Pastor Steven Furtick

Disappointment can wipe you out.  Or it can move you forward.  The choice is yours.

Leaders have a choice to make every time they face a new disappointment: will I use this?  Or will I waste it?  Will I get something out of this?  Or will I let this get the best of me?

A few weeks ago I had an expectation that wasn’t met.  Of course, this happens to all of us daily.  But this one was a pretty big deal, involving lots of money and affecting lots of people.  I couldn’t just let it slide.

So I turned to a clean sheet of paper in my Moleskine, took a deep breath and broke down the elements of my disappointment into four different categories.  Putting my frustration in an organized format helped me get it out of my system.  And it gave me some handles on how to handle my disappointment.

Over the next couple days I’ll let you in on my process for dealing with disappointment.  I’m learning that disappointments never make or break a person.  It’s what we do with them that makes the difference.