The Purpose of a great leaders

Leadership is not excised simply by implementing techniques or methods by using one’s skills, or by exhibiting a particular management style. It is expression of a mind-set resulting from the knowledge of who you were born to be.

We live our lives based on who we think we are and why we think we exist. Therefore, our leadership development to this point has been influenced by our sense of the significance of life and our relationship to it.

Great leaders they discover there Inherent Purpose

A true leader recognizes that he has no special purpose for being in the world. That purpose determines the area of leadership in which he is to serve. His recognition of his particular purpose is not an indication of undue pride. Rather, it is a realistic assessment of his gifts and strengths.

Every person on each is meant to exercise leadership in a particular area of gifting. One of the ways we discover our purpose is by recognizing the gift we can contribute to the world and/or the problem we were born to solve. The process involves asking ourselves question such as there

• What are my talents?
• What will I like to do with my life?
• What do I most enjoy doing?
• What has been my lifelong dream?
• What idea do I have refuse to go away or keeps recurring in my mind?
• What I have always wanted to do but never thought I would be able to do?
• What injustices make me so angry that I must do something to alleviate the?

King Solomon, the wisest and richest man of his day, said, "A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men. " Proverbs 18:16 (BSB). ... God has put a gift or talent in every person that the world will make room for. It is this gift that will enable you to fulfill your purpose and your vision. It will make a way for you in life.  Your unique gift will make room for you in the world, opening doors of opportunity, while drawing the help and resources you need to fulfill your purpose.

Internally Motivation

Perhaps you have been using your gift to same extent but haven’t really applied it with a sense of personal purpose. Or, maybe you have you have been burying your dreams, setting for a lesser existence. You may already be very accomplished in a certain field but secretly wish you were doing something different with your life.
If you pursue your true purpose, you will be internally motivated to exercise your inherent gift. In contrast, if you do something you were not born to do, you will have to make an effort to perform it. Maintaining your leadership position or your job will become a burden and a drain on you.
When is in the wrong place, he sometimes has to prop yourself with a surplus of support people and resource. But when he finds the place for which he was born, his live begins to flow naturally. He no longer needs to manufacture motivation, because he can’t wait to start each day and imitate the next steps that will bring closer to seeing his purpose fulfill. He’s found what he has been looking for in life. He’s not even motivated by a paycheck, because a true leader has a need to fulfill his purpose, whether or not he receives compensation. Even so, he discovers that provisions come when he focuses on serving his gift to the world.

Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls  

It can be much more difficult to exercise character in leadership if you are in the wrong field, Place, or position in life. This is because if you become frustrated and uncertain in your leadership, you may say and do things that are not honest or forthright, for the purpose of protecting your position or keeping your insecurities from being exposed. If you are motivated not inherent purpose by other impulses – a desire for fame, money; and the like – you will want to do whatever it takes to achieve those ends, and character will take a backseat.
The same principles applies to any arena of endeavor. If you know you can’t have good character while pursuing a certain goal or working in a certain goal or working in a certain field, then you should cease pursuing that goal or vacation and find your true purpose. You should pursue something that you can do with honesty and integrity. Even when we functioning according to our purpose. We still have to maintain our character, but we can avoid some of the ethical pitfalls that can spring from wrong motivations, boredom or apathy, and the fare that other can lean our weaknesses.