January 11

2011 Goals – How Did I do?

January 11, 2012 in Goals, GOD, Leadership, Life Change

In 6th grade, I started writing out my life goals list. Each year, I make adjustments and go for it.

I think goals are important for everyone. I just refuse to drift through life. Most people spend more time planning a 3 day summer vacation than they do planning their life out.

I think that’s a tragedy.

These are not resolutions. Resolutions stink. These are GOALS. These are not all of my 2011 goals, I am not including all of the details, and they are not in any order. I did pretty good knocking out most of my 2010 goals. Here is my 2011 goal list scorecard, followed by my comments in red as to how I did. These are just the goals I felt comfortable sharing about:

Take Amber out every week! This is a goal EVERY week! Took her out almost every week. We love switching off every other week with our friends and sneaking in a mini lunch date every other week while Couper is in school!

Spend good, quality time with Couper every day. Some days it might be 10 minutes; others it could be 10 hours. I refuse to miss my son grow up. I spent a lot of time building stuff in the garage with my little Pard. Loved it!

Be more focused and work harder than I ever have in my life but also REST harder than I ever have! We worked HARD in 2011. I mean HARD. But we rested HARD too. I took 10 days off in the summer to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary. I took a week off to go to Montana. I had lots of guest speakers come in. It was a great year of hard work and hard rest!

Memorize an entire chapter of the Bible and mucho other Scripture. I memorized a lot of Scripture this year, but not an entire chapter of the Bible.

Read 20 books. I never reach my reading goals!

Continue to pray a LOT. My knees are sore.

Visit an orphanage in Haiti that I’d like to see Revolution adopt or a place in Belize that I am interested in. I want to begin the process of having a regular place for us to minister and pour in to. We are going global baby! I did not get to do this, but Amber did! And, we took our first step towards this by providing Christmas for over 300 orphans in 5 different orphanages in Haiti through C3 Global.

Take my wife on a crazy cool trip to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary! EPIC! Check! We hit Miami and the Keys for 10 days.

Send more personal, handwritten notes to people. Check. My handwriting has gotten better!

Lead our church to an average weekly attendance of 1,000 people…this goal has a HUGE sub-list of smaller goals. We did not average 1,000 people, but we saw TONS of people accept Christ and get baptized and the church doubled in size.

Lead our church to be financially strong. I feel like we are financially strong, but this goal is ALWAYS being worked!

Throw an OFF the HOOK one year Birthday party for Revolution! We had a blast at our one year birthday…balloons galore!

Knock out some more marathons and my first triathalon or bike race. Did lots of races, but no triathalons or biking.

Wakeboard more and / or save up to buy a dirtbike. I want to learn to JUMP like PASTRANA. I wakeboarded more, but did not save a penny for a dirtbike. I did get a cool X-games hat…

Get in the gym for weight training 3 days a week (only did 2 days a week in 2010). Check.

3 words: DAILY. DANCE. PARTY. Ashamed and happy to say, check!

Convince a total stranger to make a goal list of their own. Check. Fun. Happened at Starbucks.

Hang my hammock in the backyard and chill for once in my life. Well, I never hung up the hammock, so…

Start some new family traditions. Check.

Buy an old rusted pickup for Couper and I to work on and drive on man day. Fail. We gave more money than we ever thought we could to Revolution this year, especially for Illuminate, that the pickup went to the backburner. And we don’t regret it one bit.

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January 10

Attack in 2012!

January 10, 2012 in Goals, GOD, Life Change

goal1A friend of mine, The Fat Trail Runner, said some encouraging things about me a while back that got me to thinking. How do people have some serious drive in life to accomplish goals? Why do so many people say they’re going to do something, then they drop out after a week?

Here is what I came up with: goals are nothing more than words. And a LOT of people set goals. I mean, anyone can SET a goal.

Accomplished goals, however, are a process…a set of steps. When I decide to accomplish something this is how I attack it. Maybe it will help you:

SET A GOAL: Establish a big hairy audacious goal.

LEARN: Be humble. Find people who have accomplished the same or similar goals and be willing to learn from them. Know-it-alls don’t accomplish anything. You need to learn all that you can about your goal to succeed.

PLAN: Plan out all incremental steps that it will take for you to accomplish your BHAG.

UNDERSTAND: Know what you are getting in to. Research it. Heed the warnings from the experts, but don’t dwell on negative info.

VISUALIZE: Hammer your plan into your brain repeatedly. You should know it like the back of your hand.

SACRIFICE: There aren’t any goals in life that don’t require you to make a sacrifice. Decide if you are willing to sacrifice to accomplish your goal. If you’re not, then don’t even start.

RALLY: Get some troops around you that will encourage you. Keep away from negative people.

PARTY: When you reach your goal, celebrate!

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January 9

Don’t Put Jesus First Mind Dump

January 9, 2012 in Confessional, Revolution Church

  • I had a blast preaching my first message of 2012! It was called “Don’t Put Jesus First in 2012.” Before you label me and Revolution Church heretics, Click here to listen or go get the Revolution App for your phone to watch.
  • Putting Jesus at the top of your new years list sounds good, but  I’ve found that it isn’t very effective when you get down to the grind of everyday life. Trust me. Go listen to the message!
  • This year, instead of worrying about putting Jesus first in your life, what if you concentrated on making Him the center of every area of your life? Not just the top priority in front of every other priority, but the top priority IN every priority? WHOA!
  • By the way, it was fun to get all the hate email all week long from the haters. Haven’t had any haterade in a while. If you were one of those haters, I forgive you. Put Jesus at the center of every area of your life so that He becomes first in all things…even your emails…and let’s move on! There are too many people that need to hear the Gospel for us to sit around and hate.
  • I used a big sheet and spray paint during the message as a visual. I was tired of writing on a big notepad during my messages…this was WAY better, cheap and fun.
  • I haven’t really shared on the blog much yet, but on Sunday I shared what God has done in the life of my family over the last few months. HUGE. CRAZY. GOD is FAITHFUL. As I shared that story each service, Amber was on the front row balling and I had to work hard to not cry like a baby. I’ll share on the blog soon.
  • I’ll also show you the video that we used to promo our new series, Triple Dog Dare sometime this week…HILARIOUS. Great job Jacob and Micah!
  • Check out the awesome pics of the day from the always talented photog, Kevin Foster below. All pics can be viewed here.

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January 5

Don’t Put Jesus First in 2012

January 5, 2012 in Creativity, Life Change, Revolution Church

Yes, you read that title correctly.

This week’s message is called Don’t Put Jesus First in 2012. We sent out an E-Update today about it and people are going nuts sending me emails of disapproval typed out in all caps.

Before you label me or Revolution Church as heretics, settle down for a second. Why don’t you show up and listen to the message. I’ll give you a short preview right now:

Putting Jesus first is a flawed paradigm. Jesus doesn’t want to be first on your list. He insists on being the center of your life.

When you put Him first, you sort of segregate Him from all other priorities. But if Jesus is at the center, he becomes vital to every single area of life. Put Jesus at the center of it all and for many of us, He will actually be first for the first time ever.

I hope you will join us this Sunday at 8:30, 10:00 or 11:30 at Revolution Church as we look at why maybe it shouldn’t be Jesus first.

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