I’ve heard the empowerment repetition a thousand times: “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, build your own table.” Never beg for a seat when you can build your own. It sounds cinematic, inspiring, and fiercely independent. So, you did it. You stopped begging for validation, stopped waiting for permission, and you built a brand new, custom-made leadership table. It has your values, your vision, and your signature audacity built into every inch. You sit down at the head of this beautiful new table. You’re all gun ‘ho to start the session. And then you realize…the room is empty. No one is sitting across from you. No one follow you. Those who could be collaborators are still sitting at the old, crowded table where the air is filled with echoes and vision is small. This is the hidden, terrifying truth of leadership that nobody puts in the page post because it’s a paradox of emptiness and loneliness. When you build your own leadership table, you are essentially declaring, an unfiltered standard of courage. People you once collaborated with their mindset not at the capacity—nor the desire—yours is being a high-level demand. The “old table” was people well known amongst each other. Though you sit at this creatively beautiful empty table. Here’s how you move forward, alone or otherwise. Execute on your vision so well that the empty seats become an embarrassment to those who aren’t sitting in them. Don’t wait for validation be your own follower your table doesn’t need to be filled with lots of occupants. Keep redefining the table make it a virtual table use social platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter, newsletters) to connect with other “builders” globally. If people aren’t joining, ask yourself: Am I asking them to do work, or am I offering them a destiny? Don’t just show them the empty chairs; show them the work you are doing and how it changes the industry. If your table still empty today, you are not failing. You are pioneering forward through loneliness and through feelings of rejections continuing with building something greater. The audacity that you keep building with no immediate matched supporters is sheer guts, courage and commitment to your own vision. Stay full of fortitude encamp in patience in this comfortability. Remember, never beg for a seat when you can build your own. Stay unapologetic keep building the right people—the new people—will arrive. Do Not Give Up on You and Your Personally Built Table!
God Word
If you are currently carrying the table alone, forward on without breaking
and being crushed under any weight shift from how you’re carrying your table to anchoring your table in my Word of valued, sustainability, and inclusive reflection of God’s love. if you can’t get a seat at the table, build your own instead, you should rely on the purpose, wisdom, and calling that God has already placed within you to create your own opportunities and community.
