You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself

PREPARATION + OPPORTUNITY = PURPOSE

When you intentionally pursue growth, it uncovers your purpose!

Led by Adrienne Young

PREPARATION:

• LIFE APPLICATION: Today you will implement a year long personal growth plan.
• Take a look at your calendar for the next 12 months, and rework your calendar so you have an appointment with yourself for personal growth every day, five days a week, fifty weeks a year. You might be thinking, What, I don’t have time for that!? That’s probably true. Do it anyway. If you want to succeed, you need to do whatever it takes.
• Get creative with your hour: get up an hour early, stay up an hour later, give up your lunch hour, put in extra times on the weekends, drive time university, working out and getting ready with a podcast, audible, etc.  

OPPORTUNITY:

• “When it was time; when the turn came” It’s your time, and it’s your turn.When it is your time, and when it is your turn, you will already be prepared for the opportunity.
• LIFE APPLICATION: Spend two hours in reflection for every hour of interaction.
• For every one hour of interaction with someone (opportunity), spend two hours of preparation.
• Who are you listening to? Who is your mentor? Who has God assigned to help you fulfill your purpose

PURPOSE: 

• Ladies, when you have been intentionally preparing, and opportunity comes your way, you will know it is your purpose when it is bigger than you...when you feel as if you are not the one for the job, when you feel as if you’re not qualified, but trust that you have been prepared for purpose!

• You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

• There is a direct connection between finding your passion and reaching your purpose.

• Passion gives you energy. Passion gives you the E&E factor: energy and excellence. Passion requires you to listen to your heart, and I believe in my sanctified imagination that Esther’s passion was for her people, and she resolved in my heart that if it costs me my life, I will fulfill what God has called me to do.

• We all know how the story ends, but what I love is the true ending in chapter nine, when Mordecai wrote a letter asking to inaugurate the tradition of the festival of purim where God turned what was evil for their good. Esther wrote a letter backing Mordecai’s and as a result these festival days were kept from generation to generation and celebrated by every family...I say all of that to say YOUR PURPOSE IS NOT JUST FOR YOU!!! It is to leave a lasting legacy!!!

I DON’T KNOW MY PURPOSE

1. Do you like what you’re doing now? 

2. What would you like to do? The passion factor

3. Can you do what you would like to do? 

4. Do you know why you want to do what you would like to do? Motives matter “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” - Carl Jung

5. Do you know what to do so you can do what you want to do?

   1. Awareness - If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination. p.25

   2. Action - you cannot win if you do not begin.

   3. Accountability  - make your goals public...telling others about what you intend to do puts pressure on you to keep working at it.

   4. Attraction - if you want to be around growing people, become a growing person. If you’re committed, you attract others who are committed.

6. Do you know people who do what you would like to do? Find people who do what you do with excellence. - preparation and opportunity comes into place.

7. Will you pay the price to do what you want to do? Poem p. 29

8. When can you start doing what you would like to do?

9. What will it be like when you get to do what you’d like to do? When you do what you’ve always wanted to, it will be better than you ever imagined. Nothing else compares to doing what you were created to do.

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