Saturday 16 August 2008

SETTLED IDENTITY

An individual with a settled identity is the safest of all men...... The guy who has a settled identity doesn’t wait for titles to define him; he doesn’t wait for applause to qualify him. A man with a settled identity doesn’t go for mediocrity just to be a success in life, things happen for him on their own course......

When you have a settled identity, you don’t strive for recognition or position. A person with a settled identity knows that title is not the same as authority. Since he has a SETTLED IDENTITY, he has become an AUTHORITY..............
Dear friends, in all thine getting, get authority. It is authority that brings influence, not titles. It is your relevance that brings authority. It doesn’t matter what people call you, if you are relevant in your world, you will become an authority. Like I asked in an earlier post, WHAT DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE OF LIFE? If you can answer this question, then you have located your relevance. Everybody has something to offer, God was even in His resource sharing!

It doesn’t matter how you package the salt or what you say about it, because of its unique value and relevance in the cooking process, it is always held in high esteem. This is what I call VALUE.

You will always be held in high esteem if only you can identify your importance in the ‘cooking’ process of life. You don’t have to be like anybody else, you don't have to be fake, you don’t have to underrate who you are...

If you don’t have a settled identity, chances are that people will tag or define you by what you drive, what you wear or where you stay.

Dear friends, make a conscious choice to be true to yourself. Be original. Be unique. Be the brand you were created to be.

From experience, I have discovered that the enemy of who we are is who we are not. We always lose who we are when we crave for what other people are. Most times, we are amazed at their uniqueness and we allow it shut down our greatness.

You must stop being intimidated by what you are not, otherwise somebody else’s greatness will consume the greatness that you have, and as things remain this way, you will keep wasting away.

Often time, we are bombarded with seminars and speakers screaming into our ears: YOU MUST DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE...

While I appreciate these wonderful lessons, I think it is equally, if not more, important to DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE NOT! The easiest way to discovering you are is to discover who you are not. Some folks, in desperation to be identified with something, have hidden themselves in other people’s gifting and talents. They have lost their voices in other people’s....

Friends, we must know what we don’t represent, likewise what we represent.
When you know what you don’t stand for, you will have the guts to reject certain things that people will try to force on you.

So many lives are wasting away due to imitations, and this has brought limitations of various degrees. I believe God is not a duplicator, He is a creator. Every one of us is original, in ALL things. It is our responsibility to locate our uniqueness and publicize it!

Dear friends, when two people are alike, one of them is irrelevant. Why on earth will anybody need two shirts of same size, same colour and same design? Everybody likes variety.

In fact, variety is the spice of life. If you want to be a 'SPICE IN LIFE', you must learn to celebrate your uniqueness. If you are not unique in the way you do your things, you will effortlessly be shoved to the background and lose relevance!

The million dollar question I want to ask you is: "If you are separated from everybody dear to you, what will you look like? Do you have a life you can truly call yours? Why spend your entire life being someone else?

It is good to be inspired by people, but let them inspire you to LOCATE YOURSELF, not to IMITATE THEM! Learn to stay and be happy in your territory......
Make friends and partner with folks who’s got what you don’t have or admire and get inspired by them without necessarily expiring yourself.

Dear friends, YOU NEED TO KNOW YOU ARE and WHO YOU ARE NOT!

You must happen!

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