Great endeavors are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Enjoy the journey; I am Matt your friend. When there is anything I can do to help you discover your best, just ask.  You can reach me at matt@onthemoveforward.com with all you questions, thoughts, and points of view.

Deciding to create your own business whether for profit or non profit is a great decision. The balancing act will be who owns who. Will you own and lead your endeavor or will it own you and lead you.

All leaders of endeavors must decide in advance who will own who. If not very careful it will own you and you will get lost in it. Your business/endeavor has its own life, rules, and purpose. It is an organism and it has its own life expectancy. You can extend it life expectancy by saving your own.

Recognize early that there is a Universal Life Principle that the greatest leader of all taught, “Work six days and rest one”. Commit yourself to resting one in seven.

Your business is your business, you are not the business. Allow the business to be it own force. Organize it in such a way that it can one day walk with out you,

Remember why you began the business, non profit, ministry in the first place. You began it to solve a larger problem than your own or you saw a need that could be fulfilled through your endeavor. Focus on the why you began and less on the how. When you keep your attention on the why most of the time the how will take care of itself.

Enjoy your endeavor and remember I am Matt and I am your friend. Anytime i can do something for you in helping you discover your best just reach out to me at matt@onthemoveforward.com .

Along the process of becoming a great leader you will learn to trust yourself. This will equip you to trust others. Trusting yourself and others will both add speed and safety to your leadership journey.

The first step in trusting yourself will be to redefine mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, yet not everyone gains the benefits from them. Mistakes are learning tools for those that will refuse to see them as a failure. They are only failures when you allow them to be. They are exactly what the word implies “mis-takes”.

They are taking a step forward with less than all the information needed. Thus they are called a “mis-take”. This is why we should see them as learning steps. Imagine if every time a child took their first steps and viewed them as failures, no one would walk. Do you remember when you began to ride your bicycle? Unless you are one of the very few, you fell and skinned your elbows and knees. It hurt, yet you got up, brushed yourself off and rode again with the new knowledge from your crash.

The second step is telling your self the truth, and keep your promises to yourself. When you tell yourself you will do something, or you tell yourself you will not, then do exactly what you said.

You will find it easier to trust others once you can trust yourself. The secret to trusting others advise, counsel, and promises is knowing and trusting your self. All of us run what people say through our own internal trust meter. When we know that we are untrustworthy, then we gage everyone else with suspicion.

We need the sight and counsel of others to successfully make the journey to being a great leader. Suspicion that is born from a lack of self-trust creates blindness and deafness of our soul. Accruing sight and hearing begins from tell your self the truth. Let you “YES, be yes and your NO, be no”.

Enjoy the journey; I am Matt your friend. We will look the all nine steps over the coming days. You can reach me at matt@onthemoveforward.com with all you questions, thoughts, and points of view.

Are leaders born or are they developed over time? The answer is YES! Ideally the discovery of ones RFE begins soon after their birth. By design parents are the very first ones who should recognize the GPA (gifts, passions, and abilities) wrapped up in their son or daughter.

Many of our GPA’s go unnoticed by Mom and Dad due to their own issues of living. They have become overloaded with “making a living” that they are unable to live. Sometimes they are carrying bitterness resentment, and anger from their past that they completely miss seeing who we are.

All parents have one issue or another that can draw them away from their primary responsibility as a mother or father, that of raising their child in the way they should go. Each of us are born with certain gifts, passions, and abilities that are with us to fulfill our PFE. The true joy of living is dependant on you and I living out our PFE. We do not necessarily need to know exactly what it is to live it out. If we are experiencing joy and peace are highly likely that we are living out our PFE.

If you are one of the many that your Mom and Dad were not perfect nor all seeing and missed training you in the way you should go, forgive them and move forward. This one simple act will do more for you than any other single thing you can do.

Enjoy the journey; I am Matt your friend. We will look the all nine steps over the coming days. You can reach me at matt@onthemoveforward.com with all you questions, thoughts, and points of view.

When Dorothy came to the fork in the road and she asked the cat which way she should go, he asked her a question? “Where are you going?” he asked. Dorothy promptly answered, “I do not know”, with which the cat answered, “then it does not matter which way you go”.

Many leaders begin their journey not really knowing or understanding where they are going. Yet, all the great leaders discover their destination along their journey.

Everyone has what I call a PFE that is uniquely his or hers. This PFE is their Purpose For Existence. The greater one has anchored down on their own PFE, the greater their determination in heading up the road that is theirs to travel.

Discovering ones own PFE is not as mysterious as some suggest. For most of us it is discovered after being engaged in serving somewhere under someone else’s PFE. As we serve other people begin to notice our Gifts, Passions, and Abilities (GPA), and begin to point them out to us. We begin to see them and accept them as well. Before long we begin to give birth to acknowledging our own PFE.

Once we have committed ourselves to living out our own PFE we begin to notice that it seems as though the road has gotten steeper. We may even want to return to the safety of someone else’s PFE. Yet we can never return, we must journey on.

Enjoy the journey; I am Matt your friend. We will look the all nine steps over the coming days. You can reach me at matt@onthemoveforward.com with all you questions, thoughts, and points of view.

There is a series of steps that all the great leaders walk through in becoming a great leader. They may not take these steps in exactly the same order or the order is place them in, yet rest assured they all take these steps.

The first step is Location, they understand where they are, is not where they are supposed to remain. Leaders have a tendency to see further down the road than everyone else which creates a dissatisfaction with the here and now.

The leader knows that things will be different and better once the new land is discovered. They understand that it will be work yet they are willing to do the work to achieve the goal of the new frontier. Those around them do not always have the same level of commitment to the new frontier.

This disconnection of commitment between leader and follower creates friction and breeds misunderstandings. There are a few things that can be done to minimize the friction.

1. Talk with each other regularly
2. Listen to each other regularly
3. Understand and accept that some of the words used do not mean the same thing to the leader and follower
4. Understand that the leader and follower have different agendas
5. Understand that all that begin the journey will not make the entire trip

Plan well before beginning the journey to the new land, the vision, the better place you see, plan more than you think you need and there will be less conflict and casualties along the way.

Enjoy the journey; I am Matt your friend. We will look the all nine steps over the coming days. You can reach me at matt@onthemoveforward.com with all you questions, thoughts, and points of view.