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With these posts I usually like to post the best quotes from what I read and listened to throughout the week. However, I had a lunch with a mentor, and he shared one quote with me that is going to challenge me for months to come. He said:

“Giving theory that doesn’t produce an outcome,  is never an accomplishment.”

For someone like me, who loves principles, I always have to purposefully check if I’m actually applying them. In this situation, he was telling me that about when I spend time developing others. If I just give people theory without a process that produces an outcome, then I didn’t accomplish anything.

I’ve typed this quote up and laminated and now I carry it with me everywhere I go and pull it out often, so I can always be asking myself – is my theory producing an outcome?

Are you a theory person or an application? Application will always trump theory.

This is going to be a new consistent blog post – Usually every week I try to grab quotes I’d like to memorize and record them on my iphone and listen to them often so I can get them in my head and heart. I’ll now also be sharing them through blog posts so I have to write them out, and as always, I hope they add value to your life!

• “There’s not lack of people that need ministered to, but there is a lack of people who have something to say when they’re ministering.” -Keith Moore

• “Character is the complete sum of all of your thoughts” -James Allen

• “If we lack faith our leadership will never have power, if we lack love, our leadership will never have purpose.” -Gerald Brooks

• “Long before people follow you, they hear about you.” -Gerald Brooks

• “When you learn a lesson, find ways to live it, or else you’ll have to relearn it.” -Gerald Brooks

• “People want to change their circumstances, but they’re unwilling to change themselves.” -John Maxwell

• “If life gives you a chance to watch, then get on the front row.” -Gerald Brooks

• “Learn when you don’t have to lead.” -Gerald Brooks

• “It’s the changed life, not the crowd that makes the difference.” -Gerald Brooks

• “Any time your stage time exceeds your prayer time, you’re in trouble as a leader.” -Gerald Brooks