374 Words | (1) Are You Harvesting the Right Field? (2) Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing and (3) Fail Fast on the Best Ideas to Serve Better.

Are You Harvesting the Wrong Field…and Don’t Know It

At 3AM one morning this week, I awoke with a deep seated impression that I was innovating beyond where the Lord asked me to go. After a short prayer time, I knew I had to shut down a portion of a project I was working on. In essence, it was a good field but it just wasn’t the field He asked me to nurture, plant and cultivate. Are you planting the right field?

Innovation: Cultivate where He asked you to nurture and harvest.

Desired Outcome:  For everyone involved to draw nearer to the Lord.

Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing

It is so easy to get excited by a new idea, isn’t it? Once you start brainstorming innovation ideas, you can easily get pulled into the wrong direction, most especially, if you are participating in a mastermind group that includes individuals from other organizations serving the same community. It is prudent to filter any new idea through your mission to insure that the new idea is intended for you, even if it is an amazing idea.

Innovation: Love the limits of your mission and calling.

Desired Outcome: To innovate within the areana you were called to and let others do the same.

Sharpshooter or Shot Gun Can Decide Your Innovation Success

Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, suggests that we should make a list of the top six things that we need to do today and cross off the bottom five. In other words, focus only on the most important item. In our case, the most important is the innovation with the best chance of success. As an innovator, the ability to fail quickly on the right small starts allows for the adjustments needed to serve better faster.

Innovation: Focus exclusively on the best ideas with the greatest possible impact.

Desired Outcome: To serve better by focusing on the desired outcome.

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