\u201cAverage is your enemy.\u201d -Lance Armstrong<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What have we settled for, leaders? \u00a0Yes, society has tamed us with the whip of public education and the chair of clock-punching. \u00a0What have we lost? \u00a0Our creativity, yes. \u00a0Our individuality, perhaps.<\/p>\n
What about the drive to be a sum greater than our parts?<\/p>\n We have settled for average, folks. \u00a0And the world is suffering for it. \u00a0The world needs your\u00a0ferocious passion to leave it better than you found it.<\/p>\n You think just average is OK, because at least it\u2019s better than failing. \u00a0Oh, you of little faith! \u00a0God\u2019s plan is to take the average people of the world and make them above average by His strength for His purposes.<\/p>\n Is failure a possibility? \u00a0It most certainly is. \u00a0Is \u201cjust average\u201d a bigger fail<\/strong> than failure? \u00a0Absolutely.<\/p>\n You are a sleeping lion. \u00a0God is waiting. \u00a0The world is ready.<\/p>\n Wake up.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAverage is your enemy.\u201d -Lance Armstrong What have we settled for, leaders? \u00a0Yes, society has tamed us with the whip of public education and the chair of clock-punching. \u00a0What have we lost? \u00a0Our creativity, yes. \u00a0Our individuality, perhaps. What about the drive to be a sum greater than our parts? We have settled for average,… Read More »LEADERSHIP WEDNESDAY: Just Average<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,63,69,70,84,113],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-2","tag-average","tag-education","tag-fail","tag-failure","tag-god","tag-leaders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-P","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/liontamer1.jpg\" "\\"liontamer\\"")
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