Focus & Goal Setting

For year 2010

PROfessional Fellowship of International TalentsPROFIT

We are limited, not by our abilities, but

by our Vision & Focus

Focus & Vision

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

Luke 11:34

“If you can see it…..you can have it”

The Power of focus

Charles Lazarus

“Without question Charles Lazarus is one of the most brilliant retailers of this generation"

- Forbes

The power of focus

Sun:- Massive source of energy- 400 Trillion watts / second-Surface Temperature 5510 °C

Lazer Beams:- Weak source of energy- A few watts- Can produce Temperature higher than 5510 °C

Focused Light (life) has a tremendous source of energy

Focus“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully”

Steve Jobs

"I'm actually as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done” - Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple Inc)

Focus

And Jesus said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

Luke 2:49

What must I be doing…?

Focus But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the Goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. – Phil 3:13-14

What is the one thing must I focus my energy on?

Plans

“We should make plans counting on God to direct us.”

Pro 16:9

PlansSuppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Luke 14:28

If you fail to plan…..you plan to fail

GoalsSurvey: One major difference between

common people and the most successful people – Successful people written down their goals

I run straight to the GOAL with purpose in every step. I fight to win. I’m not just shadowboxing or playing around.

1 Cor. 9:26

Goal setting

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

Abraham Lincoln

Goal SettingSuccess is not just about working HARD but

it is Working SMARTSet SMART goals

SMART GoalsS – SPECIFICM- MEASURABLEA- ACTION PLANR-REALISTICT-TIME CONSCIOUS

E-EXPECTATION MAMNAGEMENTIt is pleasant to see dreams come true,

      but fools refuse to turn from evil to attain them. Proverbs 13:19

CHAMPIONS are not men who never fail; but men who never QUIT

R-REVELATION'Man does not live on bread alone, but on

every word that comes from the mouth of God’ Mathew 4:4

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him, but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit…”

1 co 2:9-10

Distractions

Whateverexcites the curiosity, scatters the thoughts, disquiets the heart, absorbs the interests (or )shifts our life focus

- that is a distraction (A W Tozer)

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us

Distractions - Interim Success

Don’t be distracted by interim successes

Distractions- Competition

Ussain Bolt

Churandy MartinaWallace Spearmon

Don’t be distracted by competitions

Distractions- Competition

Distractions - competition

When Peter saw him, he asked, "Lord, what about him?"

Jesus answered, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.“

John 21:21-22

Distractions - The pain of life

“…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” – Heb 12:1-2

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy – Ps 126:5

Remember

Proper Prior Planning Prevents

Poor Performance- unknown