Identity Through Your Purpose, Calling, and Assignment

Today, let's talk about your identity through your purpose, calling, and assignment.

Here’s what I’ve found to be essential to building a wealthy business or team that serves people, generates revenue, and makes a positive impact that glorifies God: a productive mindset, positive expectation, and good energy.

Often, we as leaders are inspired by these three elements, but sometimes we feel like something is missing.

Whenever we feel energized and in the flow of positive productivity, it's important to pass the positive energy on the others.

Whenever we feel less than productive or profitable, it's to pause and re-align ourselves for our greatest good and the greatest good of our work.

Here's a process that can help.

Create space in your environment and on your calendar to focus on your purpose, calling, and assignment at Work (in your business, career, or job). I call this trifecta the “Why Factor” of your Work.

In its simplest terms, the “Why Factor” is the reason “why” you are in business or leadership.

Here's why it matters:

1. When you are clear about your “Why Factor,” you can better find peace during the ups, downs, ebbs, and flows of business because you'll know that you know (… that you know that you know …) that you are doing the Work for which you were born.

2. When you are clear about your “Why Factor,” you can more easily make righteous decisions for yourself, your client-customer base, your team, your bottom-line, and the glory of God.

3. When you are clear about your “Why Factor,” you can more easily write your visions down and make it plain to attract the right people to your business or team – including your clients, customers, team, mentors, vendor, and community.

Here's a scripturally-sound way to get more clear about your purpose, calling, and assignment in business – and the interaction between the three.

1) Consider that all Believers have one purpose: to do the will of the One who sent us. Meditate on how what you do at Work (your actions, processes, systems, ethics) honors God and be encouraged or make adjustments as necessary.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21

2) Consider that your calling at Work consists of the gifts and talents that come most readily to you, and they are irrevocable. In other words, human beings may be able to have a temporary effect on the impact of your calling in the workspace or marketplace, but no person can take it away or suppress it forever. Keep going.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Romans 11:29

3) Consider that your assignment is for a particular place, season, time, and function. It can change as your environment changes and can evolve as you evolve. Be aware of what's happening in the environment and let the wisdom in 2 Peter 1:5-8 and 1:10 help you re-access your particular assignment and your approach as necessary.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8.

Therefore, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities, you will never fall. 2 Peter 1:20

I invite you to consider the truth and power of the passage in deepening your knowledge of our Lord and – by analogy, deepening your knowledge of the evolving seasons in your role as a leader.

Now that you know more about our scripturally-sound framework for identifying purpose, calling, and assignment in your Work, the rest is up to you.

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