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. Well, Andy, let's just get right to the point

of today's podcast. What are these two words that are so important? Well, as you know,

I'm usually pretty direct and I'm usually ready to jump right to the point. But I need

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, both 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. Yeah,

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

is a downside. The downside is we're so prone to look forward that we forget to look back.

And that's what leads us to our two words. Okay. So are you ready to tell us now? Almost

here. Here's one more one more precursor to the two words. Here's the thing in the wake

of our progress. Again, we're always looking forward, but in the wake of our progress,

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