Person of the Year
This evening you will be honored as Person of the Year. Thousands of people are gathered in your honor to celebrate your contributions to your family, friends, colleagues, your organization, and your community. Several key people (spouse, children, colleagues, etc) are scheduled to give speeches, using words to highlight how you have added value to the world through your character and performance. What words and phrases would you most like to hear others say about you? How would like to be remembered tonight? What descriptions would make you feel like you’ve lived your life to the fullest. If you could write these tributes about yourself, what would they say? If you have trouble writing your tribute, start answering the following questions (a non-exhaustive list). Answering these questions will help you to clarify your values, understand what you really care about, and develop an ideal image of yourself:
What are you discontent about?
What do you really care about?
What’s grabbed you and won’t let you go?
What are you passionate about?
When you do this (using your gift), God tends to show up in great power?
What do you stand for?
What keeps you awake at night?
What makes you mourn, grieve and weep/cry?
Where and on what do you spend your time? Money?
These words may seem rather ideal and lofty, but the greater the clarity and belief in our values, the greater the probability we’ll act in concert with them.
What other questions you would like to add to this list, that you think would help to clarify our values? What 3-5 words or phrases would you most like to hear others (especially spouse, significant other and children) say about you? Leave your comments here so others can see and be blessed .
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June 21st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
These are such good questions to be asking ourselves – I've been doing some of this myself lately. Hope you have a great week with your wife while the kids are at camp!
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Kaira, thanks for the comments and affirmation. My hope is to answer these questions by living up to what I would like people to say. We don't have to wait until we die; we can live in such a way that they give us these kinds of tributes now. So, live today like you're the Person of the Year.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I would like people whom I love to say of me"That my heart beat with my Heavenly Fathers" I would hope that with out having to think about it they would know I was busy doing kingdom work, loving fiercly those in my family, being a women of integrity. Always , always honoring my great God and King.Never leaving anything for tomorrow that God has called me to today.Free with honestly, love and encoragement. Not to quick to speak the correction but not afaird of it.Always ready to move when God says Move.I would hope that they would say I was ever growing, changing,learning, and practicing life, always with my eye on what God has next for me.Until the day God calls my name and I go gladly into his arms That what I aim tyo live up to. kim.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Wow! Kim this is a powerful list, one that we need the power of Holy Spirit to live up to. I would like for people to say some of those same things about me. i want people to say that I was a faithful and loving husband and father, a passionate and faithful preacher and of God's word, and a radically obedient servant of Jesus' teaching and life. I want to start living that life now, by the power of the Spirit. I hope I can live up their tribute. Thanks for sharing. Blessings on you!