What I Would do Differently
APPENDIX 5 FOCUS SURVEY
3. PRIORITIES 4. Activity awareness
5. MISSION STATEMENT (that includes an action plan, a process with steps) 6. Intentions
7. Accountability 8. Easy to understand
9. Immediate, realistic, achievable
10. A plan without legalism, but from a heartfelt desire 11. Desire without specificity leads nowhere
12. If you are too busy for God, you are too busy.
Clarity > MOVEMENT > Alignment > Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7J0XHCPuSA&feature=youtu.be While, clarity involves intentions and plans
Movement involves actions
Sequential action steps that flow toward achieving the mission statement Movement requires you to remove congestion, blockages:
(1) Activities Martha and Mary (Lk 10:38)
(2) Selfishness, self-consuming desires Gain life loses it. What profit? (Mt 16:25-26) Movement is:
(1) Prayerful Jesus in Luke, Luke 10:2
(2) Forgetful, of previous failures Forgetting what behind, reaching forward (Ph 3:13) (3) Intentional (acting on your plan), & Incremental (eat the elephant one bite at a time) (4) Immediate, not “soon” Eliminate procrastination, just do it!
(5) Resilient, don’t give up
MOVEMENT CHECKLIST:
1. I have identified the action steps necessary to move toward my goals? _____
2. I have written down specific action steps I am taking to move toward achieving my goals. _____
3. I have identified and written down the key barriers in my life that hinder me from moving toward achieving my missional goals? _____
4. I have considered and written down specific actions I can take to minimize/overcome the barriers I face? _____
5. I am growing in the depth and breath of my prayer life, especially in my evangelistic prayer life? ____
6. I have an accountability partner that will help encourage and hold me accountable to carrying out my action steps to move toward being a more missions-minded Christian?
____
MOVEMENT SUMMARY:
1. Remove barriers and congestion to reaching the goal(s) 2. Intentionality and Incremental
3. Eliminate self-absorption, humility is needed 4. ACTION STEPS and ACTIONS
Clarity > Movement > ALIGNMENT > Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwiDN9nIno&feature=youtu.be A car out of alignment takes it off course.
Alignment involves making certain that all we do (under our control) moves us toward accomplishing our purpose.
Alignment requires:
(1) Honest self-assessment (eliminating bad habits) (2) Accountability
(3) Match your personality with your plans and goals (4) Flexibility, accept our human imperfections ALIGNMENT CHECKLIST:
1. I understand that alignment involves making certain that all I do moves me toward accomplishing my purpose? _____
2. I am willing to make an honest self-assessment of my life, and to potentially reducing or eliminating habits that take me off the course that God desires for me?____
missional Christian? _____
4. I have an accountability partner with whom I can share my goals, plans and ways I intend to align my life to grow as a missional Christian? ____
5. I am working to match my personality, demeanor, spiritual gifts, background and abilities with my mission statement and my activities? _____
6. I daily put on--and walk in-- the full armor of God, and intentionally prepare for spiritual warfare? _____
ALIGNMENT SUMMARY
1. Structure goals and activities to MATCH your priorities and personal uniqueness 2. Be aware of, and appreciate individual differences
3. Five words:
a. Self-assessment b. Accountability
c. Personality match (personality awareness, personality/spiritual gift testing) d. Flexibility
e. Accept humanity (mistakes and errors) 4. Play to your strengths
5. “Write words that describe your personality. Reflect how these characteristics might influence you as you seek to accomplish your mission statement.
Clarity > Movement > Alignment > FOCUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2wgDeY92CE&feature=youtu.be
Focus involves deciding what really matters, saying yes to the best, and no to the rest.
Eliminating the “good” for the “best”
“Most of us attempt to do many things poorly instead of a few things well. If most of us were honest with ourselves, our relationship with God is often neglected as we yield to the demands of many voices.”
Focus involves:
(1) Acknowledging some things have to go
(2) Avoiding postponing necessary actions (tyranny of the urgent)
(3) Be brutally honest with yourself and others, this requires self assessment (4) Sacrificing materialism for the eternal
(6) Asking yourself, what REALLY matters (6) Be creative in discovering alternatives (7) Keep your focus!
Change or die. 90% of heart bypass patients don’t change their lifestyles. They would rather die. Change is that hard. Many churches choose to die rather than make changes.
FOCUS CHECKLIST:
1. I have examined my life in an attempt to determine what really matters in my life?
____
3. I am examining my life to see if there are things in my life that I should reduce or eliminate to help me become a more missional Christian? _____
I have written them down to help hold myself accountable to follow through with them? ____
4. I have eliminated or reduced at least one non-essential activity to become a more missional Christian? _____
5. I am willing to sacrifice my desire for material possessions in order to seek first the kingdom of God? _____
6. I intend to maintain my focus on missional living beyond the end of Operation Edgar?
_____
FOCUS SUMMARY:
1. Eliminate the “good” for the “best.”
2. Focus is unbalanced
3. Abandon everything (possible) that interferes with your purpose and goals.
4. Sacrificing the material for the eternal.
5. Eliminate busyness 6. Focus is difficult!
7. Five principles
a. Deal realistically with the messy world b. Avoid tyranny of the urgent
c. Be brutally honest with yourself and others d. Acknowledge things have to go
e. Be creative
Life Expectancy (78 men/80 women) Days Lived Days Remaining
Participant 1 28,470 18,810 9,660
Participant 2 28,470 26,946 1,524
Participant 3 28,470 12,144 16,326
Participant 4 28,470 11,680 16,869
Participant 5 28,470 22,490 5,980
Participant 6 29,200 23,844 5,356
Participant 7 29,200 15,334 13,866
Participant 8 29,200 13,780 15,420
Participant 9 29,200 30,012 < 812 >
APPENDIX 9