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Accomplish Your Goals Reverse Engineer Your Life. Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
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Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life John 5:36 But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life GUIDING PRINCIPLES Rule #1: Your life is a checkbook and you write a check every day Rule #2: You must see the macro before the micro Rule #3: To see the macro you need faith and imagination Rule #4: If you are going to dream, dream big Rule #5: You must have a plan and it must be written down Rule #6: You must count the cost in everything you do Rule #7: You need a safe place to contemplate the downside Rule #8: Premeditated fun must be in your plan Rule #9: You need an acceptable release valve for your pressure, or you will end up sinning or burning out Rule #10: Invest time with people who can help you accomplish your goals, and not with people who are detrimental to your goals.
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life GUIDING PRACTICES Step #1: Write out your 7 priorities and prioritize them in order of importance. Example: Physical Health (being alive) Spiritual Health Marital Intimacy (being a good husband) Parenting success (being a good father) _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Step #2: Choose a specific date in the future (e.g. 2 years, 5 years, 10 years) and envision that day in regards to yourself, your family, and your ministry. Then answer as many pertinent, specific questions about life on that day as you can reasonably generate.
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life EXAMPLES: Health How much will you weigh? How much will you exercise weekly? What will have changed about your appearance? How many hours of sleep will you average a night? How many times a week will you nap? How will you take a Sabbath each week? What do your vacations and holidays look like?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Practical Where do you live? What are the features of your home (parking for guests, size of yard, number of bedrooms, etc.) What vehicle will you drive? What furniture and appliances will you have gotten rid of or acquired?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Financial What is your job? Where do you work? How much money do you make? How is your money spent? How is your money saved? How is your money invested? How is your money tithed? What is your insurance, medical, and dental package?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Marriage How often do you pray together? When is your date night? How do you take better care of one another? Why has your love grown? How has your home become a place for unplanned connecting? What brings you together?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Sexuality If Married: What have you and your spouse experimented with? How often are you intimate? What things are different? How have you and your spouse changed physically and sexually? What is different about your bedroom? If Single: How have you maintained sexual purity? What does your relationship with the opposite sex look like?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Family How many children will you have? How old will your children be? How will they be educated at that time? What special attention will each child need regarding their maturation up to that day? Which family and friends are you closest with a family?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Extended Family Which close relatives are not living? What is your relationship like with each close family member (e.g. mom, dad, brother, sister, grandparent)? How are families related to vacations and holidays? What has changed with your extended family?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Friends Who are your closest friends? Which people have you dropped as friends? What things do you do with your friends? What is different about your friendships?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Learning What areas have you studied deeply? How many books have you read by that date? What are some of the titles? What other learning experiences have shaped you (e.g. mentors, conferences, spiritual disciplines)? How many minutes do you read each day? What classes will you have taken? What degrees will you hold?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life Ministry What church are you a member of? What ministries are you participating in? What ministries have you started? How many people have you introduced to your church? How many people have you led to Christ? How many hours in the week are you doing ministry? What things are you no longer doing? What new responsibilities have you picked up?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life MAKING CHANGES Changes What three things do you hope have changed with yourself? Your spouse? Your children? Your ministry? What top 3 emotion, time, and energy wasters do you need to drop immediately? What 3 changes in your life would make the biggest difference? What 3 things do you need the most (e.g. new car, computer, home office, etc.) What obstacles are keeping you from living by your convictions (e.g. cluttered house, lack of budget, lack of prayer time)?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life MAKING CHANGES People List the people who are wasting your time and how many hours a month or year they take. List the people that you feel would be beneficial to invest time with and could help keep you accountable to accomplishing your goals.
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life MAKING CHANGES Things List the things you need (e.g. workout equipment at home or a gym membership, new appliances, car, computer, furniture, bed).
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life MAKING CHANGES Handing Off List all of the things that are currently antithetical to accomplishing your goals, and list your plan for how you will delegate them to someone else.
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life MAKING CHANGES Establishing Your Schedule What will your weekly schedule look like in light of your new priorities? What changes must be made? What does a typical week look like (e.g. chart your days in hour increments and fill them in; these are generalizations)?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life PROTECTING YOUR PRIORITIES Question #1: Can you do it?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life PROTECTING YOUR PRIORITIES Question #2: Should you do it?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life PROTECTING YOUR PRIORITIES Question #3: Are you working from guilt or conviction? Question #4: Should you have a “To Do” list or a “Priorities” list each day? Question #5: What good is it to put something on your daily priority list if you don’t plan to do it?
Accomplish Your Goals – Reverse Engineer Your Life PROTECTING YOUR PRIORITIES Question #6: Why do we exchange results for busyness? Question #7: Why do we let the computers, email, and cell phones enslave us? Question #8: Where is your “grass catcher” list of priorities to do in the future? Question #9: Why don’t you define your relationship lanes with others instead of allowing them to define what to expect of you?
