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MENTAL TOUGHNESS More important than ever for all leaders

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

4718345 Corporal R. J. Denton

INTRODUCTION

My first memorable experience of being placed in a situation requiring mental toughness occurred when I was conscripted into the Australian Army at the age of twenty for two years of military service. On the first morning of my ten week recruit training program, I found myself with 1500 other recruits at the Puckapunyal Army camp in Victoria in the middle of a very cold winter. At 5.30am the light went on in the hut where I and 15 other recruits were assigned, and we were hustled onto the parade ground for role call in our pyjamas with our bed sheets under our arms. …

Personal Vision Worksheet

Rod Denton in Leadership, Mentoring, Resources

RJD - Copy (2) The following worksheet is provided to help clarify your calling in life. It is organized to help you see how God has worked in the past, is working in the present, and how He will work in your life in the future.

Introductory Statement to Worksheet
In the past, God used specific characteristics, events, people and teachings to guide your direction and thinking. These influenced your desires. God is in control, and your life is influenced by design – not coincidence. Direction and confidence for the present and future can be aided by reflecting on what has occurred in the past.

By looking at the past and seeing how it …

LEADERSHIP EMERGENCE……An often underrated and overlooked season. (not for the faint hearted)

Rod Denton in Leadership

Following his release in February 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world’s most significant moral leader since Mahatma Ghandi. As president of the African National Congress and figurehead of the anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving South Africa towards black majority rule. And throughout the world he has been revered as a vital force for human rights and racial equality. In 1993 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (Adapted from notes from the cover of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography LONG WALK TO FREEDOM)

Nelson Mandela’s story reminds us that a life of greatness is often birthed out of a time of preparation that is quite painful …

The Most Memorable Gift I Could Have Given

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Leadership, Marriage

My wife Sue’s birthday was fast approaching, and try as I may, I couldn’t think of a memorable present that she needed, that I could buy for her. We had been married for forty years and memorable presents were now more difficult than ever to find.

However, in the process the word memory would not leave me and then it came to me; why not buy Sue a memory. After all, you can never wear a memory out, it can never add clutter to your house and you are less likely to forget it. But what kind of memory! Now my thought processes were quite stirred and I started …