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May 13 - May 13, 2022
put God at the center. To focus on your personal life and your home long before you think about work. To think less about success and more about significance.
Suffering from broken relationships with family members?
Feeling like you don’t do enough?
Maybe you’re successful on the outside, crushing it at work, but not at home and not personally.
Truth is, the math does not work like that. It is not a zero-sum game. Personal life counts so much more than professional life.
Good to Great, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
I saw transformation! I found people going after purpose instead of a paycheck, starting to date their spouses again, thinking through work/life balance better, being more intentional with their kids, and the list goes on.
Some coaches coach from making statements. But great coaches ask great questions to lead to a process of self-discovery.
Yes, they want to build a great team. But I’ve noticed again and again these business leaders are concerned most about how to get their personal life in order.
How to get themselves and their homes right.
You cannot give your best at work if you are always thinking about how to p...
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“An inch of action will take you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.”
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.”
Chad had tied his identity to that of a Navy SEAL, and when he accomplished the feat, it felt empty.
a corner-office executive who doesn’t know his children
Are the people closest to you getting the best version of you?
securing your identity through temporary pursuits?
work currently more important than your spouse? Kids? Physical h...
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making first things second and second...
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Before you can lead well at home or work, you have to know yourself.
“You have to know yourself, so you can forget yourself,
Actually listening to people talk instead of waiting to talk. Thinking about how you can serve others instead of the other way around.
we need to understand that our identity is in being a beloved son or daughter of God.
Even in all of our brokenness, weaknesses, and quirks, we are “Very Good.”
This journey led to seeking approval from others, whether it was my affair mentioned earlier, making foolish moves to make additional money in real estate, or other unwise endeavors.
“You are working from a place of approval, instead of for approval.”
SEAL of God
What do you tie your identity to?
Is your identity tied to a destination or accomplishment?
identity still being tied to a past failure?
identity tied to eternal things
shift your mindset to be more focused on being a child of God?
Once we’ve established our identity as God’s beloved, we can begin plotting our route forward.
My wife and I joke that she has been married to one husband but a few different men.
on days I didn’t feel progress or maybe even had a setback because a project didn’t go well, I was crushed.
Once again, my identity would go up and down based on the type of day I had.
Is your vision tied to your current job?
Does your vision include others outside of your work?
Claiming our identity as a beloved son or daughter is just part of the perspective and identity piece. Combining this with our life story and how we are uniquely wired helps us complete the picture.
The 5Ps are passions, provision, problems,
passions, provision, problems, personality, and potential.
personality, and p...
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I recommend a personality assessment through DISC, the Enneagram, or Myers-Briggs
“Are you building your life for your resume or your obituary?”
in today’s dollars, if the annual median personal income is about $31,000 (per the U.S Census Bureau for 2016), one talent then is equivalent to $620,000 today! That is serious money. In today’s dollars, one servant got $3.1 million, another servant got $1.2 million, and the other servant got $620 thousand.
“wicked and slothful servant!”
If you are learning but not teaching and sharing with others, you are burying your treasure.
If you are sitting on insight and ideas but not taking action due to fear, you are being “wicked.”
leverage our different capitals for greater gain for the Kingdom.
insight and ideas.
