This document outlines a retreat focused on goal setting for students and youth, emphasizing character, relationship, financial, and spiritual goals, with insights from the Bible and the teachings of Stephen Covey. It examines the importance of discipline and character in achieving success and includes case studies, particularly of Joseph, to illustrate these principles. The retreat encourages participants to recognize and pursue their personal goals while being aware of the distractions presented by modern media.

1. Towards the Goal
STORM Students/Youth Retreat @ GAC Varanasi
By Mariyosh Joseph

4. Towards the Goal – Sessions
Overview
• Goal Setting
• Personal Goals – An
Application Study from
Philippians

5. Goal Killers

8. Smart Phones

9. Internet

10. Social Media

11. Movies

12. Books – Novels, Comics

15. What?
• Chetan Bhagat has commercialized his
creativity to make the masses buy his books
• Two States - “he said, are you still pure or
something, she giggled. What a loser. What is
he looking for - ghee?' I asked. If there is an
entrance exam for virginity, you can be sure I
won't top it."

16. Goals for your Life
• Character Goals
• Relationship Goals
• Financial Goals
• Spiritual Goals

17. Foundation of Success
“There is no effectiveness without
Discipline & there is no Discipline
without Character”
- Stephen Covey, ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’

18. Foundation of Success
“If I try to use human influence strategies
& tactics of how to get other people to
do what I want, to work better, to be
more motivated, to like me & each other
– while my character is fundamentally
flawed, marked by duplicity & inscerity
– then, in the long run I cannot be
successful.”
- Stephen Covey, ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’

19. Character Goals
If wealth is lost, something is lost,
If health is lost, something is lost,
If character is lost, everything is lost

20. Character Goals
• Loving प्यारा
• Joyful आनंदपूर्ण
• Peaceful शांतिपूर्ण
• Patient सहनशीलिापूर्ण
• Kind d`ik
• Good अच्छे
• Faithful सच्चा
• Gentle सज्जन
• Self-Controlled la;e
Galatians 5:22, 23
xyfr;ksa 5:22, 23

21. Character Goals
•Humility
Php 2:5-7
Php 3:4-6

23. August 2014
Yoshiki Sasai Robin Williams

24. Character Goals
• Gentleness (Php 4:4-7)
– Be Joyful
– Be @ Peace

25. Case Study: Joseph
• Robert Morris:
Dream to
Destiny
- Genesis 37:2b;
5-9; 37:18, 19
• Changed Joseph
– Genesis 41:25,
32-33
Founder: PDS

26. Relationship Goals
• Unity
(Php 4:1,2)

27. Relationship Goals
• Attitude toward others (2:2-4)

28. Case Study: Joseph
• Genesis 45:1-22 (5-8; 15; 22)
• Genesis 50:15-21

29. Financial Goals
• Php 4:10-17
–Content Living
–Concern for Others  Giving

30. Case Study: Joseph
• Genesis
41:48-49

31. Spiritual Goals
– Php 3:19-21
– Php 4:8,9

32. Case Study: Joseph
• Genesis 39:2
• Genesis 39:6b-12

33. Spiritual Goals
• Know Christ More
(Php 3:7,8)
• John 17:3

34. Daniel 11:32b
“the people who know their God shall be
strong, and carry out great exploits.” (NKJV)

35. God has a Goal for YOU!
Philippians 1:6 (NRSV)
“the one who began a good work among you
will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus
Christ.”

36. Shine Like STARS
Php 2:15
“so that you may be blameless and innocent,
children of God without blemish in the midst of
a crooked and perverse generation, in which
you shine like stars in the world.”

37. God is @ Work in YOU
• Php 2:12, 13
13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling
you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always
obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much
more now in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling;