Learn it, Master it, and Give it Away.
Did you gain your freedom only to lose it? Did you get margin from The Master’s Program, but then find that your life is in knots all over again?
Back when I was starting my corporate career, I had a boss, the vice president at the time, who said, “Jeff, if you want to climb the ladder, you need to learn it, master it, and give it away, and you need to do that every three years. Otherwise, you’re going to get stuck and become non-promotable.”
There’s an important concept that we talk about in TMP – for everything that you do, you need to have a process in your mind that says, “I learn it, master it, and then give it away.” Continued success and growth do not mean becoming overwhelmed and taking on more. It’s the beautiful process of ending things I should no longer be doing. If anyone else can be doing it, it’s not my LifeMission.
And this was my mindset in my corporate days. Once I had mastered something, I needed someone to take over my work, or I would get stuck without a promotion.
Many of us are excited about our calling and want more graduated assignments. The problem is that if we haven’t given away what’s not in our genius, we’ll be too busy to do what we were made for. I find this repeatedly when I hold onto work that others could do better than I can. Is this true for you? What are we hanging on to but haven’t delegated?
Delegate, Eliminate, and Automate
To go after this, delegation is a great way to gain trust and grow the people around you. This will increase your influence, and influence is how leadership is done in the Kingdom.
You may need to eliminate some items that need to be pushed out that are no longer relevant to you or automate them. With technology capability today, from ChatGPT and beyond, the amount of technology to automate your life is incredible.
So, what will it take to release things into automation or process to train someone else to do it?
If we aren’t giving it away, we’re not graduating into the unique initiatives we were called to. So, strategic focus requires giving it away because we have a mindset that others can do what we do, maybe even better. Yet, we might hold on to it because we don’t want to let it go. So, give it away, get your freedom, and that margin that you get, apply it to your family projects and LifeMission’s advantage.
Fire Yourself
The more we have a mindset to fire ourselves every three to five years, the more we continue to graduate to our specialty. So, a plan to mentally fire ourselves is the right move. And it may involve us saying, “I am no longer in that job title.” and “I need to develop a new brand or the next iteration of myself.”
Whether we’re leaving a job or just continuing to mentally say, “I don’t work in that job anymore,” our focus is to move through the stages of “learn it,” “master it,” and “give it away.” We need to use this approach for all our initiatives. We need to have the same mindset for every bit of Kingdom fruit. And the same thing goes for your family. This approach is a ready stance to the season’s changes that will come. So that as we continue to grow with wisdom, we will continue to narrow our focus to our real genius. The thing that God created us uniquely to do.
In your corner,
Jeff
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