🔑 // Tips To Unlock Your Life
3 🔑 To Servant Leadership
(1) Find Your Purpose and Help Others Find Their Purpose
If we do anything without a purpose, how good are we going to be at it? Not good. Being a leader is less about position and more about helping others find their purpose. I’m a follower of Jesus so I believe my purpose starts with Jesus and ends with Jesus. So for other followers of Jesus I do my best to remind them, in everything they do, it is for the King. It’s not for a person, an organization, money, or anything else. What we do, everything we do, is for the King. I also acknowledge everyone is not a follower of Jesus. However, I believe this answers a core question that the human race has. The question is: why am I here? This is a question of purpose. Can I be a great leader and show a person who doesn’t believe in Jesus, that there is a purpose greater than themselves? I think I must! I think you must!
(2) Lead With A Limp
Leadership is all about going from complaining to creating. To every problem there is a solution. Dr. Henry Cloud says, “When you’re hopeless, that is when you start to create. Hopelessness is good.” This is having the ability to push through obstacles and setbacks. This is having the ability to push through disappointments. As a leader, I don’t believe we are to “WOW” by gifting, we’re to “WOW” through perseverance. I call this leading with a limp. When we preserver we are marked with a limp that is evident to others. This shows you have been tested over time. This shows to others that what you say is no longer concepts in theory, but they are concepts in practice. So often as leaders, we fall into the trap that we must wear the superman cape, but people are more impressed and follow closer when they see scars and perseverance.
(3) Put People First
Everyone wants to be a leader but very few people want to serve others. I believe the only way to be a leader is to serve other people. Putting people first is the hardest thing in leadership. This is adding value to others. The reason this is so difficult is because when you put people first you are wrestling with your own ego. So many people in leadership exchange the kingdom (the common good, win, or accomplishment) for a castle (an individual achievement or win). A great leader doesn’t want to build a bunch of lonely castles, they want to build a full kingdom. A leader who is putting people first is always living a life that is pointing outward, and a leader that is not putting people first, is always living a life pointing inward.
*** Some of this content was adapted from Chad Veach
If we do anything without a purpose, how good are we going to be at it? Not good. Being a leader is less about position and more about helping others find their purpose. I’m a follower of Jesus so I believe my purpose starts with Jesus and ends with Jesus. So for other followers of Jesus I do my best to remind them, in everything they do, it is for the King. It’s not for a person, an organization, money, or anything else. What we do, everything we do, is for the King. I also acknowledge everyone is not a follower of Jesus. However, I believe this answers a core question that the human race has. The question is: why am I here? This is a question of purpose. Can I be a great leader and show a person who doesn’t believe in Jesus, that there is a purpose greater than themselves? I think I must! I think you must!
(2) Lead With A Limp
Leadership is all about going from complaining to creating. To every problem there is a solution. Dr. Henry Cloud says, “When you’re hopeless, that is when you start to create. Hopelessness is good.” This is having the ability to push through obstacles and setbacks. This is having the ability to push through disappointments. As a leader, I don’t believe we are to “WOW” by gifting, we’re to “WOW” through perseverance. I call this leading with a limp. When we preserver we are marked with a limp that is evident to others. This shows you have been tested over time. This shows to others that what you say is no longer concepts in theory, but they are concepts in practice. So often as leaders, we fall into the trap that we must wear the superman cape, but people are more impressed and follow closer when they see scars and perseverance.
(3) Put People First
Everyone wants to be a leader but very few people want to serve others. I believe the only way to be a leader is to serve other people. Putting people first is the hardest thing in leadership. This is adding value to others. The reason this is so difficult is because when you put people first you are wrestling with your own ego. So many people in leadership exchange the kingdom (the common good, win, or accomplishment) for a castle (an individual achievement or win). A great leader doesn’t want to build a bunch of lonely castles, they want to build a full kingdom. A leader who is putting people first is always living a life that is pointing outward, and a leader that is not putting people first, is always living a life pointing inward.
*** Some of this content was adapted from Chad Veach
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