Leadership skills shine brightest when you know your purpose
Leadership skills shine brightest when you know your purpose. Most people don’t start out knowing what their ultimate purpose in life is. Your ultimate purpose grows along with you and becomes part of who you are. Much the way seeds are sown and nurtured we go through stages in order to blossom and flourish in life.
I think this description by Jon Gordon really expands on this thought in a beautiful way. When I read it, it helped me see how all my experiences overlap to create an energy and perspective of natural progression and growth. Understanding this process makes it easier to manage others in a business setting too.
Leadership Skills Shine Brightest When You Know Your Purpose
1. The Preparation Stage – This stage includes your birth, the family you were born into, your weaknesses and strengths, gifts, passions, the place you were born, and the experiences, challenges, and the lessons you have learned throughout your life that prepare you to be planted.
It is this stage that makes you unique and provides you with the characteristics that determine what you will grow into and become.
When you progress to the other stages of purpose and look back at the preparation stage of your life, you’ll realize that everything in your past prepared you for the work you are meant to do. Your greatest challenge likely served as the preparation to help you live and share your greatest purpose; and the worst event of your life often prepares you for the greatest assignment of your life.
2. The Planting Stage – The planting stage begins once we decide to plant ourselves where we are to be our best and make a difference. For many, this means planting yourself in your current job. For others, it might mean starting your own business, non-profit or initiative. For some it might mean a decision to let go of your selfish desire and vision and allow yourself to be used for a bigger purpose.
The important thing is to realize that everything in your life has prepared you to be planted. You just have to decide to do the planting.
During the planting stage you may not know what your bigger purpose is, however you simply start by living with purpose and have a desire to make a difference. Just as the seed must die to itself so it can give life to something greater we must plant ourselves and serve others to become all that we are meant to be. Once you plant yourself, then you proceed to the next stage.
Stage three and four, growth and harvest can be found by clicking the link in the second paragraph of this post. These are the stages when all the hard work pays off. Often at this stage of development we notice that leadership skills shine brightest when you know your purpose and can inspire others to join in your efforts and make your purpose a part of theirs.
