Roles Writer
- I want to write a series of short books on various topics such as: faith, beauty/aesthetics, grace, being a husband, humor, creativity, sin, redemption, trust and control, sovereignty, etc
- I want to share my ongoing story on my blog
- I want to be able to 'save many lives' through writing
- I want to pursue truth and excellence in my writing
- Give away the first book for free on my blog
- Spend 5 hours a week writing the book series
- Spend 1 hour a day working on the blog
- Making the time and energy
- Developing discipline and focus
- Lack of knowledge about coding, HTML and such (for blog development)
- Spending time away from my wife
- Going to Amazon.com and being able to see my books for sale
Leader
- I want to live an honest and open life with the people around me
- I want to push people to do something spectacular
- I want to be a voice of wisdom in the midst of chaos
- Find 3 people to mentor/coach and commit to spending the time
- Find out what their ambitions are and commit to pursuing them as a team
- Lack of time, energy, and/or focus
- Poor discipline and patience
- Lack of experience in this area
- People not wanting to have a mentoring relationship or quitting after it starts
- Seeing the people I've mentored go on to mentor others
Youth Pastor
- I want to show students the reality and transforming power of the Gospel and of God's grace
- I want to take the Great Commission seriously and make disciples
- I want to push students to discover the grandness of God's love for them
- Find 5 students to mentor/disciple and commit as team to make the time
- Share stories of God's grace in my life and how it changed me
- Commit to telling the students each week how grand the love of God is
- Commit to sharing the gospel each week
- Give the students more opportunities to serve others in the name of Christ
- Having enough energy
- Not enough patience, mercy, compassion, and humility
- A lack of transformation in my own life due to not making my own spiritual growth the priority
- Being able to hand off the baton to the next guy knowing that I did the work that God had for me to do
- Seeing the students in our ministry transformed by the power of God's grace
Business Owner
- I want to provide a place, or places, for a diverse group of people to come together and work collaboratively as they seek to express themselves through the various mediums of the arts.
- I want to encourage collaboration across ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, and linguistic barriers.
- I want the fruit of this collaboration to be a light in an otherwise dark world.
- I want to inspire an appreciation of and desire for diversity and collaboration
- Create a vision statement for the collaborative workspace
- Make a timeline and priority list of what needs to happen
- Create an online poll for people in the KC area to test the area's desire for such a place
- Look for property
- Look for investors
- Not enough time or the ability to be in two places at once
- Current job vs starting a new business
- Where in the world is the money going to come from
- No prior business, accounting or legal experience
- Time away from my wife
- 5 year anniversary party at the first shop
- Opening shop 2 and 3
- Being able to show the world what reconciliation and collaboration can accomplish in the lives of people
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