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Some purposeful questions for purposeful conversationsSome purposeful questions for purposeful conversations

Some Purposeful Questions

for Developing your Personal

Balanced ScorecardMario Denton Module 508 E

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What do you dream about?

• What are the dreams of your heart?

• What would you do if you had no fear or failure?



What makes you cry?



What burdens drive you to become passionate?



What do you sing about?

What causes you to rejoice or express joy?



Who are you really?What is your philosophy of

life?


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Why are you on this earth? What are your overall life

objectives?



For what reason do you live? What are your deepest

aspirations?



Why do you exist?



Where are you going?

• Which values and principles lead you to this path?

• What do you want to realize?

• What do you stand for?



Where are you going?

• What do you believe in?

• What are your ideals?

• Which key roles do you want to fulfil?



Which factors make you unique?



Which factors make you unique?

• What is decisive for your personal success?

• Which factors in your personal mission, vision and key roles are essential to the realization of your personal objectives?

• What are your most important competencies?



Which personal results do you want to achieve?

• Which measurable short-term personal results do you want to achieve?



How can you measure your personal results?

• What makes your personal objectives measurable

• Which values do you have to obtain?

• What are your targets?



How do you want to achieve your results?

• How can you realize your personal objectives

• Which improvement actions do you need to achieve them

• How do you see that you learn continuously?



Question worth pondering

• Is the life you are living the life God wants to live in you?

Remember •God calibrated your sole for eternity•Your gratest satifaction willcome from living a kingdom perspective



Breakthroughs occur

when you engage with open-ended questions like:

• "What's next for me?" • "What would it look like if this

worked out?" • "What do I want my life to look like?"



Meaning

Meaning and purpose don’t come from what you do, but from who you

are and how you live. Dallas Willard



Surrender

• God’s delivery system for meaning and purpose in life: SURRENDER



Surrender• If you are not willing to

do what it takes to align yourself with God’s values and agenda, you will never find the satifaction and significance you are working so hard to obtain

• The biggest obstacle to God’s blessing in Your life is YOU



Five Essentials In Developing Intimacy With God

• 1. Time Alone with God

Amidst a busy schedule, Jesus carved out time alone with the Father. In fact, you never see Jesus spending time with the Father when it is convenient. Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Luke 5:15,16 (Note Mark 1:21-35)

John Ortberg observes, "Solitude requires relentless perseverance. I find that unless I pull my calendar out and write down well in advance the times when I’m committed to times of solitude, it won’t happen."




• 2 Practical, Radical Honesty The more honest we are in our relationship with God, the deeper we will go with him. It is imperative that we bring our fears, concerns, pet sins, etc. to him. Job, in his intense affliction, was frank with God, …I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul…I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning…Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?…If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?" (Job 7:11b,16, 19,20)




3. Persistent Passion

God chooses to reveal himself to people who are serious about knowing him. Put another way,

"God will manifest himself in direct proportion to our passion for him." +++

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." (Jer. 29:13) (See Deut. 4:29; 2

Chron. 25:2)




• 4 Two Way Communication "Authentic Christianity is not learning a set of doctrines and then stepping into cadence with people all marching the same way. It is… a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic God. Thus the heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God’s voice and developing the courage to do what he tells us what to do." ++++Observe Isaiah, who perceived and responded to God, "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’ He said, ‘Go and tell this people…’" (Isa. 6:8,9)




• 5 Absolute Surrender Intimacy comes when we surrender on the point he is currently working on with us. "We shall all feel very much ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus on the point He has asked us to yield to Him…To get there is a question of will, not of debate nor of reasoning, but a surrender of the will, an absolute and irrevocable surrender on that point…Obey God in the thing he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you already know." (Oswald Chambers)Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him. (John 14:21)

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