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Intentional Life Intentional Practice

CMDA Emerging Leaders Conference June, 2015

Be Intentional §  If you don’t know

where you’re going, any road will take you there.

§  You are free to choose.

Choices

§ Money § Time § Leadership

What Price????

§ 374 workers were asked every 25 minutes during the workday about the intensity of various feelings.

§ Those with higher incomes didn’t report being any happier, but they were more likely to say they were anxious or angry.

Kahneman, Krueger, Schwarz, Stone and Schkade SCIENCE, June 30, 2006

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Lifestyle Budget

§  Home §  Car §  Food §  Clothes §  Utilities §  Vacations §  Education/Loans

§  Health/Disability Insurance

§  Life Insurance §  Retirement Savings §  Tithe/Charities §  Contingencies §  Taxes

Purpose

§ God’s Purpose for Your Life

Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21 NIV For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV

MONEY

§ Matthew 6:24-34 § No one can serve two masters. Either you

will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Time

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The KEY to a successful practice and a successful life TIME

§ Time is the ultimate scarce resource and the allocation of time presents difficult choices that eventually determine the content and quality of our lives.

If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Q1 Q2

Q3 Q4

CRISES

CRITICAL ACTIVITIES

DECEPTION WASTE

QUALITY

IMPORTANT GOALS

INTERRUPTIONS DISTRACTIONS

First Things First Covey, Merrill and Merrill

Special Occasions

Anniversaries

Vacations

School Spring Breaks

Holidays

Blue Time Personal Big Rocks

Re-Creation

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If you want to get control of your time and your life you must decide on the schedule you wish to follow each day.

Professional Big Rocks Big Rocks

Design Your Practice

Around Your Life

Leadership

“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and find no one there.”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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“Primal Leadership” Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee

“Roughly 50 to 70 percent of how employees perceive their organization’s climate can be traced to the actions of

one person: the leader. More than anyone else, the boss creates the

conditions that determine people’s ability to work well.”

Servant Leadership

§ Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

§  Phil 2:4

§ For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

§  Phil 4:13

Servant Leadership

§ Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.

§  Phil 2:3

§ Do to others as you would like them to do to you.

§  Luke 6:31

Behaviors

§ Treat people with dignity § Be in the moment § Don’t interrupt § Listen intensely § Smile § Admit mistakes § Apologize

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RESULTS

§ High performing organizations § Chick-fil-A, Whole Foods, Southwest

Airlines, San Antonio Spurs § Loyalty § Productivity § Outperform competition § High levels of customer satisfaction

Choices

§  “Now is the time to create your future, because your future will be determined by the choices that you make and the commitments that you honor Today.”

Andy L. Hickman