LIFE GOALS TRAINING SEMINAR

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LIFE GOALS TRAINING SEMINAR

• Paul Gordon Smith

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OUTLINE

• The meaning of Life
• What are Mission Statements?
• Writing Mission Statements
• What are Life Goals?
• Writing Life Goals
• Major Goals
• Possible Problems
• Alternative Pathways and their fruit
• Summary and the next step

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Can you answer Yes to all these questions? (Part
1)

• Do you have any long term goals?
• Do you realise that it is very unlikely that you
  will be able to fulfil all your desires?
• Do you have any desires to help others putting
  others first?

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Can you answer Yes to all these questions? (Part
2)

• Are you willing to pay the price in terms of
  time, effort and sacrifice?
• Are you willing to swop your short term view for
  a long-term one?
• Are you ready to find a new purpose for your
  life?
• Are you willing to lose your present life to find
  out what real life is all about.

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WHERE ARE YOU?

• How do you get your identity?
• What is the connection between your spiritual
  life and what you do?
• What is at the core of your being?
• What do you value?
• Whats happening now in your world?
• What about your history?
• As we go through these slides draw a picture or
  write a poem/story that describes you.

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How do you get your identity?

• Who am I?
• Why am I on earth?
• Claim to fame?
• Job? Position?
• Family?
• Appearance?

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Connection between spiritual life and what you do

• How is your spiritual life?
• How does your spirituality influence what you do?

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What is at the core of your being?

• Are you driven by expectations from friends,
  workplace, community, neighbours
• Do you have hurry sickness?
• Have you consciously or unconsciously embraced
  someone elses notion of what constitutes a good
  life and a better future.
• Have you lost your own life in service to
  others?

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Values

• Whats important to you?
• What do you put value in?
• Look for messages that tell you what your values
  are.
• Write down three

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Whats happening in your world now?

• Summary of the current situation
• Use brief statements, discuss details verbally
• Not emotional cycles

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How Did you Get Here?

• Any relevant historical information
• What is your story?

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Your drawing/poem?

• Did your drawing or poem talk about or have any
  suggestion of connection with focus on others?

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MISSION STATEMENTS

• What is a Mission Statement?
• Why have a mission statement?
• The mission statement of Jesus.
• Feed the dream
• Heavenly treasure

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What is a mission statement?

• It is a short statement that summarises your
  destiny and purpose on earth. It should inspire
  and energise you and be others focused.
• Paint your masterpiece
• Your foundation
• Your inner core
• Wake up in the morning and say.

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Why have a mission statement?

• Answers questions of destiny, identity and
  purpose.
• You need to make the world a better place.
• I want you to be Focused In the zone
  Totally involved In tune Switched on
  Rhythm Momentum
• But which flow?
• If we dont draft a mission statement that flows
  then someone else will do the job for us!

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Mission Statement for Jesus

• The spirit of the Lord is upon me,
• Because he has anointed me
• To preach good news to the poor.
• He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the
  prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind,
• To release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of
  the Lords favour.
• Luke 418-19
• Jesus did not allow anyone to determine the
  direction of his life

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WRITING YOUR MISSION STATEMENT

• Turn on your dream machine
• Some places to have a look
• Writing your mission statement
• Feed the dream

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Turn on your dream machine

• You become a mini creator
• Expose yourself to the wondors you saw as a child
• Dream big to inspire yourself and others
• Believe the dream

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Some places to look for your Mission Statement
(Part 1)

• Free yourself from distraction
• You may find asking God how he wants to use your
  life for his purposes
• A message from your past
• Ask God what he wants you to do and what type of
  person he wants you to be!

