A true leader is a deep thinker.
He considers the happenings around him.
As you consider, you will receive wisdom.
That wisdom will help you to be a better leader.
Consider why some people are successful. Analyse why some people fail.
Brain seller
I remember the story of a man who went into a store to buy some brains.
There were four different brains on sale.
The salesperson was on hand to help the customer.
The customer said, “I would like to buy the best brains you have.”
The salesperson showed the customer what he had in store.
He said, “These are the brains from a nation that invented aeroplanes, rockets, and satellites.”
He continued, “These next ones are from a nation that invented televisions, videos, telephones, radios and stereo systems.”
He went on, “This third set of brains comes from a nation that has developed beautiful cities, roads, bridges, trains, airports, tunnels, etc.”
He then showed the fourth set of brains.
He continued, “This last set of brains is from a nation which has invented nothing and built nothing for itself.
“I see,” he said, “How much are they anyway?”
The salesman replied, “The first three brains are affordable, but the fourth set of brains is very expensive.”
“Why is that? Why should they be so expensive when they have not been used to accomplish anything?”
“Oh, that is simple,” the salesman replied, “Those brains are fresh, unused and full of potential.
Because they have not been used for anything, all the potential is still within.”
This unfortunate story tells us how important it is to use the brains God has given us.
No matter how spiritual you are, God still expects you to use your brains.
A great leader is someone who contemplates, reflects, ponders and deliberates over issues.
Thinking is a God-given privilege to have the large brains we have.
Did you know that human beings have the largest and most developed brains of all creation?
Think about the size of a bird’s head.
How small their brains must be.
Are you not glad that God has given you something bigger?
Every great leader uses this gift – his brains!
A leader must think about other leaders in such a way as to learn something from them.
Unfortunately, people stand by their mentors and never learn much about them because they never think deeply enough about the person they are working with.
If they were to think a little about him, they would learn many valuable lessons from the Holy Spirit.
There are questions you must ask!
There are things that must occur to you!
How to think about your mentor
• How is my mentor able to be so successful? What are his secrets?
• How is my mentor able to have enough money to do his work? What are his secrets?
• What are the strengths of my mentor?
• What are the weaknesses of my mentor?
• How is my mentor able to accomplish so much in spite of his weaknesses?
• What has my mentor not been able to achieve and why?
• What challenges is my mentor having? What are the struggles that he does not talk about?
•What kind of marriage does my mentor have? What kind of marriage does he not have?
• What kind of relationships does he have? Why does he relate to these people?
• What is my mentor thinking that he is not saying? What is he withholding from us?
So, I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Wherefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.
This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good?
This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. Ecclesiastes 4:1-8
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. Ecclesiastes 8:16,17
For all this, I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. Ecclesiastes 9:1
King Solomon, a political leader of his day, wrote the Scriptures above.
You will notice the phrase “and I considered”.
You will also notice the phrase “I applied my heart to wisdom”.
Do you consider yourself to be a real leader?
It is time to start turning things over in your mind.
Think about what makes others victorious.
As I ponder over many issues, I receive a revelation that becomes the basis for my teachings.
Be a deep thinker!
The writer is the founder of the Lighthouse Group of churches.
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