Goal Setting II

“Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty” Prov.21:5

#4. R is REALISTIC. Is it a realistic goal? For some people in their late twenties running into their thirties, their goal is to control how they grow horizontally. That is a valid goal but an unrealistic goal is someone of the same age bracket looking to control how he or she grows vertically. However, I understand as a believer there are certain things that God will put in your heart as His child that is not realistic and that is just the truth. I know this for certain because I have a couple of things in my heart that are not realistic but they are goals for me because God has put them there. It may not really help to tell people about such goals. My experience in the past was that people I told about such things laughed me to scorn. So my advice to you is you need to have a book called the 1^st Corinthians 2:9-10 book. Label it your 1^st Corinthians 2:9-10 book. What does it say, “No eyes has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined…” – that is unrealistic “But it was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets”. God will drop this vision, this unrealistic vision in your heart by the Holy Spirit. For instance, you are running a primary school, perhaps even struggling with the day to day running of the school. And God is saying to you the school is going to grow and become a university. You better not tell your teachers yet because it cannot make sense to them but with God all things are possible, even the unrealistic things are possible.

#5. T is for TIME frame. What is your time frame for this goal? There has to be a time frame for that goal. This is where the consultants have stopped but we are going to take you further by the grace of God.

#6. E is for EXPECTATION management. Under what circumstance or circumstances will you consider an adjustment? And this is where a lot of people struggle with goals because when people set goals they do not factor in and manage their expectations. Then when they do not achieve those goals or things do not go as planned, they really do not want to set goals again. The truth is nobody wants to feel like a failure and nobody wants to feel stupid. But factoring in expectation management translates to you having a recovery plan if things do not play out as expected. A recovery plan is you saying if I am not able to reach this goal then this is how I am going to manage my expectations; this is how I am going to recover.

Prayer: Holy Spirit, please guide me as I plan before the Lord and cause every one of my plans to lead to abundance, in Jesus Name.