4 DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION BY FRANKLINCOVEY

Sunday, July 7, 13

FACE YOUR MORTALITY

I am a realist

Growing up I learnt this lesson from dale

Carnegie

What's the worst thing that can happen

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FACE YOUR MORTALITY

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it.

Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Carnegie, DaleSunday, July 7, 13

HOW MANY YEARS WOULD I HAVE HAD LEFT

2-5 years left would I be doing what I am doing

now

What exactly is important

Don't think I would be doing much differently

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LIFE HAPPENS IN THE WHIRLWIND

Don't be angry- just because

someone dies does not mean life

would not continue

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LIFE QUOTES

”One second after you`ve arrived in God`s presence, what

are you going to wish you'd done? That should be the driving

force of your life." Bob Gass

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LIFE QUOTES

I have looked at myself in the mirror every

morning and asked myself, ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’

and whenever the answer is ‘no’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change

something. ~Steve Jobs

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THAT'S WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING NOW!

Would you spend time with you

family

Would you be building assets or

liabilities

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WHAT DO LEADERS HAVE INFLUENCE OVER?

What have we been trained to do?

70% of Strategic Failures were do to Poor Execution of the Leader- Rom Charan

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WHY IS EXECUTION SO DIFFICULT?

Whirlwind Goals

( Day Job) (New Activities)

Would the people in our church still be busy even if we did not have any new goals/

initiatives?

What typically kills new initiatives?Sunday, July 7, 13

WHY IS ITSO DIFFICULT?

Whirlwind Goals( Day Job) (New Activities)

Urgent Important(It acts on you) (You act on them)

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KEY CHALLENGE

Trick is not executing a goal!

It is executing a goal in the midst of the whirlwind!!!

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MATTHEW 7:24-27 “ Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and

beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

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MATTHEW 7:24-27 “ But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be

like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and

beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

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HEBREWS 12:1-3Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us

throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with

perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author

and perfecter of ourSunday, July 7, 13

HEBREWS 12:1-3faith, who for the joy set before him

endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary

and lose heart. Sunday, July 7, 13

1 FOCUS ON THE WILDLY IMPORTANT

Number of Goals.

2-3 4-10 11-20

Achieved w/Excellence

2-3 1-2 0

Law of Diminishing Returns

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FOCUS ON THE WILDLY IMPORTANT

Good Leaders ALWAYS have more Good Ideas that they

can Execute!!!Sunday, July 7, 13

WILDLY IMPORTANT GOALS (WIGS

A Goal that makes all the difference.

Failure to achieve this goal renders all other achievements

inconsequential!!!Sunday, July 7, 13

PHILLIPIANS 3:13-14

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God

has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (NIV)

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Jesus reduces the Ten Commandments

Matthew 22:34-39

34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered

together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great

commandment in the law?”

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Jesus reduces the Ten Commandments

Matthew 22:34-39

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. ’ 38 This

is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love

your neighbor as yourself. ’

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Jesus reduces the Ten Commandments

Matthew 22:40 (NKJV)

On these two commandments hang all

the Law and the Prophets.”

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Key phrase “hang!” In other words remove it and everything falls down.

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1 KINGS 3:5-14In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. And

Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked

before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept

for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day

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1 KINGS 3:5-14And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father:and I am but a little child:I know not how to go out or come in. And thy

servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad:for who is able to

judge this thy so great a people?Sunday, July 7, 13

1 KINGS 3:5-14And the speech pleased the Lord, that

Solomon had asked this thing. And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

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1 KINGS 3:5-14Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto

thee all thy days. Sunday, July 7, 13

WILDLY IMPORTANT GOALS (WIGS) Rules:

1- No more than 1-3 WIGs per person/team at a time

2- Sub WIGs must ensure the success of the Parent-WIGs

3- Finish Line- A WIG must have a gap (From X to Y by When)

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2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:and not to me only, but unto all them

also that love his appearing.Sunday, July 7, 13

2 ACT ON THE KEY MEASURESKey to Execution

Lag Measure Lead Measure

Measures goal Leads to Goal

Predictive

Influencable

LeverageSunday, July 7, 13

Key to Execution

Lag Measure Lead Measure

Loose Weight Exercise & Diet

People tend to focus on Lag Measures!!

