Episode 277 - Setting the Right Goals for the Right Reasons with Jon Acuff, Patrick Lencioni, and Terry Looper
Jan 9, 2024
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Experts Jon Acuff, Patrick Lencioni, and Terry Looper discuss setting meaningful goals aligned with faith, avoiding pitfalls, and not letting achievements define us. They offer valuable insights on achieving the right goals for the right reasons.
Set meaningful goals aligned with faith and avoid tying self-worth to achievements.
Leaders should prioritize serving others, examine motives, and align goals with selfless service.
Deep dives
Setting and Achieving Goals as an Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs are driven by goal-setting but often struggle with inconsistency in completing tasks. The key to finishing goals is highlighted through a research study focusing on the importance of avoiding overthinking, which can hinder decision-making and productivity. Deliberately choosing positive thought patterns is emphasized as a way to improve actions and outcomes, while avoiding the pitfalls of perfectionism in goal setting.
The Role of Motives in Leadership
Leaders are encouraged to examine their motives, distinguishing between reward-centered and responsibility-centered approaches. Serving others is highlighted as crucial in leadership, emphasizing that true leadership involves giving more than receiving. Aligning goals and actions with larger motives, especially those rooted in selfless service, leads to sustainable and fulfilling leadership.
Steps to Hearing God's Will and Making Decisions
A process of seeking God's guidance in decision-making involves consulting a higher authority, gathering facts objectively, observing circumstances with discernment, and achieving a state of neutrality or surrender to divine will. By maintaining a friendship with God, seeking truth, and aligning personal desires with divine purpose, individuals can navigate challenges and decisions with clarity.
Establishing Boundaries and Prioritizing Relationships in Entrepreneurship
Establishing boundaries in decision-making, such as delaying responses to requests, parking ideas for reflection, and implementing time delays in significant choices, helps entrepreneurs make sound decisions and avoid impulsive actions. Prioritizing relationships over profit, focusing on employee and customer care before financial gains, is shown to lead to sustained success in businesses.
The New Year brings new opportunities to examine our goals, to get focused both personally and professionally.
So how do we do this well? How do we establish goals that actually get done? How do we make sure those goals align with our faith? And most importantly, how do we stop ourselves when we start putting our value in the things we achieve?
In this special edition of the Faith Driven Entrepreneur podcast, we’ll highlight conversations Rusty, Henry, and William have had with expert leaders Jon Acuff, Patrick Lencioni, and Terry Looper about what it looks like to set and accomplish the right kinds of goals.
They walk us through how to avoid the pitfalls that try to take away our focus, how to set our minds and hearts on the things that matter most, and how to ensure that we don’t allow our accomplishments to become our identities.