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Perspectives on Strategic Living July 11, 2013
Perspectives on Strategic Living
July 11, 2013
Definition: Strategic Living
• ….. to lay out a careful plan or methodology, to be tactical.
So to Live Strategically….. means to see the big picture, but to focus on the little small scale
actions that serve the larger purpose.
•Interestingly, the word tactical means a small scale actions, serving a larger purpose.
Strategic Living = A Focused Life
• Oftentimes, much coaching is centered around finding focus for life.
• Focused living is much more in-depth than one lesson.
• However, basic truths will be reviewed.
Overview of Training
1. Understanding Your Life Purpose (LP)
2. Forging an Effective Methodology (EM)
3. Finding your Major Role (MR)
4. Leaving an Ultimate Contribution (UC)
Four Focal Points Required to Live a Focused Life
A Focused Life Continuum
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. 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)
Years of Age
Notes Cited: Dr. Bobby Clinton, Leadership Emergence Theory, Pasadena CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1983
Understanding Life Purpose
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. L .P. 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.
Years of Age
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
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-6065+
L .P. L .P. L .P. L .P. L .P. L .P.
L.P. = Life Purpose (your calling, burden)
Years of Age
Implicit Explicit
Inklings of Destiny Exp. Grasped Clear
Living L.P.
Scattered and exploratory years.
Doing more things
Increasingly focused on activities that move toward living out purpose
Doing fewer things
Understanding Life Purpose
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. L .P. L .P. L .P.
Years of Age
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
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
?? E.M. E .M. E.M. 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.
Years of Age
Assessments can help - Disc Profile, Strengths Finder, 360 degree, etc.
Understanding Effective Methodology
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
?? E.M. E .M. E.M. E.M.
E.M.= Effective Methodologies (your ministry style)
Years of Age
Understanding of GiftednessBobby Clinton terminology that describes a compilation of
ones:
•Spiritual Gifts
•Natural Gifts
•Acquired Skills
Major Role
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. 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.
Years of Age
Major Role
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. 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.
Years of Age
Major Role
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. 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
Years of Age
Ultimate Contribution
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. 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.
Years of Age
Conclusions
12-15 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 65+
L .P. L .P. L .P. 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)
Years of Age
Wrap Up…
• The question is: Where are you on this quest for Life Purpose?
• Do you need a coach to help you?
Contact Info
• [email protected]• Phone: 405-406-9211• www.heycoachjohn.com
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“Coaching the Next Generation – 52 Ways to Unleash God-given Potential”
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