Last week we took a look at the PurposeQuest Assessment tool that is on my website. If you didn't read last week, you may want to do that first here and also take a look at the Assessment on my site. Then come back here because I want to issue you what I am calling a PurposeChallenge. Before I do, let's look at the Assessment results I received this past week.
LAST WEEK'S TALLIES
Last week, 67 people took the Assessment and the results were amazing. They were absolutely the same as the previous 1,300 I have received! 85% of you who took it last week scored in the mid to lower categories of the Assessment and that is consistent with the results since the Assessment was launched. What does this tell me?
It tells me that when most reach the mid- or Silver Level score, they tend to plateau in their purposequest. Only 15% go on to the Gold and Platinum levels. I decided to study the questions that were most often holding people back from the higher level scores and I found them most often to be in the following areas:
- Goal-setting
- Time management
- Journaling
- Mentors and coaches
I realized last week that those who reach the mid-level Silver score are probably fairly satisfied with their purposequest and stop making or seeking any improvements. And progress to the upper levels requires that you master the four key areas I listed above.
THE CHALLENGE
Seeing these results, I decided to devote my Memos for the rest of the year to address the four topics listed above. I am giving you a PurposeChallenge to devote yourself to improve in those four areas by the end of the year and then to re-take my Assessment in January. I want to see you improve your PurposeQuest score fifteen points between now and then. Fifteen points will insure that your score will move up one level.
Let me know this week if you are going to take the PurposeChallenge (send me an email) and we will see how you do now and in January. Even if you took the Assessment in the past, feel free to take it again now and then again in January.
Purpose does not stand alone as a pursuit in life. It exists alongside all the other skills and disciplines that will make you productive and effective. I therefore urge you to accept my PurposeChallenge and work in the remaining months of 2010 to become more purposeful in your work, life and ministry. Have a great week and please seriously consider accepting my PurposeChallenge today!
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OPERATION CHICKEN COOP: I depart for Kenya this coming Wednesday and have raised $1,270 of the $6000 needed for our first chicken coop project. Of course, there is still time to give before I depart, or even after for that matter. Our goal is to help orphanages raise chickens for food and revenue. I outlined how we can do this in a blog post. You can give using the widget from Chipin on my Monday Memo or blog site. If I have the money by August 11, I can take it over with me and we can get started. If not, then we will keep at it and take the money over the next time I go. God is in control. My thanks to those who have given so far.
THE SOPHIA FUND: While you are at it. don't forget that I need your ongoing help for The Sophia Fund, which I use to feed orphans and widows. I cannot set up chicken farms for every orphanage, and there are still plenty of children in Kenya who eat one meal a day, if that. I have a separate widget for that cause as well on the Monday Memo site. Right now I have $1,241 to take over with me. My goal was $4,000.
RETURN TO KENYA: I will be back in Kenya from August 16-18 to conduct another Investment in Excellence seminar in conjunction with The Pacific Institute. This is a three-day seminar that changed my life when I attended it in 2004. Now I am a trained facilitator and want to share what I have with my friends in Kenya. The one I did in Nairobi last May was a tremendous success and this one promises to be bigger and better. It is not inexpensive, but the returns in your life and work are priceless. You can download the attached flier to find out more information and to read some of the testimonies of those who were present last May. Once you read, I urge you to register today so we can continue the work of changing Kenya one life at a time.
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