LA INTRODUCCIÓN DE SISTEMAS DE CALIDAD EN LAS EMPRESAS DE LA COMARCA DE LA FOIA DE CASTALLA. COMARCA DE LA FOIA DE CASTALLA

Those who know their leadership spot and understand their gift are the happiest. Your gift is fun. You enjoy it, you can do it all day, and, remember, they pay you to do it.

Somebody asked Tiger Woods, “What is your hobby?”

He said, “Golf.”

The interviewer asked, “What do you enjoy?”

“Golf.”

“When are you the happiest?” he was asked next.

“When I’m playing golf.”

It makes him happy, he looks happy doing it, and companies pay him millions because people enjoy watching him. He is in his spot.

If you were to ask him who he was, he would say, “Man, I am golf and I give my life to this game. I think it, drink it, smell it, smoke it; I sleep it. When I am doing nothing, I am thinking about it.”

He gives it for the multitudes. We get the pleasure from seeing him playing it. Tiger Woods is having fun, but we get the pleasure. He gives it to the world.

The beauty of serving your gift is that your wealth is coming from what you enjoy. You enjoy being yourself. Nobody should pass up this deal. This is a perfect deal.

It is like a bird saying, “I am a bird, they pay me to fly. I like

flying. They call me great because I can fly. I am the first creature they think of when they want to know about flight.

Did you know we birds are leaders in the category of flight?”

A bird gets energy from flying. That is how a bird can leave Alaska and fly nonstop to Brazil.

Some people come to my seminars and wonder, “How can he teach for two hours straight and still be excited and energetic?”

It is because I am in my spot. You can listen to some people speak, and after ten minutes you have to turn them off because even they seem bored. They are probably supposed to be doing something else.

Leadership is having something for which everybody is going to come to you. They line up for it. Whatever gift you have attracts people— customers, potential employees, new church members, or voters. That is the ultimate principle of servant leadership.

“You don’t go looking for it,” Jesus essentially says. “The Father has already prepared it.”

Matthew 20:23

Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”

He has prepared a place. Your leadership is in your spot—

your area of gifting.

It’s My Pleasure

When you are in your leadership spot, work is joy. When you

find that spot, going to work is pleasure.

Drew Carey, a popular American stand-up comic, accepted the job to replace Bob Barker when he retired after thirty-five years as host of the television show The Price Is Right.

Someone asked Carey if he ever needed a break from being funny.

He replied that he hoped he’d never need a break and that he didn’t feel there was such a thing as too much fun. He relished his role as someone who helped others feel good.

When the reporter asked Carey why he took the job, he said, he thought giving away prizes didn’t really seem like a job to him, but more like a good time.

He told the New York Times that the most important factor was that he looked forward to giving away a new car, refrigerator, or vacation to someone who might really need it.

He added that, away from the show, he often personally tips people at least $100— even for a hamburger or a cola— and sometimes much more. He enjoyed sharing his own wealth, and was looking forward to doing that on an even larger scale on The Price Is Right.

He is in his spot. He can use his gift for the benefit of others.

In a similar fashion, when an American television interviewer asked the comedian and actor D. L. Hughley whether he might be interested in political leadership, he said, “Me, I tell jokes.”

Hughley’s gift is comedy too. He and Carey earn their money by making other people laugh. People pay them to make them happy for a few minutes. They are leaders in the domain of comedy.

Neither article about Carey suggested, nor did he say, that religious beliefs had anything to do with his motivation to give.

The idea of using your gifts to benefit others transcends

religion. It works whether one is a student and follower of the rabbi Jesus or not.

-R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Leadership has nothing to do with titles either. It has to do with function. I respect you because of your gift, not because of your title. If you have no title at all, once I discover your function and its value to me, I will protect you. I will pay you to give it to me. That is what makes you wealthy. Wealth does not come from your job; it comes from your gift.

Respect is a result of your gift. It does not come because you seek it. Respect is from the manifestation of your function, your gift, your leadership spot. That is why they call on me, and that is why people who need your gift call on you. When you have a dental problem, who do you look for? A dentist.

You respect him because he has a function. You will drive twenty minutes to find him, and then give him your money too.

The same thing is true about all of life. Your specialty makes you valuable, and everyone was born with a specialty.

Disrespect is ignorance of function. What about you? Have you shaken off the clay? Are you in the right leadership spot?

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