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 44 of your Encore Life. Today the title of this special podcast episode is “The One Next Right Thing We Must Do”, tagging onto last weeks episode 43. 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. You all see the headlines, and there seems little to be joyful about. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you know that God has got this, He has a plan. Ask Him to make you a part of that plan. As we see headlines of a pandemic, divisiveness, anger, rioting, hatred, and destruction, you can take a peek behind the curtain of the headlines and see that God is moving in powerful ways. Churches have stepped out from behind their walls and connected with many through online services and acts of love during this difficult time that have connected with people that have stepped away from their faith or are new to it. God has historically moved powerfully after dark periods through His people when they come together in prayer.
John Ramstead of “The Eternal Leadership” podcast that I have referenced before, is leading the charge for people of faith to come together for 40 days of prayer. It begins Monday, September 14th, but it is never too late to join in. You can go to eternalleadership.com/prayer, which I have included a link to in the show notes, or you can text Prayer40 to 44222 to get the information and sign up. They will provide you with a daily prayer focus and video that will take 5 minutes of your time for 40 days. If you choose not to sign up, God doesn’t require you to do that to hear your prayers. Reach out to Him and ask Him to heal our land, to give our leaders wisdom, to heal hearts, and to teach us how to live out the greatest commandment that Jesus gave us as I mentioned last week. Matthew 22: 37-40: 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Trust God to move through our unity, faith, and prayers.