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Some places to look for your Mission Statement
(Part 2)

• Human need
• Your gifts and talents
• Broken Places
• Dreams
• Imagination Try to converge into single
  vocation

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Writing your mission Statement (Part 1)

• Ask Gods guidance
• Focus outwardly on service not inwardly on
  satisfying your own needs
• Make it inspirational and filled with enthusiasm
  and excitement
• Make it clear concise and easy to follow
• Make it a sentence long, easily understood and
  able to be recited easily

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Writing your mission Statement (Part 2)

• Make it broad enough to affect all areas of your
  life
• Expose yourself to the wonders you saw as a
  child.
• Dream big to inspire improve yourself and others.
  
• Believe the dream
• Document the dream as a goal and then activate
  the plan

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Feed the dream

• Affirm continually and relentlessly its
  existence, its purpose and its destination.
• Your thoughts every day must involve regular
  thinking about your dream
• Feed your dream with enthusiasm, action and love.
• Make your dream have a triumphant spirit by your
  close attention.
• Without you it will die.

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LIFE GOALS

• What are goals?
• Where to look for your life goals? OK your 90.
• Articulating life goals
• Guaranteed success
• Accountability
• Planning
• Reality Check
• Selfishness and Life goal

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Goals

• Goals are the result of bringing dreams, ideas
  and ideals into a tangible examinable form
• Need to be specific, clear, desirable
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time bound

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What are life Goals?

• A master plan for life
• A magnificent obsession
• Long term commitment bears fruit
• With life goals you realize lifes worth

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Finding your life goals (Part 1)

• Imagine you are 90 and writing your life story
• Has it been a challenge, Are you satisfied.
• What are your habits morals and relationships
• Have you protected things which are good, created
  something new or recovered something that was
  lost
• Reflect on those areas of human need that touch
  you most deeply AIDS, orphans.
• Place this at the centre of your life.

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Finding Your life goals (Part 2)

• Occupation What has your attainment been in the
  areas of business, education and politics?
• Perspective- Did you fight any moral battles and
  win the day?
• Community Have you helped the downtrodden in
  the community?
• Evangelism Have you told people about the Lord?
• Personal Have you been good in your dealings
  with people. A time each day of meditation
• Have you helped anyone?

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Articulating life goals (Part 1)

• Life goals should be just a few lines of writing
• Define your life goals in terms of ultimate
  achievement
• Your life goal may be supported by up to 50 major
  goals.
• Minor goals support your major goals
• Strategy is how you are going to do it

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Articulating life goals (Part 2)

• Make sure you can measure progress
• Plan out problem areas
• Keep reserves People, financial, mental,
  physical and spiritual
• Have a time frame
• Put it all together in a masterplan
• Decide when you are going to do it!

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Guaranteed success

• What would you do if you couldnt fail?

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Accountability

• You need to be held accountable for the
  implementation of your goal
• You need to tell someone about it
• We would like to know so we can expect fruit and
  direct others to help you.

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Planning

• Work on yourself to get yourself ready to bring
  about your goal
• Make sure you are productive and that your energy
  bears fruit
• Write down as many details as you can with a time
  frame

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Life goals reality check

• Do you have the time?
• Do you or can you get the ability
• What determination do you have
• Will you get the opportunity to fulfill this
  goal?
• What opposition are you likely to face?

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Selfishness and life goals

• Dont focus so much on your goals that you have
  no time for others.
• Give your cash, expertise, information and
  yourselves
• Give consistently
• Program selfless acts which involve you
  personally
• Give without trading

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MAJOR GOALS

• Types 50
• Write down the person you would like to be
• Opportunities
• Exposure

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Types of major goals

• Family Set a high ethical and attitudinal
  standard
• Social Choose a level that you are comfortable
  with your desires and personality. Accept any
  level and be able to relate to all levels
• Educational Evaluate what you need to know to
  get to a destination.

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Physical Fitness

• Increase your physical fitness where possible

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Personality

• Develop a style that you need and follow it to
  achieve your goals.
• A people person
• Going the extra mile.
• Expand and develop your personality

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Your skills

• Sharpen and document the skills that are obvious
• Develop new skills
• Put pressure on yourself to awaken hidden skills

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Write down the person you would like to be

• Physical
• Clothes
• Mental
• Personality
• Spiritual
• Convince yourself that you can do it.

