Humble.

As a leader, I believe that your teams probably accomplish some very valuable results. I use the term teams because we likely have more than one team. Regardless of the team, our focus on value can be at the core of its success.

If value is at your core, it is probably your why you do what it is that your team does. But how are you achieving it? I would like to offer that attitude matters when we carry out value. What attitude helps us to continue exuding value? Is it pride or humbleness?

I think that an attitude of humbleness is more aligned with value than pride. There is always something bigger than ourselves or even bigger than our team. It is our teams that succeed so let us approach our success every day with humbleness and be glad to serve on the team every day.

Sometimes the role of leadership requires us to hand the baton to someone else on the team. Is our attitude ready to hand off, cheer on others, run another leg of the race if needed, and pick up the baton if it falls?

As a leader, if we bumble or fumble this one attitude of humbleness, our value might be harmed. There are so many things in our lives to be proud of. We might enhance our wisdom to watch for the mixed messages that we share that tend to move us away from humbleness.

I would bet that the reader can probably identify people from the present and past that had their pride distract or destroyed value. Think about if you had a board balancing on a pivot and pride and humbleness where on the opposite ends.

Where are you and members of your team on the board now? What is the first thing that you can do about it in the next seven days?

In the Bible we read, “Jesus turned to Peter and said, “Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.”” Matthew 16:23 NLT. Peter had just been blessed by Jesus, and now he is telling Jesus what to do.

That does not seem like a humble attitude and Jesus tells him that it is the wrong point of view. I had a great reminder of being humble in the years past. I got the flu. It really zapped me of my energy, my desires, my plans, and my activities.

I was pretty much stripped mentally to a shell and did not really have anything but Christ. But the teams that I am a part of continued to do what they do-without me. Let us do everything we do humbly. We can remember that when it all seems to fall apart, that Christ will be there.

Our spheres of influence including the sphere of influence of our faith will be there. Let us remember that when it all seems to come together, that Christ will be there also. Have you been challenged recently in regard to your humbleness? What is the first thing you can do about it in the next seven days?