Time Flies…

Time to evaluate

We are 25% through 2009. It’s a good time to take a look at your goals for 2009 and see how you are progressing. Here are some questions to ask yourself and your organization:

What progress are you making toward the goals that you set at the start of the year?
What is getting in the way of accomplishing your goals?
What goals need to be revised?
What goals need to be added to your list for the remainder of the year?
How is the current climate affecting your goals and what can you do to adjust your plans in light of this climate?
What changes or course corrections will move you toward your goals more effectively?
What changes do you need to make personally to help you accomplish your goals?
What technology can you implement to help you accelerate your progress towards your goals?
What obstacles do you need to eliminate or mitigate that are slowing your progress?
What relationships need attention to help propel you further and faster?
What support systems can you put in place to help you accomplish your goals?
Are there areas where you need to focus more in the next quarter than in the previous one?

This is just a start. The key is reviewing your progress and making appropriate changes now to help you get from where you are to where you want to be.

Flexible Strategic Planning

For those in need of help with strategic planning and goal setting check out our Strategic Planning 101 page. This is a straightforward process that any organization of any size or type can implement using our 8 step process. Email me today if you need help developing or implementing a strategic plan for your organization (greg@kanonclarity.com).

Keep moving forward,

Greg

04/03/2009

Fresh Eyes

Assessment Tools

Ever notice that things that are obvious to an outsider looking in are often hidden from the people on the inside? Many times the most needed changes are changes that cannot be seen by the leaders and team members of an organization.

That’s often where Kanon Clarity’s assessment tools play such a vital role in helping organizations close that gap on where they want to go. We offer multiple assessments that are designed to uncover specific areas where organizations and individuals can capitalize on their strengths, mitigate their weaknesses, and make course corrections to help them navigate in the right direction. Continue Reading…

03/30/2009

Hope

Keep Moving Forward

I’ve been asked a few times lately, “What’s with the ‘keep moving forward’ thing?” That phrase is in most of my emails. My employees hear it from me dozens of times per year. My kids have a relentless Keep Moving Forward theme in their life.

On March 30, 2007, Meet the Robinson was released to theaters. My family and I went to watch Meet the Robinsons on April 12, 2007. Continue Reading…

01/07/2009

New Years Resolve

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I heard a great talk on Sunday from one of our pastors, George Antonakos on how to be resolute in the New Year. He framed a lot of our relationship with Jesus around three ideas:

1. It’s about relationship. At the end of the day that is what is important. Jesus first steps were toward people, and usually the people that no one else cared about. We need to orient our lives around relationships in 2009 and beyond. We will need to seek these relationships out (including Jesus – he moves towards us as we move towards him).

2. Success involved a diminishing preoccupation with self. Healthy living is living that is not focused on self. I think this is why parenting is such a valuable time in life. It isn’t about me. It’s not about Elise. We move from ourselves to focus on others. I want 2009 to be a time of making sure it is not about me (even though I am so good at it).

3. Personal transformation is a process. We are work in progress. I struggle with this more than most I think. I want to have arrived. I want to have been through tough stuff and be “over that”. It really doesn’t happen that way. We move from struggle to struggle in many ways and our character gets developed along the way. The good news of the process is that it’s never too late to move towards the person we are becoming in Christ. That’s comforting to me. Especially during times of significant challenge.

I can easily waste a lot of time not pursuing who I want to be in Jesus. This usually results in pain and disappointment for me and those around me. This year I am going to strive to be resolute about following Him as closely as I can.

Keep moving forward,

Greg

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12/01/2007

Desire and our Story

I have been struck a lot lately by the amount that our desire and deciding what our story will be determines where we go and what we do with our lives. Two thoughts that I ran into this week made me stop dead in my tracks and think about what kind of a man I am becoming. One was a quote from a book I am reading called Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton:

“The depth of desire has a great deal to do with the outcome of our life. Often, those who accomplish what they set out to do in life are not those who are the most talented or gifted or who have the best opportunities. Often they are the ones who are most deeply in touch with how badly they want whatever they want; they are the ones who consistently refuse to be deterred by the things that many of us allow to become excuses.”

The other was a talk by Donald Miller about Our Story. It was a great reminder to me that each day every action is part of the story line of my life. The final quote by Miller was this:

“Our stories get written by what we do. Not by what we think or what we feel or what we want. That doesn’t count when you write a story. Its only written by what we do.”

What kind of a story am I creating? What will my legacy be? How will my wife speak of me when we are old and grey? How will my children speak of me when they are grown and gone? Who will I love and be loved by? What friends will I go the distance with? Who will exeperience God’s goodness as a result of my actions?

At the end of the day, when my life on this side of eternity ends and I pass on to the other side. What I want, my deep desire, what I want to determine my actions, is to be known as a man who was sold out for the mission of Jesus Christ on this earth – willing to lay down everything for Him. I fall way short most of the time but what I desire is to be that kind of man and to create that kind of a story.

I was talking to a good friend in Hawaii last night on Skype and he quoted a teacher he had learned from this week who said:

“Is the life that your living worthy of the death that Jesus died?”

This is my one and only life. My one chance. I want to lay it all out there and love people and be loved in it. Someday I’ll go home and my deep desire is to hear “well done Greg, your a good and faithful servant”.

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