Things you should expect when you connect with your spot

Get out of the rat race. After all, if you win, you will simply be the big rat. Stop running in the competition. The only person you should compete with is yourself. "how well am I performing in my leadership spot," is what you should ask yourself.

You have to know that the battery does not compete with a spark plug, because the battery knows the spark plug can never be a battery, and so on. They sit in the engine in their spots and serve the engine their gift without competing
against each other.

You have to know that none of the billions of people on earth right now is a substitute for you. The Creator has just prepared a place among them just for you. You should know that servant leadership was the only concept of leadership and Jesus earlier taught us. He believed that every human being possessed leadership potential.

The reason you suffer from jealousy is that you think people can take your spot. The reason you are afraid of everybody is that you are afraid someone can take your place in life. The reason you covet other person's goods is, you believe they can take what belongs to you. The reason you compete with other people for positions in life is that you believe places of advancement and advantage are scarce.

Often times the tendency of people to pull down those in their own group, the poor minority people, women, other interns, fellow vice president who are trying to get ahead is where the phrase, "crab in a barrel", comes from.  If you understand and adopt a servant-leadership mentality, you have to know that there is no need for that.

Being jealous is not in any way doing good if really you understand leadership perfectly. Jealousy is only possible when someone has something that belongs to you. If you understand that you can never have what belongs to me and that I never can have what belongs to you and what belongs to me can only fit me, then I will never envy you.

It is possible that you can be confident in your gifting and your place in the world. And success I have can never be a negative effect on you. Likewise your success can never have a negative effect on me. Meanwhile, it's my prayer that as you find your spot and explore your area of gifting, you will put aside all your jealousy. All of your competition, all of your fear, all of your suspicion to others will be left behind because it may interest you to know that competition brings about fear and jealousy.

When you stake a claim on your spot, your gifting you will never wonder again whether someone can take your spot. You will know that if anybody tries to fit in your spot, because the Creator did not build it for them, the spot will definitely going to destroy them.

When you connect with your spot;
When you connect with your spot, your gift comes alive and so do you . When you are not in your place, you have stress and burnout is probably a sign that you are in the wrong spot. If you have to struggle, you are out of your spot. If it wears you out, you are out of your spot. Your spot will give you energy not deplete it.

The shape of the spirit had already predetermined your shape, so if anybody attempts to squeeze into your spot, the irritation will kill them. It will wear them out. They will have to struggle and fight to be in that spot. It takes energy and pain that will cause burnout. Why? Your spot does not fit them.

It may interest you to know that, it causes irritation in the whole organization when you are out of place.
A human out of place is like a virus. He infects the whole organization. If he is not built for it, he will disrupt the whole organization. This disruption is an infection. A virus is a foreign body. It's not supposed to be there, and it can make the whole body sick.

You know, sometimes on the job you wonder, "why is this not working"? It is because the people are in the wrong spots. They irritate you all the day. They are always gossiping, angry and frustrated. They irritate others because they are not fitting the position for which you hired them. They are in places prepared for someone else.

Just imagine, if you run an organization, a company, or a home and you hire people or place your children and spouse in arbitrary positions, based on their credentials or favouritism- "this one has a degree, that one has always been special to me" not on their gifting, you will see problems. The person in the wrong spot becomes dyfunctional. We might have to fire them or reorganize.

For us to be able to know the right places for people, we must know their areas of gifting. They may not even know it.  Leaders recognize the gift in others. A teacher might discover that the stammering child who can hardly utter a sentence sings like an angle and can touch lives. And the boss who is a true leader discovers that some person has got designing gift and places him in the right spot without hesitation.