Leadership

HOW A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT IMPACTED MY JOURNEY

I’ve been on a journey.

Over the past decade I’ve been on a journey to become a person who is able to lead well. I want my leadership to encompass every role and responsibility that my life holds.

  • I want to lead well as a husband and a father.
  • I want to lead well as I shepherd and direct ministry.
  • I want to lead well throughout every day-to-day interaction that I may have.

I don’t believe that this journey originated in my heart and mind. I firmly believe it was God’s calling on my life, to become a person who leads well. Philippians 1:6 reads as follows:

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

If God has placed a specific calling on our lives, it will carried out. Carried out, not for self-glorification, but for the blessing of others and in turn, for His glorification. Ultimately, it’s not about us, it’s about Him; but we get to enjoy the ride!

I definitely haven’t arrived yet!

As I said, I’m on a journey, and every journey has its share of good and bad. Day in and day out, I consistently make errors of judgement, and my character flaws continue to trip me up.

Regardless, every failure that I have experienced, I must accept and place into my toolbox of life-lessons. Each leadership fall has taught me invaluable truths about myself, that have become vital to my leadership journey.

This journey has brought me a mission.

This journey has culminated into a personal mission statement, that always brings me back to my calling:

Serving Christ by cultivating personal leadership through writing, equipping and communications.

This mission statement can be broken up into steps of importance and facilitation:

  1. First, to be serving Christ within every aspect of my life.
  2. Second, to be cultivating personal leadership as I serve Christ in my various roles and responsibilities.
  3. Third, to be writing down ongoing lessons and experiences, to record growth and failures.
  4. Fourth, to be equipping future generations of leaders with the lessons I’ve learned.
  5. Finally, being in constant communication with others, sharing and receiving experiences and life-lessons with the world.

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Do you have a personal mission statement? If so, how has it impacted the journey that God has called you to?

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