Topic: Developing A Success List

Overview Of The Exercise: This exercise requires you to go back into your childhood to your earliest memories. List all the activities you have done in your life you have done well or activities in which you were most successful. At first glance, many people would say they have not done anything well. For those of you who feel this way, this exercise may be difficult. However, the exercise will be eye opening and possibly life changing. You may not be able to accomplish this exercise overnight. You may require several days, weeks, or months to complete this "Success List" depending upon your motivation. The best way to do this exercise is to take given periods of your life and list all the things you have done, whether you did them well or not. As you make your list, you will begin to remember successes, even if you cannot recall them at this moment. Try to remember as many details of each period of your life as possible. As your success list grows, definite patterns will emerge. God has blessed and continues to bless those activities fitting into His plans for our life. Those activities He blesses are the ones which give us the greatest inner rewards, as well as those activities in which we are the most successful. Those activities He blesses are the ones we need to identify if we seek to fit into His plans. Questions to ask to determine God's will as a pointer to your success in life. 1. What activities in my life have I done in all the years of my life? 2. What activities in my life have I enjoyed doing? 3. In which activities of my life have I been successful? 4. What have I done in the past that most reflected Jesus, reflected His love, and reflected His will for me? 5. What did I do in the past that benefited and healed others? 6. What did I do in the past that fit into God's big picture instructions from the Bible? 7. What have I done in the past that turned out to be a message from God, either directly or indirectly? 8. Using the talents and traits God has given me, what circumstances in my life have pointed me in a direction in which I believe God wanted me to go? 9. What circumstances did not require me to use talents or traits I do not have?

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