07/06/2025
You’re Worth It
Especially these last few months, I see it in my clients. Their identity and worth are so closely tied to their work.
It’s a trap to tie your worth to your job and your performance. Just as it is a snare to require approval from others to feel complete.
I’m not saying your profession and paycheck aren’t important. Certainly they are. It’s how you measure your own value compared to your job, that often times, as we’re seeing now across the federal sector, can be outside your control.
Today’s sermon by Dave Madden at Church of the King brought me back to the time when I based my worth on my results and external rewards. For decades, that formula left me empty.
I don’t often share my Christian beliefs in my career coaching work. But today I felt called to at minimum post this message, thanks to Pastor Madden’s own powerful testimony. He found himself in the same performance/approval trap in his vocation as I was and so many others I coach.
But then, like me, he was set free by shifting his thoughts to the idea that: You RECEIVE your worth from God rather than ACHIEVE it.
And I hope this idea can help you, too. To free you from frustration, shame or overwhelm, whatever it is you’re feeling now from either the possibility of being laid off or not gaining the positive performance appraisal you so badly seek.
Don’t confuse your vocation with your value, your assignment with your identity. Rest in the thought knowing you are valuable not because of what you do but by being who you are.
“I am not what I do. I am who God says I am.”
