Humility is not humiliation, or low self-esteem. It’s the noble choice to forgo your status and use your influence for the good of others before yourself. The ability to hold power for the good of others.

Five reasons for cultivating humility in your personal life and dealings:

  1. Humility is common-sense
    • None of us is an expert on everything
    • Expertise in one area counts for little in another
  2. Humility is beautiful
    • We are more attracted to the great and humble than the great who know it too
    • A humility revolution took place in the middle of the first century under the teachings of Jesus.
    • Western culture has been profoundly shaped by the cross of Christ…the cross changed everything.
  3. Humility is generative
    • It generates new knowledge, and new abilities
    • Humble place is the place of learning
    • It’s flourishing
  4. Humility is persuasive
    • Ethos – the character of the persuader
    • The most believable person in the world is the one who has your best interest at heart
  5. Humility is inspiring
    • Leaders normally have four tools (ability, authority, character, persuasion)
    • Some of the most inspiring leaders in history had no authority, but character and persuasion
    • You don’t need the keys to the kingdom to impact the kingdom

Humility is not just another leadership technique, but the humble life is a life in touch with reality.