August 17, 2020

The thing I’m realizing about life is no matter where you are or what season you’re walking through, you’ll find yourself in spaces that require you to lead, which come hand‐in‐hand with challenges to love.

The key to leadership is love, so I want to make sure that as I go through life, I leave traces of love behind me. I’ve been thinking about what that looks like in everyday life, and here are three ways each of us can leave a legacy of love:

1. Seize opportunities to lead. No matter who you are or what you do, you are a leader. It’s hard for a lot of people to wrap their minds around that. Each of us are uniquely designed with gifts and abilities to lead and love others. That includes YOU!

2. Understand the power of your words. How different could our relationships look if we just committed to saying positive things more often? Our words carry more weight than we know – they can speak life into the people around us if we’re willing to run them through a filter of love.

3. Commit to helping others succeed. If I am successful in life, then good for me. But if those around me are successful? THAT will define me as a leader. It will be the legacy I leave. Our friends, coworkers, spouses and kids won’t remember us for what we accomplish, but instead what we helped them to accomplish and how we cheered them on along the way. They’ll remember how we loved them.

I SERIOUSLY want everyone around me to live a life that exceeds their dreams as they become who they were created to be.

When people in our lives know we have their best interest at heart, they can trust us.

So as you go about your day, do everything in love. When you model what you consider important, those around you take notice.

Celebrate love. Display it. The most lasting thing we can do with our lives and leadership is to love because love never fails. That’s why leaders who love are leaders who leave a legacy.

-Adapted from Perry Noble