Catalyst - Day 1

I have been looking forward to this conference for a couple of months now. Not only will it be a great audience to promote my company's product to but I also get to sit in on great leadership sessions by people like Andy Stanley, Steven Furtick, and Craig Groeschel. Then, on top of that I get to hear great music from people like Steve Fee and others. It is great combination of work and fun all rolled into one.

Andy Stanley started the morning with a home run. He talked about how a leader must first handle forgiveness, family, and finances in order to be effective... great stuff. Steve Fee opened Andy's session with 3 songs and one of them was new... BONUS!

Steven Furtick talked about how between The Promise and The Payout you have to endure The Process. While he applied it to church planting it is equally applicable to business and life in general.

Finally, Craig Groeschel spoke to the leaders that are burned out in their current role and have lost "it". While it did not apply to me right now it was obvious that there were plenty of the other 12,000+ people in the room that they needed to hear this. Plus, I can tuck it away in case I ever need the advice he gave.

Overall it was a great first day. Andy is on again tomorrow as well as others I look forward to listening to. Oh yeah, great response to Safe Eyes as well.