I Am Great
Program Overview
I Am Doing A Great Work (ME)
I Cannot Come Down
Goal Setting, Goal Achievement, & Time Management
Focus the Critical Skill Required for
Achieving Your Dreams & Your Goals
As the story goes Nehemiah was on the wall surrounding Jerusalem. The wall had been
destroyed about 150 years before and Nehemiah, the king’s cupbearer, was on a mission
to rebuild it. His enemies were not to keen on the idea of the Jews rebuilding their
fortification and they had tried everything they could think of to stop the project. On the
occasion of this effort his enemies called for a meeting with the leader of this effort,
Nehemiah. Nehemiah’s simple but firm response, “I am doing a great work and I
cannot come down”. Not once, not twice, but five times he received a request
for a meeting. All five times his response was the same – I am doing a great
work and I cannot come down. He was not going to lose his momentum, his
focus for any reason. His priority was clear and it was the wall.
Focus is a concept the Bible is very clear on. We all intuitively know we should focus on
the important tasks at hand but if we truly did what we knew we should we would
accomplish much more than we ever dreamed. How many times have we left the “great
work” we are engaged in for the urgent or even a good task?
If you study the great achievers in history one of the common traits is an
ability to focus. Jesse Owens who broke five world records in one afternoon
and was voted by the Associated Press as the greatest track and field athlete in
history was focused like no other on his goals. He studied his trade. Because
he had no real peers, he studied how Race Horses ran!
That is not to say that he did not have distractions. In fact he had to work to help
support his family after school when practices were held. But he showed his
high school coach both skill and burning desire and got his coach to bend his
training schedule and train him at dawn. Because of his coach’s single minded
focus early in the morning and Jesse’s unwillingness to be distracted by
circumstances he became the world’s fastest human to the dismay of Adolph
Hitler.
Tiger Woods is legendary for his ability to focus. During tournaments when others go in
to relax he is focused on improvement to the point he pounds ball after ball after ball often
into the twilight. It has in fact become a part of his legend, the lore that surrounds him and
his game.
Here is what Jesus says: “Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the
work I plan for him is not fit for the kingdom of God.” (Living Bible Luke 9:62)
He gave clear examples of focus in the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin.(Luke
15:1-10) And Proverbs tells us to “Fix our eyes…turn not to the right or to the left”
(Proverbs 4:25,26,27)
The lesson however you say it is clear. Good business/academic practice requires
focus. There are many business examples and examples we could pull from
the Bible but the point is that you must give serious attention to focusing like
a laser beam on what is important to you and your business. This requires
that you prioritize what is most important for you to accomplish; that you set
time aside to focus on getting done the thing that will truly make a difference.
That you not get side-tracked no matter how many times someone or
something tries to.
Bottom line, if you focus on the most important activities, not the most
urgent, you will get more done quicker. By the way, the wall Nehemiah was
working on that had been in ruins for about 150 years – he rebuilt in 52 days!
Point made.
KJ Anderson III
Goal Setting and Time Management
Types of Goals
1. Family Goals
2. Academic Goals
3. Self Improvement Goals
Seven Questions to Establishing Goals
1. What are the five things that you value the most?
2. In thirty seconds write the three most important goals in your life?
3. What would you do if you woke up with five million dollars?
4. What would you do or how would you spend your time if you were going to die in
six months?
5. What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to do?
6. In looking back over your life has or does give you your greatest feeling of
importance?
7. What one great thing would you wish if you knew you would not fail?
After answering the seven questions, pick one specific purpose in life?
Process to Reaching Goals
1. Desire= The great motivator
a. Set a goal that selfishly desire
2. Belief= You must absolutely believe that you can reach your goal
3. Write it down
a. The way you program your goal into your subconscious
i. Goal must be written down in specific detail
IF YOUR GOAL IS NOT WRITTEN DOWN IT IS NOT A GOAL IT’S A
WISH
4. Determine what you will benefit from achieving your goal.
a. Write down the benefits from achieving the goal
i. The more the better
5. Analyze your current position
a. Be brutally honest with yourself
i. If you are not real with where you are you will not get where you are destined
to go
6. Set a deadline
7. Identify the obstacles we will have to overcome to reach your goal
a. Be real with yourself nothing comes easy.
i. It will benefit you to plan to overcome the issues that you will confront
8. Clearly identify the knowledge needed to achieve the goal
9. Clearly identify the people you will need in order to achieve your goal
The Laws of Success
1. Law of Return
a. Whatever you sow you will reap
i. The more you put in the more you get out
2. Law of Compensation
a. For every action there is a equal & opposite reaction
i. When you identify the people you will need to accomplish your goal determine
what you can provide them to help you
1. Does not have to be financial
3. Law of Service
a. All Successful men have achieved greatness based on service
i. Jesus
ii. Einstein
iii. Thomas Edison
iv. Martin Luther King Jr.
What Can I Do To Serve Others?
If You Want to Get Paid For More Than You Do
Then You Must Do More Than You Are Paid For
10. Take all the details from the last three steps to develop a plan
a. Make it complete in every detail
b. Write all activities needed
c. Itemize the step needed based on priority
d. Prioritize all items based on a time line
11. Get a clear image of your goal as if already achieved
a. Replay it in your mind every chance you get
12. Back your plan with determination & persistence
a. Self discipline is persistence in action
- Your persistence is a direct result in how much you believe in
yourself
The Pareto Principle - 80/20 rule
The Inception of the Pareto Principle
In 1906, Italian economist and sociologist, Vilfredo Pareto (sometimes
misspelled Wilfredo, Alfredo, or Vilfred) created a mathematical formula to
describe the uneven income distribution in Switzerland at that time, observing
that eighty percent of the wealth was held by a mere twenty percent of the
families.
From Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Box 1
Important
& Urgent
Box 2
Important
But not Urgent
Box 3
Urgent
But not Important
Box 4
Not Important
& Not Urgent
Box 1= Problems ( crunching for a test, working on a project in the last minute)
Box 2= Studying/ Reading / Eating Right
Box 3= Telephone
Box 4= Who cares….It’s not important or urgent
K.J.’s Millionaire Philosophy
1. There are only two reasons why you are not where you want to be:
a. Either you’re not doing something right
b. Or you’re not doing something enough
2. If you want to have what someone else has, you must be willing to do what
they do.
3. You can’t take shortcuts.
a. You can either do more of something or do it faster, but there are no successful shortcuts.
4. Don’t wish that something was easier.
a. Work to make things better
5. How hard or easy something is, feels or becomes is determined by how you
perceive it to be.
a. If you see it as being hard it will be, if you see if as being easy it will be.
6. You must set priorities.
a. You will only accomplish what you set as a priority to accomplish
7. You must possess discipline.
a. You must decide if you will let the world discipline you or rather or not you will discipline the
world.
8. Excuse –vs- Reason
a. I got two jobs I can’t do it / I have kids I can’t make it
-Vs.-
b. I got two jobs I have to do it / I have the kids I have to make it
9. Choices
a. Where you are today and where you will be one year from now are a direct result of what
choices you make with the circumstances and situations you encounter
10. Responsibility (ACCEPT IT !!!)
a. YOU MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN
LIFE
b. It has nothing to do with your parents, your background, the government or anything else.
Stop blaming others!!!
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