A church leader explains why preparation matters: he sends his Sunday sermon to worship leader Connor every Monday so Connor can pray and plan music around the message. He calls it "prior preparation prevents piss-poor performance" and says a leader's lack of prep cascades down to the whole team.
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No, I just think preparation is huge. Like, I mean, I just don't think you can— there's this old saying, it's the 6 Ps. I probably can't even say this on the show, but I'll say you can edit it out. The 6 Ps: prior preparation prevents piss-poor performance. Yeah. I mean, and I just— I think that's, that's so good, you know, like, for me at church, I need to be very well prepared for every meeting, for I have especially have to be prepared for Sundays. But also within that, if you're going to be a good leader and create a good culture and a culture of example, a culture that helps others be prepared. So Connor is our worship leader. And so our, our theory is that I get my sermons for Sunday done 6 days earlier on Monday. I send my sermon for this Sunday every Monday. Connor. That way Connor can look at the topic of discussion and he can pray about it, and then he can prepare his worship set to go along with my sermon. And so if I don't prepare well as a leader, then I am just letting that flow down more and more to others. Then they can't be prepared, and they're going to wait, and they're going to be behind. And so I just think preparation is, is of number one