LIFE GOALS TRAINING SEMINAR

1. LIFE GOALS TRAINING SEMINAR Paul Gordon Smith

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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.

5. 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? • What’s 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.

6. How do you get your identity? • Who am I? • Why am I on earth? • Claim to fame? • Job? Position? • Family? • Appearance?

7. Connection between spiritual life and what you do • How is your spiritual life? • How does your spirituality influence what you do?

8. 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 else’s notion of what constitutes a good life and a better future. • Have you lost your own life in service to others?

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

10. What’s happening in your world now? • Summary of the current situation • Use brief statements, discuss details verbally • Not emotional cycles

11. How Did you Get Here? • Any relevant historical information • What is your story?

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

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

14. 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….

15. 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 don’t draft a mission statement that flows then someone else will do the job for us!

16. 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 4:18-19 • Jesus did not allow anyone to determine the direction of his life

17. WRITING YOUR MISSION STATEMENT • Turn on your dream machine • Some places to have a look • Writing your mission statement • Feed the dream

18. 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

19. 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!

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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

26. What are life Goals? • A master plan for life • A magnificent obsession • Long term commitment bears fruit • With life goals you realize life’s worth

27. 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.

28. 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?

29. 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

30. 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!

31. Guaranteed success • What would you do if you couldn’t fail?

32. 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.

33. 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

34. 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?

35. Selfishness and life goals • Don’t 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

36. MAJOR GOALS • Types – 50 • Write down the person you would like to be • Opportunities • Exposure

37. 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.

38. Physical Fitness • Increase your physical fitness where possible

39. 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

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

41. Write down the person you would like to be • Physical • Clothes • Mental • Personality • Spiritual • Convince yourself that you can do it.

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

43. 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

44. POSSIBLE PROBLEMS • Success and Failure • The mob • Subconscience mind • Alternative paths

45. 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.

46. Self Belief/Self Esteem/Success • The platform for self esteem is success. • Success is improvement and setting personal bests. PB’s • 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.

47. 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 doesn’t 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.

48. 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.

49. 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

50. 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.