The importance of reflection

I received a couple of e-mails this past week asking me very politely why I didn't have all five of Autry's 'five ways of being' all in one post. The reason is simple:

I wanted you to take your time with each of these concepts and really spend some time reflecting on how they speak to you. By simply listing them all in one post, many of the important ideas that Autry spoke of would have been lost.

One of the marks of an effective servant-leader is that she/he spend some quality time reflecting on their work within servant-leadership. It is a concept we focus on quite a bit within our curriculum - even to the point of having a course titled The Reflective Life. We must be willing to take our time with the ideas that servant-leadership proposes and listen to our inner spirit.