Anxiety can paralyze decision-making, cloud judgment, and stifle creativity. When the pressure builds, it’s easy to spiral into control mode or just shut down altogether. We can't avoid anxiety by ignoring the challenges, but instead by bringing them to God: naming our fears, doubts, and struggles, offering them up in prayer, and—this is important—doing it all while being rooted in gratitude even before the outcome is clear. Leaders who can operate out of peace in the midst of a storm are both more effective and easier to follow.