Who Are You?

Definitions can be empowering, although usually they are limiting. Let’s start with how we define our self. The very way we think of our self is a huge determinant in what we are able to achieve and accomplish.

The world teaches us to define our self by our job. A job is only a small measure of who we/you are and is an extremely limiting factor to our very lives if we think of ourselves in terms of a job. Why is that?

* Jobs have finite, limited incomes that are part and parcel to the definition of the job. Defining yourself as “Your Job Title Here” pigeon-holes you into a certain income bracket.

* Jobs have time constraints (9:00 to 5:00; Monday thru Friday; fifty ‘work-weeks’ a year / two weeks vacation; lunch break). Defining yourself as a “Your Job Title Here” completely and invisibly (indiscernible) blocks off your calendar and schedule

* Jobs limit the time you are with your family and take precedence over that precious time. Is that acceptable? No, yet we allow that premise into our lives in the corporate world.
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Jobs limit family travel by virtue of the time and money-making schedule inherent to the job.

* Jobs require you to abdicate authority rather than take on more authority. This is the single biggest hurdle that corporate individuals have to mentally jump. We are permission oriented, which means we allow another person or entity to have control over us - someone else defines our life for us.

* Jobs have a single skill set that you are required to methodically implement day in and day out. You’re hired for those skills and not other skills that would enable you to expand your territories.

They teach you that you don’t have to be responsible for factors outside your particular skill set and job definition which realistically leads to “the buck never stopping” on your watch or in your domain. The buck stops elsewhere. It’s not my area of responsibility so it has to be someone else’s area of responsibility. Quickly following that premise is that “IT” is not my fault. I’m not to blame – someone else is.

There’s a new game that becomes not just a game, but a way of life and deeply ingrained mindset called, “The Blame Game”.

Entrepreneurs define themselves Distinctly & Differently from the way the masses do, and from the way they defined their selves in the past. Christ-centered Entrepreneurs define their selves through Christ the Great Creator, He Who is without limits, He who is beyond natural – which creates a definition that is greater and is in Supernatural terms.

Define yourselves in terms of He who loves fully because He is love - He who is infinite and infinitely powerful. He lives within us. We live within Him. “He” defines us. The kingdom of God defines us. Luke 17:21 This is a radical departure – make no mistake. Departure means leaving the former place. For us, it also means leaving the former way of life.


Be Encouraged

Mike Melvin