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DESERVING RESULTS IN LEADERSHIP

Life doesn't respond to you because you need a thing, it responds because you deserve it. Deserving means that you have come to the knowledge, wisdom and understanding of the dynamics of how the things you seek work.

Getting results in leadership does not happen because you are dare need of them, rather results happen because you know what to do, when to do it, why to do it and how to do it.

Every leader must seek to figure out in a clear and concise manner how to get the intended results in leadership, because those who harvest in the dry season are those who sowed in the rainy season. They are the ones that deserve the harvest.

The earth does not give food because you are hungry, rather it gives you food because you sowed a seed. Also, having seed in your hands does not guarantee harvest, rather sowing the seeds into the ground will ensure that you get what you deserve.

It is true that every entrepreneur needs to make profits, but the truth is not everyone of them who set out to do business will make profits. The reason being that those who make profits deserve it beyond just having to need it. You deserve profits as an entrepreneur when study to understand your business terrain with the good sense for creating your competitive edge.

Leaders should understand that the economic system is not designed to give them what them need, rather it gives them what they deserve. It is not about how much you pray and hope, rather it is about how much you deserve.

Many leaders have profound ideas without doing anything with them. Life does not provide for you because you have profound ideas, rather it responds to you because you have been able to apply those ideas in the appropriate quarters. Everything we have received from life comes to us because we deserve them, whether good or bad. Nothing just happens.

Knowledge does not come to you because you need it, rather it comes because you deserve. To deserve knowledge you must search for it.

The ancient book, which I love to read says this:
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened."

The responsibility for receiving is asking; finding is seeking; and opening of doors comes as a result of knocking.

Results do not come to you because you need them, rather they come because you deserve them. You deserve them because you met a need. Until a need is met, you will not see results.

How to Deserve Results?
1. Meet the needs of your followers -- spiritual, physical and intellectual. When you set out to meet the needs of others, you have inadvertently met your own needs.

2. Share what you have. Whether ideas, knowledge, insight, wisdom, etc. by so doing you have sown the seeds for the future.

3. Be open to receive from others. Make yourself the fertile ground for others to sow their seeds. Sometimes our dispositions is such that scares people away from meeting  our needs.

4. Be on the look out in search of a fertile ground and sow your seeds.

Seeds of results are meant to be sown in other to make you deserve harvest, as a leader, and to deserve anything good from life, you must have sown the seed ab initio.

Elvis C. Umez
Leadership Consultant
IDB Consult

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