If your gift is leadership, do so with zeal. – Romans 12:8

Bill Hybels started the leadership summit out with this verse.

It reminded me of one of my all-time favorite quotes:

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

There is so much power in embracing and enjoying what we were called to do.

The power comes from embracing the idea of always doing your best.

And most of the time, it isn’t something glamorous.

It could be sweeping streets or filing paperwork or cleaning up after dinner or…

Things that most other people don’t even notice how good or bad of a job you did. Often, you (and God) are the only one that really knows whether you did your best.

Always doing your best is a difficult standard, to be sure.

But would you really have it any other way?

Make it a great day.

Jake