Daniel Terblanche

My conversation with you is about leadership and self-leadership. It is important to understand the platform from where I lead and that leading myself is imperative to leading others. Leading others and leading myself, needs a high level of engagement. Unfortunately, history has shown us that leaders have tried to lead from a disconnected position with self; it compromises accuracy and subsequently leads to a default into their careering journey.

It is important to always remember that "core" is first and foremost the heart and life of a leader. The "core" resembles the innermost part of man from where life and truth is flowing. If the "core" of man is not redeemed the possibility is that corruption, self gain and selfishness will be the motive of leadership. Insecure identities will mostly produce inaccurate heart positions. If the "core" is weak, underdeveloped or has cracks in it, then it will compromise the power and strength of true leadership gifts and skill.

The "core" gets redeemed when a leader or person presents himself to the initiatives of God upon his life. This in itself is the biggest miracle that can happen within any man!

If our heart and life structures are weak then everything that pivots around the "core" will be influenced by that default. Our heart and life structures are strengthened when we ensure that there is actual implementation and actualization of the principles of the Kingdom in our daily lives. The depth of personal application of developing the strength of the "core" is critical to our forward movement.

Building the core requires radical confrontation of ourselves. There is a need to speak truth about ourselves to ourselves. The reflexive tendency of self to hide requires deliberateness on our part to deal decisively with who we truly are. Human beings have all kinds of means of avoidance and self-imposed blindness.  This is a season in which we have to talk truth to ourselves. This requires critical choices and decisions to be made in this season by all of us.

This requires that there be a quest for personal truth, a desire to truly see and the readiness to end the tolerance of self-delusion. We must know where we came from and where we are going. The challenge of the complexity of the world is for actual action, actual implementation, and practical realization, clear, conscious and definite change. This is the only appropriate response to the call for leadership.

So we will talk again......

*I wish to give acknowledgement to Dr Noel Woodroffe for much of the content.