13 Guiding Principles that Help Conservative Leaders Build Powerful Political Platforms
Nothing happens by chance or luck ... just pure faith, strategy, and execution.
When thinking about success, what image comes to mind? What does success look like to you, and can you pinpoint the direction that will lead towards accomplishing your goals?
If you are like most leaders, it's hard to tell what will and will not make you successful. We are all looking for that formula, that secret weapon that will catapult us into our next level.
But the truth is there is only one path that leads to success, and it's a path anyone can take as long as he or she is willing to make the strides.
Success is not relegated to one person's interpretation but rather a set of God-given laws that ensure each person's triumph. And that's what I want to address in today's lesson. I want to teach you the role that 13 specific guiding principles have in helping you build an empowering conservative platform in this next round.
In previous lessons, I taught you why it's important to have multiple voices preaching the good news.
But to accomplish this, we must have principled leaders who are willing to do things a better way so we get better results.
The 13 Guiding Principles That Lead to Your Success as a Conservative Leader
1.) The idea or vision
Every great product or service began in someone's mind. Every successful leader achieved greatness by envisioning their success before it happened.
It all started with an idea.
When God created the heavens and the earth, He first pictured them in His mind and heart. Then He went to work. We, too, have been given this power, because we were made in His image. Therefore, we do what we see our Heavenly Father do.
Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, made this remark: "Truly, 'thoughts are things,' and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects...When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind...".
Although Hill addresses the accumulation of riches in this excerpt, the same principle can be said about anything we desire to have.
In essence, what you think, you become. Thoughts are just that powerful, and the Scriptures testify of this: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is" (Proverbs 23:7).
As a new Conservative Leader, it's not enough to say you want to be successful.
You must already see yourself walking in that success right now.
Your idea about your virtual empire or conservative platform must remain fixed in your mind. This will then lead to a burning desire to see that idea manifested.
2.) The desire
As ideas stir in our hearts and minds, they translate into a burning passion.
The more your mind replays the vision you have for your platform, the more you cultivate an unquenchable desire.
Such burning desire then translates to active faith.
3.) The faith
God functions through faith.
Faith is more than a belief system.
It is a mindset that causes one to think like God.
When we think like God, we can emulate His character, nature, and acts. We know this because we see people today operating at levels that seem almost otherworldly.
In truth, they are functioning from a higher mental and spiritual plane.
They are living at a faith level.
They are practicing active faith on a daily basis.
According to Scriptures, "The people who know their God will be strong and perform great exploits" (Daniel 11:32).
And at this point, anything they ask, they shall receive.
Why?
Because faith causes them to receive the insight needed to make their ideas a reality.
4.) The affirmation
The Scriptures teach us, "Write the vision and make it plain" (Habakkuk 2:2-3). In other words, create a visible affirmation or a faith statement regarding your vision.
Those who do so generally reach their goals more than those who do not write them down. Your statement of faith must then be rehearsed every day and night so you cultivate the plans necessary to bring them forth.
Napoleon Hill summarizes this understanding by giving us a glimpse at how rehearsing this affirmation affects the subconscious. Each time the statement is read--and eventually memorized--the subconscious mind goes to work in preparing the next steps for your success.
In essence, our actual words are creating the world we desire.
This then leads to the accumulation of specialized knowledge.
5.) The specialized knowledge
No one has achieved success on one's own. It is through the learned experiences of those before us that help us master the skills we need for success.
If you intend to thrive as a Conservative Leader, whatever your vision entails, you must acquire the right knowledge or expertise. Yet, given the nature of politics and how volatile it can be, it's important to study leaders who achieved success using principled measures.
You must be willing to pay the price that's needed in time and money to acquire this specialized knowledge, too.
There is a spiritual principle you must always remember: you cannot obtain something for nothing. What you sow into your current platform, you will reap.
Therefore, buy Wisdom, buy Education, and buy Knowledge that will lead to great results.
6.) The imagination
Organized knowledge is powerful, because it has the potential to ignite your imagination. As you learn more about using your voice to spread conservative values, your imagination will take you places.
You will see yourself speaking to large crowds.
You will see yourself hosting conferences and events.
You will see yourself winning your elections based on principles.
You will see yourself writing those books that help the general Conservative Movement thrive.
You will think this way because the knowledge you received is creating a world of possibilities for you.
7.) The organized planning
As your imagination takes off, planning is the next phase.
The challenge with using our imagination is it can run wild. You may discover 100 different ideas you can do, but you simply don't have the time to put into making each one a success.
Therefore, you must choose avenues that will specifically help you achieve your goals and plan the steps necessary to fulfill them.
8.) The decision-making
People who lag in making decisions never accomplish anything. Therefore, you must be a wise decision maker.
Take the information you have, and make wise choices quickly. And once you have decided on a matter or a course of action, have the gumption to stick with your decision.
Most often, your gut feeling is the right one because you have applied the previous guiding principles to your vision.
9.) The persistence
Life gets tough.
And building a conservative platform based on principles does not make it easier.
Politics is brutal, and often times you will want to quit your calling or assignment.
