Outline: RESULTS MARKER
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RESULTS MARKER
“Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else,”. (Galatians 6:4 NIV)
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STEP 1: ACHIEVED RESULTS
What specific action did you commit to take last week? What was the result?
STEP 2: REFLECTIONS
Instructions:Take turns reading the following paragraphs. As you read, underline the ideas that stand out to you.
Either you hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose. For most people, the review step is the hardest to perform, as it requires you to review your results honestly. Ronald Reagan said: “Trust but verify”. When it comes to personal growth, most people prefer to trust without verifying.
The stage of review or evaluation is the marker of results in life. Without this marker, people can’t simply identify areas where they need to improve. Why do many people resist performing the evaluation step? Because for some people it can be embarrassing to realize the gap between the skills you’re looking for and the skills you have. In other words, they prefer to avoid reality and be content with what they have instead of confronting themselves and making an effort to improve. A long time ago, A. Guillermo Jiménez taught us that we should be happy with what we have, but not satisfied.
“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”. Romans 12:2 NLT
Escaping from reality doesn’t change anything; on the contrary, it only affects people’s ability to improve their reality. An ostrich, for example, may bury its head in the ground, hiding its fear of lions by refusing to look at them. Unfortunately, his action has no effect on the lions. A person must review their results and identify the gaps between their goals and their results.
Once the gaps are identified, it is time to make the necessary adjustments to move forward. plan it! Do it! Check it! Adjust it! This process applies to any area of life. After each test, review the results and assess what can be done to improve planning.
It’s important to find defeat in every victory (in order to improve) and find victory in every defeat (in order to maintain morale). In other words, defeats give us humility, while victories give us hope. It takes courage to make adjustments on a personal and professional level, as most people value comfort more than change. But leaders are different; they value results more.
Success is practically guaranteed when the person accepts his responsibility in the perpetual process of his personal development. Success, then, is for those who are willing to know the truth about themselves and discipline their lives to constantly improve and grow in the game of life. “All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.” 1 Corinthians 9:25 NLT
The blame game
Every time a person blames their lack of results on lack of counseling, poor companionship, unsupportive spouses, the economy, etc., they hand over control of their life to others, hoping that others improve so that their life improves. True leaders hate passively waiting for others to improve before improving their own lives.
Look for ways to be responsible by developing better skills instead of better excuses. Furthermore, if the person does not accept responsibility for their results, they will not learn to change those results.
Winning is not worth it
Today’s society experiences increasing material abundance, and simultaneously, less happiness. In the pursuit of their happiness, people make two common mistakes: First, they believe that by giving up striving for excellence they can enjoy peace and happiness in mediocrity; second, they believe that on the other side of the pendulum material wealth can make them happy, when happiness is the result of the struggle to be better every day on the path of life. True success is not the final goal, but the journey to get there. And happiness is the result of the search for that goal or a dream bigger than oneself.
God, above all things, cares infinitely more about what you keep in your heart than about your riches.
When a sports team loses, its members must make immediate changes in their strategies to improve their performance in the next game; this applies in sports, but it does not apply as often in a person’s life. Imagine, what would happen if all the fans who question how the coach guides their team decided to guide their families with a similar level of demands for excellence?
Only by confronting the true scoreboard in their life, suffering the pain of losing without escaping, can people get back into the game and walk away from the spectator section. In any case, life maintains results, regardless of whether the person maintains his own record.
Facing the cruel reality is the only way to overcome self-deception and head for success. Life is a game, and the game is being played now. Isn’t it time to write down the results?
” Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.” Ecclesiastes 9:10 NLT
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Benefits:
- The results marker will prevent a person from being fooled into thinking that everything is fine, while the results show otherwise.
- Applying self-assessment will help you make adjustments during the game of life.
- You will improve quickly by obtaining deep changes.
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Steps to follow:
- Define the game. What results do you want to achieve in each area of your life?
- Play it. What are the action steps to get the desired results?
- Analyze it. Evaluate the results constantly and make the necessary changes to reach the goal.
- The strategy needed to win.
- Be patient. Nothing is built in a day, mahogany trees do not mature overnight, and success takes time.
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STEP 3: REFLECT AND RESPONSE
Choose something that you underlined as important to you. Take a minute to share with everyone what you chose and why it is important to you.
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STEP 4: AUTO EVALUATION
Respond the following section of self-evaluation:
On a scale of 1 to 10: How well do you demonstrate this quality in your life? ____________________
Why did you give yourself this score?
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What benefits would you obtain from improving your score?
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What people do you know that are a good example of this quality? What do you admire the most from this person?
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What specific action can you take immediately to improve your score?
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STEP 5: SHARE YOUR ACTION STEPS
Take a moment to share your responses from the self-evaluation section, include the action that you plan to take to improve in that area. We ask that everyone participates.
Instructions for the host:
- Make the calling:
“Lord Jesus, I recognize that I have sinned and that you died for me. Today I repent and ask for forgiveness. I give you my life and my heart so that you may be my Lord and personal Savior, amen”.
- Impartation: Pray and activate what you have learned today.
- SCHOOL OF SUCCESS. Announce the classes of Level I, II, and III they start on Sunday, September 4th at 9:00 am. (Motivate the members of your HOP to assist).
- ADULTS RETREAT. 26TH-28TH