Daron PachecoCEO, Howdy Media · Brand Builder

Are you sure you were actually called to lead?

21 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational talk, the speaker challenges listeners to examine whether they truly feel called by God to lead. He notes that leaders often experience seasons of fatigue, unclear direction, or stalled vision. When a leader lacks a clear vision from the outset, the speaker advises pausing to reflect on the divine calling. He argues that without a compelling vision, an organization cannot succeed because its members will drift apart. To illustrate this, he uses an old‑cowboy metaphor: horses (or mules) attached to a wagon by a single harness must move together; if one pulls away, the others are forced off course. Similarly, a leader’s vision binds the team, ensuring everyone pulls in the same direction and works harder to move the organization forward.

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One is, I would say, just to be straight up, I would say, are you sure you're called to be a leader? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, we all have seasons where we stall out on our vision. We, you know, you know, we just, we just do. There's times when you get tired. There's times when situations and circumstances arise and you don't have the greatest of vision. But like, if you don't have any vision at all in the beginning, I would say you need to take a hit the pause button and go, you know what, is God really called me? Because if the leader can't carry the vision, you're never going to be a part of a successful organization. It says where there is no vision, people cast off restraints, which to me, I'm an old— I'm old cowboy, I'm old country guy. And so I think about— when I think about it that way, I think about how when the old-timers hooked up horses to a wagon or mules to a wagon, they put a collar on them and they had a single tree that tied all of the horses together. So if there's 4 horses, They all have a collar and they're all tied together. One can't duck off without bringing the others with them. They're all moving in the same direction. So to go back to an organization, if the leader's not casting great vision, then this one's going to pull off over here and try to do that. This one's going to go try to do that. And you're going in every different direction, pulling against yourselves. So vision ties the team together. And if everybody can see the vision the leader has cast, then everybody will pull harder and work harder to take the wagon on down the road, if you will.