[Leadership] Strong Leadership Leads to LIFE!

by Dr. Karen Lindwall-Bourg | Jul 15, 2019 | Entrepreneur Endeavors

Strong Leadership Leads to LIFE!

If strong leadership leads to LIFE and GROWTH, then lack of strong leadership leads to death and stagnation. Are you a strong leader who contributes to and enhances life? Have you surrounded yourself with strong leaders who contribute to and enhance life? How do you do that?

Strong Leadership Leads to LIFE, not death!

In his Leadership Bible, John Maxwell quotes Church expert and statistician George Barna who asserts that “…the American church is dying due to lack of strong leadership… Nothing is more important than leadership.“ That’s a sobering thought! And I started wondering if it doesn’t also apply to the death and stagnation of other ministries, our ministries, and our businesses as entrepreneurs. If I’m honest, I can admit to you that one of my biggest fears is that I will remain stuck, or stagnant, and may not make a difference in the lives of other entrepreneurs as I grow in my entrepreneurial endeavors! It’s why I do what I do as the president of Karen Bourg Companies (http://karenbourg.com ), the {Inter} National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs, and the International Christian Mompreneur Network (http://nacwe.org ).

Strong Leadership Leads to LIFE – a Life with Passion!

I looked up LIFE in the thesaurus and found the following words – verve, vivacity, animation, energy, excitement, soul, kick, get-up-and-go, sparkle! I LOVE these words! I would also add GROWTH and PLUCK! These words add life and spark to my heart! They encourage me to live a life of passion as one being led, and as a leader.

I want to follow God‘s vision with passion! So do you! I want to follow the desires and passions that God has given me and His vision in the following areas:

B.E.L.I.E.F.S.:

B stands for Body:

E is for Emotion:

L is for Livelihood:

I is for Intellect:

E is for Environment:

F is for Family and Friends:

S is for Spiritual:

Take a moment to decide how you want to grow and follow the desires and passions that God has given you in these areas. What did you come up with? Share them with us here.

If you need extra help walking through and discovering these desires, download our free B.E.L.I.E.F.S. Assessment here:

LINK: https://nacwe.org/beliefspassionsassessment/

Strong Leadership Leads to LIFE and productivity, not stagnation!

In all of my programs and masterminds throughout the year, and of course, in my individual coaching experiences, I focus on growth. I want to put God first in my life in every area or dimension of wellness. I want to serve others well as he Has called me. I want to hear Him say, “well done, good and faithful servant!” And it’s not selfish to understand that I need to attend to my own personal growth and take care of myself or I won’t be able to take care of or lead others. How do you do that?

Pray that God will build a hedge of protection around you and around those who lead you and around those whom you lead.
Ask Him to continually pour into your life so that you grow to be the leader He has called you to be.
Be intentional about growth as an individual and as a leader of others.
Put it on your calendar! Hmmm… Have you heard me say this before?!
Appoint strategic blocks of time in your day and in your week where you focus on growing in the Lord, growing as an entrepreneur, and growing as a leader.
Surround yourself with people who lead by God’s design.

Jump into the NACWE classroom vault and take advantage of lessons on leadership. We even have a program in the classroom called the Christian Women’s Leadership Institute!

Join our leadership mastermind as a beta test member and help us enhance and re-write the curriculum for the Christian Women’s Leadership Institute! Email Karen at info@nacwe.org

Lord,

I pray for every entrepreneur/minister who will read these words, that they will be encouraged to make plans and allow You to establish their steps, that they will strive to be leaders who speak of You and Your Word and whose lives manifest Your presence and Your power as they imitate the faith of those who have gone before us. May we grow as leaders who set an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. Keep us growing, GROWing, GROWING-unstuck, not stagnant!

AMEN!

The verses referred to in this prayer are Proverbs 16:9, Hebrews 13:7, and first Timothy 4:12 and were referred to in the first blog on leadership. Link to this blog here and link to it at the bottom of this second blog after the signature.

Strong Leadership Leads to LIFE, and Life Means Growth!

As a NACWE group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/NACWEFreedom/ ), we spent 3 months learning to GROW as individuals and entrepreneurs and to TELL others about our offers (NACWE Classroom April, May, June 2019). SO MUCH FUN!

We learned that:

growth doesn’t just happen-you have to be intentional about it,
you have to know and be aware of who you are before you will experience significant growth,
you must see value in yourself and add value to yourself before you can add value to others,
it’s important to pause and reflect along the way and allow growth to catch up with you,
motivation gets you going and discipline keeps you growing,
it’s your responsibility to create an environment within which growth thrives,
you have to develop strategies to maximize growth,
bad experiences, when managed well, can lead to great growth,
your character growth determines the height of your personal growth,
growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you could be,
you have to trade off some things to be able to receive things that help you grow,
growth is stimulated by asking why,
you have to find examples to follow because it’s hard to improve when you have no one but yourself to follow,
growth always expands your capacity, and
growing yourself enables you to grow others!

