Finding Your Focus

in the New Year

Finding Your Focus

in the New YearPressing towards the goal!Pressing towards the goal!

Keeping focus is essential in

achieving any goal in life, large or

small.

Keeping focus is essential in

achieving any goal in life, large or

small.To some extent we allsuffer from a kind of Attention Deficient

Disorder!

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Focus Destroyers

How can we stay focused on what we need to in the

New Year?

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Focus Destroyers

The Apostle Paul tells the Philippians

just how to stay focused!

Focus Destroyers

Focus DestroyersPhilippians 3:12-14

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already

perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also

laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I

do, forgetting…

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Focus DestroyersPhilippians 3:12-14

…those things which are behind and reaching forward

to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the

goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ

Jesus.”

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The Second Guess: The “What If”

Game

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Focus Destroyers3 “...till we all come to the

unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,

to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried

about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of

men, in the cunning…

Focus Destroyers

Focus Destroyers…craftiness of deceitful

plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the

head—Christ.”Ephesians 4:13-15

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The Three “C’s”: Critics

ComparisonConflict

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TheTim Tebow

Journey

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Focus Destroyers“It is not the critic who

counts; not the man who points out how the strong

man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have

done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is

actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and

sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who…

Focus Destroyers

Focus Destroyers…comes short again and

again, because there is no effort without error and

shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends

himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the

end the triumph of high…

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Focus Destroyers…achievement, and who at

the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be

with those cold and timid souls who neither know

victory nor defeat.”(Teddy Roosevelt, Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris,

France on 23 April, 1910.)

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Living In the Past:Only Genealogists should live in the

‘Past’ lane.

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“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost

the future.”

Focus On What?Focus On What?

Our DirectionForward!

Focus On What?Focus On What?

Our DeterminationTo Press On!

Focus On What?Focus On What?

Our Destination

The Prize of the Upward Call!

Focus On What?Focus On What?“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you

were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.

Enter into the joy of your lord.’” Matthew 25:21

Focus On What?Focus On What?

“The Violinist!”as told by Stephen C. Roy

“If the master is pleased with what I

have done, then everything else is

okay.”

Focus On What?Focus On What?

Above all else, you need to fix your eyes

on Jesus!

Keep your gaze focused on Jesus!

Focus On What?Focus On What?

In this New Year, keep Jesus as the

focus of your life and your ministry!

Keep Jesus Central!

Focus On What?Focus On What?

“If the master is pleased with what

You have done, then everything

else is okay.”

Finding Your Focus

in the New Year

Finding Your Focus

in the New YearPressing towards the goal!Pressing towards the goal!