In this episode, I’ll be talking about ‘How To Discover Your ONE Thing’. People spend their entire lives doing everything; living to impress and please other; striving to make a living; most never find that LANE where true happiness and fulfillment is. What if you could zero in on your true God given destiny? What is it that you were designed for?
I like to call this your ONE THING
“I know the plans I have for you … (Jeremiah 29:11 – Paraphrased)
Premise #1: God Has Plans
Premise #2: His plans are for my SUCCESS
Premise #3: Life is a Choice
Strategic Living: The vigorous and free flowing pursuit of being alive, while actively crafting and working with dreams, plans, stratagems, methods, and acquired skills to achieve a pre-determined result.
- Strategic Living is knowing God’s plan, and living it!
The Process of Building a Strategic Life, and Finding Your ONE Thing
- Self-Discovery (Purpose and Values)
There are MANY teachings or schools of thought on the subjects of DESTINY and PURPOSE. While most people understand the idea of purpose (or even destiny), for the most part, it is theoretical and has not been applied or expressed in real life. For the purposes of this teaching, there is a distinct difference between destiny and purpose; although they are both integral parts of what makes up my ONE THING. Let me explain.
Destiny: something to which a person or thing is destined
- Destiny, then, is that which I have been destined to
Destine: to decree beforehand: predetermine; to designate, assign, or dedicate in advance; to direct, devise, or set apart for a specific purpose or place
- In order for someone to receive a DESTINY or to be DESTINED, someone else has to DESTINE them
Destination: the purpose for which something is destined; an act of appointing, setting aside for a purpose, or predetermining; a place to which one is journeying or to which something is sent.
- Destination is not just WHERE I am going; it is the realization of WHO I am, and WHO God has called be to be
- The reason for which something exists or is done, made, used.
Understanding Purpose and Destiny:
- Purpose speaks to the REASON why one exists
Discovering your ONE THING Involves Several Key Steps:
- Identifying and owning your personal, core, governing values
Example from my own personal process:
Step 1: List the top TEN core values that you have identified
Step 2: List the top FIVE passions in your life.
Step 3. Perform an assessment of your talents, skills, abilities
Step 4. Discover the common connecting points in these areas
- What difference does it make what my ONE THING is, it won’t put food on the table
- EXAMPLE: My love for flying (as a boy and now)
- Well, Brian, my parents taught me to go to college, get my degree, get a good job, and just be grateful that I have a job
- OR … you know, in today’s economy, I am just grateful to have a paycheck
- Why should I live my life in survival mode? Why should I give up on my dreams, my desires, my destiny, my ONE THING?
- Why should I SETTLE for a miserable existence, and the plight of living my life for someone else’s dream?
- You are created for a purpose.
- Next week I’m going to be talking about ‘Recognizing and Navigating Seasons of Transition’. Transition is one of those things that many times causes people to become anxious, or even fearful. Leaving one place or state, and moving to another season or place is difficult. It involves letting go of what we have come to be so familiar with, and embracing something we know little or nothing about. It is the clean, white sheet of paper between two chapters; and the story is unfinished. Know this. How you leave one place determines how you enter the next. Next week we will dive into this subject, and look at what it means to successfully steward and navigate seasons of transition.
Be sure to leave us a question at www.BrianHolmes.com and we will do our best to answer it in the show
RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THIS PODCAST:
48 Days To The Work You Love – by Dan Miller
The One Thing – by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
City Slickers Clip – ‘One Thing’
