Leadership
The Quiet Drift
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There is a moment — and you never see it coming — when the current shifts beneath you. You are still moving. Still leading. Still showing up. But the direction has changed, and you do not notice until you are miles from where you meant to be.
This is the quiet drift.
It does not announce itself. It does not feel like failure. It feels like Tuesday. It feels like one more meeting, one more quarter, one more season of doing what works. And somewhere in the doing, the why goes silent.
I wrote this book because I have lived this. Not once — repeatedly. And each time, the road back required the same thing: stopping long enough to notice.
Written by
Chris DeLeenheerChris DeLeenheer is a husband to Libby, a father to four daughters, and a faith-first leader whose life moves between building operating companies, training hard miles, and trying to follow Jesus honestly. He writes and runs out of Waco, Texas, and has spent the last decade quietly learning what it costs a successful man to stay awake — and what it takes, day by day, to find his way back. Quiet Drift is the book from that journey.