The Leader in you

Leadership to the next generation of leaders

What does it mean to be a leader? Eleanor Roosevelt was quoted: "Being a leader is a lot like being a lady, if you have to tell someone you are, you probably aren’t."

It is true that we don’t have to go around telling people, but you should get familiar with the Idea that you are a leader.

I think what is missing so much in the world today is true leadership. We have unlimited opportunity like the world has never seen, yet our problem is not in lack of opportunity, but lack of leadership.

To me leadership is like having the ability to guide others in the direction you have been or can see in your vision. It is also from the place of service and it might sound strange, but simply Love.

You are a leader and have the capacity to lead and gain a vision for your life that transforms it from the mundane and ordinary to the extraordinary and exciting. You don’t have to “arrive” in life and be a picture of worldly success in order begins walking in leadership.

David was a great leader and He developed his great leadership way before he ever became king. He was in exile, running for his life from King Saul, when he began drawing to himself a group of men. These men were not the so called cream of the crop; they were a group of a few hundred losers. They were debtors, outcasts, and criminals, but soon were regarded as David’s mighty men.

These men were transformed and something of their true heart was revealed through their time with David. The old self image of a loser and nobody fell away dead, while the new identity of Mighty man rose up in their being. They forever cast that weak and wimpy, cursed identity aside and embraced something else.

David saw them in a way they couldn’t see themselves. He treated them according to the possibility and what he believed to be true about them. And refused to see them as losers, he demanded that they live up to that new name, and they did.

This is David’s approach, it is Jesus’ approach, and do you know anyone else that is using this form of leadership? Seeing people as they truly are all the value, amazing possibility and gifted ness? I don’t think a person can truly be free until they accept what is true, I mean really true about themselves and shed the lies that tell them they are a loser or disappointment.

Leadership births leaders, and it births leadership. You are a leader, most people I have ever talked with feel much more like a loser than a leader. I have had enough of this! Rise up and claim your birthright mighty man or woman of God, throw off every lie and be a David for those in your life.

The Great Hunt

Great, “just what I don’t need.” The geckos in the aquarium need more crickets. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to make the trip to the pet store to buy crickets; it was that I didn’t have any money to buy them. In fact I had put it off for a couple days.

I felt like a loser, not just about the geckos being hungry, but about everything in my life. Every single aspect of my life was out of balance and I was not measuring up in any way.

I looked over at the geckos in the tank and wanted to make sure they were ok. It had only been a few days, but I was sure they were getting hungry. As I peered into the tank I saw something amazing, one of the geckos was hunting. He was hungry and searching for some crickets. It was always fun to watch them hunt and feed on the crickets, but this made me sad.

I said to myself, “that is just like me, hunting for something that isn’t there.” What!? Where did that come from?

As sad as that gecko’s hunt for crickets was, my hunt was many times sadder. The gecko had just begun hunting for the last day or two. I had been hunting for years. Just like that gecko, I was on a hunt for something, but I feared it might not be there.

I knew I would get the geckos some crickets and they would find with great delight what they were hunting for. I was not so sure that I would find what I was hunting for in time. If it was going to happen, I thought I would have to depend on myself.

This hunt was not something I had planned on consuming most of my time over a ten year period, isolating myself and looking for the life I was meant for.
I kept my family and friends at a distance, connections from my past completely dissolved, sacrificed to this obsession.

The bad thing was I couldn’t stop. I knew I couldn’t see what I couldn’t see. I knew that there was no one that could help me with my dilemma. Who could possibly understand the burden that I carry?

I would spend my days writing out my thoughts about life and sorting out what I thought life was all about. I didn’t hide the fact that I was on a search, nor what I was searching for. Many around me couldn’t understand my search. Why couldn’t I just set some goals and achieve the American dream? Enjoy life and let it be what it would be?

I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I knew that there was a different way of life that was powerful and victorious. I knew there had to be a type of life that matched the passion that was inside my heart.

This is a blog about what I have found and it is way better than crickets.