Transcript Perspectives on Strategic Living

Perspectives on Strategic
Living
July 11, 2013
Definition:
Strategic Living
• ….. to lay out a careful plan or
methodology, to be tactical.
•Interestingly, the word tactical means a
small scale actions, serving a larger
purpose.
So to Live Strategically….. means to see
the big picture, but to focus on the little
small scale actions that serve the larger
purpose.
Strategic Living = A Focused Life
• Oftentimes, much coaching is
centered around finding focus
for life.
• Focused living is much more indepth than one lesson.
• However, basic truths will be
reviewed.
Overview of Training
Four Focal Points Required to Live a
Focused Life
1. Understanding Your Life Purpose (LP)
2. Forging an Effective Methodology (EM)
3. Finding your Major Role (MR)
4. Leaving an Ultimate Contribution (UC)
A Focused Life Continuum
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
??
40-50
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
E.M
E.M.
E.M.
E.M
??
M.R.
M.R.
M..R.
??
U.C.
U.C.
L.P. = Life Purpose (your calling, burden)
E.M.= Effective Methodologies (your ministry
style)
M.R.= Major Role (platform or ministry setting)
U.C.= Ultimate Contribution (your legacy)
Notes Cited: Dr. Bobby Clinton, Leadership Emergence Theory,
Pasadena CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1983
Understanding
Life Purpose
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
L .P.
L .P.
30-40
L .P.
40-50
L .P.
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L.P. = Life Purpose is a burden-like calling, a task or
driving force or achievement, which motivates a
leader to fulfill something or see something done.
L.P. often involves a:
1. Committal experience
2. Step beyond salvation committal
3. Growing sense of destiny
4. Many experiences and challenges
Finding Life Purpose
Ecl. 3:11 AMPL.
He has made everything beautiful in
its time. He also has planted eternity
in men’s hearts and minds. (a
divinely implanted sense of purpose
working through the ages which
nothing under the sun but God alone
can satisfy) yet so that men cannot
find out what God has done from the
beginning to the end.
Exegesis of Ecl. 3:11
1. You have a divinely implanted sense
of purpose.
2. It’s implanted in your
heart.
3. Every person in every generation
has it.
4. Only God can satisfy it
Exegesis of Ecl. 3:11
5. You and I don’t know everything
about our life purpose.
6. It is a life-long journey to
discover it.
Understanding Life Purpose
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
L .P.
L .P.
30-40
40-50
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
Implicit
Explicit
Inklings of
Destiny Exp.
Grasped
Clear
Living L.P.
Scattered and
exploratory years.
Doing more things
L.P. = Life Purpose (your calling, burden)
Increasingly
focused on
activities that
move toward
living out
purpose
Doing fewer
things
Understanding
Life Purpose
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
L .P.
L .P.
30-40
L .P.
40-50
L .P.
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
Do these to move toward grasping your life purpose
1. Develop greater sense of Self- Awareness (coaching needed)
2. Develop greater sense of God-Awareness (mentoring needed)
3. Develop a greater sense of Others-Awareness (mentor/coach)
4. Become familiar with the concepts of Destiny experiences
Understanding
Effective Methodology
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
??
E.M.
E .M.
E.M.
65+
E.M.
E.M.= Effective Methodologies (your ministry style)
•Things unique to you, effective for you, your sweet spot
•Notice the age it becomes more noticeable
•Examples could be a preference to one-on-one encounters,
planning, getting things done, building, planting, managing,
writing, teaching, vision casting, etc.
Assessments can help - Disc Profile, Strengths
Finder, 360 degree, etc.
Understanding
Effective Methodology
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
??
E.M.
E .M.
E.M.
65+
E.M.
Understanding of Giftedness
Bobby Clinton terminology that describes a compilation
of ones:
• Spiritual Gifts
• Natural Gifts
• Acquired Skills
E.M.= Effective Methodologies (your ministry style)
Major Role
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
??
40-50
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
E.M
E.M.
E.M.
E.M
??
M.R.
M.R.
M..R.
??
U.C.
U.C.
M.R.= Major Role (equals = my platform for ministry)
•This is a vocation, a ministry, job description, etc., that best
fits your LP and provides opportunity for you to live it out.
•Notice on chart where it kicks in
•Looking for a place to live out our L.P. & use our E.M.
Major Role
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
??
40-50
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
E.M
E.M.
E.M.
E.M
??
M.R.
M.R.
M..R.
??
U.C.
U.C.
M.R. is Often Experienced or Discovered as a
Sense of Destiny
Sense of Destiny : An inner conviction in a leader
arising from an experience or a series of experiences
in which there is a growing sense of awareness that
God has his hand on that leader in a special way for
special purposes.
Major Role
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
??
40-50
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
E.M
E.M.
E.M.
E.M
??
M.R.
M.R.
M..R.
??
U.C.
U.C.
It is easy to overlook a M.R. because we are
looking for the perfect job.
•30/70 principle
•60/40 principle
• 90/10 principle
Ultimate Contribution
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
??
40-50
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
E.M
E.M.
E.M.
E.M
??
M.R.
M.R.
M..R.
??
U.C.
U.C.
U.C.= Ultimate Contribution (your legacy)
•Notice where kicks in. (of course there are exceptions)
•All leaders leave behind the results of their life work. (most
do not do so deliberately)
•UC results include: tangible and intangible results.
(…buildings, ministries, orphanages, etc. …people, models for
ministry, vision, etc.
Conclusions
Years of Age
12-15
20-30
30-40
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
??
40-50
50-60
65+
L .P.
L .P.
L .P.
E.M
E.M.
E.M.
E.M
??
M.R.
M.R.
M..R.
??
U.C.
U.C.
L.P. = Life Purpose (your calling, burden)
E.M.= Effective Methodologies (your ministry style)
M.R.= Major Role (platform or ministry setting)
U.C.= Ultimate Contribution (your legacy)
Wrap Up…
• The question is: Where are you
on this quest for Life Purpose?
• Do you need a coach to help
you?
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