 Hi, thanks for your company on today's podcast. I'm going to be speaking today about what I call epic story Supporting role. I hope you enjoy it. Please leave a comment subscribe if you don't already tell a friend about this podcast. Thank you I believe it's far better to have a supporting role in an epic story Then it is to try and have an epic role in a small story. I Think this touches on our ego As leaders, I think it touches on our desire to be epic for our leadership to be epic for our Footprint that we leave to be epic for our legacy to be epic for Voice and life to be epic and significant and there's nothing I suppose wrong with the essence of that But I have seen too many Leaders Finish up not fulfilling and not becoming The great leader they could become because they haven't figured out That it is better to it is better to pay to play a supporting role as a great leader in a bigger epic story going on and We serve other people in our supporting role Because that becomes a better thing to do for the benefit of serving the epic big picture That's way bigger than our part and way bigger than our role But at some point in your leadership life at some point in our leadership journey, we have to decide. Okay I need to stop trying to Have an epic part In what really is a much smaller story Than I could be part of so we make our part bigger than it's supposed to be make our part the whole we make our part We're trying to make it more significant than it really was intended to be because we can't stand the idea that perhaps Life and God intended us not to be this epic leader But God intended us to be a great leader, but a supporting leader in a epic story That's attached to other things that are going on around us I think figuring that out as a leader is a huge huge Discovery and a huge benefit to settling down into which are you are you content to be a supporting role in an epic story Contributing to an epic outcome that's beyond what you could do on your own Contributing to an epic team effort over years. That's great for what you could ever do on your own No matter how great you are on your own It's better as it were to to be a great sergeant than to be a bad general Because we all want to be a general and be the top rank and often this against to do with ego a lack of sober self-assessment a lack of ongoing self-inspection and Self-awareness so we finish up with a complete wrong estimation of our gifts and our abilities and Therefore we become This small person trying to appear epic Trying to make ourselves look bigger than we are more important than we are some also given and we are Is tragic when all along your life would have been far better to be spent to become a great support and Attaching that support to a larger leader a large vision a bigger idea And you just become Amazingly suited and you become all that you could ever have become by having this supporting role in In an epic adventure that you're attached to in an epic vision you're part of instead of trying to be Yourself this bigger than you are person bigger than you are leader In what really is and has to therefore become your own small story figure out Where's my life best spent? Am I better to be a supporting role? But I get to be part of an epic picture an epic story or do I want to try to be epic But really I'm trying to be that in what is always going to be a small story It's better to be a support in an epic adventure Than to try and be an epic person an epic adventure In a kind of a smaller life figure out that as early as you can in your leadership Pass that on to people as early as you can to them in their leadership Because my feel is that far more of us are supposed to be supporters in an epic adventure And an epic presentation epic vision far more of us are supposed to be that Then they'll ever we would intend it to be you know having an epic role in a small story Well, thanks again for listening to today's podcast I hope you find it beneficial and I know time is precious commodity for us all But I would love if you would make take the time to write a review or comment Maybe subscribe to my podcast channel. Thank you