Quotes About Purpose

If you are "seeking first" his kingdom where you are, then where you are is where he has positioned you.

Pay the price. Embrace the vision. After all, everybody ends up somewhere in life. You have the opportunity to end up somewhere on purpose.

So what's the deal with the desert? I don't know. But I do know the time between catching a glimpse of what God wants to do through us and the time when we are led to move out often feels like a desert experience. The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.

The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.

What gets our attention determines our direction and, ultimately, our destination. Or if you would prefer the short version: attention determines direction.

There's never any cumulative value to all the things we do instead of the things we know are truly important. What

the minute you decide to get back in the business the church was commissioned for in the first place, you will pray for boldness.

I once heard John Maxwell say, "You are most valuable where you add the most value." It is vital to the health and success of our organizations that we as leaders discover that task, that narrow arena of responsibility where we add the most value. And once we find it, it's even more vital that we stay there.

The key to this approach is refusing to stand up and speak until you know the answer to two questions: •  What is the one thing I want my audience to know? •  What do I want them to do about it?

What is the one thing I want my audience to know? •   What do I want them to do about it?

As Paul Naeger reminds us in his excellent article Red Flag Decision Making, Emotions serve a purpose, informing us what to do. If our brain comes across something and categorizes it as a "red flag," we will be notified through thoughts and feelings created by emotion. This "red flag" alerts us to pay attention. Our emotions act as a cueing system notifying us to pay attention and take action.

our approach to communicating should be shaped by our goal in communicating.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

In addition to a job description designed around your current employment, develop what you would consider to be the ultimate job description. This is for your eyes only. The goal of this exercise is to help you identify the niche in which you would feel most productive and consequently most successful. Dream a little.

If God has birthed a vision in you, he is in the process of developing a similar vision in the hearts of others around you.

The church is not here to win. Just the opposite. By every human measure, our Savior lost. On purpose. With a purpose.

The tendency in business, or in church work for that matter, is to mistake activity for progress. We think that just because people are busy and doing a lot of stuff that we are being successful. The fact of the matter is, if all that activity isn't taking you where you want to go, then it's just wasted time.

VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION

Everybody ends up somewhere in life. A few people end up somewhere on purpose.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

Are you the person the person you're looking for is looking for?

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.