2 ACT ON THE KEY MEASURES

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Key to Execution

Lag Measure Lead Measure

Why do people focus on the Lag?

It is the focus & It is easier

2 ACT ON THE KEY MEASURES

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2 PETER 1:5-9And beside this, giving all diligence, add

to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge

temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to

brotherly kindness charity.

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2 PETER 1:5-9

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in

the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is

blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

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ACTS 4:13

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that

they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they

had been with Jesus.Sunday, July 7, 13

PROVERBS 27:23-27

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, And attend to your

herds; For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations. When the hay is removed,

and the tender grass shows itself,Sunday, July 7, 13

PROVERBS 27:23-27And the herbs of the mountains are

gathered in, The lambs will provide your clothing, And the goats the price of a field; You shall have

enough goats’ milk for your food, For the food of your household, And

the nourishment of your maidservants.Sunday, July 7, 13

1 TIMOTHY 4:8For bodily exercise profiteth

little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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APPLICATION

Bodily exercise is to Godliness

Godliness is an exercise

They are lead Measures

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3 CREATE A COMPELLING SCORE BOARD

Rules:

1- Simple2- Highly Visible

3- Have the Right Lead and Lag Measure

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1 CORINTHIANS 9:24-27Do you not know that those who run in a

race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is

temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an

imperishable crown.Sunday, July 7, 13

1 CORINTHIANS 9:24-27Therefore I run thus:not with

uncertainty. Thus I fight:not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest,

when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

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3 CREATE A COMPELLING SCORE BOARD

Human beings like games!!

Make it a Winnable Game

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DEUTERONOMY 6:4-9Hear, O Israel:The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee

this day, shall be in thine heart:Sunday, July 7, 13

DEUTERONOMY 6:4-9And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine

house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and

when thou risest up.Sunday, July 7, 13

DEUTERONOMY 6:4-9

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as

frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon

the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

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HEBREWS 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him

endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right

hand of the throne of God.Sunday, July 7, 13

PROVERBS 29:18

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the

law, happy is he.Sunday, July 7, 13

4- CREATE A CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Weekly Meeting:NO WHIRLWIND

DISCUSSIONSSunday, July 7, 13

4- CREATE A CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Weekly Meeting:

What are the 1-3 most important things I can do this

week to impact the scoreboard?

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HEBREWS 10:24-25And let us consider one another in order

to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of

ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so

much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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4- CREATE A CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Weekly Meeting:

1- Report on last weeks commitments

2- Review and Update Scoreboard

3- Make commitments for next weekWe don’t have Dragons, We have GNATS

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1 PETER 4:5-6They will give an account to

Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. For this reason the gospel was preached also to those

who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live

according to God in the spirit.Sunday, July 7, 13

PUSH THE WILDLY IMPORTANT GOALS INTO THE WHIRLWIND!!!

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EXPRESSIONS OF EXECUTING STRATEGY

Regularly say “no” to good ideas

Identify wildly important goals

Regularly focus on Lead Measures

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EXPRESSIONS OF EXECUTING STRATEGY

Create a compelling scoreboard

Create a cadence of accountability

Intentionally removing two things from one’s plate to add a WIG

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DO YOU PRAY MOST FOR WHAT’S IMPORTANT? OR FOR WHAT’S

WILDLY IMPORTANT?

Very rarely does anyone ask me to pray for what Paul

apparently considers “wildly important.”

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DO YOU PRAY MOST FOR WHAT’S IMPORTANT? OR FOR WHAT’S

WILDLY IMPORTANT?

He prays strategically for those areas

which, if they are not in place, render everything else inconsequential

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ABUNDANCE IS ATTRACTED TO CLARITY:

When you have clear goals – when you declare to yourself the exact things that you want, then abundant opportunities will come to you, and help make those

goals and your dreams come true.

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