Living a life of leadership is a life of taking on progressively complex problems. If, when you face a problem you bang your head against the wall and question why you always have problems, let me help you reset your expectations.
Leadership is about problem solving. Great leaders solve great problems. World changing leaders solve world-sized problems. There will always be problems.
But how do you solve problems? How do you solve your problems today?
Carl Jung, the notable Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, said it best: “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insolvable. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” If people would internalize this it would save them a lot of heartache
A few hours before I wrote these words, I was in a meeting that tackled problems I could not have dreamed of tackling ten years ago. I am Chair of the board of an organization with almost a billion dollars, and a 200 million yearly budget. This meeting with a few top leaders was about a restructuring to prepare us to take the organization from one state to all US states in ten years. I could not have solved these problems earlier in my career, but I have grown to the place where I am ready to meet these challenges.
The problems I am not able to solve today – and there are many on my plate – will be solved, God willing, as I seek the Lord to grow me as a leader.
As you face big problems, stop straining and complaining. Start growing. Grow so you can solve bigger and bigger problems. Grow so you can lead.
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