Leaving a Legacy of Leadership
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I want to leave a legacy!
I want to leave a heritage to my family and friends church and community at large.
My intent here is to have you think about your personal leadership, through which you leave us a legacy to those behind you, as a chance to identify your purpose, position, passion, and posture.
What shapes you? Intentions? Motives? Opinions? Thoughts? Responses? What shapes your words, attitudes, deeds, reactions, and more?
So what is leadership, do you have it?
How do you get it?
What are you leaving behind now?
What do you want to leave behind?
What will change in order for you to do the above?
How do you get there from here?
To impress or to influence…
would you rather impress someone or truly have an influence in their life? Impressions are on the surface, therefore, are often superficial.
Influence on the other hand, is often real, honest, and requires far more ability.
Influence necessitates communication with people and the cessation of self absorption.
Your life’s lessons…
Many of our life’s lessons are made up of our experiences, relationships, and mistakes.
Have you been honest with your fears, failures, frustrations, and feelings?
The above all shape your life’s message.
That life’s message consists of a spiritual component, your life’s lessons, your life’s passions, and indeed, your life’s mission.
Every leader has three components that defines he or she. They are position, purpose, and posture.
Let’s talk about your position…
Are you in a position to be credible, vulnerable, real, and genuine?
Are you believable, touchable, straight up, humane, and do you have integrity?
The second component, every leader must have his purpose.
People are the priority.
Are you able to connect with people are you a relationship builder?
Do you serve and meet needs?
Do you truly love other people.
That love will define your purpose and thereby your leadership legacy.
The third element of leadership is your posture.
Do you live in a posture of being open, teachable, and always learning? Are you able to lose preconceived notions ideas and attitudes? You walk in the Spirit and live in the art of possibility in your day-to-day living?
One last element is your passion.
Passions define leadership.
What are you passionate about? Are you a spokesperson for your passions? What causes, groups of people, or issues do you champion?
Your mission in life.
Do you want to leave a legacy of love for those around you?
Then have quality relationships with people. Be an example to follow. Serve others.
Leaving a legacy of leadership also means the facing and overcoming of adversity. How you deal with adversity defines you…
Are you bitter, or better?
You will need faith to face your challenges.
Then you can come through, as someone who can truly serve others and help them in their time of need.
In conclusion, we all need to…
Find our voice and use it toward our life’s passion’s, purpose, posture, and position to leave a legacy of leadership.
So find your voice and your gifts, and use your voice and your gifts.
Lastly, help others find their voice and their gifts, so they too may leave a lasting legacy of leadership at a heritage of love.
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Posted on June 14th, 2007 by Scott Hammond
Filed under: Family
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