Should a Title Matter?

So, here I was a little more than a year ago before The Vid pandemic came upon us and was being recruited by a home health agency to be apart of their business development team.  This was amazing, being called out of the blue from the COO asking me if I wanted to be apart of their team and help it grow.  At times I was taken back and in shock and other times I was like, well I put in work and I deserve this.  After a few interviews and meeting their internal staff I said yes and wanted to be apart of your team.  Here I am sitting there in front of the CEO and COO feeling good about myself, and then they asked well what title do you want?  The CEO chimed in and said we were thinking business development manager, but I with this confidence aka Big Head said well I think Director of Business Development would be good.  I went on to explain that it will allow me to get into the door at some places with a better sounding title.  In theory or in my head it made perfect sense to me, but in reality I never let a title determine if I could land a meeting or not.  All I needed was my first name and the knowledge about the service my organization provided.  I now was relying on a title for my success instead of the abilities given to me by God and the hard work I put in to determine my success.  

Many times we work hard to get to a certain position because we want that title.  We feel that the title will bring mountains of gold our way and we will be untouchable.  In the end it was you (Your First Name) and the hard work you put in that was rewarded the success.  We live in a world where people feel that the more titles we have the more untouchable we will be and the more value we will have.  The better titles will determine our success in life, but what happens when the titles are removed?  I got that job and the title of Director of Business Development, but it was taken as fast as I received it.  At that moment when the title was removed and I was laid off I was still me, but I had to find him again, because I allowed the title to determine who I was.  That was a hard pill to swallow, knowing that I turned into this different being because of a title.  Now that I have gone through that I have realized that title or no title I am and will always be Lorenzo.  With the understanding of who I am as a citizen of His Kingdom no title will ever determine my success.  Don't let a title determine your success and who you are.