Big Hairy Audacious Goals
I was at a conference for school last month and one of the speakers introduced BHAGs to us.
Before I heard the speaker, I was already well on the path of setting goals or setting out to "Take Action", however now I have some fun guidelines and gospel principles to back it up.
Things that seem for me to be "impossible" have been on my mind for months now. I have grown a lot trying to figure out which "impossible" things that God wants me to see really are possible and with Him learn to overcome. What a joyful ride it has been so far! Recently I have seen some of the "impossibles" have their hard outer shell cracked open and hope is on the other side.
BHAGs require trust, hope, patience, temperance, and willingness to work hard AND a wait on God's time at the same time! I've got a new BHAG and it is something I've never ever done before. Can't wait to see how it plays out or how the Lord chooses to shape me with it.
Like President Uchtdorf said, we are not ugly ducklings. "You are no ordinary beings, you are glorious and eternal." So think big, think bold, and aim high!
I was at a conference for school last month and one of the speakers introduced BHAGs to us.
1.) BIG- meaning HUGE
2.) Hairy- meaning kinda out there and maybe something you don't want to touch
3.) Audacious- iDictionary... "showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks"
4.) Goals- iDictionary- "the object of a persons ambition or effort, an aim or desired result"
2.) Hairy- meaning kinda out there and maybe something you don't want to touch
3.) Audacious- iDictionary... "showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks"
4.) Goals- iDictionary- "the object of a persons ambition or effort, an aim or desired result"
Before I heard the speaker, I was already well on the path of setting goals or setting out to "Take Action", however now I have some fun guidelines and gospel principles to back it up.
Luke 1:37- "For *with God nothing shall be impossible."
(Notice WITH God. Not just all things are possible! )
"It is easy to get discouraged. It is easy to quit, but you mustn’t fail. You remember how Nephi went into an impossible situation and couldn’t get the plates. His brothers couldn’t. They couldn’t buy them. They couldn’t bribe them out of the hands of Laban. They couldn’t force their way in, and their lives were hanging on a thread. In spite of all that, here comes one boy, unarmed, who walks into a city through a wall that was closed to him, through gates that couldn’t be opened, into a garden that was impenetrable, into a vault that was locked, among soldiers that couldn’t be bypassed, and comes out with his arms full of records to keep his posterity and others from perishing in unbelief. (See 1 Ne. 3–4.)
He did the impossible. But nothing is impossible to the Lord."
(Spencer W. Kimball, “A Vision of Visiting Teaching,” Tambuli, Dec 1978, 2)
He did the impossible. But nothing is impossible to the Lord."
(Spencer W. Kimball, “A Vision of Visiting Teaching,” Tambuli, Dec 1978, 2)
Things that seem for me to be "impossible" have been on my mind for months now. I have grown a lot trying to figure out which "impossible" things that God wants me to see really are possible and with Him learn to overcome. What a joyful ride it has been so far! Recently I have seen some of the "impossibles" have their hard outer shell cracked open and hope is on the other side.
BHAGs require trust, hope, patience, temperance, and willingness to work hard AND a wait on God's time at the same time! I've got a new BHAG and it is something I've never ever done before. Can't wait to see how it plays out or how the Lord chooses to shape me with it.
Like President Uchtdorf said, we are not ugly ducklings. "You are no ordinary beings, you are glorious and eternal." So think big, think bold, and aim high!
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