Setting the Compass for my Life
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This document discusses setting goals for 2015 and beyond. It defines the differences between goals and dreams, noting that goals are specific, have deadlines and costs, and produce results if worked towards, while dreams are more vague. The document provides tips for setting goals, including asking God for guidance, aligning goals with God's plans, aiming goals towards God's purpose, maintaining the right attitude, choosing supportive associations, taking action, and overcoming obstacles through focus, ownership, accountability, and revising plans as needed. Examples are given for setting goals in relationships, finances, health, personal development, and pursuing one's purpose. The overall message is that goals can change one's life when approached with a plan that involves God.
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Setting the Compass for my Life
- 1. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE NOT AFRAID?
- 2. Sable Badaki Peju Odjiko SETTING MY GOD COMPASS FOR 2015
- 3. IMAGINE DECEMBER 2015, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
- 4. GOALS: TURNING YOUR VISION INTO REALITY • A goal is a target or desired end • Goals help determine where you want to go in life • Goals are what you want to achieve • Goals help you concentrate your efforts
- 5. • Goals are something you are acting on • Goals have deadlines • Goals have a cost • Goals produce results • Goals can change your life • Goals must have focus • Goals require hard work • Goals stretch you • Dreams are something you are just thinking about • Dreams can go on forever • Dreams are free • Dreams exist with no result • Dreams can inspire you • Dreams can be ever-changing • Dreams just require your imagination • Dreams stretch your imagination ARE YOU A DREAMER OR A GOAL SETTER? Dreams Goals Proverb 28:19
- 6. BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT? No Plan Sara Plan everything Samantha
- 7. PLAN WITH GOD Proverbs 16:3 promises, “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.”
- 8. HOW DO WE INCLUDE GOD IN OUR PLAN?
- 9. ASK
- 10. ALIGNMENT
- 11. AIM
- 12. ATTITUDE
- 13. ASSOCIATION
- 14. ACTION
- 15. OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVING OUR GOALS • Focus • Fear • Lack of Discipline • Lack of Ownership • Competing Priorities • Big Audacious Goals • No Clear Path/Methodology
- 16. GOALSNEEDAPLAN
- 17. ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNER • Evaluate • Revise • Renew
- 18. POWER OF A PLAN - A GAME CHANGER When Satan usurped authority, • He know Satan will usurp authority • He knew man will fall • He knew he needed a method to reconcile man to Him • 1 Chronicles 28:12, King David gives Solomon all the plans that the Spirit had put in his mind for building the temple • Moses Tabernacle
- 19. POWER OF A PLAN - A GAME CHANGER Goal Man Plan Builds the Tabernacle of Moses (Ex.25-27) Moses God commands an offering Prepares to build the Temple ( IKings5) David Solomon to build the temple Man’s reconciliation Adam Jesus
- 20. I DO NOT RUN WITHOUT A GOAL. I FIGHT LIKE A BOXER WHO IS HITTING SOMETHING—NOT JUST THE AIR." (1 CORINTHIANS 9:26 NCV) Setting Goals
- 21. MYRELATIONSHIPWITHGOD • My prayer life • Study of the Word • Reaching the Lost • Walking in Grace
- 22. FAMILYANDFRIENDSGOALS • When was the last time you: • Went on a date with your spouse? • Hung out with your girlfriends, just because? • Watch something silly with your children? • What relationships should you say good-bye to? • What new relationships should you form? • What relationships need strengthening?
- 23. FINANCIALGOALS Planning and talking about your financial goals will help decrease stress • How is your debt? • In what areas should you conserve cash and in which can you spend? • Will you be making new investments or selling old ones?
- 24. HEALTHANDFITNESSGOALS Eat better? Decrease stress? Lose weight? Increase strength? Start an exercise routine? Join a gym? Types of Goals • Weight Goals • Fitness Goals • Decrease food/drink consumption - Soda • Increase food/drink consumption– Fresh Vegetables • Eliminate unhealthy habits: example – Emotional Eating
- 25. NEWFRONTIERGOALS • What are some things you have never done or tried before but have always wanted to? • What’s on your bucket list?
- 26. PERSONALDEVELOPMENT GOALS • How are you improving yourself? New Skills? Degree? Character/Behavioral Trait?
- 27. PERSONALGOALS • Your personal path to success
- 28. Celebrate milestone achievements Celebrate staying on track Celebrate goal accomplishments Celebrate YOU!
Editor's Notes
- Proveb 28:19 New International Version Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty. New Living Translation A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty.
- The person who does not plan and the rigid person approach life from opposite perspectives. The first may be humble but does not use his or her God-given intellect to make wise decisions. This person struggles with loving God with the whole mind. The rigid planner uses his or her mind but neglects the heart. Even when his or her plans go wrong this planner stubbornly sticks with the original objectives. James 4:13-15 13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
- The apostle Paul was a man of balance. Paul planned to minister the gospel in a certain region only to switch plans as the Holy Spirit redirected him (see Acts 16:6–7). Although the apostle Paul made plans, he was sensitive to the Lord changing those same plans. That is Christ- honoring balance. We should balance both extremes by using our minds to set logical goals and action steps while humbly running them through the filters of prayer, godly counsel, Spirit-led guidance, and God’s written Word. Setting goals is important! Be careful not to be so anxious about life that you make rigid plans that are not even humanly possible to keep. Nor should you be so lazy as to not plan at all. The balanced approach makes logical plans that are submitted to the Lord for final approval.
- James writes, “You do not have, because you do not ask God” (James 4:2). Ask God to be the center of your decisions and to empower you to carry out His will for your life. Seek God first and He will direct your steps. Life is the succession of small moments, each one adding up to a lifetime. Therefore, small changes applied to any life can make a big difference.
- We need goals that are in agreement with the goals and mission of God. Judas disagreed with and was disappointed in Jesus. Judas probably wanted a military leader, not a martyr savior. We need to cooperate with God, and this often involves surrendering our way to do things God’s way.
- We must be consistent in our effort to achieve the objective and remain fixed on accomplishing it. Consider the example of Jesus, who set His face to go to Jerusalem (Luke 9:51). He was sent for the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15:24
- To aspire for goals that please God, we must get God’s direction. Ephesians 5:17 instructs, “Do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.” Goals must begin with an overall vision of what we believe to be our life mission. That vision or mission then dictates all our other goals and decisions.
- Paul notes, “It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose” (Philippians 2:13). Our attitude matters! Therefore, we must cultivate a positive attitude and believe that we can do all things through Christ.
- Believers should share their goals with someone who can hold them accountable. Also, it is critical to associate with faith-filled people and encouragers. A good way to do this is to plug into a healthy Bible-based church.
- Jesus said in John 13:17 that you are blessed if you do the will of God. Honoring God while we pursue our goals requires courage, the willingness to take action even though the outcome is uncertain. Such courage is attained only as we develop a lifestyle of conscious dependence on God