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Nine Tools for Setting Goals |
God has given you this toolbox full principles and plans for you to live a great life. Read this book!
#1. A goal is not a goal if it doesn’t make you stretch! Psalm 92:12-15
If you’re not stretching, it’s just another thing on your to do list.
#2. Set Goals and make plans according to the season of your life and the abilities God gave you! Proverbs 21:5
Set yourself up for success! Set out to tackle your goals when the time is right!
#3. Focus on the Long Term!
As they say, “Take the baby steps and just keep moving forward! Be patient, stay the course. The prize is on its way!
#4. Your most important Goals need to benefit others too. Mark 9:35
You will never live to your full potential by chasing goals that only benefit you.
#5. When setting your goals start out with prayer! Philippians 4:4-7
And then keep praying! George Muller, the evangelist from back in the late eighteen hundreds said, "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes. George Mueller never gives up!"
#6. Aim for "Purpose" and do the Research! Luke 14:25-35
Before you set your goal do the research, count the costs and find out what gives your life purpose. Then set the goal accordingly!
When you are setting life goals, those goals that are life altering, life changing, don’t go after your passion. Go after what gives you purpose. Goals aimed at purpose take much more planning and strategy. When that thing that gives you passion turns into something that stomps our your passion, you will drop it and head for the next thing that fires your passion. That’s a losing strategy.
#7. Set Out for the Long-Haul!
Plan on failing along the way! Know that there will be roadblocks, stumbling blocks and potholes in your path. When you fall, plan to get back up! Fall forward and learn from your mistakes! Proverbs 24:16 says, “No matter how often honest people fall, they always get up again; but disaster destroys the wicked.”
#8. Commit to continual self-evaluation! Romans 12:3
Own your failures, share the success. Stop the self-doubt, don’t procrastinate unless it works to the good, find new people who can help you stay on track, remember the bad habits add up over time!
#9. Focus on the incremental changes. Ephesians 4:22-24
Focus on continually adjusting what you do, do it better so that it keeps you on track. You don’t have to eat that elephant all at once! Just one bite at a time!
- You’ll find it full of people who achieved great things in spite of themselves.
- You’ll find people overcoming adversity, and with God’s help succeeding in life and achieving their goals.
#1. A goal is not a goal if it doesn’t make you stretch! Psalm 92:12-15
If you’re not stretching, it’s just another thing on your to do list.
#2. Set Goals and make plans according to the season of your life and the abilities God gave you! Proverbs 21:5
Set yourself up for success! Set out to tackle your goals when the time is right!
#3. Focus on the Long Term!
As they say, “Take the baby steps and just keep moving forward! Be patient, stay the course. The prize is on its way!
#4. Your most important Goals need to benefit others too. Mark 9:35
You will never live to your full potential by chasing goals that only benefit you.
#5. When setting your goals start out with prayer! Philippians 4:4-7
And then keep praying! George Muller, the evangelist from back in the late eighteen hundreds said, "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes. George Mueller never gives up!"
#6. Aim for "Purpose" and do the Research! Luke 14:25-35
Before you set your goal do the research, count the costs and find out what gives your life purpose. Then set the goal accordingly!
When you are setting life goals, those goals that are life altering, life changing, don’t go after your passion. Go after what gives you purpose. Goals aimed at purpose take much more planning and strategy. When that thing that gives you passion turns into something that stomps our your passion, you will drop it and head for the next thing that fires your passion. That’s a losing strategy.
#7. Set Out for the Long-Haul!
Plan on failing along the way! Know that there will be roadblocks, stumbling blocks and potholes in your path. When you fall, plan to get back up! Fall forward and learn from your mistakes! Proverbs 24:16 says, “No matter how often honest people fall, they always get up again; but disaster destroys the wicked.”
#8. Commit to continual self-evaluation! Romans 12:3
Own your failures, share the success. Stop the self-doubt, don’t procrastinate unless it works to the good, find new people who can help you stay on track, remember the bad habits add up over time!
#9. Focus on the incremental changes. Ephesians 4:22-24
Focus on continually adjusting what you do, do it better so that it keeps you on track. You don’t have to eat that elephant all at once! Just one bite at a time!