Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajiving. This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellovliedo. Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast. It's episode three seventy five. Today's episode is about three simple but powerful words that can completely reshape how you lead. Desire, faith, action.
Let's start with desire. Desire is the ignition switch. It's the internal fire that pushes you out of bed at five am, makes you stay late when everyone else clocks out, and keeps you going when the results haven't shown up yet. In leadership, desire isn't just about wanting the corner office or the title. It's about the craving to do things better, to lead people smarter, to leave things stronger than how you found them. But let me be clear, not all
desire is created equal. Some people want success the way they want a new car, something to show off. That's not leadership desire. True leadership desire is wanting to serve, grow, and solve problems even when no one is watching. If desire is the spark, then faith is the fuel. Faith means believing in the process, even when the process isn't paying off yet. It's the deep trust that your leadership choices will make a difference even when the data says
otherwise and the team is dragging. Faith isn't just spiritual, it's strategic. You need faith in yourself, faith in your mission, and most importantly, faith in your people, because leadership without faith turns into micromanagement, and right micromanagement is the fast track to burning out your team. So I want you to remember this, doubt kills more leadership dreams than failure. Ever will have the kind of faith that says we're not there yet, but we will be. Then comes the
third part. Action. Desire and faith are meaningless without action. And I don't mean big, flashy action. I'm talking consistent, every day, grind it out kind of action. Action means having the tough conversations. It means showing up when it's uncomfortable. It means making decisions when everyone else is hesitating. Action is what builds credibility. Desire gives you purpose, faith gives you stability, but action gives you results. You can want it all day long, you can believe in it with
your whole heart. But if you don't put your boots on the ground and move nothing changes. That's where most leaders get stuck. They think planning is the same as progress. It's not. Here's the formula I want you to write down and tape to your wall. Desire plus faith plus daily action equals leadership momentum. Now let me give you a real world example. Years ago, I had a leadership idea that everyone thought was unnecessary, a plan to rewrite
how our internal communications worked. I had the desire to fix it because I saw it holding people back. I had faith that if we stuck with it, morale and performance would improve. And then I acted on it every day, every meeting, every system update. It wasn't flashy, it took months, but the outcome was a high functioning, connected team that started crushing goals. And it didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. So here's your leadership challenge this week. What
do you really desire right now as a leader? Be honest? Is it recognition, impact, simplicity? Write that down and where is your faith week? Is it in yourself, your team, your plan? Identify it and start rebuilding it. And what's one action you've been avoiding the thing you identify needs to be done, the one step that's been sitting on your to do list way too long, Get out there and do it. Desire faith action. That's the three legged
stool that holds up every great leader. This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening. For more Paul Fell of Alito Podcasts, visit paulfellowalito dot com