Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

My name is Pete Scazzaro. Great to be with you.

Let's launch into our podcast today, which is 10 shortcuts leaders need to avoid, part two.

And last week I did the first five, and this week I'll do number six through ten.

And as I said last week, let me encourage you to kind of as a foundation for this as well,

is if you look on the emotionally of the leader book, which many of you have read,

that is actually the kind of the fruit of our, you know, three decades of leadership.

But we talk about in the very first chapter how common, common shortcuts people make as leaders, we call it emotionally unhealthy spirituality, is things such as low self-awareness, not leading out of our marriage or singleness, not putting an investment of time into that, not having too much activity that our inner life can't sustain it, and

finally not having a Sabbath work rhythm each week. So look at that when you get a chance,

but I picked these 10 out of a much larger list that I was developing, ones that trip me up over

the years that have been very much on the forefront of my mind.

So I talked about in the last podcast,

first shortcut is people not leading themselves first.

Second is rushing.

The third is cheating on your time with Jesus.

The fourth, not giving thoughtful preparation to meetings that we lead.

And the fifth was spending too much time preparing a sermon for other people,

but not enough time applying it to myself.

So let's move in here now to number six through 10 of shortcuts that we need to avoid.

Number six is this, not seeking wise counsel soon enough.

Most of us seek counsel when things are really bad.

But unless things are going poorly, few of us invests the time, energy, and money for this longer journey. So,

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