It’s very important to be very diligent in carrying out the responsibilities of the jobs assigned to us or the job we have accepted to do. Every good leader is a servant, a teacher, and a very good team leader who should keep his or her ego away from the job to be done. Yet, one should not forget to balance his or her ego strength to achieve excellent results in his or her job.
Every assignment or job comes with unique challenges, styles of execution and you need to have an open mind to expect some difficulties as you progress through the next level or phase. When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness, application of wisdom, calmness, smartness, and effective time management skills at this point is very important. With gentleness, kindness, and humour, you cannot go far wrong, you will be able to iterate to doing right when you identify a wrong and when faced with difficult times, difficult team members in doing your job.
Like Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said, “When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.” Ego can’t get the job done, but your skills, competence, humility, and experience will get it done. Though, ego strength is very important.
Ego strength helps us maintain emotional stability and cope with internal and external stress in carrying out our job responsibilities and in our COEXISTENCE with others.
When it comes to mental well-being, ego strength is often used to describe an individual’s ability to maintain their identity and sense of self in the face of pain, distress, and conflict.
