Bridging the Gap Worksheet™ - Build a Better Future - A Guide to Crafting and Achieving Meaningful Goals In the space provided below — transfer your Key Areas of importance that you listed on the Clarity Worksheet over to the grid below from highest priority in your life (1) to lowest priority (9).
Next: Rate your current reality in each key area in terms of current healthiness and satisfaction. A “10” would mean that you are living this area out in the way you described as most excellent in the clarity worksheet and that you are completely satisfied. A “1” in any area would indicate that extreme unhealthiness and dissatisfaction existed in this area. Circle one number for each key area listed. When you have scored each of the key areas, draw a connecting line between all of the circles to create a graph.
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Next: Go back over each key area a second time and this time place a square over the number where you would like to realistically see yourself six months from now. Again using the scale of a “10” being ideal, be fair and realistic in determining where you would like to be in six months. Expecting yourself to be at a “10” in each area may not be realistic. When you have scored each of the key areas, draw a connecting line between all of the squares to create a graph.
Next: Take a look at the key areas where the largest gaps exist between where you are and where you know you need to be six months from now. In the column marked “Growth Priority,” put a number “1” next to the key area with the largest gap. If there is more than one key area with an equal gap, ask yourself “Which of these could have the greatest positive impact in my life if I were to improve in that area?” and choose that one over a second or third option. Complete that process all the way down the list until each area has a unique “Growth Priority” number.
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About the Author With vast experience as a successful entrepreneur and active in ministry leadership for many years, Ken McGarity is most recently engaged as a Church Growth Consultant and Strategist, as well as Christian Leadership Coach to today’s up and coming Christian leaders. He is providing an intentional platform and the strategic insight to facilitate the discovery of God’s best for the lives and ministry of the leaders God has chosen. He is also investing energy and service to Christ as a leadership development, team building, administrative and support systems coach to individuals, churches and nonprofits. Ken works diligently to help them clarify and create strategies, systems, tools and protocols that will allow them to more effectively reach their personal potential and to engage the lost with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If you would like to connect and partner with Ken to discover new paths toward growth and increase the health of your leadership and ministry, please contact him at the following: KenMcGarity.com facebook.com/kenmcgarity twitter.com/kenmcgarity 4049415867 Coaching and Consulting My prayer and ministry is to partner with leaders to help clarify, support and implement their Godgiven vision for advancing the Kingdom of Christ. I have coached and consulted with a variety of individuals and ministry teams : • New Church Planters • Children’s and Youth Pastors • Individuals In Ministry Transition • MultiSite Campus Pastors and Teams • Christian Executives and Leaders • NonStaff Ministry Team Leaders • Well Established Pastors and Churches It has been my privilege to see God use strategic coaching and consulting in a high impact way in the lives and ministries of the leaders that I have partnered with. It has really been a blessing to collaborate with leaders, and oftentimes their staff, to navigate through some tough terrain and have an opportunity to help them: • Get unstuck from their current position and overcome growth barriers. • Build their confidence in specific areas of leadership and team development. • Expand their vision for the future of their ministry and for God. • Fulfill their dreams for the ministry and feel safe coloring outside the lines. • Unlock their true potential as a leader, friend and ministry partner to others. • Increase their strategic skills, energy efficiency and personal organization. • Move through tough transitions and various stages of life and ministry. • Increase accountability and “push back” to their ideas and thinking. • Take strategic, practical and consistent action steps toward their goals & more. I know every leader prays for his ministry or organization to be healthy, vibrant and growing, and I would love to be a part of that. I would be glad to connect you with some other pastors and Christian leaders I have partnered with if you like, and you can hear from them directly if they have found coaching and consulting with me to be beneficial and worth their time and investment. If you have been running the race for a while and are getting tired, frustrated, stuck in a slower gear than you want to be — or maybe things are really good, but you have hit a stubborn wall somewhere, then I would suspect that you could use some encouragement and support as you continue to find your way to where you are called to go for the Kingdom. Let's connect. Ken
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