Monthly Readiness Guide-example

Reflect:

(previous month)

1.  How have I grown in:

1a.  Relationship with God:

a.  Here write about the things that God has revealed to you about Himself in the past month.  What are the things God has done or is still doing in your life.

b.  If you're having a difficult time filling this section out then that could be an indicator of sin in your life that is a barrier between you and God. 

1b.  Physical/Health Goals:

a.  Use this space to reflect on the physical and health goals you set last month

b.  Did you reach your goals?

c.  What things kept you from achieving your goals?  It might be good to re-evaluate whether your goals were realistic so you don't make the same mistake in the next month.

d.  If you achieved all your goals maybe you should consider setting harder goals, you may be setting the bar too low for yourself.

1c.  Professional Goals:

a.  Reflect on the goals you've set for yourself at work or in your career.

b.  Were the goals qualitative or quantitative?  Were the goals you set dependent on the actions and attitudes of other people? 

c.  Did you have any control over the areas you set your goals in?  If you set goals to change things in your workplace that you have no ability to influence, reset your goals and limit the scope to things that are within your influence.  Another possibility is setting goals to increase or change your sphere of influence so you can have an impact in the areas at work that you would like to change

1d.  Relationships w/ Believers:

a.  How did you grow in your relationship with specific believers?  Do you know the needs, concerns, and story of Christians that frequent your life?

b.  How have you shown love and care for specific believers in your life?

1e.  Relationships w/Unsaved:

a.  Do you know any unsaved people?

b.  If you haven't been developing relationships with unsaved people, why not?

c.  Do the unsaved people in your life know that you love and care for them?

d.  Do they know that you love and follow Jesus?  How have you shown others that your relationship Jesus affects the way you live?

2.  What activities took up most of my time at:

(so you know what kept you from achieving goals in full, or what activities, places, people were conducive to helping you achieve your goals)

What are the places in life you frequent and spend lots of time in?  Be honest with yourself about how you've spent your time so that you know which places you may need to visit less.  The same goes with people, maybe there are people that you need to see less because you become unproductive in accomplishing the responsibilities you have.  On the other hand, maybe there have been places you've visited that allowed you to focus and be very productive.  There maybe people that pushed you and allowed you to accomplish your tasks and maybe improve.  Be intentional about spending time in those places and with those people.

-home:

-school:

-Hang out spot:

-work:

Goals:

1.  What physical/health goals do I have next month?
(Personal)

Goal	Action Steps/Accountability
1.	a
2.	a.
3.	a.

2.  What actions or attitudes will improve my relationships?

(Domains of Life)

Domains	Action Steps
Family	How will you intentionally develop or improve your relationships with your family? a.  Phone calls? Asking about their well being? b.  Setting intentional time to hang out with them? c.  Doing something that will express care for them?
Friends	What specific things can you do for specific friends this month to show them you care for them? b.  What are specific ways you can express care for 1-2 of your friends
Christian Challenge	Who will I develop my relationship with this month?  a.  Who and how can I specifically show love and care to this month?
Church
Work
Other network of relationships u can add more

3.  What financial goals do I have for next month?

What ever financial assets you have(checking accs, savings, CD’s)

Saving:

Primary Spending Account (balance of)	Checking Account (balance of)	Savings Account (deposit)	CD (deposit)	Other Financial Asset (deposit)
What minimum amount do you want to maintain		How much will you save this month		Will you or can you invest money?

Giving:

Tithe	Church	Ministry	Ministry
A tenth of all you have, the first fruits, a reminder that everything already belongs to God anyway	Can you give up a meal or drink to give $10, $15, $30 this month?

4.  What personal development goals do I have for next month?

(Life Roles)

Short-term Action steps
Life Roles
Student	Son?	Job	Discipler?
1.          2.	1.          2.	1.          2.	1.          2.

5.  What professional goals do I have for the next month?

(Ministry/focused Work roles)

Short-term Action Steps
Ministry Roles
	Creator	Writer	Coach

Plan:

Scheduled Tasks  Things you know you need to do and when you need to do it

Unscheduled Tasks  Things you know you need to do But haven’t set a time to do it yet

Timeline

Week 1: Monday- Transfer the things on your task lists to your tentative schedule 0800 Breakfast 1700 Dinner Tuesday- Wednesday- Thursday- Friday- Saturday- Sunday- 1100 Church Service?	Week 2: Monday- Tuesday- Wednesday- Thursday- Friday- Saturday- Sunday-
Week 3: Monday- Tuesday- Wednesday- Thursday- Friday- Saturday- Sunday-	Week 4: Monday- Tuesday- Wednesday- Thursday- Friday- Saturday- Sunday-

Life Centering Practices

(Scheduled Times)

Worship time

a.  Is there a regular time and practice of doing nothing but reflecting on Who God is and bringing Him praise?

b.  Scheduling a regular time to do this helps create an attitude of worship that stays with you throughout the month

Retreats

a.  Take some time away from the normal routine of things and get away

b.  Reflect on the past month and take time to contemplate your future w/God

Recreation/Relaxation

a. 

Solitude

a. 

Hobbies

a. 

Answered Prayers:

List answered prayers from the previous month

Continuing Concerns:

Each of us have different groups of people we interact with.  What groups of people do you have in your life?  Do you know the specific needs of the people in each sphere of life?

Salvation Who are the people in your life not in relationship with Jesus? How can you specifically pray that these people will come into relationship with Jesus? Do you know these people well enough to specifically know the barriers that are keeping them from Jesus?	Ministry Workers Who do you know that is in ministry? Foreign and domestic -Deborah Lock Kelly Le -Robb Erickson -Rebekah Stalcup -Amanda Wieland Johnathan Chan -Julie Evans -Rob Gaschler Jason Mann/family Steve Cabrilos family Zach Vaughan/Family Theo Davis/Family John Patton/Family Jake Rasmussen/family D.J. Jenkins/family Pastor Randy/family Jason Caywood/family Eddie Pearson/Family Phil Alderlink/family Brett Martin Sarah	Immediate Family Mom list specific needs in the space between names you can reference the needs you know at the beginning of the month as you do this daily or weekly
(extended ?) Family	Christian Challenge Leaders Anthony Wieland Julianna Robinson Katie Bennet Alexis Kreun Justin Lenhardt Suraj Mashih Sam Camarena Audrey Menager Leondra Smith Byron Morgan Ashley Alexander Rachael Corbin Lauren Keen Meaghan Conner Jon Bradley John Simon Seth Delapena Oceanna Schaffer Cynthia Bowman Emily Lopex Johanna Willet	Young Adult/College Leaders
Christian Friends	Church Staff	(extended ?)Family
Small group?	Friends/Accountability	School?
Discipleship people?	Youth Ministry?	(work?)