PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PART 1

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PART 1

What is Personal Leadership?

Ultimately, personal leadership means knowing thyself. And a perfect way to know ourselves is to know our creator, which is God. Every Journey of leadership is hinged on knowing oneself absolutely.

This aspect of leadership is often the most underrated, yet has been a deciding factor in the demise or success of a leader. As always our paragon remains Jesus Christ and everything we need for a successful personal leadership is hinged on the two greatest commandments in Matthew 22:37-40. "And you shall love the lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. This is the first commandment and the second is like it, you shall love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these"

Our attention for this week is the statement "You shall love your neighbour *AS YOURSELF* " that is, it is only to the measure that you love yourself that you can be able to love another person(our neighbours). Likewise it is also in LEADERSHIP. For one cannot lead others efficiently and effectively if he doesn't know how to lead himself efficiently and effectively.

Joel Farcht defines personal leadership as follows " Personal leadership is the self confident ability to crystallize your thinking and establish an exact direction for your own life, to commit yourself to moving in that direction, and then to take determined action to acquire, accomplish, or become whatever you identify as the ultimate goal in your life"

Therefore, it all boils down to you and the choices you decide to make.

God asked us to have dominion over physical things, not our fellow humans. Our action to our fellow humans is service. We can also find that leadership  starts from the heart. A leader who does not know or have a relationship with God, will eventually fail.

Successful personal leadership development starts from and ends with knowing, obeying and following God.

TO BE CONTINUED...