Do a Few Things right

This is a great article talking about doing a few things right. I love the concept of simple church and simple leadership. This article is about how what you spend your time on as a leader reflects what you value. If you spend lots of time on many different things you value many different things right? Wrong. If you spend your time on many things you value nothing. Simple leadership is finding what you value the most and then spending your time on what is most effective in achieving this goal.

“I can’t be involved in 50 or 75 things. That’s a Noah’s Ark way of investing – you end up with a zoo that way. I like to put meaningful amounts of money in a few things." – Warren Buffett

This takes some serious planning and some serious vision for your life. If you simplify you get some very interesting benefits. You can measure more what you are doing and you can say really what you do with clarity. If you value preaching as a leader but spend 4 hours out of your 55-60 hour work week you probably value preaching as much as reading emails. Here is an interesting statistic according to Nielson, that average person spends 10% of their time on email during a week not to mention other online activity. So you are saying basically that emailing is more important than preaching. I understand that you have to spend time on email but what else can you get rid of to communicate preaching as a priority.