This particular passage of your journey has to do specifically with putting those skills of one’s gifting, talents, ability and potential into operation producing results.  The heart of the man at the achievement level is personal peak performance. This is the season when the rubber meets the road.  This is the time to implement, activate, focus and function.  At this level a man or woman has difficulty allowing others to do the work because obviously no one can do it as good as you.  They are totally honed in on the target.  Production and fruitfulness blind their thoughts at times to the future.  They are taking their vision and provision and fully producing tangible results.

Thus far in their walk, this is the most rewarding season.  The strength of the horse within him is fully running the race.  They can finally feel the wind blowing in their face and they feel like this is it, the achiever is finally doing what he or she was born for.  There is nothing wrong with this stage, it is a necessary season of our lives and the life of a leader.

Some people come into the kingdom from another area of life and immediately want to move into leadership, never having been discipled or properly mentored and have no spiritual achievement, depth or maturity and wonder why people don’t want to follow them. But they have nothing tangible that they have produced.  So it is “do as I say, and not as I do.”  If someone skips the achievement level, and moves right into leadership they will never really be able to have empathy for the person who stumbles and falls and struggles.  The best they can hope for is to sympathize with them, and what the leader really needs to be able to do is to understand what they are going through.  Give them a hand up and not a hand down.

Finally, at this level the achiever thinks “Wow, I’ve arrived!”, but we all know that that is not the case.  This is not the destination, just a whistle stop, along the way.  The next phase is leadership.  He wants us to be the head and not the tail.