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The Law of Loyalty
What or
whom you treasure gets the most of your attention.
Loyalty is
one of the core requirements for profitable followership. Leaders are
essentially followers who have mastered the art of followership. Leaders never
cease to be followers; they have only learnt and developed their capacity to
lead others having a deep understanding of what followership entails. Loyalty
is not bondage as some perceive it to be. Loyalty is not inconvenient, neither
is it painful. Often times when people experience inconvenience and pain with
regard to their loyalty to their leader, it is primarily because they never
were loyal. They simply thought they were loyal. You know it is very possible
to assume you know something very well only to realize your foolishness later
on. Loyalty is a state of the heart not a principle you adopt. If your heart is
not in that state, you cannot beat your chest proudly to say, “I am loyal.”
Loyalty
should not be confused with trustworthiness. They are different and extremely
dissimilar. You are trustworthy because of your values and principles. You are
loyal because of the value you place on a thing or person. The higher the
value, the deeper your loyalty. You can be trustworthy to a person yet not be
loyal to the person. You cannot possibly experience pain or inconvenience doing
what you cherish. It was Thomas Edison who quipped, “I never did a day’s work
in my life. It was all fun!” And his words were confirmed by Confucius who
said, “Choose work you love; and you will never have to work a day in your
life.” There is recurrent theme in these two statements; it’s that you don’t
encounter boredom and inconvenience doing what you love from your heart.
Loyalty is a state of the heart, not an attitude nor a principle to adopt. If
you truly love the person in question, your loyalty to the person will not be
laden with inconvenience. For God’s sake, you love and treasure this person.
The flip
side of this law is that some people have divided loyalties; and many have
their loyalties in the wrongest of
places. If you take a second look at what the Law of Loyalty states, you will
find that there is a “What” as well as a “Whom”. Many people have their loyalty
bestowed on money, some on fame, and others on power. Some have their loyalty
bestowed on silly things like sex, events, clothes, physical possessions and
the like. With loyalty placed wrongly, you have no guarantee of exceptionality.
In fact, the guarantee of commonness far outweighs the probability of exceptionality.
Loyalty should be to superiors and the really important people in our lives. If
you ask me, I believe loyalty should first be to God; unquestionably. Then you must
be loyal to your spouse. After your spouse come your mentors and leaders. Then
your friends and family share the next spot. I believe that the Law of Loyalty
is what Jesus Christ was teaching his listeners during his marathon mountain training
session in Matthew 6:19–34. He was redirecting the loyalty of the people from
what to whom, and you ought to do likewise.
These are
not all you need to be exceptional in life, but I strongly believe they form
the foundation for most of the other things. With these three laws, your
motives are guided, your actions are informed with certainty, and you giving are
intentionally done with rewards in expectation.
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