Summary: In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by Christine Caine, founder of <a href="http://www.propelwomen.org">Propel Women</a> and <a href="http://www.a21.org/index.php?site=true">A21</a> and author of <a href="https://www.lifeway.com/en/product/unexpected-P006180882">Unexpected</a>. During their conversation, they discuss the following questions:<br> <br> * What are the most common things that cause leaders anxiety?<br> * Why is anxiety so detrimental to leadership?<br> * How do you know if you are leading in faith or crippled by anxiety and fear?<br> * What are practical ways to deal with anxiety in a proactive way?<br> <br> BEST QUOTES<br> “A lack of clarity of vision can cause anxiety.”<br> <br> “When you get anxious and fearful and lose your clarity, then most of your decisions become fear-based rather than faith-based.”<br> <br> “You start to play safe, rather than go for enlargement and go for growth.”<br> <br> “Healthy things grow and growing things change.”<br> <br> “If you are making decisions based out of fear rather than faith, then you are not making wise decisions in the present that will allow growth and momentum in the future.”<br> <br> “A lot of us aren’t leading in faith, we are just managing where we are.”<br> <br> “I am going to make what I know about Jesus and His faithfulness to me in the past bigger than what I don’t know about the future.”<br> <br> “What drives me as a leader is not how much we’ve done, it’s what is still yet to be done.”<br> <br> “Complacency, indifference, settling, and managing will lead ultimately to anxiety if you are called to be a leader. Anxiety will lead to fear.”<br> <br> “If you are feeling bad, you are most likely to be leading bad.”<br> <br> “It’s not how much you do for God as a leader that is going to burn you out. Burn out comes from what you stop doing.”<br> RECOMMENDED RESOURCES<br> <a href="https://myleadershippipeline.com">Pipeline conference</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.leadership.lifeway.com/2016/02/16/episode-63-christine-caine/">5LQ Episode 64: Christine Caine</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.leadership.lifeway.com/2017/10/03/5lq-episode-207-christine-caine/">5LQ Episode 207: Christine Caine</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.lifeway.com/en/product/unexpected-P006180882">Unexpected</a> by Christine Caine<br> <br> <a href="http://www.propelwomen.org">Propel Women</a><br> <br> <a href="http://www.a21.org/index.php?site=true">A21</a>
