Leadership is hard

Many wise people have said, "Leadership is difficult." I knew this before i was considered a "leader" and i now know this from a practical standpoint. Good leadership is engaging one's self into the Art of Balance: free time, work time; teaching (in my case) students, training volunteers and staff, creating safe, fun, and healthy environments, managing skills, empowering and equipping people to reach their potential, finding avenues where people can do these and making sure the "avenues" are running well. So much has takes place. Great leadership is hard work. Doing a few things great is not a cake walk. I cannot imagine how some/many leaders lead and manage fifty different things at once within their organization or ministry or whatever. The idea of balance, for me, is doing a few things (that means saying "NO" a lot) and doing those things with excellence.
We (my leadership team and i) are in the process of figuring out what those few things, for us, are and we are having a blast doing it!! I am enjoying the hard and tedious work of leading a group of people who want to see change in a youth ministry that hasn't seen much happen in the past year or so. Just thought i would fill everyone in.