How to accomplish overwhelming goals and not feel overwhelmed

Have you ever been on a team where it wasn't clear what everyone was supposed to do? Have you ever finished a planning meeting and tasks were not effectively delegated?The result of these types of planning meetings is one of two problems. Either people expect others to do all the work and so they don't do anything. Or they think they should do all the work and so they do everything.I made a mistake in my own NGO work of sending people out two-by-two without clarifying who was responsible for which task. The result was often that one person would do all the work, and the other would stand by and watch.Clarifying individual responsibility in the context of goal-setting is key. We now send people to similar areas but then they each have projects that they are responsible for. Each person knows what their role is and what they will be held accountable for. The result has been increased efficiency, communication, and better execution of project goals.In step three of the process of setting God-sized goals, you asked God to clarify his role in the execution of a vision. Because you know what He is going to do, you also know what He is not going to do.The problem at this stage, though, is that your role may feel too challenging or overwhelming.This is where we need to remember the story of Moses in Exodus 3-4. He was given an overwhelming task. Moses insisted that he have a partner in the execution of his goal. He knew that the task God had given him (speak to Pharoah) was outside of his gift set. And so he asked for help. God gave him Aaron. Moses came out of his planning meeting with a clear sense of what he would do, what God would do, and what others would do to help him.Do not assume that you are the sole actor in the implementation of your vision. Assume that God has given you something that is bigger than you, and that you will need a team.You must clarify not only God's role and your role, but the role of others who will help in the execution of the vision.Here is a process you can go through for creating job descriptions and clarifying roles in the execution of your goals:

1. God's job description - Rewrite the promise that God gave you as a job description. Try to articulate as best as you can what he said he would do and write it down.
2. Team members' job description - Ask God who can help you. This listening prayer exercise can bring to mind people you know or people that you might need to find. He may point out an Aaron or give you a sense of a job description for an Aaron that you will need to locate. Write out the job descriptions of the people who will assist in executing the vision.
3. Your job description - Write out your own job description for the remaining tasks.

You don't want to write your job description until you know what God will do and what others will do. This clarifying of roles and jobs will keep you from marching down a path in which you are doing either God's work or others' work. Although the vision is big, you will see that what you are called to do in its execution is fully manageable.Do you have an example of a time that you didn't realize that God might want to use a team to help you?