How do you answer the question:
- Who is (your name here)?
We often start with our name and then we say our job title and try to ramble on about what we do for a living. As you talk about your job and what it is that you do, does it feel a bit stressful? Do you ever find yourself giving a bit more effort than you should to make the other person see the value of your job title? Or worse, your value in light of such title. And when you get the “wow, that’s cool!” – what are you left with?
Not Identity
Your job title is not your identity. Don’t treat it like it’s the main thing that makes you who you are. Don’t limit yourself to what appears on your badge, your door, or your desk. You are more than those transient and fleeting words conferred to you by others.
Not Purpose
Your job title is but a chapter, a season at best. Your life is not bound or limited by it. Our job, nor the title we currently hold, is no purpose. Your current title is also no limit to act and become who you choose to be.
Value Beyond Titles
I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
Lionel Messi
A bronze coin etched with the word ‘gold’ will never be gold.
A real diamond will not be denied its value no matter how many times it’s called fake.
When you know who you are and your true value, you don’t add a title to your name, you bring your name to the title. From that point, titles mean nothing. It’s who you are that’s everything.
Now let me ask you again. Who are you?
John Cruz writes... 