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My Year End Review (Part 2)

December 9, 2008 in Blog,leadership,My Life with 2 Comments

“Experience isn’t the best teacher, Evaluated Experience is.” -John Maxwell

My Bucket List, My Life Plan, Quarterly Goals, and Intentional Focus

The Second thing I do during my year end review is review these documents, evaluate where I am according to them, what I’ve accomplished, and what I need too change. What are they you ask? Here you go:

(If you’d like – leave me your e-mail address and I can send you my copies of these documents so you have a basic framework to work from)

Bucket List – This is a list of things I want to do to do before I die. Outrageous things like running a marathon, eating with the President of the US, specific places I want to visit, flying in an air force jet, etc.. I originally got this idea from this story about Lou Holtz. If you don’t have one of these – I highly recommend you make one – dream as big as you can!

My Life Plan – So i just started this a few months ago after reading this post from Michael Hyatt. It is where you take the 7 major areas of your life, prioritize them, get a scripture you’re going to stand on for each of them, write out a legacy statement of what you want to be remembered for in that area, write out where you are realistically right now on your way to accomplishing that goal, then write action steps you’re going to take to get to the goal.

Quarterly Goals: This one is pretty obvious – I set the majority of my goals in 90 day increments. I review them – see how I did – and rewrite them for the next quarter. (Note: A lot of my goals are mini-steps I need to take for the goals of my Life-Plan)

My Life’s Intentional Focus – This is basically an overview of my life… in it I include the following:

My Vision Statement for My Life
My Priorities
My Values
Principles I live my life By
My Strengths
My Weaknesses
Mentors that I serve and how often I meet with them
Potential Mentors
My Current Growth Plan
My Future Growth Plan - areas I need to study and get mentored in, in the future. (i.e. in 2009 I want to be mentored and study more on communication and writing – so I’m going to find books and hopefully some people that can mentor me on the subject)

More to come tomorrow – hope you’re able to take some of these things and implement them in your life!

The Road to Chicago (Part 3)

October 8, 2008 in Blog,Marathons with 2 Comments

The Power of a Goal

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”

-Denis Watley

On our last run on Saturday Pastor Larry looked at me and said, “Wow man… think about the power of a goal.” It really made me think…our goal of running a marathon caused us to run over 450 miles, 2 1/2 days, and spend a descent amount of money. All of that with the goal in mind to run 26.2 miles and cross the finish line.

I love the quote above by Dennis… it’s an absolute fact. The larger percent of people never live their life on purpose. Sure they may plan to go to college, get a good job, and support their family (which are are awesome goals). However, it stops there with most people… they refuse to set goals and things to aim at in life only to come to the end of their lives and realize they didn’t come close to reaching their potential in life or doing half the things they desired to do.

I’ll probably do a whole blog series on goals, but here are how I organize/evaluate my goals in my life. I would encourage you to create a similar system in your life!

Bucket List – These are outrageous goals (like dining with the President of the Unites States, giving away $1 million in my lifetime, visit every presidential library in the world, running a marathon, flying in an air force jet etc.). I constantly am adding to this list and looking for ways to accomplish the things that I want to do.

My Life Plan – I actually just started this one and I am pumped about it! You can read about making your own Life Plan here. I got this principle from Michael Hyatt (CEO and Founder of Thomas Nelson Publishing) and it got me fired up about doing this for my life!

Quarterly Goals – I set goals one quarter at a time. I have 7 areas in which I’ll set goals: Family/Marriage(one day), financial, personal growth, physical, professional, social, and spiritual. At the end of a quarter I’ll take a half day out of the week and get by myself…evaluate how I measured up in those areas and then set my goals for the following quarter.

End of the Year Review - This is one of my favorite things to do each year! I’ll take a ton of time in the last two weeks of the year and go through my journal, calendar, goals, etc. and evaluate my whole year. How I spent my time, what goals I accomplished, etc. and then based off that I’ll figure out how I need to spend my time in the next year, who I want to spend it with, what I want to accomplish, what I need to work on, etc..

Again, I’ll do a whole weeks worth of posts explaining what I do during these times, but I thought it might help you.

If I learned anything through marathon training it is the power of having a goal (something to shoot for) and the importance of setting them constantly in my life so I can live everyday on purpose and I’ll constantly be achieving and setting new things to shoot at in my life.

If you have goals in your life…. the discipline to see them through will come with it!

“Discipline is remembering what you want(your goals!).” -David Campbell