I’ll tell you what’s helping me a lot in my leadership and preaching right now:
I’m giving myself permission to explore my rhythms more than ever before.

In some ways, it’s a new luxury that wasn’t possible when Elevation was smaller.  Back then, my rhythms revolved around the schedules of the volunteers who were serving as staff members, and whatever urgent need demanded my time.  But the development of a capable full time staff has made it possible for me to freely experiment with the cadence of my life.  And it’s breathing new life into my creativity. 

Here are two ways I’m changing up the flow these days:

• One of my mentors recently encouraged me to regularly change the meetings that I’m in, who’s in those meetings with me, when they happen, and even where they happen.  The phrase he used was: experiment until you find what energizes you.  And if what energizes you changes, change it up again. 
• I’m not feeling as much pressure to force it when I’m tired.  For instance, I preached 4 services live, back to back, at Elevation yesterday, and a student event last night for over 500 of our middle and high school kids.  I’m depleted.  My voice is shot.  I’m recovering from a cold, to boot.
  So I slept in this morning.  I’m going to go easy today.  A few hours or a whole day of recovery seem to be more effective than muscling through my exhaustion.

I’m a little apprehensive posting this because I realize that unless you’re the senior pastor or senior leader of an organization, your rhythms are largely dictated to you.  But there’s probably still an area (perhaps in your personal life) where you could discover new energy and fresh vitality by exploring a new rhythm.  Could you change the rhythm of your devotional life?  Your workout?  Your drive home?  Your evening activities?  Your family dinner?
A small change in your rhythm might enable a major shift in your outlook.