I'm Patrick Bell and this is your Kingdom Business As Mission 2-minute lesson.

Today we're going to talk about Vision and Goals €" Part 4, Motivation and Optimism

I learned a lesson from the brilliant train scheduling in Japan: goals must be specific and measurable. In Japan, a train leaves exactly on time and arrives exactly on time. Goals must be the same. Don't just write, €I want to be successful in business€, but write, €I want to become the number 1 distributor in my industry by December of this year.€ Or, "I want to grow my staff from 3 to 15 employees by March of next year." Notice that these goals are specific and measurable. You will either achieve these goals or you won't. You won't be left wondering if you achieved them or not.

Author and motivational speaker, Mark Victor Hansen, discovered in his research that less than 4% of people write down their life goals. A further 10 - 12% have goals and dreams but don't write them down. That leaves 84 - 86% of people who have no specific, measurable goals to guide their progress by.

Take time with the Lord. See what He's saying. Then write these down and let these dreams drive you to accomplish what ordinary people can't even think about. The world will step aside to let any young man or woman pass if they show that they know where they are going. I promise you, the dreams alone will create such a fire in your heart and mind that you'll barely be able to sleep at night.

People don't fall into success accidentally. It is a result of purposefully setting and writing down goals, then following them with a passion that lies dormant within each and every one of us. The fire of the Holy Spirit is more than a purifying fire. It's an energizing fire and maybe you need to fan into flames that little spark in front of you. Get your direction from the Lord first. Plot your course. Where are you going? Do you know?

To your Kingdom Business as Mission success,

I'm Patrick Bell. Stay tuned for your next lesson.

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