finding your focus in the new year
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Finding Your Focus in the New Year. Pressing towards the goal!. Keeping focus is essential in achieving any goal in life, large or small. To some extent we all suffer from a kind of Attention Deficient Disorder!. Focus Destroyers. How can we stay focused on what we need to in the New Year?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Finding Your Focus
in the New Year
Finding Your Focus
in the New YearPressing towards the goal!Pressing towards the goal!
Keeping focus is essential in
achieving any goal in life, large or
small.
Keeping focus is essential in
achieving any goal in life, large or
small.To some extent we allsuffer from a kind of Attention Deficient
Disorder!
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers
How can we stay focused on what we need to in the
New Year?
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers
The Apostle Paul tells the Philippians
just how to stay focused!
Focus Destroyers
Focus DestroyersPhilippians 3:12-14
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already
perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also
laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I
do, forgetting…
Focus Destroyers
Focus DestroyersPhilippians 3:12-14
…those things which are behind and reaching forward
to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the
goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ
Jesus.”
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers
The Second Guess: The “What If”
Game
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers3 “...till we all come to the
unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of
men, in the cunning…
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers…craftiness of deceitful
plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the
head—Christ.”Ephesians 4:13-15
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers
The Three “C’s”: Critics
ComparisonConflict
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Focus Destroyers
TheTim Tebow
Journey
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers“It is not the critic who
counts; not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who…
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers…comes short again and
again, because there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends
himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the
end the triumph of high…
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers…achievement, and who at
the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who neither know
victory nor defeat.”(Teddy Roosevelt, Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris,
France on 23 April, 1910.)
Focus Destroyers
Focus Destroyers
Living In the Past:Only Genealogists should live in the
‘Past’ lane.
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Focus Destroyers
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost
the future.”
Focus On What?Focus On What?
Our DirectionForward!
Focus On What?Focus On What?
Our DeterminationTo Press On!
Focus On What?Focus On What?
Our Destination
The Prize of the Upward Call!
Focus On What?Focus On What?“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you
were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into the joy of your lord.’” Matthew 25:21
Focus On What?Focus On What?
“The Violinist!”as told by Stephen C. Roy
“If the master is pleased with what I
have done, then everything else is
okay.”
Focus On What?Focus On What?
Above all else, you need to fix your eyes
on Jesus!
Keep your gaze focused on Jesus!
Focus On What?Focus On What?
In this New Year, keep Jesus as the
focus of your life and your ministry!
Keep Jesus Central!
Focus On What?Focus On What?
“If the master is pleased with what
You have done, then everything
else is okay.”
Finding Your Focus
in the New Year
Finding Your Focus
in the New YearPressing towards the goal!Pressing towards the goal!