From Jack-of-All-Trades to Kingdom Dependence

For much of my career, I was the jack of all trades.

The person companies handed their long-dragging, too-hard, tangled projects to.
The ones no one wanted to touch.

The role was usually the same:
Unravel it.
Piece it apart.
Rebuild it into something useful again.

Over time, I became known as resourceful, dependable, capable etc.
The fixer.

Until one day, I made a mess of my own.

I’ll keep this short, but for the very first time, the jack-of-all-trades hit a wall.

And for the first time, I had to clean up my own mess.

That moment happened years ago.

It became a turning point. A quiet wake-up call.

Recently, as I stepped into a new season of working for myself, did something bring that moment back into focus.

I found myself reflecting on the Pygmalion Effect. The idea that expectations shape outcomes, that belief quietly influences performance, and that identity often forms long before behaviour becomes visible.

As I sat with it, something deeper surfaced.

It made me pause and ask a more personal question:

• What beliefs had I been living from when it came to responsibility, capability, and control?

• And who had I become as a result of those expectations?

So I asked the Holy Spirit a simple but confronting question:

“Show me Your truth. Correct my belief.”

What followed was an eye-opening realignment.

That realignment helped me see why this mattered now.

At the beginning of self-employment, belief isn’t a side issue, it’s foundational.
Because belief sets expectation.
And expectation quietly determines what we allow ourselves to receive, pursue, or even imagine.

If I carried the wrong beliefs into this season, I would unknowingly build a ceiling over what God was inviting me into.

Reflecting on the Pygmalion Effect brought me back to that earlier tipping point, the moment when the jack-of-all-trades hit the wall. What I hadn’t fully seen then, but could see clearly now, was that God had been preparing me for a different way of working altogether.

A quiet but decisive shift began to take place.

My season of being the jack-of-all-trades was coming to an end.

Not because the skills were no longer useful,
but because the identity was no longer required.

As I stepped out of corporate life and into business ownership, I wasn’t meant to carry everything myself anymore. I wasn’t meant to be the one who executed, fixed, and held all the complexity by sheer effort.

That role was being retired.

The Holy Spirit wanted to step in and become my resource, the true and way more capable jack-of-all-trades.

The one who executes.
The one who carries.
The one who holds what I no longer need to.

And He wants to do that
for me
in this season.

His posture toward me in this season, feels more like:
“Come on, give Me something to do. What do you need to happen?”

That requires a shift in my thinking.

Before, people brought things to me to fix.
Now, as a business owner, I’m learning to place "those things" in the Holy Spirit’s hands instead.

And in this new season, what I’m learning, slowly and deliberately, is how to let the Holy Spirit be the one I resource from.

Not occasionally.
But fundamentally.

A Reflection for This Season

What identity are you still carrying that once served you but may no longer be required?

What beliefs are shaping your expectations without you realising it?

And what if the end of striving isn’t the end of usefulness
but the beginning of a different kind of dependence?

One where you no longer have to be the resource.
Because you were never meant to be.

🤍 Vera
Leadership & Communication Coach
Founder of The Honesty Lab & VeraChin.com