From Drained to Dreaming (cont.)

Yesterday I posted the first four of eight steps pastor can take to move from the drained zone to the dream zone.

Steps 5-8:

5.  Connect with other Pastors

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• When you find other pastors to connect with don’t talk about your problems all the time and don’t bash others.

6.  Get an assistant

• Their focus needs to be specifically on you.
• They need to be able to say “no.”
• Their role must be personalized to the pastors needs.

7.  Don’t read what people say about you positive or negative.

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• Negative:  there are not as many of them as you think there are.  They are just louder.
• Positive:  leads to pride.

8.  Learn to Delegate

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• There are things I am doing right now that I’m not good at.
• There are people ready to take it if I would just give it to them.
• By not delegating I am hamstringing the church.
• Delegating is a mindset not a staffing issue.
• You must let your church grow past you.
• You’ve got to trust your staff and leaders.
• If you can’t trust your staff with your kids than you should fire them.
• When delegating, if someone can do it 80% or above the way you do it than give it to them and stay out of the way.
• When someone asks you what you think they should do, you should throw it back at them.
• Give people permission to fail.
• If you delegate a task, give it 100% away.  Do not take it back.  Coach people through it.
• Do not micro-manage.
• Cast big vision and give people guardrails.
• The toughest thing about letting go is letting go.
• Gather key staff together and ask:  what is the one thing you wish I would stop doing?