Three ways you may be limiting yourself through traditional goal-setting

When I train on kingdom productivity, I have people do the following exercise: "Think of a goal and write down the process you went through when you made that goal."I especially like to have people examine their process for seemingly non-spiritual goals, (work goals, financial goals, fitness goals, etc).Typically, when you generate these types of goals, you create them using the following three lenses:

1. Others' experience - You look at what other people have accomplished and you determine what is possible by looking at how others have performed. This is typical of retirement planning. You look at how the market has historically done in the past and you create predictions based on how others' portfolios have grown.
2. Your experience - You look at what you achieved in the past and you decide to do the same or make an incremental improvement. A runner might look at their time from last year and try to keep it or beat it.
3. Company mandates - Your company gives you goals that you don't get to choose. A salesperson fulfills goals that the company says are important.

Each of these lenses can be helpful, and problems can occur when you don't consider these things.For example, everyone knows what it's like to start a job where you have no idea how long something takes so you make unrealistic goals. You often ask around to find out what people typically do, or you work for a little while and then realize that you need to adjust your expectations. The use of experience (yours or others) can be a helpful baseline factor of what you should do. And if you want to be successful in the world, it's important to pay attention to company mandates.But.But if you only allow these three factors to determine what your goals are, you create a boundary around your future.And the boundary is your potential. It's a boundary that assumes that you are the only one who is playing an active role in executing your goals.The essence of kingdom productivity is the assumption that you are not the sole executor of your goals, but that you have a partner in getting things done. He isn't limited by what has happened in the past, either in your life or others. He is able to do things that defy the laws of nature (laws that you observe through experience) and that go beyond the dimensions of human ability.It's the difference between the army's weaponry and Superman's powers in a comic books movie, but in this case, Superman is God.It has to do with what I talked about last week about the spiritual nature of goals. Goals and faith are connected.But your faith in God's role in the execution of your goals goes back to the process of how you created those goals. If you didn't include God in the goal-creation process, then it's hard to bring him in later.I am going to lay out a process for setting goals that will help you include God in the creation of every goal in your life. But first, I would invite you to make a commitment to never make a goal in the future without including Him in the process.What has your process been for creating goals?