However, to be most successful, you must remain persistent in your endeavors.
Too often, people quit their dreams because they do not see immediate results. They assume the idea was wrong instead of re-evaluating whether the plans to acquire the aspiration were correct.
And because of minor setbacks, they gave up.
But successful people understand why persistence is key. If you can overcome the feelings of frustrations and temporary defeats, you are sure to reach your goals.
10.) The master minds
As you cultivate ideas and build plans to realize them, it becomes necessary to collaborate with like-minded individuals.
This is one reason we have developed the Conscious Conservative Media Network and Academy so leaders like you can collaborate daily to encourage one another.
Developing a group of master minds can dramatically increase your ability to prosper. Rather than having just your own ideas about how you can thrive, you solicit the wisdom of others who can help take your ideas to another level.
11.) The mental power
The more you learn about your mind and its capabilities, the more you understand just how magnificent it is.
As a new Conservative Leader, you must understand how your mind helps you pull the invisible into the visible world.
What you feed your mind also matters. Letting it run wild instead of disciplining it with wholesome doctrine, education, or training will contaminate your vision.
Therefore, feed your mind well so you produce good fruit.
If you're constantly thinking negatively and doubtfully, you will only experience negative results.
But if you are consistently pouring into your mind that which is good, wholesome, holy, and righteous, your physical results have no choice but to comply accordingly.
12.) The heavenly revelation
Napoleon Hill describes this next guiding principle as the "sixth sense." In other words, when we don't know what to do, and we have exhausted all else, there is a "sixth sense" that kicks in to give us the push we need to move forward.
But I like to call this guiding principle "divine revelation."
There will be times when you find yourself stuck and lost in this journey. It will seem like there is no answer for you. But all you need to do is ask the Holy Spirit for guidance. He will not fail to deliver.
Read various Bible stories that show you how God visited men and women in dreams. He provided them supernatural, "sixth sense" information that helped them prosper.
The Holy Spirit's ways have not changed, and He will do the same for you and your vision if you will only ask.
13.) The road map
Finally, when all is said and done, you must create a road map to your success.
Document the strategies that worked in your favor.
Each year, you will discover new growth opportunities because you took time to record the plans that worked best for your platform.
As you consider this next phase in your journey, put these guiding principles to work.
Over the last few years, I have applied these elements to my virtual platform.
Today, as a result of doing things this better way, my presence has reached new heights in the conservative political space. For me, remaining steadfast to the vision, the call, the assignment, and the message has solidified my influence on a national level.
But none of this happened by luck or chance ... just pure faith, strategy, and execution.
Today, if you will make the choice to let these principles guide your work, you too will prosper.
When thinking about success, what image comes to mind? What does success look like to you, and can you pinpoint the direction that will lead towards accomplishing your goals?
If you are like most leaders, it's hard to tell what will and will not make you successful. We are all looking for that formula, that secret weapon that will catapult us into our next level.
But the truth is there is only one path that leads to success, and it's a path anyone can take as long as he or she is willing to make the strides.
Success is not relegated to one person's interpretation but rather a set of God-given laws that ensure each person's triumph. And that's what I want to address in today's lesson. I want to teach you the role that 13 specific guiding principles have in helping you build an empowering conservative platform in this next round.
In previous lessons, I taught you why it's important to have multiple voices preaching the good news.
But to accomplish this, we must have principled leaders who are willing to do things a better way so we get better results.
The 13 Guiding Principles That Lead to Your Success as a Conservative Leader
1.) The idea or vision
Every great product or service began in someone's mind. Every successful leader achieved greatness by envisioning their success before it happened.
It all started with an idea.
When God created the heavens and the earth, He first pictured them in His mind and heart. Then He went to work. We, too, have been given this power, because we were made in His image. Therefore, we do what we see our Heavenly Father do.
Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, made this remark: "Truly, 'thoughts are things,' and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects...When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind...".
Although Hill addresses the accumulation of riches in this excerpt, the same principle can be said about anything we desire to have.
In essence, what you think, you become. Thoughts are just that powerful, and the Scriptures testify of this: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is" (Proverbs 23:7).
As a new Conservative Leader, it's not enough to say you want to be successful.
You must already see yourself walking in that success right now.
Your idea about your virtual empire or conservative platform must remain fixed in your mind. This will then lead to a burning desire to see that idea manifested.
2.) The desire
As ideas stir in our hearts and minds, they translate into a burning passion.
The more your mind replays the vision you have for your platform, the more you cultivate an unquenchable desire.
Such burning desire then translates to active faith.
3.) The faith
God functions through faith.
Faith is more than a belief system.
It is a mindset that causes one to think like God.
When we think like God, we can emulate His character, nature, and acts. We know this because we see people today operating at levels that seem almost otherworldly.
In truth, they are functioning from a higher mental and spiritual plane.
They are living at a faith level.
They are practicing active faith on a daily basis.
According to Scriptures, "The people who know their God will be strong and perform great exploits" (Daniel 11:32).
And at this point, anything they ask, they shall receive.
Why?
Because faith causes them to receive the insight needed to make their ideas a reality.
