What’s the measure?
Mar 5th, 2010 by ljkim
Everyone’s trying to measure up to something… Pretty girls (and guys) try to measure up to the pictures in a magazine, smart people try to measure up to scores on standard exam, successful people try to measure up to other people’s measures of success… But what if those aren’t really the standards that matter? What if you are exactly perfect for the role God has for you? What if God had an aptitude test in which you’d get a perfect score, and everyone else would have to study just to try and pass… Because of your unique experiences and abilities and perspective all had a reason and purpose… If that were the case, what would you DO with your life then?
In one of his career-talks Seth Godin proposes: what if you’re a genius? Then he puts up a picture of Albert Einstein and says, ‘the problem is THIS guy ruined it for all the rest of us.’ He did something that NO ONE ELSE could do…using his unique ability to advance the world in some way – and the problem is now people think we have to do what he did in order to be a genius. Meanwhile Einstein couldn’t find his way home from work without getting lost. He couldn’t coordinate a suit with a tie. He probably couldn’t do a few things that you find easy to do… But he was uniquely gifted to do stuff no one else could do at the time.
You too are uniquely gifted and placed to do what NO ONE ELSE can do. The combination of knowledge and abilities found in you cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. Think about that. God loved you before the beginning of time and gave you a unique part of His image…
So stop asking yourself “how will I measure up?” And start asking yourself “so what will I do with my unique genius?”
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