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Ezer Nuggets

"You cannot lead beyond what you believe about yourself."  -- Jo Saxton - Ezer Collective 2018 I recently went to a leadership intensive called the Ezer Collective, and the experience is still swimming around in my head.  So as I offer up the nuggets from that time, I hope this will be both beneficial for you and for me. Last year at this same intensive I felt like God cut open my body, pulled out my guts, reorganized them and put them back in.  There were a few ugly cries involved!  This time it felt more like God solidified the things he had already shown me and said, "Now walk it out."  Here are a few of my thoughts on that. 1. Just do it!  I realized this year that I am an expert at convincing myself that I do not know "how" to do something or that there are no opportunities to do it, when really the only thing holding me back is fear of judgment or rejection.  While God has compassion for the fear, he is also saying, "You Do know how to do ...