This document discusses the importance of having a clear purpose and vision, or "beginning with the end in mind". It recommends developing a personal mission statement focused on your core values and goals. Having a mission statement provides direction and helps with decision making. It also suggests creating both long-term plans for 10-20 years as well as short-term yearly plans, and starting each day focused on your goals in order to work towards accomplishing your mission.

1. HABIT #2: BEGIN
WITH THE END IN
MIND

2. In that day the Branch of the LORD
will be beautiful and glorious, and
the fruit of the land will be the pride
and glory of the survivors in Israel.
Isaiah 4:2

3. The LORD Almighty has sworn,
"Surely, as I have planned, so it will
be, and as I have purposed, so it will
stand.
Isaiah 14:24

4. Commit to the LORD whatever you
do, and your plans will succeed.
Proverbs 16:3

5. I answered them by saying, "The God of
heaven will give us success. We his
servants will start rebuilding, but as for
you, you have no share in Jerusalem or
any claim or historic right to it."
Nehemiah 2:20

6. •Do not let this Book of the Law depart
from your mouth; meditate on it day
and night, so that you may be careful to
do everything written in it. Then you
will be prosperous and successful.
Joshua 1:8

7. But thanks be to God! He gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57
Gaining two (2) victories:
Private victory and Public victory

8. 1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
HABITS 1,2, & 3 ARE FOR
PRIVATE VICTORY

9. 4. Think win-win
5. Seek first to understand, then to
be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
HABITS 4, 5, 6, & 7ARE FOR PUBLIC
VICTORY

10. HABIT #2: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
Stephen Covey. "Begin with the End in Mind"
is based on the principle that all things are
created twice. There's a mental or first
creation, and a physical or second creation to
all things”

11. “You are destined for success.
You are destined for
greatness.”

12. What it means to have the
habit of “begin with the end
in mind”?

13. 1.This means having a
clear mission or purpose
statement based on your core
values

14. Stephen Covey. "The most effective way I know
to Begin with the End in Mind is to develop a
personal mission statement or philosophy or
creed. It focuses on what you want to be
(character) and to do (contributions and
achievements) and on the values or principles
upon which being and doing are based”

15. Stephen Covey..” MISSION STATEMENT is a
powerful document that expresses your
personal purpose and meaning in life. It
acts as a governing constitution by which
you evaluate decisions, changes
and behaviors.

16. Stephen Covey. "logo therapy," the philosophy
he (Victor Frankl) later developed and taught, is
that many so-called mental and emotional
illnesses are really symptoms of an underlying
sense of meaninglessness or emptiness. Logo
therapy eliminates that emptiness by helping the
individual to detect his unique meaning, his
mission in life.

17. "For when David had served God's
purpose in his own generation, he fell
asleep; he was buried with his fathers
and his body decayed.
Acts 13:36

18. for it is God who works in you to will
and to act according to his good
purpose.
Philippians 2:13

19. Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the LORD's purpose that
prevails.
Proverbs 19:21

20. The LORD Almighty has sworn,
"Surely, as I have planned, so it will
be, and as I have purposed, so it will
stand.
Isaiah 14:24

21. For to me, to live is Christ and
to die is gain.
Philippians 1:21

22. Then I said, `Here I am--it is written
about me in the scroll-- I have come
to do your will, O God.'"
Hebrews 10:7

23. Stephen Covey. "Once you have that sense
of mission, you have the essence of your
own proactivity. You have the vision and
the values which direct your life. You have
the basic direction from which you set your
long- and short-term goals"

24. 2. This means having a long-term plan of
10 or 20 years until the end of your life
connected to and based on your mission
statement.

25. The plans of the righteous are just,
but the advice of the wicked is
deceitful.
Proverbs 12:5

26. Commit to the LORD whatever you
do, and your plans will succeed.
Proverbs 16:3

27. 3. This means having a short-term yearly
personal development plan connected and
to and based on your mission statement

28. Make plans by seeking advice;
if you wage war, obtain
guidance.
Proverbs 20:18

29. 4. This means starting your day with your
goals in mind to accomplish connected
to and based on your mission statement

30. But seek first his kingdom and
his righteousness, and all
these things will be given to
you as well.
Matthew 6:33

31. 5. This means thinking of the objectives or
results of anything you do before starting it
connected to and based on your
mission statement.

32. Luke 14:28-32
"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower.
Will he not first sit down and estimate the
cost to see if he has enough money to
complete it? For if he lays the foundation and
is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it
will ridicule him, saying, `This fellow began to
build and was not able to finish.'

33. Luke 14:28-32
"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against
another king. Will he not first sit down and
consider whether he is able with ten thousand
men to oppose the one coming against him
with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will
send a delegation while the other is still a long
way off and will ask for terms of peace.

34. CONCLUSION
Begin with the end in mind is simply beginning
with god everyday in prayer and devotion. Don’t
compromise this important starter of your day.
Begin each day
With God and live the rest of the day for god and
his glory.