1. Do your diagnostics-take an assessment of where you are.
2. Count your blessings-literally! In a spreadsheet...and at least 100
3. What is your questions to statements ratio-double it!
4. How many key seats are on your bus? Fill them with the right people.
5. Do "team on the way up/down" diagnostic (something from his website).
6. With the right team, create an inventory of the brutal facts.
7. Everyone has a to-do list...what is our STOP DOING list?
8. Show results...each one is a click on the momentum fly-wheel.
9. Double your outreach to young people by changing methods but not compromising the fundamentals.
10. Set a BHAG...big, hairy audacious goal...
I was actually just thinking about the camp and was reminiscing on my blessings list when I got to looking at this list. While it is meant for companies or corporations or leaders, I realized I have never had this kind of list to help guide me as I make decisions...and I realize that at this plateau (in my weight loss, mainly, but also in my paralyzing fear of screwing my life up...actually, I fear screwing it up MORE than I already have) in my life could be addressed by going through these steps...
1. My assessment: those who know me, know I can be cruel in my description of my weaknesses, so I'm going to try to give myself a bit of grace...but here are some facts: halfway through my weight loss journey, still insecure in who I am called to be (but, thanks to God's graciousness in Romania...much less insecure than normal, most of the time...how's that for random?), not a good house-keeper, great cook, good teacher, lacking in organizational skills (well, I can "see" the organization, I just can't make it reality)...and some others, but here's a start.
2. My blessing list...started on the Romania page...might make a whole blog devoted to that...
3. Hmm...what is a question to statement ratio? I'll have to look into that. Oh, hey, it's a 1:1 ratio...hahahaha :) Double that...well, if I look at this as a personal development idea... What diet do I use? How can I change my mind to accept the discipline? How can I match my insides with my outsides (great quote from 28 Days with Sandra Bullock)? What's wrong with celebrating weight loss by going out to dinner (also a tweaked quote from 28 Days)? Does the small stuff really matter? Is being chubby keeping me out of heaven? How can I be transformed? So far, looks like 7 questions...to Ephesians 3:16-21 "I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." My working ratio, then is 7:3...
4. I'm guessing there are two seats on my bus...talk about a short bus...but I think I should be ridin' shotgun, with God in the driver's seat...maybe that's my problem.
5. Skipping this...
6. Brutal facts...check, check, check...got those covered...especially the brutal part...
7. A stop doing list...never really thought about it, but if insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results...then responding to stress the same way (to quit working out and start eating anything that stands still long enough), the weight is going to come back...have to make a better stop doing list...
8. Results...got that! 100 pounds, baby! Gotta get the flywheel moving again!
9. Change methods without compromising the fundamentals....another blog, perhaps...something to ponder more...
10. The BHAG: Big Hairy Audacious Goal...do I have the guts to set one??? Six months from tomorrow I will be back in Romania...I'd love to be 50 pounds lighter, but do I have the commitment to do that? Is this really a time of talk...or action...I think action!
So, if you, my friends, would walk along side me in this journey, I would appreciate it! I'll need lots of shoulders to cry on, feet to kick me in the pants to get me moving, hands to slap me (figuratively, of course) when I need a wake-up, and lots of green tea...or something besides diet Coke...and prayer, lots and lots of prayer...for guidance, wisdom, protection, encouragement, and transformation.