Wow it has been almost a month since I did a Backstage Pass to allow a little sneak peak access into the lessons I learn, re-learn, or the bloopers that I commit. So, let’s take a look into some more from this past weekend.
1. Anytime you do not prepare properly (even though each time this has happened I always felt that I had good reasons until I flopped on my face on Sunday), it will effect your sleep on Saturday night. I could not sleep Saturday night and was up and down and up and down every hour or so. So when I showed up Sunday morning, I was dragging and no amount of Starbucks was going to help. Fortunately the day went ok except me knowing it could have been better.
2. Never try to have a real serious service when the kids and parents minds are on the Super Bowl or other type of after church service stuff. We had to rally the troups several times that Sunday due to where their minds where at. Plus me being tired probably did not add to the situation.
3. Keep your mission at the top and values in line with that mission.
4. There are times you need to nip bad attitudes right away before they walk away and spread them to others on the team.
5. Always keep asking yourself why you do what you do the way you do it and challenge everything. Once you stop doing that you have started to become irrelevant.
6. When you have great team members, it is amazing how much more you can do and how much faster and more efficient you can do stuff. So out of all of my budget items, investing in the team s something that should never slip. I love my team members.
7. When you can foster a spirit of “we don’t care who get’s the credit”, it makes those who do care who gets the credit even more obvious.
Well there it is, the good, the bad, and the ugly. But what a grat God we serve as He has helped me make the proper adjustments for to battle and overcome each one of those.
To God be all the glory!!
