Plotting My Priorities
Alrighty! We are almost there. This summer is going to be power-packed as we press into this next phase of preparation. This next step in our focus on Life Management. This month we will complete PinPointing our Priorities, begin the process of Planning our Priorities, and end the month with Plotting our Priorities. Now, don’t try to jump ahead. Just relax and follow the process. We’ll get there together.❤ Below, please find today’s Plotting My Priorities Tools:
Plotting My Purpose (PMP)
PMP Tool One:
Day One Hundred and Twenty - Through The Bible In A Year
Click the link below to access the passages for Day One Hundred and Twenty of our Through The Bible In A Year:
****Read the Book of Ruth***
Chapters 1-4❤️
DEFINITION OF GRIEF (Dictionary.com):
keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
a cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow.
PMP Tool Two:
Review, Read, Remember and Recite our A Woman Worth Holding Onto Affirmation.
Click the link below to access our Affirmation:
A Woman Worth Holding Onto Affirmation
PMP Tool Three:
Click the link below to listen to today's Morning Connection - Daddy, I Need You!
I Let It Go Because God Says So! - Cast
PMP Tool Four:
Check Your Email After 12:00 PM
Check your email for your PinPointing My Priorities - Part Three Instructions and Forms!
Return Completed Forms by Tuesday, June 21, 2022 via email to vwpersonalassist@awwhoglobal.com.
PMP Tool Five:
Check-in via the A Woman Worth Holding Onto Global Facebook Group; or, The A Woman Worth Holding Onto Instagram.
Say Hello and greet another AWWHO Global Community Member
Welcome new members
Meditate on and respond to the scripture of the day
Say Happy Birthday
Engage. We are Community. We are Relational, Relatable, and Real.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SESSION:
Click the link below to watch our June 13, 2022 General Leadership Development Session:
Leadership Development - June 13, 2022
Passcode: Mm!P!aj6
SPIRITUAL GIFT SURVEY:
Click the link below to complete the Spiritual Gift Survey. Please email a copy of your survey results to vwpersonalassist@awwhoglobal.com by Friday, July 1, 2022:
FIVEFOLD MINISTRY GIFT ASSESSMENT:
Click the link below to complete the FiveFold Ministry Gift Assessment. Please email a copy of your assessment results to vwpersonalassist@awwhoglobal.com by Friday, July 1, 2022:
FiveFold Ministry Gift Assessment
*DAILY LEADERSHIP NUGGETS:
Hello Look at Leadership Crew. I'm excited about our Summer/Fall Session. Daily, I will be sharing Leadership, Personal Development, or Purpose Nuggets with you from various trusted industry leaders. At the conclusion of these Daily Nuggets, you will find Questions for Consideration for your response. Email your responses to the Daily Questions for Consideration to: vwpersonalassist@awwhoglobal.com. In the subject line note: the Chapter Number, Chapter Name and Questions for Consideration. Here's an example below:
Subject: C1 - THE LAW OF THE LID - QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
When responding to the QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION, copy and paste the question and share your response beneath the question.
Please share your responses via a Word document. In the upper right hand corner of your word document, put your name, the chapter number, the chapter name and Questions for Consideration. Here's an example below:
Tamara D. Pope
C1 - THE LAW OF THE LID
QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
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For the next 21 Days, I will be sharing nuggets from John C. Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Law of Leadership.
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Join me below for DAY FOUR - LEADERSHIP NUGGETS:
C4 - THE LAW OF NAVIGATION
Anyone Can Steer the Ship, But It Takes a Leader to Chart the Course
Followers need leaders able to effectively navigate for them.
When facing life and death situations, the necessity is painfully obvious.
Even when consequences aren't as serious, the need is just as great.
NAVIGATORS SEE THE TRIP AHEAD
General Electric Chairman Jack Welch asserts,
"A good leader remains focused …Controlling your direction is greater than being controlled by it."
Good leaders see the whole trip in their minds before they leave the dock.
They have a vision for their destination.
They understand what it will take to get there.
They know who they will need on their team to be successful.
They recognize the obstacles long before they appear on the horizon.
Leroy Eims, author of Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, writes,
"A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, who sees before others do."
The larger the organization the more clearly the leader has to be able to see ahead.
This is true because sheer size makes midcourse corrections more difficult.
If there are errors, many more people are affected than when you are traveling alone or with only a few.
WHERE THE LEADER GOES . . .
First-rate navigators always have in mind that other people are depending on them and their ability to chart a good course.
Before leaders take their people on a journey, they go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success:
NAVIGATORS DRAW ON PAST EXPERIENCE
Every past success and failure can be a source of information and wisdom-if you allow it to be.
Success teaches you about yourself and what you are capable of doing with your particular gifts and talents.
Failure shows what kind of wrong assumptions you've made and where your methods are flawed.
If you fail to learn from your mistakes, you're going to fail again and again.
Effective navigators start with experience, but they don't end there.
NAVIGATORS LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY
No matter how much you learn from the past, it will never tell you all you need for the present.
Top notch navigators gather information from many sources.
They get ideas from members of the leadership team.
They talk to people in the organization to find out what's happening on the grass roots level.
They spend time with leaders from outside the organization who can mentor them.
NAVIGATORS EXAMINE THE CONDITIONS BEFORE MAKING COMMITMENTS
Before making commitments that will impact my people, I take stock and thoroughly think
things through.
Good navigators count the cost before making commitments for themselves and others.
NAVIGATORS MAKE SURE THEIR CONCLUSIONS REPRESENT BOTH FAITH AND FACT
Navigating for others requires a leader to possess a positive attitude.
You've got to have faith that you can take your people all the way.
If you can't confidently make the trip in your mind, you're not going to be able to take it in real life.
On the other hand, you have to be able to see the facts realistically.
You can't minimize obstacles or rationalize your challenges.
If you don't do it with your eyes wide open, you're going to get blindsided.
As Bill Easum observes,
"Realistic leaders are objective enough to minimize illusions. They understand that self-deception can cost them their vision."
Sometimes it can be difficult balancing optimism and realism, faith and fact. But that's what it takes to be effective as a navigating leader.
A LESSON IN NAVIGATION
If a leader can't navigate the people through rough waters, he is liable to sink the ship.
A Strategy/Acrostic for leadership - PLAN AHEAD
Predetermine a course of action.
Lay Out Your Goals.
Adjust Your Priorities.
Notify Key Personnel.
Allow Time for Acceptance.
Head into Action.
Expect Problems.
Always Point to the Successes.
Daily Review Your Plan.
Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.
The secret to The Law of Navigation is preparation.
When you prepare well, you convey confidence and trust to the people.
Lack of preparation has the opposite effect.
It's the size of the leader not the project that determines its acceptance, support and success.
Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to Chart the Course.
Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their leaders just about anywhere.
QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION:
As a leader, do you only steer the ship or do you also chart the course?
Dr. Dharius refers to The Law of Navigation, Charting the Course, as being a Map Maker. Have you applied this principle as a leader? Share how you did it.
John C. Maxwell shares a leadership strategy in the form of an Acrostic, PLAN AHEAD. Do you PLAN AHEAD or do you just make it up as you go? Share. This is not a judgment call. We are simply looking at where we can grow.