Cultivating Vision & Goals/Life Management

Session Outline

 

I. 4 Components of a Self-Governed Life

II. The Importance of Vision

III. Time Management

IV. Schedule

V. Reality

VI. Maximize Your Energies

 

I.             4 Components of a Self-Governed Life

 

• 1. Vision -The big life picture; What is the primary purpose of your life?
• a. The vision is the mechanism that grabs the heart so we don’t waste our time and life resources.
• 2. Goals- long term and short term. 10/20 years and short term. Life goals are distinct and definable, measurable. Goals serve your vision.
• 3. Action Plans- Action plans help you fulfill your goals.
• 4. Schedule – makes it real.
• a. So your schedule is in agreement with your action plan, your action plan leads to you goals, and your goals lead you towards your life vision. Otherwise you waste incredible amounts of life resources and energy.
• b. You want measurable concrete steps with deadlines. Have an action plan for your Bible study, your prayer, relationships, heart, knowledge, and skills you need to develop to fulfill your destiny.

 

 

II.            The Importance of Vision

 

Proverbs 29:18 – Without a vision the people perish.

 

• A. You need a vision and revelation about who you are in the purpose of God. You must have insight of who you are to Him, as His beloved number one, but also who you are in terms of His purpose, and in what it is that He wants you to do.
• a. Where there’s no insight about who you are and what you are to do, you waste your life wandering about, squandering your resources and your life inheritance.
• b. The plan then is to get disciplined, then get a vision. You must have restraint. With no restraint you wander about doing whatever with your time and never becoming effective. The restrain is to be on our decisions and passions.
• c. A person who has a heart that is grabbed by a vision will restrain their time and restrain their passions. God has a plan of what He wants you to do with your life resources.
• B. It takes time to get this clear.

What are life  Resources?

 

• Your affections
• Your money
• Your time
• Your talents
• Your skills
• Your understanding
• Your life resources
• Prayer life
• Skills on an instrument
• Communication skills
• Friendships
• Relationships

 

 

III.          Time Management

 

• A. Money is power (and that’s a good thing), but time is life. To squander time is to squander destiny! Squandering hours and minutes is squandering destiny. Managing time doesn’t have to be perfect but it does have to be effective.
• a. If you don’t learn how to manage your time effectively you will not enter into your destiny.
• b. The Bible is clear about this: One of the key necessities to enter into your destiny is the skill and character of managing time.
• c. It is not an automatic skill
• i. It is one that is developed by going after it just like on an instrument (at first its horrifying).
• B. You must have an aggressive approach to time management.
• a. Have a passion to fulfill your destiny. And to do this is identical to an aggressive scheduling of time. They are identical subjects.
• b. Your time commitments show what measure of passion you have for fulfilling your destiny.
• C. Without an aggressive schedule you get the vacuum model: What ever the pressures and emergencies of the day are, they end up taking your most of your time. Your then left without accomplishing anything of value.

• a. Good is the enemy of the best.

• b. You’ve got to spend time being connected to who you are in God.

• i. Depression, lethargy, being unconnected, having an undisciplined, unfocused and undirected life are all leaches stealing your life right out from you.

• D. Fear Regret!

• a. You do not want to feel regret about how your time was spent before the LORD.

• b. He will go over all the time you spent on earth. And you know now you don’t want to feel regret, wishing you had spent it different.

• c. Take the time to establish this in your mind and in your heart.

• d. Then develop this into your life routine.

• e. If it doesn’t really become part of your life routine then it is just a pipe dream that will never happen.

 

Ephesians 5:14 – Awake you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

 

• A. Redeeming time is to exchange time for eternal things. How you invest yourself into time will determine what you have in eternity.
• a. You can invest your time into that which can be exchanged for eternal rewards which leads to the soul being awakened from passivity and moves into anointing.
• B. If you want Christ to rise up and shine on your soul you must practice what is called self-government or self-control. Otherwise it’s called irresponsible and undisciplined.
• C. Don’t spend your time doing the things that you don’t value and the things that don’t connect to your life vision.
• D. Don’t spend night after night week after week, year after year spending your free time invested into things that don’t line up with your vision, and the things that you don’t value. Because 1 year turns to 2 which turns to 5, 10, and 20. Your destiny then will not be falling into place, because you waste your life, by wasting your time.

 

IV.          SCHEDULE

 

• A. The results will be noticed in a year or two, not a month or two, but in a year or two you will have a new level of excellence in your soul.
• B. We were crated by God to work. We were created by God to succeed, to create, and to produce.
• a. Your identity is found in your being before God, but you can’t get rid of the doing.
• b. Create things with capacities that are relevant and productive.
• c. Learn to draw back from competing and comparing while still creating, achieving and producing something with relevance.
• d. Work is not a curse in Genesis 3. Working by the sweat of the brow is the curse. It’s the sweat and the resistance that’s the curse. You will work forever. Even in eternity. It’s part of our joy and health to be productive.
• C. Get a revelation of the whole thing connected in your life.
• D. Scheduling time: prayer time, rest time, marriage time, study time, instrument practice time, reading time, etc; List them all out.

 

What a Schedule Does

 

• A. Have it focused and precise. You have 168 hours in a week and that’s all you have, no more.
• B. It is work to do this. It takes some hours and thinking to do this. It’s a burden to do it but…
• a. Every day you must spend time making decisions on what you will do next to pass the time. Don’t take on the same burden everyday of planning your day. Take the time to decide a head of time and in doing so you will have made free time to do work at accomplishing the things that are truly important to you.
• b. Then just adjust it and modify it. It is tremendously helpful. You won’t ever have to make the decision of how you should spend your next few hours because it is already made a head of time by you when you were setting the course for the next amount of months of your life. It’s a much easier way to live. Fighting the wrong battles depletes your life energy.

 

 

V.            THIS IS A REAL ISSUE

 

• A. GOD wants you to get clarity and seize that which is put in your path and go after it. – by managing your waking hours in such a way that you are able to excel at that which God has called you to.
• a. The focused person is the person with the vision.
• b. Make doing nothing horrifying to you!
• i. You usually don’t pursue the things of God and things in the natural because you don’t have an action plan. You don’t know where to start. Take the time to connect the dots and get an action plan. In all areas of life. Get you clear plan from the Lord.
• ii. Not just spiritual areas but every area of life that is important to you. Have goals, have an action plan and have a vision.
• iii. Deal with your lack of self-government, lack of discipline, and lack of focus.
• B. What would you die for? Because that is what you must live for. You can’t keep this gap in reality that you would die for something and not live for it.
• C. What is the thing that you want to be true about your money your time, friendships, relationships, family, talents, love, understanding, the way you used your skills, etc
• a. Write it out; the whole thing
• b. Lock it in with goals and action plans and go after it!
• c. Write your time down in 15 min increments. You want to use your time with excellence, develop the skill and value, let it give you pleasure.
• d. Find a person that will hold you accountable with how your spending your time.
• e. Make 2 schedules. One of how you want to spend your time and another how your actually spending your time so you can compare them and adjust them.

 

 

VI.          Maximize Your Life Energies.

 

• A. You only have a little bit of energies. Maximize them!
• B. What ever you fail to manage you will lose.
• C. Be the best you’re ordained to be.
• D. Set the boundary lines.
• a. Get focused and get clear about what your priorities are.
• b. Right now you are setting routines for your lifestyle that will either serve or oppose your destiny.
• c. You don’t want to wake up in another 10 years to realize that your life routines still do not support your destiny and that you’re losing your inheritance.