Your Life Plan Part 3: Time to Take Action
Your Encore Life
Today is where we form an action plan, or make specific commitments for each life account that will eventually bridge the gap between our current reality and our envisioned future of where we need to be. It is important to write you commitments as SMART goals.
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Your Life Plan Part 2 049
Your Encore Life
Today we are going to get down to the specific about several categories, or what the book “Living Forward” call Life Accounts. Examples of categories, or life accounts that you would want to include are:
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Your Life Plan Part 1 048
Your Encore Life
This is the perfect time to do what I believe is one of the most important steps to avoiding a life of regret by writing down a life plan, and we will spend the next 3 episodes replaying the 3 episodes that covered this nearly a year ago. So don’t miss a single episode of this series. Remember, just listening to teaching and information will get you nowhere unless you act on it, so here we go for part 1 of this series.
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Making Connections: Forming Lasting Relationships 047
Your Encore Life
When thinking about this topic of the importance of connecting with others, it came to me that one of the most popular series I have done was about Finding Joy in episodes 16 - 23, and one of those episodes has great information about the importance of making connections and relationships. This episode will be an encore episode from the series “Finding Lasting Joy: Relationships.
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Making Connections 046
Your Encore Life
We continue our discussion from last time on the importance of being in connection. This can be particularly important if you are retired or nearing retirement. We typically have some connection by default if we have a regular job working with others. But if you are retired or are a work at home entrepreneur, you need to be intentional about being connected with others. Regardless of whether you are working or not, we need to be intentional about being in connection with others that is healthy for us.
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Refire, Rewire, and Get Connected 045
Your Encore Life
Do you feel you need a reboot? 2020 has been a confusing year at best. Depending on your circumstances, the events of 2020 may have had little impact on your life or it could have derailed everything you were planning. We may see 2021 as a big question mark at this point, but don’t let yourself become complacent and lose sight of your dreams. Now more than ever we need to have a dream to look forward to, goals to set, and a vision for how we are going to get where we need to be.
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The One Next Right Thing We Must Do - 044
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode that is the most important message I have ever shared. It is that we all need to come together and pray as one to God for revival, a great awakening.
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What's Next? 043
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode about some things that I have observed and heard others asking, including myself.
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What Makes You, You? 042
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 42 of Your Encore Life. In this episode I will continue our discussion from the last few weeks on self assessments and how they can help at any stage of life, especially in your encore. I will talk a bit about my personal Cliftonstrengths results and a bit about the Enneagram, which I took recently through my coach Mark Ross as a basis for going through the Real Life Process to help me manage my priorities more effectively.
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Know Your Strengths in Your Encore 041
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 41 of Your Encore Life. In this episode we will be talking specifically about the CliftonStrengths Assessment and why it has value for those of us entering into or already in our Encore Life. As you may recall episodes 39 and 40 were both discussing the value of maximizing your strengths, focusing on strengths and building them rather than putting an emphasis on your weaknesses and trying to overcome them.
info_outlineWelcome to episode 42 of Your Encore Life. In this episode I will continue our discussion from the last few weeks on self assessments and how they can help at any stage of life, especially in your encore. I will talk a bit about my personal Cliftonstrengths results and a bit about the Enneagram, which I took recently through my coach Mark Ross as a basis for going through the Real Life Process to help me manage my priorities more effectively. I have included links to learn more about the Enneagram and the Reallife Process, as well as a link to Mark Ross’s business “Next Thing Group” and the Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment web page.
Let’s start with my top 5 talents from the CliftonStrengths assessment. I will share these with you not so you can learn more about me, but so you can get an idea of what this assessment is like and how it can help you learn more about yourself. Don’t try to learn what I am telling you here. There is a wealth of information on the websites that I have provided links to, just listen to this 1000 foot view so you can get a picture of what these assessments can tell you about yourself. My top 5 talents are:
- Belief
- Responsibility
- Connectedness
- Relator
- Developer
Stick with me as I read the descriptions of each of these talents…..
Each of the 34 talents has a description of what characteristics are present in mature and raw form. If you recognize that one or some of the raw characteristics describes you, you can focus on how to move that characteristic from its raw form to a more mature and productive form. The mature and raw characteristics of my top 5 are…..
You can see the wealth of very highly researched information you can gather that will give you much clearer insights about yourself.
Now let me give you my Enneagram type and see how there is a relationship between it and my top 5 talents. My core style is 2, with my neighboring auxiliary style of 1. In stressful situations is 8. So what does all that tell me?
My core style of 2 is described as the following….
My preferred wing style of 1 is described as the following…
What my core style of 2 may find easy to do is……
What my core style of 2 may find difficult to do is…..
I hope this walk through my assessments has been helpful for you to see how they can help you to learn more about yourself and help to guide you to be your most and best productive self, to live in your “Zone of Genius”, which we will discuss in a later episode, and to live your best encore life. Notice how I said help to guide you, not define you.
1 Peter 4:10-11: Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.