[Maxwell, John C.. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (pp. viii-xiii). Center Street. Kindle Edition.]

Join our Mastermind Level of NACWE Membership to GROW with us in these ways! http://nacwe.org/join

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Come GROW with me/us!

Blessings & Celebrations,

Karen Lindwall-Bourg

“Achieve Levels of Success Worth Celebrating”

Lead STRONG!

*Founder, Karen Bourg Companies

*Owner, President {Inter}National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs/International Christian Mompreneur

*Founder, RHEMA Publishing House

*Founder, RHEMA Lakeside Retreat Center

*Founder, RHEMA Counseling Associates

About Karen Lindwall-Bourg

Karen Lindwall-Bourg is the President of the {Inter} National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs [est. May 2010] and the new President of the International Christian Mompreneur Network [est. July 2010], both athttp://nacwe.org . She and the NACWE Operations and Leadership Teams work diligently to provide

· Community

· Networking

· Education

· Missions opportunities

to Christian Women Entrepreneurs, Mompreneurs and Nanapreneurs alike all over the world!

Our Core Values are:

· Community – we value Connection, Collaboration and Contribution

· Networking – we value Nurture, New relationships and New and innovative offers

· Education – we value Encouragement, Excellence and Expressiveness, and

· Missions – we value Ministry and Making a difference

Karen is wife to Fred, Mommy to 6 kids and 5 in-loves, Nana to “going-on” 10 grandchildren, and treat provider deluxe for a herd of Great Pyrenees who protect their north TX ranchette! She is an entrepreneur coach, author, publisher, retreat hostess and more! Learn more about Mastermind groups and “Celebration” coaching with Karen at http://karenbourg.com .

[Leadership] Learning Leadership from the Lord

by Dr. Karen Lindwall-Bourg | Jul 15, 2019 | Entrepreneur Endeavors

Learning Leadership from the Lord

The heart of man plans his way,

but the Lord establishes his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

Learning Leadership from the Lord is Crucial

Are you a leader?

You are a leader! You are leading someone by God’s design!

Maybe we could say, “You are never NOT leading!”

Now, where do you go to learn about leadership?

I want my leadership to be established by the Lord, don’t you!

So, let’s go to The LEADER together!

Learning Leadership from the Lord has been a wonderful journey for me!

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God.

Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Hebrews 13:7

As an entrepreneur for the last 25 years, I’ve spent a lot of time searching out people from whom to learn leadership skills.

The John Maxwell Team-most recently! This is one of the greatest steps I’ve taken! Wish I hadn’t waited till now!
The Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur group (also recently)!
Dozens of awesome coaches and mentors and great examples, who “… …set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12, and
The PACKED classroom vault of my own organization – The {Inter} National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs [NACWE.org]/Mompreneurs

The list is long!

Learning Leadership from the Lord and Paul the Apostle

Most recently I decided that I would like to read through all the books of the Bible written by Paul chronologically!

I decided to read through those books of the Bible in John Maxwell‘s Leadership Bible!

I’ll be sharing things I learn as I grow because that’s what I do! I hope you do too!

Share what the Lord is teaching you with those you love and lead!

Learning Leadership from the Lord, the LEADER!

Do you go to the Bible for leadership lessons? It’s considered the greatest book ever written and John Maxwell believes it is the greatest book on leadership ever written! The Lord, our Leader, has been teaching us about leadership for thousands of years. Have we been listening?

Learning Leadership from the Lord

Will I ever learn? The best source, the greatest tool for life and livelihood is the Bible! If I will seek Him, He will change my life and the course of my development as a leader. Out of it, I can draw leadership principles that have been woven into it by God who Leads us! I’ll look at other sources, and I’ll listen to those He has placed in my life, but I desire to focus on Him First!

Learning Leadership from the Lord Together

Join me in taking these steps to being a godly leader:

Dive into God‘s Word every day.
Put it on your calendar! If I don’t block the time off for the most important time – time spent being quiet, in prayer, and seeking the Lord, the time that I have blocked off for other tasks is in vain!
Take an extra step and journal through what He is teaching you as you spend time with Him.
Along the way, ask Him to use this time to grow you to be a more godly leader of others.
Ask Him to place people in your life who will lead you with wisdom.
Share what you are learning with others! Share this article on social media, please!

Learning Leadership from the Lord – LEAD ON!

Use your Leadership gifts or ‘giftedness’ wisely:

Gifts of Grace – Romans 12

3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Blessings,