Hey all,

How ya feelin?

I am at home thinking about the meeting we had with our team tonight and what a great atmosphere.

I was able to share my heart and goals for our team.

I thought it would be cool to give you a seat at that meeting, by sharing my personal notes of that meeting with you.

I hope you enjoy and that you are blessed – If you have any questions please email me: pastordre@motivatedsandiego.org

Motivated Meeting
9-16-09:

Devotion: Habakkuk 2:2-4

How to stay focused

How many know that any team that wants to be effective, needs to know how to keep their focus.

On ‘The Apprentice’, the reality TV show conducted by Donald Trump in the US, there was an episode where the team had to create a graffiti billboard for Sony’s Play Station 2. One team created a mural that wove in the game elements while the other team created a streetscape mural that echoed the lifestyle of the neighbourhood where the billboard was situated. The team that won was naturally the team that created the mural that would sell the company’s product. The task was to sell the game. The other team lost sight of the business objectives, and the team leader was ‘fired’ from the show!

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
- Henry Ford

Not only that, but how many know if you want to be a good team player that’s effective, you have to know how to keep your focus.

“Teamwork divides the task and double the success.”
- Author unknown

Today I would like to share some things that can help you and I keep focus in whatever we set out to do.

Bits & Pieces, September 19, 1991, p. 18
A weakness of all human beings, ” Henry Ford said, “is trying to do too many things at once. That scatters effort and destroys direction. It makes for haste, and haste makes waste. So we do things all the wrong ways possible before we come to the right one. Then we think it is the best way because it works, and it was the only way left that we could see. Every now and then I wake up in the morning headed toward that finality, with a dozen things I want to do. I know I can’t do them all at once.” When asked what he did about that, Ford replied, “I go out and trot around the house. While I’m running off the excess energy that wants to do too much, my mind clears and I see what can be done and should be done first.”

 3 ways that you and I can stay focused 

Hab 2:2 ¶ And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Often it is a good idea to write down on a piece of paper what you and I would like to accomplish.

Then once we accomplish it we can check it off and move on to the next one.

There are times when I am in prayer and I will get an idea. So I like to keep a pen and pad by me so I can stop write down the idea and then get back into prayer.

How many times have we forgot to do something that we haven’t written down. I wonder how many ideas God has given us that we haven’t written down?

This also can be helpful when you are leading a team. Especially a team is going to be effective.

See it is easy to lead yourself, because you don’t have to plan and you can tell yourself when to do it, but when you are leading a team it takes a lot of planning. This also goes for leading leaders. See it is easier to lead follower than it is to lead leaders. Followers don’t have much responsibility and can come and go when you we say, but to lead leaders is different, becasue they have a schedule and they have a responsibility of planning to lead others.If you want to be an effective team.

Example:
If you enter into a game for instance without a coach, without a team captain and of course with no leadership, how good will that game go? Preparation and Practice the games go easier because you all know what the plan is.

Establish a goal write it down and go from there. That is why I am real big on minutes for meetings.

2: Start taking steps to figure out ways to accomplish that goal.

When you and I have written down our goals, the next best thing is to try and figure out ways and ideas on how to accomplish those goals.

We shouldn’t try and accomplish the goal all at once, it may take some time.

Though it linger wait for it, it will certainly come and not delay.

Hab 2:3 For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry

Example:
When it comes to marathon running, preparation mentally is the biggest key. One of the most imporant things that keeps runners motivated is to believe in yourself and your abilities.

They say you need to have confidence. Know that you will do good no matter what the circumstance.

Someone was once said about a running marathon to “Treat a race like eating a pie. You’d never eat a pie by just shoving the entire thing into your face and hoping you’ll get a good fill, right?

You need to break it into pieces, and even then you still need to use a fork to break those pieces into something that will fit in your mouth.

By the time it’s broken down, it’s little tiny pieces that will fill you up. One fork full of pie is like one step on the course. Step by step, you’re making it to the finish line.” The most important thing I’ve been told when it comes to a goal is this: “When you run a half marathon just remember this…you’re not running 13 miles. You’re running one mile, 13 times.” Break things down, so it’s “easier to swallow”.

Remember motivation comes from within. When you and I have a passion for hat we do, we shouldn’t need to be reminded to stay focused because it burns within us.

Motivation comes from within.

I have a question for us today. Our we in our power spot? See when you and I are in our power spot we just naturally eat, sleep, and drink what we are doing for God. If we are not then it can become a job where we clock in and clock out

I encourage you today find your power spot and what you love to do and that will automatically put a passion in you that no one else can.

Remember we are a team and we need each other.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.”
- H.E. Luccock