Ready, Aim, Fire Launching Yourself Toward Your Highest Goals

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Ready, Aim, Fire Launching Yourself Toward Your
Highest Goals

• Min. Sandra Brooks, Facilitator
• Mrs. Franciene Parham, Coordinator
• Mrs. Beverly Butler, Director of DCET
• Dr. Sam Davis, Pastor

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Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of
one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and
peace will be with you.2 Corinthians 1311 (NIV)
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Place Setting

• The best results occur when we prearrange their
  success rather than hoping that they eventually
  stumble onto what they should have been guided to
  in the first place.
• It is important to create a social environment
  that is conducive to where you are supposed to go.

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Delayed Not Denied

• Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a
  reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a
  warrior are sons born in ones youth. Blessed is
  the man whose quiver is full of them. They will
  not be put to shame when they contend with their
  enemies in the gate.
• Psalm 1273-5 (NIV)

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Ready Aim - Fire

• There are three stages
• Reservation
• Retraction
• Release
• The overarching idea is that we must position our
  words to harvest the fruit of our labors.

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Reservation

• The stage of understanding where you must hold
  back from the abuse and misuse of your skills and
  have the patience that is needed to wait on the
  opportunity to find your highest and best use.
• Gods grace giving you time to prepare for His
  promise.
• There is human responsibility involved in
  attaining and managing what God has decreed to be
  rightfully yours.

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Retraction

• Like an arrow caught in a bow, we must go
  backward before we can shoot forward.
• The setbacks we experienced in life are the
  release that shoots us farther ahead because of
  the setback and not in spite of it.
• It takes strength and discipline to not release
  the arrow too soon.
• Be patient and maintain the retraction until the
  time is right and your release can be as
  strategic as possible.

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Release

• This is the reward of those who have been pulled
  to the breaking point.
• These are the victories and achievements of those
  whose anguish preceded their actualization.
• You can never know how free you are until you
  understand how bound and pent up you once were!

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Ready Aim - Fire

• Reservation take time to meditate on the new
  goals and ideas, getting around people who do
  what you want to do.
• Retraction go into hibernation a minute and get
  the skills you need for the dream you have.
• Release with the force of the groom who waited,
  go for the dreams that have eluded you before.

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Reposition Yourself

• Repositioning is a second chance to realign what
  wasnt properly directed the first time.
• Mediocrity will continue to try to ensnare you,
  but you will discover a power born of your
  greatest suffering.

• Reserve your resources.
• Gain momentum
• Unleash your energy at the proper time.
• Eradicate the erosion caused by mediocrity with
  the accuracy and intensity of your release.