Becoming Real

One of the things that I have had to learn for myself that achievement is not becoming.  The world focuses so much on titles, and abbreviations behind our name that it is so easy to measure your worth by the certificates you have.  Yet all those certificates can be so hollow.  I found instead that I had to learn first about allegiance and what allegiance looked like.  I had to decide where my allegiance lied and how it would look if I were following my allegiance.  That made all the difference for me.  Once I determined my allegiance it was much easier to decide what character and skills I needed to start working on.  It sounds so easy to declare your allegiance but I found that there were many areas on my life that needed to be adjusted.  I had to spend time figuring out if I had allegiance to God/Good what did it look like.  As I did this I discovered areas of weakness that were holding me back.  These areas needed to be fixed in order to help me further develop my mission and vision.