I’ve been listening to Rick Warren’s podcast off and on since he started it and he said something the other day that stopped me cold. 

He said something like… 

Being a leader means that someone is always going to be disappointed in me.  As a leader, I must come to terms with that.  Being a leader means learning how to deal with the disappointment of others.

Wow.  That’s so true.  I deal with that a lot.  It seems that somebody’s always disappointed in me.  If I focus on one thing then somebody thinks I should have focused on another thing. 

This sort of stuff always brings me back to the idea that I simply must live for an audience of one.  I must live my life to please God because I’d go crazy trying to please everyone else.