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Finding opportunities

• Are you ready and trained to find opportunities?
• There are numerous opportunities.

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Exposure

• Expose yourself to danger, failure, embarrassment
  and ridicule to achieve security, success,
  confidence and esteem
• Expose yourself to situations where you can gain
  experience

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POSSIBLE PROBLEMS

• Success and Failure
• The mob
• Subconscience mind
• Alternative paths

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Principles for success

• Focus on personal bests enhances performance
• Hard work is as much a hallmark of success as
  performance and is the primary key to success and
  improvement
• Insufficient attention to own processes and
  approach impairs performance
• Focus on doing the job right more than being the
  best is the best way to tackle the task.
• Excessive comparison with others impairs
  performance.
• Persistence in the face of challenge and
  adversity is gained through commitment.
• Success in a small area will lead to success in
  larger more challenging areas.

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Self Belief/Self Esteem/Success

• The platform for self esteem is success.
• Success is improvement and setting personal
  bests. PBs
• People will get their self esteem from somewhere.
  Need to get it for doing something positive
• Hardwork is the primary key to improvement and
  success.

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Failure/disappointment

• Mistakes show there are areas for improvement and
  a launch pad for success
• Every champion has suffered setback.
• Keep your focus on the lesson learnt not on the
  destructiveness of failure.
• Having the same failure doesnt teach you much
  just emphasizes the lesson
• Overcoming failure builds character
• Failure is painful. Endure the pain, accept it as
  a friend, run the race and finish the course.

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The mob

• They identify with you, encourage you stroking
  their own desires.
• When you begin to be successful their mood
  changes as they see the reflection of their
  failure in your success. Be careful there is
  criticism at hand.
• When you succeed the crowd wants you as a friend
  for the spin off and attitudes become
  patronising.
• Crowds absorb energy and waste time as we wonder
  how they will react to our actions.
• Jesus was welcomed into the city by the crowd
  that crucified him.

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Subconscience mind

• We have had negative experiences in the past
  which we lock away either consciously or
  subconsciously.
• Replay these events and see something positive in
  it. See that the Lord was there with you and had
  a certain attitude to it.
• Subconscious can pick up your imagination and
  program it as a real event. Program your spirit.
• Addictive behaviour see positive when the
  problem first developed

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Alternative paths (Part 1)

• Hedonism- newer and deeper experiences of
  self-gratification and self indulgence.
• Individualism self-centred, self-interested and
  egoism. Me-centred rather than others-centred.
• Consumerism- Putting treasures on earth before
  treasures in heaven. Replacing time spent with
  God. Our lives are measured by the abundance of
  things. We are what we own. Our identity and self
  worth come from the car we drive, where we live
  and the brands we wear.

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Alternative Paths ( Part 2)

• Mammon- The spirit behind money
• Deception- Looks OK but scratch the surface. Look
  at the fruit
• Relativism-No absolutes. If they did it its OK
  for me to do it.

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Alternative paths (Part 3)

• Getting ahead economically
• Preoccupied with here and now
• We want more
• Be content with what we have dont be discontent
  until you get more.
• People are getting their identity from their jobs
  and with their long hours leads to pressure on
  the family.
• Advertising is a type of curriculum which says
  solutions to life problems are not found in good
  values hard work or education but in buying things

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When you die what you did for yourself counts for
nothing!

• Only what you did for others matters when you
  die.
• All the self indulgence means nothing.
• What will people say at your funeral?
• What do you want them to put on your tombstone?

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Quantum jump

• Doubling your life goals
• Using all your potential
• Securing what you have and explode into a new
  area within your abilities and timeframes

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SUMMARY AND NEXT STEP

• Where are you at?
• What are Mission Statements?
• Writing Mission Statements
• What are Life Goals?
• Writing Life Goals
• Major Goals
• Possible Problems
• Alternative Pathways
• The next step is to devise Action Proposals