Overcome Identity Struggles and Step Into Leadership
How to Overcome Identity Struggles and Step into Leadership
Many potential leaders struggle with issues of identity. They place their identities in the success of their companies, the status of their positions, the size of their bank accounts or how other people view them. When you have a crisis in identity you also have what I refer to as a Legacy crisis.
Meaning you cannot influence what you do not have.
One thing I have found working as a mentor alongside many individuals in leadership is until they are able to see themselves from a God perspective rather than a human-driven perspective they will continue to struggle with identity issues.
Paul wrote in Romans 12:3, “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.”
We are to view ourselves through God’s lens—a lens of authenticity and truth.
Miriam-Webster’s definition of authenticity is real or genuine; not copied or false; true and accurate; made to be or look just like an original.
Authentic identity comes when you come to realize your unique gifts and traits were placed within you by God and you recognize He gave them to you for a greater purpose.
Proverbs 23:7 says, “As a man thinks so he is.” The mind is a powerful tool. When we allow the remarks, opinions and mean-spirited comments of others to drive our opinion of ourselves or the actions we take, we open the door for the enemy to have a foothold in our lives.
We begin to speak and act from a defeated position rather than from a “truth” position.
In John 10:10 scripture tells us, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
Let’s look at your “I” factor for a minute. “Your “I” factor is your gift—not your talents or skills—but the unique and special way that you think. It’s more than just personality—it’s the unique design God hard-wired into you that forms and influences every thought you think, every choice you make, every word you speak and every action you take.” (Who Switched Off your Brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf.)
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