"Work as a Calling"
Elizabeth Jeffries is the author of essay number 3 titled “Work as a Calling” in "Insights on Leadership." (Click here for a pdf copy of the essay.)
In her essay she writes, “We are all called to uncover our gifts, develop them, and use them to serve others. The answer to how and where we serve is clear, if we but ask, listen, and take action in faith. That is what servant-leaders do.” She also writes about four characteristics of a calling that include: each calling is unique to each individual; calling requires preconditions, including talent; calling reveals its presence by the enjoyment and renewed energy its practice yield; and callings are not easy to discover.
To become an effective leader, one needs to search for calling in life and then be willing to follow the call. There are many distractions in doing this, but to wade through distractions is what life is all about. It is finding and embracing the calling that brings true enjoyment to life, but it takes a lot of work to do effectively.
In her essay she writes, “We are all called to uncover our gifts, develop them, and use them to serve others. The answer to how and where we serve is clear, if we but ask, listen, and take action in faith. That is what servant-leaders do.” She also writes about four characteristics of a calling that include: each calling is unique to each individual; calling requires preconditions, including talent; calling reveals its presence by the enjoyment and renewed energy its practice yield; and callings are not easy to discover.
To become an effective leader, one needs to search for calling in life and then be willing to follow the call. There are many distractions in doing this, but to wade through distractions is what life is all about. It is finding and embracing the calling that brings true enjoyment to life, but it takes a lot of work to do effectively.
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