4.) The affirmation
The Scriptures teach us, "Write the vision and make it plain" (Habakkuk 2:2-3). In other words, create a visible affirmation or a faith statement regarding your vision.
Those who do so generally reach their goals more than those who do not write them down. Your statement of faith must then be rehearsed every day and night so you cultivate the plans necessary to bring them forth.
Napoleon Hill summarizes this understanding by giving us a glimpse at how rehearsing this affirmation affects the subconscious. Each time the statement is read--and eventually memorized--the subconscious mind goes to work in preparing the next steps for your success.
In essence, our actual words are creating the world we desire.
This then leads to the accumulation of specialized knowledge.
5.) The specialized knowledge
No one has achieved success on one's own. It is through the learned experiences of those before us that help us master the skills we need for success.
If you intend to thrive as a Conservative Leader, whatever your vision entails, you must acquire the right knowledge or expertise. Yet, given the nature of politics and how volatile it can be, it's important to study leaders who achieved success using principled measures.
You must be willing to pay the price that's needed in time and money to acquire this specialized knowledge, too.
There is a spiritual principle you must always remember: you cannot obtain something for nothing. What you sow into your current platform, you will reap.
Therefore, buy Wisdom, buy Education, and buy Knowledge that will lead to great results.
6.) The imagination
Organized knowledge is powerful, because it has the potential to ignite your imagination. As you learn more about using your voice to spread conservative values, your imagination will take you places.
You will see yourself speaking to large crowds.
You will see yourself hosting conferences and events.
You will see yourself winning your elections based on principles.
You will see yourself writing those books that help the general Conservative Movement thrive.
You will think this way because the knowledge you received is creating a world of possibilities for you.
7.) The organized planning
As your imagination takes off, planning is the next phase.
The challenge with using our imagination is it can run wild. You may discover 100 different ideas you can do, but you simply don't have the time to put into making each one a success.
Therefore, you must choose avenues that will specifically help you achieve your goals and plan the steps necessary to fulfill them.
8.) The decision-making
People who lag in making decisions never accomplish anything. Therefore, you must be a wise decision maker.
Take the information you have, and make wise choices quickly. And once you have decided on a matter or a course of action, have the gumption to stick with your decision.
Most often, your gut feeling is the right one because you have applied the previous guiding principles to your vision.
9.) The persistence
Life gets tough.
And building a conservative platform based on principles does not make it easier.
Politics is brutal, and often times you will want to quit your calling or assignment.
However, to be most successful, you must remain persistent in your endeavors.
Too often, people quit their dreams because they do not see immediate results. They assume the idea was wrong instead of re-evaluating whether the plans to acquire the aspiration were correct.
And because of minor setbacks, they gave up.
But successful people understand why persistence is key. If you can overcome the feelings of frustrations and temporary defeats, you are sure to reach your goals.
10.) The master minds
As you cultivate ideas and build plans to realize them, it becomes necessary to collaborate with like-minded individuals.
This is one reason we have developed the Conscious Conservative Media Network and Academy so leaders like you can collaborate daily to encourage one another.
Developing a group of master minds can dramatically increase your ability to prosper. Rather than having just your own ideas about how you can thrive, you solicit the wisdom of others who can help take your ideas to another level.
11.) The mental power
The more you learn about your mind and its capabilities, the more you understand just how magnificent it is.
As a new Conservative Leader, you must understand how your mind helps you pull the invisible into the visible world.
What you feed your mind also matters. Letting it run wild instead of disciplining it with wholesome doctrine, education, or training will contaminate your vision.
Therefore, feed your mind well so you produce good fruit.
If you're constantly thinking negatively and doubtfully, you will only experience negative results.
But if you are consistently pouring into your mind that which is good, wholesome, holy, and righteous, your physical results have no choice but to comply accordingly.
12.) The heavenly revelation
Napoleon Hill describes this next guiding principle as the "sixth sense." In other words, when we don't know what to do, and we have exhausted all else, there is a "sixth sense" that kicks in to give us the push we need to move forward.
But I like to call this guiding principle "divine revelation."
There will be times when you find yourself stuck and lost in this journey. It will seem like there is no answer for you. But all you need to do is ask the Holy Spirit for guidance. He will not fail to deliver.
Read various Bible stories that show you how God visited men and women in dreams. He provided them supernatural, "sixth sense" information that helped them prosper.
The Holy Spirit's ways have not changed, and He will do the same for you and your vision if you will only ask.
13.) The road map
Finally, when all is said and done, you must create a road map to your success.
Document the strategies that worked in your favor.
Each year, you will discover new growth opportunities because you took time to record the plans that worked best for your platform.
As you consider this next phase in your journey, put these guiding principles to work.
Over the last few years, I have applied these elements to my virtual platform.
Today, as a result of doing things this better way, my presence has reached new heights in the conservative political space. For me, remaining steadfast to the vision, the call, the assignment, and the message has solidified my influence on a national level.
But none of this happened by luck or chance ... just pure faith, strategy, and execution.
Today, if you will make the choice to let these principles guide your work, you too will prosper.
