As a leader—whether in ministry, work, sports or any worthwhile endeavor—your goal should be to actively develop a culture of encouragement. Another way of stating this is that we want to build a “Barnabas Culture.”
Your world is only as big as the trails that you run. Unless you are willing to travel new roads you will never see different landscapes. Men are creatures of habit. We like the comfort of the trail. But if you’re going to have new adventures in life…
As you prepare for setting new goals, make sure that you understand the process of turning goals into reality. Mark McCormack in his book What They Don’t Teach You In The Harvard Business School tells of a Harvard study conducted between 1979 and 1989. In 1979, the graduates of the MBA program at Harvard were asked, “Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?”
