Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast.

A conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we're going to look at two words that should be an essential part of every leader's vocabulary.

Andy, let's just get right to the point of today's podcast.

What are these two words that are so important?

Well, I mean, as you know, I'm usually pretty direct and I'm usually ready to jump right to the point.

I'm going to be ready to tease this out just a bit because I'm afraid that when I tell our podcast listeners what the two words are,

some of them might have a tendency to dismiss them too quickly.

Here's what I know.

Leadership requires us to keep our focus out front.

We're always asking where are we going? How do we get there?

Where are we going? How do we get there?

What are the obstacles? What are our resources?

We just love forward motion and that requires forward focus.

And because of this, the demands of tomorrow quickly overshadow the accomplishments of today.

Our accomplishments and the accomplishments of the people around us.

So what's been done, pales and significance to what needs to be done.

I wake up every day thinking about what needs to be done.

I very rarely wake up and think about all I did yesterday.

The only time I think about what I did yesterday is I always wake up about three o'clock on Monday morning thinking about my sermon and how what I should have done.

But other than that, you know, as leaders, we wake up thinking about the future.

That all sounds really positive, but I'm guessing there's a downside here.

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